DWTS WEEK5 Season 8, Episode 8 ( April 6 2009 )
Nine couples remaining the contenders have to dance either the Paso Doble or the Viennese Waltz.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Dancing with Bart Conner?
Sounds like Shawn did well with the Waltz on Week 5 of Dancing With the Stars.
Perhaps Bart Conner will audition next season. (His wife Nadia was quickly fired by Donald Trump when she debuted on Celebrity Apprentice in 2008.)
Click PLAY or watch Bart dance in a clip from the 1986 movie Rad on YouTube.
Gawd, the ’80s were awful.
Thanks wordsmith who stumbled into this clip while looking for Gymkata clips on YouTube.
Cribs – Horton, Brooks, Messina
An amusing peek at how College gymnasts live.
Cribs with Olympic Silver and Bronze Medalist Jonathan Horton, US Senior National Team Member and OU Senior Chris Brooks, and OU Senior Jake Messina. A tour of their home in Norman, Oklahoma the week before their OU team set a new NCAA Record team score of 366.85
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/assets/portal/add_ons/mediaplayer-4.2/player.swf
Music by Mid-Coast City
(OU gymnast Jake Messina – drums, OU gymnast Jason Laughton – guitar and vocals, Eric – base)March 31, 2009
where is gymnast Kyle Shewfelt?
The three time Olympic gymnast has not been training.
Instead he’s out enjoying LIFE.
From a longer update on Kyle’s blog:
… Life has been wonderfully hectic. …
I went snowboarding for the first time ever. It was a great weekend with tons of debauchery and hilarity. I fell so many times that I lost count and I loved every minute of it! …
… I came home and had an inkling to start pushing myself a little more in the direction of my future…so, completely out of my ordinary, I booked a trip to Thailand! Holy crap!
…
I feel like this trip to Thailand is going to be a great opportunity for me to clear my head, have some adventure and get a plan together for what direction I am going to be heading in. I don’t know exactly where my heart is leaning. I feel like I am finally starting to come down and gain some perspective after a very tiring, exciting and trying year. I think a lot of athletes who competed in Beijing are feeling this way. It’s tough coming home and having to restart your life. It’s tough to see the big picture because you are continually living in the past and replaying your Olympic experience, and everything that led up to it, over and over again in your head.
I don’t know what will transpire while I’m away. I have a couple of plans. The first being ‘have no plan’! Second, I want to have tons of fun, like, ‘laugh till your belly hurts’ kind of fun. Third, I want to meet as many people as possible and just be Kyle, not Olympic gymnast Kyle. Fourth, I want to push myself far beyond my comfort zone – will I bungee jump??? And lastly, I want to write a lot, reflect and listen to my heart and not my head. …
Kyle Shewfelt – Many Updates
photo – Kandis Maguire
Handspring Tear-Drop Trainer
Former American Olympic Coach Peter Korman is promoting a new product. Ideal for introducing forward and backward handspring to beginners, including older Cheer kids.
Any gymnast that learns a backward handspring without spot is near certain to re-register for the following session.
The UCS Tear Drop Trainer is specially design to properly train the athlete performing a back or front handspring.
Available in 4 sizes including an extra large model to accomodate taller athletes
$495 – $830
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
It looks like a slight improvement on Norbert’s The Boulderâ„¢. To compare that product video, click here. About $650.
Gymnastics films
GymNiceTic posted a list of movies free to watch on the internet:
Click through for details.
I recall coach Jim Holt, years ago, kept a complete list of Gymnastics Films. I’d love to post that.
NCAA Gymnastics Championships draw
The No. 3 seeded Crimson Tide will be joined in the evening session by No. 2 seed Utah, No. 6 Oregon State, No. 7 UCLA, No. 10 Arkansas and No. 11 Illinois.
The afternoon session will be comprised of No. 1 seed Georgia, No. 4 LSU, No. 5 Florida, No. 8 Oklahoma, No. 9 Stanford and No. 12 Penn State.
College Gymnastics Board – AlabamaGymnastics
Some are convinced the evening session has an advantage as judges scores rise.
EU Championships Men – Finals videos
Thanks vrba. The entire Finals is posted on the 2008agwc YouTube channel one routine at a time.
One sample. BOUHAIL Thomas FRA winning Vault. Tsuk double pike. Handspring double front, half out.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Shawn Johnson and Jordyn Wieber
Meredith of the He Kexin = 14 blog just posted an unusual and interesting montage.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
EU Gymnastics Event Finals – Women
Gymnastics In Europe was there.
Click through for results with commentary. And links to Finals videos.
Click PLAY or watch Beth Tweddle’s crazy hard gold medal Bar routine on YouTube.
More videos on the 2008agwc YouTube channel.
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