tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
This video has been circulating the internet via email.
Click PLAY or watch the video clip on YouTube.
Thanks Dave.
UPDATE: This is the award winning Pilobolus Dance Theater out of Connecticut.
Click PLAY to see them in a commercial for the Hyundai Sante Fe or watch it on YouTube. (Hey Hyundai, great viral marketing!)
Thanks dirtypandabear.
In Canada you can sign up for a gymnastics credit card with a percentage of the revenue going back to support the Associations.
Mosaik MasterCard is a card like no other because you’re like no other customer. Customize your card with the rewards, interest rate plan, protection and services you want while still getting the included features you need.
$80 annual fee applies to the Gold Reward Option.
$25 annual fee applies to the Low Rate Option. Ongoing interest rate, payment period and annual fee are subject to change.
Seems like a good fund-raiser. Leave a comment if you have signed on and have some feedback.
Or if you have seen similar credit card plans.
My favourite “gymnastics” sport to watch in 2007 is Sports Acrobatics. It’s the epitome of flexibility, strength, somersaulting and twisting.
Yeesh, they are even doing bar “release moves”.
It’s well worth watching a 9min highlights clip from Worlds 2006 in Coimbra, Portugal.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I spent many happy years coaching at Emma Lake Gymnastics Camp in the wilds of the Canadian Shield in Saskatchewan.
That camp lapsed after Taiso Head Coach Kelly Thompson headed East with his family. (No one else had Kelly’s energy putting the camp together.)
Happily Randy McMullen, Head coach of the club in Prince Albert, has resurrected the Emma Lake Camp. Call Randy at (306) 922-4812 if you want to know more.
Rick McCharles.
I think NOT.
In evidence I took a bike ride around an upper middle class Canadian neighbourhood and took anonymous photos of home trampolines.
Does this look safe to you?
Manufacturers claim the trampolines are safe when set-up properly and supervised.
Fact is they are rarely set-up properly and even more rarely supervised.
Backyard trampolines should be outlawed.
more backyard trampoline photos – flickr
UPDATE – Olympic torch burned well on the highest mountain in the world.
(via The Adventure Blog)
==== original post Nov. 5, 2006:
Beijing is planning to take the Olympic Flame to Mount Everest as a stage on the Olympic Torch Relay to Beijing, an event of major symbolic importance starting by March, 2008. CTMA stated there will be a trial run of the torch ceremony on the mountain next spring.
Everest – Mount Everest by climbers, news
This is a gutsy move for China considering the amount of world media HEAT they will be taking over their invasion of Tibet in 1951.
And especially in light of the defenseless Tibetan refugees shot by the Chinese army recently, close to Everest.
Beijing had best plan for some good publicity, as well. Perhaps have goodwill envoy Jackie Chan carry it to base camp.
(via The Adventure Blog)
2007 Induction Ceremony, May 11, 2007, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
… We will conduct our 11th annual induction dinner. The Class of 2007 all represent the highest possible achievement in our sport, and are so deserving of this recognition. The Board is pleased to announce the names of those to be honored:
The Class of 2007:
• Simona Amanar (Romania)
• Eberhard Gienger (Germany)
• Yelena Davydova (Russia)
• Shigeru Kasamatsu (Japan)Gymbrooke Sports News » International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
Eberhard Gienger, Nadia Comaneci, Simona Amanar, and Yelena Davydova 
ESPN
The names of Gienger and Kasamatsu are particularly well-remembered for important skills named after them.
Eberhard Gienger has had a most eventful life, eventually becoming a member of the German Parliament (CDU).
Statue in downtown Salt Lake City.
Leave a comment if you know of other good acrobatic statues we might post on this site.
I wonder how secure the cable anchors on the cliff edge were attached.
And who is this nut?
Click PLAY or watch the mad man do a hecht dismount from horizontal bar into the abyss on YouTube.
(via Chalk Bucket)
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