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Dancing With The Stars WEEK 2, 2009
Season 8 Episode 2 ( March 16 2009)
They were excellent! Much better than Week 1.
After 2wks a score of 47 puts them in third place.
The second week of performances features contestants doing the salsa or the quickstep.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Gymblog has commentary and additional links.
Stephanie Harris, Sports Information Director at Hamline University sent us the detailed program of the NCAA Division 3 Women’s Gymnastics Championships this coming weekend.
Download it as a PDF file – 2009 NCGA Nationals Program
Good luck to all competitors, especially the host team. If you can get to Saint Paul, Minnesota, you really should attend. We want Div 3 gymnastics to thrive.
Special shout out to co-captain Ali Clausen.
Good news.
Cirque is posting official video clips on YouTube. One sample, a preview of the excellent show in Orlando, Florida coached by Matthew Sparks.
Click PLAY or watch La Nouba by Cirque du Soleil – Trailer on YouTube.
They’ve uploaded 45 video clips like this over the past few days.
YouTube – Cirque du Soleil videos
Cirque auditions are being held in Orlando the first weekend in May. Click through to the new casting website — via the flash movie the top of the page — if interested in knowing more.
Here’s a good news story. A gymnastics entrepreneur.
MIDWEST TRAINING and ICE CENTER
We are the Indiana’s Premier and Largest State-Of-The-Art Professional Gymnastics, Fitness and Ice Center
… For years it sat dark and empty, the proverbial white elephant in the middle of a community that grew and flourished around it.
But with great vision and an abundance of grit and determination, local resident Eileen Butcher took a giant leap of faith and bought the old St. John Ice Arena. Two years later, the lights are on at the now-renamed Midwest Training and Ice Center, and business is booming.
From 5 a.m., when the health club opens, until often past midnight, the center is filled with tots, teens and adults enjoying a myriad of activities, seven days a week.
According to Butcher, the owner and manager, the 77,000-square-foot facility offers gymnastics, cheerleading, trampoline, tumbling, hockey and figure skating for all ages with lessons, leagues, teams, camps and parties. …
Seventeen local schools train their gymnastic and trampoline teams at the gym, and Butcher says the Midwest coaches are second to none.
“People obviously come for the safe environment, but they’re also here for the quality of coaching. We have seven full-time coaches and 11 part-time,” Butcher said.
Midwest teams compete regionally, statewide, nationally and internationally. One of their young women has achieved Olympic-level skills on the trampoline.
“Our Midwest Xplosion senior cheerleading team just came home from a recent competition as national champions,” Butcher bragged.
The road to apparent success hasn’t been easy, Butcher admitted …
Looking to the future, Butcher hopes to open a second ice rink where the gym is currently located and build a new facility, dedicated to gymnastics, on the property.
Certainly the gymnastics blogosphere is too Amerocentric.
Inspired to post from the wonderous city of Berlin — after the excellent Triple Full blog went on hiatus — is gymnicetic. German is her first language, but she’s posting in excellent English, so far.
Bilingual posts would be terrific.
A sample post:
… an impressive balance beam routine I found on YouTube. It´s from the Dutch Trials for the European Championships. Sanne Wevers is doing five (!!) different turns in one routine: a double turn with leg up, a single turn with leg up into a single turn leg bent into a double turn leg bent, a triple (!) turn. Unfortunately she falls on the triple turn. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Check it out for yourself.
We currently use ice cups kept frozen in a small freezer in the gym.
But — in addition — I’d love to have an ice machine working constantly. We could use that ice in a water plunge bucket.
Please leave a comment if you have a recommendation on any brand name that has worked well for you.
We have water supply directly in the gym.
UPDATE.
To see how to use this invention, check the VIDEOS on the official Zealous Vitality Inc. blog.
The Stick – official website
Thanks Ken Zelez.
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Chris recommends this product.
The Stick is a revolutionary medical device to treat muscle pain and trigger points that is made of a space-age plastic that will allow necessary flexibility of the tool, providing maximum compression of the muscles.
Benefits/Uses:
Improves flexibility, recovery, performance, injury prevention,injury therapy
Eliminates muscle soreness & pain
Can be used in the workplace to manage production fatigue and prevent repetitive strain injuries.Features:
The center rod is surrounded by spindles which roll over the muscle and has “memory” which allows the rod to return to its original position.
Handles provide maximum comfort in the grip
Available in three sizes 17″ Travel STick, 24″ Original Stick and 23″ Stiff Stick
We actually have one in my gym. But I haven’t used it myself.
Chris, in a detailed comment on an Achilles tendon injury post, likes The Stick and/or a tennis ball for stretching out tight calf muscles. And preventing injury.
Leave a comment on this post if you agree. Or disagree that massage can help increase flexibility day-to-day, and, potentially, reduce injury.
As part of their billionaire interview series, Forbes magazine speaks with one of the founders of Cirque du Soleil.
Guy talks about the 20% stake of the company he sold. And why.
Also — why he has never invested in the stock market.
Cirque made more money in 2008 than 2007, despite the downturn in the economy. They project $100 million in earnings in 2009 over 2008. Guy’s not worried about the economy.
Watch the video on Forbes.
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