tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
The most original modern dance. The most original acrobatic elements
Bboys dance competitions.
This video is long at 8min. But includes at least 20 outrageous moves I’ve never seen before.
It’s a competition final between Team Korea (maximum & gamblers) vs B-town allstars (Germany).
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I think they can dance.
NBC TV is “old media”, trying to find a way to thrive and survive in the age where you and I want “video on demand”. Trying to modernize.
Many feel that old media is doomed. That NBC will be too slow to change in trying to compete against smaller, newer rivals.
Yet NBC got a lot of good press for their online product called Hulu launched March 2007. It is a video on demand service offering streaming TV shows and movies, primarily from NBC and FOX. The slogan is “Watch your favorites. Anytime. For free.”
Hulu is free. Later they can find ways to monetize it. NBC and FOX are real players on the web.
Right?
For me Hulu has been a disappointment. Too many restrictions.
But the real evidence that NBC wants to chase away their customers to competitors is happening right now. First Jess. Then the Live.Breath.Love.Gymnastics blog reported that NBC is taking down gymnastics video clips on YouTube. The very same day, Gymnast.com is uploading their videos to YouTube. Using YouTube to promote the new website. To attract people to Gymnast.com. Using YouTube as free advertising.
Gymnast.com “gets it”.
At VISA Championships in Houston the Gymnast.com cameraman stood right beside the NBC cameraman.
With hopeful optimism I’d initially given NBC’s new website a positive review. Later I learned I could not watch their videos from Canada.
NBC sucks, for me.
After the Olympics, I’ll go back to boycotting NBC productions as much as possible.
Those of us who want to see Olympic video clips online will find a way, even if it’s not on YouTube.
UPDATE: NBC and CCTV in China have Olympic broadcast rights. Seems even Beijing is getting serious about preventing copyright infringement. This will only work if those networks offer a way for fans to see gymnastics legally. If not, fans will find a way to post clips.
UPDATE: I tried again today. Something NEW was on the site. It said that IF I download silverlight2 BETA from Microsoft that I could watch NBC video on my new Mac. I did. And did get a preview video to play. Nothing else.
Nice user experience NBC. You suck.
On Cloud Nine
original – flickr – Vanda
With 10 individual titles in world championships and gold medals in three successive Olympic Games, the Ukranian “Iron Man” was one of the greatest gymnasts of all time.
Shakhlin won seven gold, four silver, and two bronze Olympic medals.
winning Gold in the Tokyo Olympics 1964
International Gymnast has a wonderful recap of his career: Boris Shakhlin, 1932-2008
Women – GymnasticsResults.com
Men – GymnasticsResults.com
Holland’s Epke Zonderkand … during the apparatus finals at the World Cup Gymnastics tournament in Moscow, Friday, May 30, 2008.
(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) – ESPN
Epke finished second in Horizontal Bar finals with 15.25.
Jade Barbosa tied for Gold on of Vault with Anna Pavlova. 14.75.
(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) – ESPN
Hey, the young guys from England — Daniel Keatings and Louis Smith — coached by Paul Hall finished 1st and 2nd ahead of Hungarian great Berki. Keatings is a legitimate Olympic medal contender.
Recently I posted about DVDs available from preschool guru Beth Gardner.
This package is even better for preschool specialists …
Click on the RECREATION link on the GymSmarts home page to see the details of this and Beth’s other resources.
UPDATE: IG is reporting that the hosts “won six out of 10 titles” – Russians Shine Bright in Moscow
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International Gymnast has all the qualifying scores to finals.
Diego Hypolito, as is so often the case, led Floor qualifiers with 15.625.
But watch this Finals routine where he took the Silver medal. I’m always shocked that this guy does so well in competition. He is very “beatable” — yet rarely beaten.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Where’s the “Hypolito“?
This is not a very impressive routine to me. I can’t see it in the Olympic Floor final.
American Steven Legendre did not even qualify for the top 15 to U.S. Olympic trials. Yet at VISA Championships the NCAA Floor Champion scored 15.8 from 16.50 — his routine including the best “Hypolito” that’s ever been competed.
Legendre is young. No doubt he’ll make future World Championships Floor finals.
Steve McCain is posting official Gymnast.com videos on YouTube, as well. You can see those videos on either site. But quality is far superior on Gymnast.com so long as you have a high speed internet connection.
The Official Community for the Sport of Gymnastics.
Champions were named in Double Mini | Synchro Trampoline | Individual Trampoline | Tumbling
The only Olympic event is Sr. Individual Trampoline. USA will send one man and one woman, though I heard the alternates will also travel to Beijing.
MEN’S TRAMPOLINE
1. Chris Estrada
2. Michael Devine
3. Logan Dooley
WOMEN’S TRAMPOLINE
1. Alaina Hebert
2. Erin Blanchard
3. Alaina Williams
The final Olympic Selection event for Trampoline, is scheduled for Kansas City, July 1, 2008
The Tramp and Tumble blog has a nice recap:
Congratulations to the elite (junior and senior) who competed in Houston this past weekend for the USAG Trampoline and Tumbling Elite National Championships. Story here, complete results here.
This was the third of the four events the Sr. Elites are competing in for a shot at the Olympics. …
Here is one of the biggest frustrations of trampoline coaches:
… On a related note, the Visa Championships will be televised on NBC on June 8th. Or, I should say, at least part of it will be televised. From the description of the coverage, it will only include the Men’s Artistic from this past weekend. Unfortunate, since the attendance rules at the meet prohibited use of video cameras, presumably to appease NBC who paid for the TV rights. … But if they are not going to show T&T as part of their broadcast, how can we see these athletes in action?
I was there, scrambling to watch T&T, Rhthmic and Artistic meets at two different venues. And Brett, the editor of this site, is quite right. Several times I was cautioned by well meaning volunteers not to videotape the meet. (Only photos are allowed.) And I had a media credential. Unfortunately my media credential seemed only to allow TEXT.
Strange restriction.
I was specifically identified as someone trusted enough to promote VISA Championships. Then my hands were tied in how I could promote the event.
Hey, Tramp and Tumble blog has launched a social network for the global Trampoline and Tumbling community. Check it out. I’ve joined and it seems to work well.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 