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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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That visit was organized by coach David Phillips.

rarely seen Bar dismounts

Gymblog linked to another great Saltocafe edit.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

More videos like this on the Gibson Athletics SaltoCafe YouTube channel.

photos Germany vs USA Gymnastics

On the Gymnastics United bulletin board.

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best routines USA vs Germany?

I’ve been trying to find an interesting video from the USA vs Germany dual meet.

Videos are posted on gymcat67 and Dutchfan33 YouTube Channels, for two.

I considered this beam routine – Sabrina Vega 14.30

Click PLAY or watch Sabrina on YouTube.

Trick. Trick. Trick.

AA Champion Bridget Sloan’s bars are precise. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Truth is I’d much rather watch the Utah 2009 Team Highlights video.

The NCAA is so much more entertaining to me in 2009 than FIG.

But if you enjoy the International routines, another big event is coming up: May 8 USA vs FRANCE Seniors. And GB vs FRANCE Juniors.

details – Gymnastics In Europe

It seems the dangerous Youna Dufournet is not competing for France.

Leave a comment if there are other routines I should post from USA v Germany.

injured Chinese gymnasts

VIOLA ROADKILL reports that Olympic Bar Champion He Kexin is injured:

She broke her left hand training a Rufolva on beam. The national team doctor says she will take about a month to recover.

Also Yang Yilin – out with a back injury.

Cheng Fei competed recently … but has watered down difficulty due to injury.

Is the FIG Code partly to blame?

Thanks chaoticstar26.

Twitter and Facebook together at last

If you are trendy enough to use Twitter on a regular basis, likely you are jumping back and forth between your gobbledygook Twitter feed and your much, much more intelligible Facebook stream.

Wouldn’t it be better if you could check both at once?

You can.

Seesmic Desktop is a beta release. So use it with caution.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Email to request the FREE trial software – Seesmic Desktop Preview

(via Mashable)

=== UPDATE:

J. Orkowski recommends Ping.fm, a site that offers similar functionality.

near collisions in gymnastics

It’s been many, many years since I’ve seen one of these near collisions in a gymnastics gym.

This girl is a cheerleader.

Linked to by Tracey Morrison on Facebook.

gymnastics results with video links

StickItMedia is reporting on a terrific new innovation:

MeetScoresOnline (MSO) now has embedded YouTube video links to complement their online scores. This new free service of connecting gymnastics scores to videos is an exciting development which could take MSO to the next level of being the major gymnastics portal. MSOâ€™s founder, Karl Stubsjoen, is looking for advocates to get the word out. …

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