tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
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. …
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.
Thanks Angelina.
Many have asked, many a time:
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.
Gymnastics Canada, will you completely re-equip our gym?
Many of the top pole vaulters in the world are former gymnasts. Especially female pole vaulters.
Back in the day, at University of Saskatchewan, they came in regularly to our gym for conditioning and gymnastics training.
Gymnastics Training for the Pole Vault provides a detailed review of a series of proven drills and activities that can be performed either in the gymnastics area or with equipment that might be available around the track to improve an athletes pole vault performance. In an easy-to-understand and apply manner, the DVD explains and demonstrates how to perform each drill and activity. Among the topics covered: warm-up tumbling, uneven-bars exercises, high-bar exercises, parallel-bars exercises, ring exercises, trampoline exercises, and static rope climb.
We haven’t posted on House Gymnastics in a while.
But one of the header images on the top of this page is a typical gymnast climbing a door frame. (Every mother knows all about House Gymnastics.)
Indoor Parkour. It’s growing.
Harrison&Ford House Gymnastics is a cross breed of yoga, breakdancing, climbing and gymnastics in a domestic setting. House Gymnastics can be performed by anyone, at anytime, anywhere. The greater the height or danger, the better the move. Manoeuvres must be held in position for 3 seconds to be valid.
Click PLAY or watch a British documentary on YouTube.
(via Gymnast)
This looks like it might be good.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Nigel Lythgoe:
“We’re bringing class to NBC” …
Gymnastics Coaching.com 