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You can make money from posting your gymnastics video.

Metacafe paid one million dollars to video creators in its first year of sharing revenue. Interestingly enough, the top earner is a three-minute gymnastics demo, raking in $27,829. By contrast, the runner-up earned just $9,656.

Gymnastics Video Earns $27,829

We’ve posted this one in the past. But here it is again, in case you missed it the first time.

http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/7203/matrix_for_real_joe_eigo.swf
Matrix – For Real…Joe Eigo – metacafe

Not nearly the best video we’ve seen. But this one was one of the first parkour / free running clips to get widely circulated.

Can you do better? Get 6 million hits?

If so, try posting your video to metacafe’s Producer Rewards program.

on the ball on Flickr

Since I first met him in 1994, Edouard Iarov has been the coach who most influences my coaching philosophy. He is a coaching genius. An original.

photo credit – KyleShewfelt.com

Iarov, Canada’s Men’s National Coach, helped teach a recent coaching course. I will be posting short video clips of his presentations. But Men’s Artistic coaches may also be interested to see Edouard’s “technical testing program” for high performance boys. It’s posted on Gymnastics Canada:

2005 Men’s Program Technical Testing-EN (PDF file)
Gymnastics Canada – Gymnastique Canada

One of the coaches at the course asked me why Claude Pelletier, Canada’s Women’s National Coach, had not presented. I don’t know.

Claude was excellent the last time I saw him teach at a National Coaching Certification course. But that was many years ago. We need you back, Claude.

There’s no shortage of “dog on skateboard” videos. But the top 2 I find on the internet are Pete the Jack Russell and this beast:

http://www.liveleak.com/player.swf

Here’s Extreme Pete:

http://www.liveleak.com/player.swf?autostart=false&token=53f_1188392867

Both dogs have many highlight reels.

Leave a comment if you have seen any other animals that can compete with these two.

In the UK:

Thousands of youngsters have passed through the doors of Saltburn Gymnastic Club achieving enormous success.

Professional coach Clive Lee, now 78, has trained generations of gymnasts to the highest of standards – all on a voluntary basis and with the support of his wife, Elsie, 73.

But after 35 years at the helm, the couple have decided the time has come to retire from the professional side of the sport.

Their retirement will see the end of Saltburn Gymnastic Club as a lack of volunteers with the necessary skills and experience means no one is available to continue the Lees’ tireless work.

…

Speaking of the club’s imminent closure, Mr Lee said: “It would be nice to have someone take it on but people don’t have the commitment and there are so many regulations – it is very complicated running a club. There is a national shortage of coaches. …

Gym Club Bows Out After 35 Years

I’m always sad to see clubs close. Often it’s like this — over dependent on a few key volunteers.

Far better we plan to turn over our gyms to younger coaches. Sooner. And to pay those coaches.

by Rick McCharles (not in Nepal)

My other great passion after gymnastics acrobatics is hiking.

In Nepal you can do both.

From Prakash lal Shrestha, Gymnastics Chief Coach in Kathmandu.

If you are interested in trekking yourself, check my other website: besthike.com

Are you sick of hearing about the American Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Team?

Living in Canada I remember many, many years past where I personally disliked the USA. They were over-hyped and over-scored. For decades. Not the kids, rather the system under President of the FIG Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee Jackie Fie. From the USA ….

These days I have no complaints. USA is the best and most entertaining of all gymnastics nations.

However, with MONTHS to go before the Olympics, I suspect many of us will soon have Ameri-fatigue.

AG Doll Collecting – Retired Today Girl Items

A coach, originally from Northern California, a former teammate of Amy Chow, is looking for the right job.

Anything and everything from pre-school to the Optional levels including developmental and TOPS.

I am very much detail / goal / progression / strength / flexibility / body position and dance oriented. …

I am looking to be in a more competitive atmosphere again. As well as having the opportunity to work in a program that allows me to be my full potential, and contribute to helping kids achieve their fullest potential.

I am looking for full time with medical benefits. I am currently available to start coaching immediately and am excited about the possibility of contributing to your program.

For more information email: usagteam @ Yahoo.com

Jon Kolb, a former gymnastics coach, is a professor at the University of Calgary. He’s been spending a lot of time in China lately doing research on air quality in advance of the Olympics.

Specifically, Jon wants to advise coaches and athletes on how best to handle that environment.

Quoted in the New York Times:

… Mr. Kolb, the Canadian Olympic official, spent much of August in Beijing trying to answer the question hanging over the city as the Games approach: Has air quality actually improved?

An environmental physiologist, Mr. Kolb visited several stadiums, and sneaked into a few others, to measure pollution with a small monitoring device. On Aug. 5, his measurement of fine particles pollution, or PM 10, reached 200, roughly four times above the level deemed safe by the World Health Organization.

“We’re worried,” Mr. Kolb said. Of Beijing air pollution, he added: “There’s no doubt about it. It’s off the charts.” …

Beijing’s Olympic Quest: Turn Smoggy Sky Blue – New York Times

On the other hand …

Jon was there for the pre-Olympic test meet. A number of coaches and athletes who were there told me it wasn’t as bad as they expected. None that I spoke with noticed any problems during training or competition.

(via Beijing Olympic blog)

On our Alpamayo trek in Peru 2004, I managed a pretty good leap to keep my feet dry. All that gymnastics training paid off.

original – flickr

more photos – Bevan Hughes — Alpamayo

how to hike Alpamayo – besthike