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The best gymnastics competition scoring software available in Canada is FREE.

Updated frequently by my personal hero and all around good guy Stu Cram. Donations (instead of cheap praise) accepted.

Customized versions are available at a small charge.

The basic GymScoreLite programs for MAG and WAG were updated today.

New options include …

• Results Page and Audience List page:
– bigger area for meet/club logos
– buttons to hide the gymnasts’ cities or age columns if they are not used.

• Audience List page:
– buttons to import gymnast ID #s from either the Gymnast Info sheet or the OOP sheet

• Printing large numbers page
– changed font and font size

• Judging Score Sheets (WAG)
– combined into one page for all events, similar to the MAG version
– buttons added to print all sheets automatically

• Several small changes to make MAG and WAG versions more alike.

Both can be downloaded from my Gym-Score-Depot.ca web site in its software section.

Advanced versions for 2-day meets or team scores are also available.

Free Gymnastics Results Software
from Gym-Score-Depot.ca & Old Guy Software Solutions

Works on both Mac and Windows systems.

details on the GymScoreLite ’09 page

Sofia (BUL) hosted the second stopover of the current FIG Trampoline and Tumbling World Cup series on April 24 – 24, 2009. The large majority of the world’s elite trampolinists and tumblers competed at Sofia’s Winter Palace of Sports, exhibiting remarkable form so early in the season. …

FIG

RESULTS

TRA Individual Men
1. ITO Masaki (JPN) 40.40
2. NIKITIN Yuri (UKR) 40.20
3. JENSEN Peter (DEN) 39.50

TRA Individual Women
1. KHILKO Ekaterina (UZB) 38.20
2. JIANG Yigi (CHN) 37.90
3. PETRENIA Tatsiana (BLR) 36.80

TRA Synchronised Men
1. ITO Masaki / NAGASAKI Shunsuke (JPN) 50.60
2. PENNES Gregoire / MARTINY Sebastien (FRA) 49.80
3. LUXON Dennis / GROMOWSKI Martin (GER) 46.50

TRA Synchronised Women
1. JIANG Yigi / GU Qingwen (CHN) 48.50
2. DOMCHEVSKA Yulia / MOVCHAN Olena (UKR) 46.70
3. YAMASHITA Natsumi / TERADA Mina (JPN) 44.80

Tumbling Men
1. WANG Jiexu (CHN) 77.40
2. YANG Song (CHN) 74.80
3. ZUNUKOV Evgeny (RUS) 74.00

Tumbling Women
1. KOROBEYNIKOVA Anna (RUS) 70.90
2. CHABANENKO Olena (UKR) 66.60 … mother of two!
3. SPEED Ashley (CAN) 62.60

Two new videos out of famed Cincinnati Gymnastics.

Mary Lee Tracy’s, Core Strength DVD, is an inside view of how core strength is developed in one of the most successful gymnastic programs in the United States. In this video she uses her elite athletes to demonstrate many of the exercises and drills used daily in their training. Mary Lee thoroughly explains each drill and gives examples of common problems and there solutions. The demonstrations from the athletes are excellent. This is a great video for any competitive gymnastic program

On this DVD, Tammy Biggs covers everything needed to teach or learn aerials and aerial flipping skills. She gives exercises and drills to increase strength and technique to successfully master this important skill. The DVD covers how to start the aerial, dive cartwheel and aerial cartwheel, the front handspring and aerial walkover, side flips, aerial round-offs, and front flips from aerials.

Details on GymSmarts.

Related – Click PLAY or watch Tammy Biggs explain the difference between expectations at the JO Level versus the Elite Level on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/assets/portal/add_ons/mediaplayer-4.2/player.swf

Tammy’s right, of course.

But very, very few athletes in our gyms have the potential for Elite. Women’s Artistic F.I.G. Gymnastics in 2009 is almost impossible.

The Junior Olympic > NCAA goal is far better for most kids.

Utah had a rough season last year. And still finished second.

This season they finished 3rd behind Georgia and Alabama.

Isn’t that a step backward?

They left it all on the floor — for an entire year — and the Ute gymnasts came away from finishing third at the 2009 NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships last weekend with great disappointment, but with no regrets.

“Nope, not a thing,” said coach Greg Marsden.

“We just have to accept that there were two better teams out there on the floor that night and be proud of what we accomplished and get ready for next year,” he said.

“There were a lot of long faces, and there was a lot of disappointment in the locker room and the bus ride back to the hotel. But, with time, that’s going to pass.”

And a team that few expected a year ago to have much promise — but dreamed of gold anyway — will eventually be satisfied with bronze because it did all it could all year to over-achieve. …

“We didn’t want to get to the end of the season and say, ‘Well, if we’d have worked a little harder, the outcome would have been different,’ ” Marsden said.

His gymnasts took that even further than he’d hoped. “It was one of the most enjoyable seasons that I can remember as a coach,” Marsden said. “This was a blast.” …

Senior Kristina Baskett ranked No. 1 or 2 much of the season in all-around and three events, finished second in the NCAA all-around last week in Nebraska and took third in the event in which she wasn’t highly ranked, beam. She was also third in vault and bars.

She graduates in May and will work for the summer at Sea World in San Diego while hoping to pursue her dreams in photography or broadcast journalism.

Deseret New – Utah Utes gymnastics: No regrets for these Utes

Shout out to Utah’s new record:

Jamie Deetscreek broke Suzanne Metz’s 14-year-old record of 63 straight routines without a fall with her 64th clean routine before dropping off beam, then started a new streak of six. …

The consistency of College athletes is what impresses me most as compared with FIG and age group gymnasts.

Utah’s Jamie Deetscreek performs on the beam during a practice session Wednesday, April 15, 2009, ahead of the NCAA women’s gymnastics championships in Lincoln, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) – ESPN

That’s the goal of a new program from Jay and Andy Thornton:

Training as gymnasts our whole lives, Andy and I whole-heartedly believe that gymnastics-style body-weight training is more effective than any other type of fitness program currently on the market. No other style of training gives the same level of strength, balance, coordination, body awareness, explosive power, flexibility and overall fitness that gymnastics strength training does.

… I’m excited to announce that Andy and I have officially launched GymABstics– a 6-Month Strength & Fitness Program based upon the fundamental principles of gymnastics training, and designed for anyone interested in general fitness.

Each month, for 6 months, subscribers to the GymABstics Program will receive online access to the following:

GymABstics Warmup (5-7 min)

GymABstics Workout (30-40 min)

GymABstics Warmdown (5-7 min)

GymABstics 6-Pack Workout (3 min)

Nutritional Information

Healthy & Delicious Recipes

Training Tracker

“Secret” Gymnastics Training Tips

Suggested Modifications for the Exercises each week

Motivational Emails directly from the Creators

check out – GymABstics.com ($24/month)

Inspired by Nadia translated an interview with multiple Olympic Gold medalist Simona Amânar from April 2009.

She’s vice-president of the Romanian Federation of Gymnastics.

The interview is OK. But I really like the photos!

check it out – Simona Amanar interview, April 2009

Here’s a super Mom to be …

Miller announced this morning on Oklahoma’s channel 4 that she and her husband, John Falconetti, are expecting their first child November 5.

InsideGym on Twitter

ShannonMiller.com

My favourite gymnastics blog — over the long haul — is Blythe Lawrence’s Gymblog.

Unlike the hack editor of this site, Blythe is a professional journalist.

I highly recommend a few of her recent posts for your weekend gymnastics video enjoyment:

… Yulia Berger of Russia …
The new A-Sac?

… Stunningly beautiful, yes, but boring because everyone does the same skills. …
Chinese bars boring?

… Three come to mind …
Hardest beam routine ever done?

Camp Woodward has a cool new website.

CampWoodward.com

Inline, skateboard, BMX, mountain biking, gymnastics, cheer, trampoline sports … and much, much more.

Snowboarding and other snow acrobatics are offered at Copper Mountain. Phoebe Mills works at that camp.

Andrew Egyed who trains power tumbling out of my gym will be coaching at Woodward Pennsylvania for 2 weeks in June.

Highly recommended. Every coach needs get to Woodward, sooner or later.

It was terrific to have a chance to meet the founder Ed Isabelle at NCAA Championships. And I finally got to meet Tracey Rosenfeld from the Pennsylvania camp. They do great work.

I used to think the “bullying” problem in schools was often overblown by the media.

Seems I’m wrong.

Two 11-year-old boys in the States took their own lives this month. Both deaths blamed on school bullying.

And in the U.K. …

British diver Tom Daley, who at age 14 finished seventh in the men’s individual 10-meter platform final at last summer’s Beijing Olympics, has been temporarily removed from school after being repeatedly bullied by his classmates, according to a story published Friday in the British newspaper The Guardian.

Tom Daley is still 14; he turns 15 on May 21. In the meantime, his father, Rob Daley, told the newspaper the son had been kept at home this week so as to reduce distraction in advance of an upcoming meet in Florida.

“The bullying is severe,” the father said. “He has been tackled to the floor walking through the school field and in class they throw pens and pencils at him.

“Some of them have even threatened to break his legs. That was the last straw. It has got to the point where enough is enough.” …

Truly unbelievable: Olympic diver bullied at school

Sounds like Tom will move to a private school.

related post – 14yr-old diver to compete at Olympics