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Triple Full has a scathing review of the FIG (International Gymnastics Federation) website. Especially their photo galleries.

… Have you ever had the feeling that the FIG didn’t really know what it was doing? That it was just making things up as it went along, with nary a thought for the consequences of its decisions? We most definitely have. Over the years we’ve had countless discussions about how the FIG was ruining our sport with its trillion stupid rules, none of which increased the appeal of the sport in the slightest. Over the years we’ve spent days if not weeks lamenting the fact that gymnastics is no longer the artistic sport it once was, that competitions are no longer held the way they once were, etc. Often these conversations ended in a mega-frustrated “Can’t the FIG see what it’s doing? Don’t they watch their own competitions?”

Well, it appears they don’t. Or at least their press people and webmasters don’t. …

Triple Full – In Which We Say Unkind Things about the FIG

The FIG website for years barely worked at all.

The current edition I would say is “not bad”.

Federation International Gymnastique – official website

At least it provides RSS feeds like this one: Main RSS. If you are one of the 10% of people who use an RSS Reader, that feature is critical.

Certainly I ignore their site, visiting it as infrequently as possible.

This is the last of the MostepanovaFan video guides to the 2009 Code of Points.

Many are hoping she makes more. Leave a comment or rating on any of her YouTube videos if you want to add your voice.

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related MostepanovaFan posts:

gymnastics – bar mounts video

balance beam dismounts video

video guide to beam mounts

I’ve seen a few male gymnasts do Manna (high V-sit) press to inverted position.

The best was Bill Roth from Temple. (A BIG guy.)

But nothing like THIS.

A gymnast from Jamaica (near the end of her beam routine) at the WOGA Invitational.

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This was linked from Andrew Thornton’s weekly video column on Gymnast: Smooth Skills – Part 18

One commenter says her name is Shanay Gentles.

Results are in.

1. Dasha Joura
2. Allana Slater
3. Hollie Dykes

full results – The Couch Gymnast

Dasha – The Australian

Photos, videos and Finals results are being linked from Triple Full.

Gymnasts, I understand, were only allowed to compete a maximum of 2 of the 4 apparatus in Finals. Jordyn won Bars and Beam.

Jordyn Wieber (photo: Sandra Janssen)

Triple Full – More on Top Gym 2008

Another terrific MostepanovaFan video.

As requested: A guide to uneven bars mounts using the 2009 Code of Points.

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Thanks TCO.

related MostepanovaFan posts:

balance beam dismounts video

video guide to beam mounts

I’ve built many a crappy pommel bucket. They turn out like this one.

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The best I’ve seen is the one at my club, Altadore Gymnastics.

larger version – flickr

This is the most recent of many variations built by coach Physical Ed Vincent.

The bucket sits in a “twisting belt“.

It’s connected by 2 carabiners, one on either side of the belt. That cable runs up and through the last link in the roof chain.

larger version

Most critical of all is the heavy duty boxing swivel mounted to the roof. (Without this swivel, the chain will twist and shorten as the gymnast does circles.)

larger version

Click through to flickr for more photos.

I post these for Don Anweiler in Iceland who is looking to build one.

Is Team Chevron dropping their Gymnastics Sponsorship after 2008?

They’ve sponsored Raj Bhavsar, Alex Artemev, Sean Townsend, Justin Spring, Dave Durante, Kevin Tan and many, many more over the past 10 years.

I read that in a StickItMedia interview with Team Gattaca’s Diego Garcia.

Team Gattaca has been a corporate sponsor of Men’s Gymnastics in the USA since 2003. And they plan to continue into the future.

I want to thank Team Chevron and Team Gattaca for everything they’ve done.

We need more companies to step up like this in future.

Gymnastics is a rough sport. We have a lot of injuries, it’s true.

… studies have suggested that the rate of injury in gymnastics is almost as severe as that in contact sports. For every 10,000 children doing gymnastics each year, 52 will need hospital treatment compared with 75 young rugby players. …

But this new study from data collected by Jerry Dwek at the University of California, San Diego article is over the top, in my opinion:

… In the report to be presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, researchers noted that the gymnasts studied showed a “broad constellation of recent injuries” to their wrists and knuckles and evidence of early necrosis, or “death”, of bones.

Using magnetic resonance imaging and other scans, the researchers studied the wrists and hands of 125 child gymnasts …

Young gymnasts risking a life of pain in quest for perfection – Times Online

Necrosis?

I don’t believe that for a second.

Will Dr. Dwek mention all the benefits of increased bone density due to gymnastics training along with the injury results?

related: Gymnastics Rescue – Wrist Injuries and Gymnastics