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Eastern Canadian Gymnastics

This weekend. Good luck!

Gymnastics Newfoundland & Labrador in conjunction with Cygnus Gymnastics & Campia Gymnastics will be hosting the 2009 Eastern Championships in St. John’s, NL on May 8-9, 2009. We are very excited about this opportunity to showcase the best gymnasts in each of the six provinces attending the Eastern Canadian Championships.

The Eastern Canadian Championships are held for Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland Labrador. Each province can send up to 4 athletes from every category in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics as well as up to 4 athletes from every category in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics.

The organizing committee s looking forward to welcoming you to our beautiful province. We are optimistic that you may be able to view some icebergs while you are here as all reports indicate there are more surrounding the east coast than we have ever had. Keep in mind with these majestic beauties come a cool, no, cold breeze as the wind pushes them towards shore.

As for weather, you can expect all four seasons during your visit. We have been known to have snow in late May so please advise your team members. …

Gymnastics Newfoundland

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new Canadian Men’s National Coach?

Is Andrey Levit taking over the job of running the Canadian Men’s Gymnastics Team?

Levit was coach of Olympic Vault Champion Leszek Blanik from Poland.

Former National Coach Edouard Iarov being put in charge permanently of both the Men’s and Women’s National Teams?

I just heard the rumour.

There’s nothing posted on the Gymnastics Canada website.

improving front tuck on beam

Click PLAY or watch Mary Lee Tracy coaching tips in one of The Gymnastics Minute series on YouTube.

The Gymnastic Minute is part of the GymSmarts network.

Crazy Chinese Poles INSANITY

By far the best Chinese Poles circus act I’ve ever seen.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Linked by Cirque du Soleil’s Stacy Clark on Facebook.

get pizza from Svetlana Boginskaya

Jacob Small ran into one of the famous gymnasts of all time â€”Â Svetlana Boginskaya â€” at the Springfest Meet hosted by Shenandoah tumblers in Winchester, VA.

I had read that Svetlana had two businesses: “an on-line store of gymnastics attire … and organizing gymnastics summer camps”.

Rumour has it she’s now running, with her husband, a Gourmet Pizzeria in Houston, TX. Though she’s mostly a stay-at-home Mom.

If you want your kids to be coached by Bogi, register them for the Olympia Gymnastics Camp in Waldorf, Maryland.

In a photo from the 2008 camp, that’s Svetlana on the right, Olympian Kerri Strug on the left.

Camp 2009 tentatively set for June 27th – July 1st.

details on the Unique Sports Academy website

related – Kerri Strug at 2008 camp – Olympic gold medalist reflects on experiences

Dancing with Shawn Johnson week 9

Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson and partner Mark Ballas overcame a technical deduction in their first dance to tie for the evening’s second-highest total on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” Monday.

Johnson and Ballas scored 27 out of 30 points and earned a standing ovation for their first of two dances, the quickstep, but all three judges noted their rules infraction. …

Click PLAY or watch the quickstep on YouTube.

… Later in the show, Johnson and Ballas earned 29 points (their highest total of the season) and another standing ovation for their second dance, the paso doble. …

Click PLAY or watch the paso doble on YouTube.

International Gymnast – Johnson Ties for Second on Monday’s ‘Dancing’

Loved the quickstep. And their costumes have all been great.

first gymnastics comp – Macho Meet

Back in the day, the Macho Meet boys competition in Lethbridge was the most popular meet of the year in my region. Great FUN for the gymnasts and coaches both. It was founded by Dan Niehaus, now Head Coach of Cirque du Soleil’s LOVE in Vegas.

Thanks to Westwinds and coach John Tram for putting together the 2009 edition.

At late season competitions like this, clubs bring NEW gymnasts to compete for the first time. This young man joined our competitive team only a couple of months ago.

He was happy with how he did in his first gymnastics competition.

Coach David Sykes brought a crew of gymnasts to this meet, the first competition ever for a new competitive boys program out of Salta Gymnastics in Medicine Hat. We talked about how much more welcoming competitive Men’s gymnastics is for beginners than WAG.

Here’s the winner of the “Crazy Hair” competition. He deserved the victory.

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results linked from the Macho Meet home page

TriStar Gymnastics, New Zealand

A Canadian gymnast visiting New Zealand trained at the excellent TriStar Gym in Auckland. He had a GREAT time there even as he had to keep up his routines in preparation for Nationals in Canada.

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