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A good drill posted on Gymnastike. Click through to watch the video.

Technique Tuesday with Coach Barry Hyder of Capital Gymnastics. Barry has Mackenzie Brannan show a simple drill that teaches gymnasts to open their hips in the takeoff for double back saltos, full-ins, and double arabians.

Teaching A Tall Takeoff For Double Backs

Similarly, I like gainer backward somersaults. And “Cody” on trampoline.

Most coaches spend too much time worrying about the arms, not enough about an efficient opening of the hips.

Why not everyone should be allowed to upload to YouTube.

Crazy old man records himself doing gymnastics. His name is Mike…thus Mikenastics

Click PLAY or watch crazy Mike on YouTube.

Check the bizarre comments on that YouTube post. Mike is so weird he’s gathered a cult following.

I attended a performance of LOVE last week. Fantastic.

Check a short clip of the trampoline act on the Cirque YouTube channel.

While in Lost Wages I learned for the first time of a fantastic promo happening this Summer.

Cirque du Soleil decided to celebrate the 25th anniversary in 2009 with the theme ‘the dream continues‘.

One part of that celebration is a ticket deal in Vegas. First ticket full price, second ticket for $25.

… From May 11 through Oct. 31 a limited number of specially priced tickets will be available for select Cirque du Soleil performances. Guests who purchase one ticket can bring a friend for $25. …

UPI Entertainment News – Cirque du Soleil celebrates 25 years

All 6 shows in Las Vegas are eligible, including LOVE and O.

This is the best deal ever offered on Cirque tickets.

The specially priced tickets can be purchased by calling 1-866-998-4830 and mentioning code “SUMMER”.

A modeling gig she did for Signature Direct LA.

She’s also picking a different tribute video each month. Here’s the most recent.

… montage of Super Girl herself Nastia Liukin featuring music and clips from Britney Spears’ video of Circus. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Something tells me that Nastia Liukin will still be a big celebrity once the general public has forgotten about Shawn Johnson.

Click through to her official website for more.

Courtney K. just returned from shooting her stunt work in California. New ABC Family series.

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Related post: Make it or Break it – gymnastics TV show June 22nd

From InsideGym on Twitter:

With college coaches & teams turning up on Twitter, NCAA has adopted formal guidelines for use, mostly forbidding ANY recruiting contact.

Here is a video gymnastic tip from Tammy Biggs to develop core strength.

Click PLAY or watch it on Tom’s News.

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The Gymnastics Minute is a new series of free introductory video tips produced by GymSmarts.

We are well into Gym Camp season where I live.

Normally this time of year I’m getting ready for the annual High Performance Gymnastics Camp in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. In 2009, however, co-owner of the host Funtastics club Lisa Rennebaum-Adlard decided to have a baby instead. (Delaney was born a week ago!)

We hoped to reschedule the June camp for August. But – so far – that’s not happening.

There are at least 2 good alternatives in the region:

LakeShores Gym and Cheer Camp – Coeur d’Alene, Idaho – Aug. 16-21, 2009 – phone Head Coach Donnie Gardiner or email him at diver_don@hotmail.com

Mismo Dream Team Gymnastics Camp – Missoula, Montana – June 28 – July 2 – Competitive Girls L4 and up. Phone 406 728-0908 or email via their website. Details on camp. (PDF)

UPDATE: Now RAJ wants to be a movie star:

“I would like to be an action hero in some Bollywood movie. I have all the qualities needed to be one,” …

Times of India

Rumour … from Marc Malkin:

“I got an offer for a movie,” Johnson, 17, told me yesterday at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s A Time for Heroes Celebrity Carnival in L.A. “If I take them up on it, it’ll be very exciting.”

She didn’t want to give too much away, but she revealed that it’s a starring role in a kids flick.

Filmmakers have given her about a month to decide. “It’s nerve-racking,” she said. “I have a lot of decisions to make.” …

Also, she broke her the disco ball trophy from Dancing With the Stars was accidentally broken.

Check the dirt – Shawn Johnson May Star in Kids Flick!

… trampoline sales are buoyant. “They’re not cheap, but they’re cheaper than foreign holidays and that’s why everybody’s buying trampolines for the garden during these harsh economic times,” says a spokeswoman for the Stockport-based Trampoline Sales Ltd. … John Lewis trampoline sales went up 55% last year and it expects them to rise even more this summer. …

An unexpected consequence of the very serious recession in the United Kingdom.

Needless to say, with trampolines of this dubious quality, injuries are booming too.

… Latest figures from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) show 11,500 hospital admissions a year after trampoline accidents. Some 80% of the injuries are caused by more than one person bouncing at the same time. …

read the article – Guardian – The big bounce: why Britain’s going mad for trampolines