I expect the most insightful and detailed gymnastics coverage to come from GYMmedia. Correspondent Giancarlo MORA has been in Beijing for months already.
“One World one Dream …”
…that is the city’s motto for the XXIXth Olympic Summer Games, which are due to take place in Beijing from August 8th to 24th 2008; for this reason, the city is preparing for millions of guests.
Many of the Olympic building have already taken shape and some are already in regular use, such as the Olympic Press Centre in the north of Beijing, close to the Huabei-Hotel, which has been open since 2005, and where the OC plans to hold daily press conferences. …
You’ll be seeing it a lot in conjunction with Olympic coverage in Beijing.
This unknown rebel will be symbolic for all time as a common man standing up to Totalitarianism. He’ll be a National Hero in China one day.
One of the main reasons I was happy when Beijing got the Olympics was anticipating the tremendous pressure of World Opinion on the Chinese government. They have a lot to answer for.
The regime is corrupt and rotten.
I expect it to fail under the light of Olympic scrutiny. Before the Olympics finish China will announce real democratic reform.
… “Here It Goes Again” featuring an elaborately choreographed dance on treadmills, also directed and choreographed by Trish Sie. This video was viewed by over one million people on the media site YouTube in the first six days.
As of the end of June 2007, the original video upload for “Here It Goes Again” has been viewed over 19 million times, putting it in 6th place for the most views of any video and 4th place for most favorited video of all time on YouTube.
USA Gymnastics president Bob Colarossi is asking the clothing retailer to stop selling a T-shirt that has the slogan ‘L is for Loser’ next to a picture of a gymnast on the still rings. The sport’s governing body also asked members to boycott the store until the T-shirt is pulled.
‘No individual, regardless of race, gender, age, intelligence or athletic ability, can or should be deemed a loser,’ Colarossi wrote in a letter to Michael Jeffries, chief executive officer of Abercrombie & Fitch.
‘Athletics as a whole, and gymnastics in particular, provides a great foundation in physical fitness and offers skills for a lifetime,’ Colarossi wrote. ‘… USA Gymnastics feels that A&F has promoted this latest product in hopes of generating public outcry, attention, and media exposure for their brand.’
Filmed at International Gymnastics Camp in Pennsylvania, the two-minute feature is the first in a “lifestyle” series on Abercrombie Kids’ Web site.
Abercrombie spent three days in April filming the spot, camp director Brent Klaus told IG. After being approached by Abercrombie, IGC put the call out to a few gymnasts who have been coming to the camp for years.
The gymnasts, along with Klaus, can be heard in the video describing the sport of gymnastics.
“Every gymnast who’s in it gave a little bit of input,” he said.
Though doing gymnastics under bright lights wasn’t easy, Klaus said it was a memorable experience for all the gymnasts who took part.
“Abercrombie is such a large company and for them to feature gymnastics was exciting,” he said. “The gymnasts in the film did it just in support of gymnastics, knowing this was an amazing opportunity to promote the sport.”
So … Ambercrombie gets a ton of publicity for the t-shirt stunt. And does not pay the gymnasts. They must be a PROFITABLE company. Sounds like they are winners to me.
Dr. Jeni McNeal, one of the top gymnastics sports scientists in the World, is the expert.
Dartfish does dozens of things. Once the video is “captured” and saved, coaches can spend many hours doing analysis. (See a SAMPLE video clip after analysis.)
The software is very expensive. Not many gymnastics coaches could afford to buy it for personal use.
And it has a fairly steep learning curve if you want to use advanced features.
Best use at camp in my opinion, however, was to compare side-by-side the same gymnast working the same skill trying different techniques. (You need to SAVE and NAME the attempts you wish to keep and compare.) Any coach is able to use simple features like this without attending a seminar.
We used Dartfish on every apparatus, but most valuable for the girls, I feel, is bars. Especially for release moves.
The most interesting article I’ve seen yet on the comeback of controversial Paul Hamm:
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“We’re going over to some pretty hostile environment in China, especially judging,” Hamm said. “I don’t think the U.S. is going to be getting any favors.”
Leave a comment if you find a video preview anywhere on the net. I’d like to compare D’HOLMIKERS with the fantastic Hungarian PBar comedy acts of the past.
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