Gymnastics Coaching.com

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

Many of the US National Team girls are on Twitter.

And many are at training camp in sweltering Texas right now.

Olympian Sam Peszek is missing her Prom. Mattie Larson, Nastia and others are going to “celebrate” Sam’s Prom with her tonight.

If this kind of stuff appeals, you would probably like twitter.

Follow Gymnastics Coaching at twitter.com/GymCoaching.

A few more usernames to check out:

OfficialMBallas
ShawneyJ … not ShawnJohnson01, a fake, I assume
NLiukin
ShaylaWorley
InsideGym
chalkbowl
GymUnited
Gymfinity
gymnasttwit
Gymnastics_Net
samanthapeszek
bridgetsloan
gymnastike
AboutGymnastics
StickItMedia
chalkbucket

Leave a comment if there are other gymnastics twitterers we should be following.

Jason has held the world record for difficulty since April 2, 2007.

Now from Trampoline Canada:

Jason Burnett dominated the trampoline event today at the Astronaut Alexandrov Trampoline Cup in Bulgaria. Burnett won the preliminary round with an incredible total score of 73.7 and also unofficially became the new World Recorder holder for the highest total score for a first voluntary routine (aka: compulsory routine). His compulsory routine scored an amazing 31.6.

Canadians Jason Burnett and Rosannagh MacLennan are ranked number-one in the world heading into the 2009 trampoline and tumbling season. Both are coached by Dave Ross in Toronto.

You might assume Dave’s triple Olympic medalist Karen Cockburn has finally retired. Not so.

… She is planning to return to competition at the Canadian championships in June, and will also compete in the World Games and at least one World Cup before the world championships this fall in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Gymnastics Canada

Silver medalist in Beijing – EuroSport

I use Panasonic HDC-SD5 camcorder I bought in December 2007 for about US$1000. Including some accessories.

It’s great. But $1000!

Gymnastics video guru coach Don Eckert at Woodward West Camp was the first I saw using an iPhone to demonstrate specific drills to gymnast.

Coach Ed Louie uses one of the inexpensive Sanyo Xacti series. He paid less than US$200. For in-gym use, I think it’s better than mine. Faster. The playback is clearer. It has frame-by-frame advance.

Here’s an up-to-date waterproof version.

Amazon – Sanyo Xacti VPC-E2 Digital Camcorder and 8 MP Digital Camera (US$228)

related post – flip Mino video camera

Leave a comment if you’ve found an in-gym camcorder you like.

An excellent special event to add to your annual calendar.

You need good coaches, though. That are able to spot beginners. Especially older Cheer tumblers.

CGA’s Back Handspring Clinic is open to all Superoo’s and Level 1 – 3 students. This is an excellent opportunity to develop strength and technique to successfully complete the “Back Handspring!”

SUNDAY, APRIL 26th
3:00-4:30
$25.oo per gymnast

Cincinnati Gymnastics

MasterPuppeteer, “Proud Parent” of a 7-year-old male gymnast, is looking for a book about boys gymnastics.

It’s for a school project.

I can’t think of children’s book of that description.

She’d be happy with one with both a girl and a boy on the cover.

Leave a comment if you can think of one.

Or if you plan to write one.

I had been looking forward to a new TV show called Perfect 10. Original announcements included descriptions like this:

“Perfect 10” is set in the world of competitive gymnastics and follows a group of teen Olympic hopefuls.

Seems it will launch on ABC June 22nd. But be called “Make It or Break It”:

… Big-time gymnastics is the setting for Make It or Break It, an ABC Family drama (June 22, 9 p.m. ET/PT) that follows Olympic hopefuls at an elite Colorado training academy. …

USA Today – ‘Make It’: Families bend over backward for young gymnasts

I doubt it’s going to be very popular with the readers of this blog. Can you forsee all the inaccuracies?

“Roz” Doyle (actress Peri Gilpin) from the TV sitcom Frazier is the mother of one of the top gymnasts, played by actress Ayla Kell.

Peri Gilpin and Ayla Kell

One report even said Peri Gilpin would be the Coach.

The interwebs are conflicting on all this.

Leave a comment if you know more about this TV show. Especially if you know at what gym it filmed. And what gymnasts acted as stunt doubles for the “stars”.

(via gymnasttwit on Twitter)

Click PLAY or watch the “teaser” promo on YouTube.

Looks disappointing already.