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International Gymnast posted a good interview with four-time Swiss all-around champion Niki Böschenstein.

He’s “ready to rock” for the 2012 Olympics. That despite not qualifying for the last two Olympics. Niki explains that he missed out on Beijing due to a “rather complicated qualifying system”. Teammates Claudio Capelli and Christoph Schärer were ultimately selected to represent Switzerland.

The Swiss men live and train at one of the best facilities in the world, remote Magglingen/Biel.

His website is the most unusual I’ve seen since Kyle Shewfelt.

Check it out.

niki-boeschenstein.com (English and Swiss German)

Kara Patterson arrived at Duke Energy Convention Center Saturday morning to coach her gymnastics students in a downtown tournament.

But before the meet was over, she had traded in her Adidas warm-up pants and T-shirt for a white wedding gown – and had become the blushing bride in a surprise wedding planned by her fiancée, Army Staff Sgt. Ray Hignite, and her father, Brett Patterson. …

Patterson, 20, is a coach at Gym-Nation Gymnastics and Cheerleading in Mason and a student at the University of Cincinnati who has been a gymnast since she was 8. …

Cincinnati.com – Surprise! It’s your wedding!

Her new husband is deployed to Afghanistan for 12-14 months starting Jan. 1st.

Triple Full links to more videos from the recent Voronin Cup in Russia.

(Click through to Viktoria Komova‘s bar routine. Very clean.)

Click PLAY or watch Anna Myzdrikova‘s Floor Routine on YouTube. (Triple full to punch back tuck.)

That tumbling pass is going to be popular this quad. Also Round-off 3/2 twist step-out to any high value part.

Another beam video of the up-and-coming Russian star is linked via Triple Full.

In Finals at Voronin Cup she lands her backspring layout step-out to Arabian … almost.

photo: Stefan Wurzer/Gymnasticsunited)

Triple Full – Aha!

She’s one of their best up-and-coming juniors as identified by The C Score.

The C Score in another post linked to this video.

Click PLAY or watch Montage of Russia juniors on YouTube.

Everyone talks about this idea.

But few actually have done it.

A good starting point is budgeting for an ACRiX Circus Kit. Available from Gymnastics British Columbia for CAD$950.

The kits include the following:

– 12 Juggling Clubs
– 12 Juggling Rings
– 10 Contact Juggling Balls
– 30 Juggling Balls
– 10 Flowersticks
– 10 Diabolos
– 30 Juggling Scarves
– 1 Embroidered ACRiX Program Duffle Bag

For more information email Louise Demers, Gymnastics for All Coordinator, Gymnastics BC

ldemers AT gymnastics.bc.ca

From Addicted to Aerobics.

Lubi Gazov from Austria – Addicted to Aerobics – (Alert – Site has embedded music.)

CollegeGymFans.com Top 10 Recruiting Classes for 2008-2009

… The rankings are based on past performance and skill level, which are no guarantee of success at the collegiate level. …

CollegeGymFans.com

UCLA has added Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs, Aisha Gerber, Vanessa Zamarippa, Kaelie Baer and several more. A very exciting new look to the team … that has a number of their top girls out with injury right now.

We just had Oregon State Freshman Stephanie McGregor, home for Christmas, meet with our gymnasts to talk about her NCAA experience. Steph loves The Beavers, even if they didn’t make this top 10 list.

An update from Triple Twist:

… Ukraine doesn’t even have a national training center anymore. The center at Koncha-Zaspa has been closed. No wonder Ostapenko went to Russia …

The Death of Ukrainian Gymnastics: Why Ostapenko Went to Russia Instead

Actually, the gym is still there. But no funding to bring together National Team gymnasts is available.

Adidas 2007 – Impossible is Nothing – Yelena Isinbayeva

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She is a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist (2004 and 2008), was elected Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF in 2004, 2005 and 2008, and World Sportswoman of the Year by Laureus. On July 22, 2005, she became the first female pole vaulter to clear 5.00 metres.

At the age of 26 Isinbayeva is seen as the best female pole vaulter in history. She has already been a 9-time major champion (Olympic, World outdoor and indoor champion and European outdoor and indoor champion).

Isinbayeva’s current world records are 5.05 m outdoors, a record Isinbayeva set at the Summer Olympics Games in Beijing on August 18, 2008, and 4.95 m indoors, a record set at the Donetsk indoor meeting on February 16, 2008. The former was Isinbayeva’s twenty-fourth world record.

Wikipedia

Thanks Angelina.

Many have asked, many a time:

is Russia the next Russia?

Sooner or later, the small nation of Romania will be unable to compete with the much larger superpowers of women’s gymnastics.

Sooner or later, the podium teams should be China, USA, Russia. Simply due to population.

Russia just announced new National Team coaches. Proven veterans.

Now this, as reported by Triple Full:

… Artistic Gymnastics Federation is indeed investing heavily in its competitive program. Not content with bringing experienced coaches back from abroad, the Federation is trying to train its younger coaches by letting them take part in practical training sessions under the leadership of the best coaches at the Round Lake national training center. In addition, the Federation recently completely re-equipped 18 gymnastics schools with state-of-the-art apparatus. All this, it is said, with an eye not just to the future, but to the present. Sounds like the Russians mean business, doesn’t it? We can’t wait to see what will come of this all-out attempt to restore Russian gymnastics to its former glory.

Russian News

Gymnastics Canada, will you completely re-equip our gym?