Gymnastics Coaching.com

The well known Gymnastics Zone website posts a Cheer Zone page, as well.

It has a number of articles of interest to Cheer coaches:

Cheerleading Programs

Run Your Practices like Cheerleading is a Sport

Cheerleading Programs Checklist

There’s more on their Cheer Zone page.

Talk about consistency!

Former Canadian World Championships competitor Ashley Peckett (Gymnastics Mississauga) is in her final season in the NCAA.

… one of the most consistent gymnasts in UCLA history, hitting 99 of her last 101 routines without a fall, including 40 of 41 this season. She has become a valuable all-around contributor this year, averaging 39.075 in five meets, with a high of 39.35 set in the win over previously unbeaten Georgia on Mar. 4.

But how’s she doing at school?

Peckett, who boasts a cumulative GPA of 3.75 in Physiological Science, earns her third career Pac-10 academic award.

Six Bruins Selected To Pac-10 All-Academic Gymnastics Team :: Peckett receives first-team acclaim

Congratulations!

(via Gymbrooke)

I have no idea.

It takes us at least an hour to vacuum a competition Floor mat. And vacuum cleaners breakdown about every 3 months!

Carpet bonded foam is the best surface for gymnastics. But what a pain!

Altadore Gymnastics

Leave a comment below if you have any solutions.

Have a happy handstand!

Lads from Victoria, Australia have been doing handstands in unusual places: on a swing, in a phone booth, etc.

These are the ongoing Handstand Adventures.

Click PLAY or watch the adventures (so far) on YouTube.

Thanks coach Michael Jones-Evans !

Christopher Peddecord is a dynamite new photographer and a a BFA candidate at the University of Utah in ballet.

more gymnastics photos – flickr

more dance photos

I saw this set-up in the high performance gym in Homebush, Sydney, Australia.

This is about as good as it gets.

Who will be the first to do a cartwheel at the North Pole?

The South Pole has been done.

Sandwichgirl owns it.

(via Boing Boing)

With more than 700 artists from some 40 countries, Cirque du Soleil is an exciting place to express artistic talent within a challenging environment.

Dancers are not only an essential element of our productions; the nature of our shows means that we need more and more of them! Technical precision, stage presence and versatility are the overall qualities we expect from our dancers.

We are looking for dancers with the following abilities:

* Modern, contemporary and/or jazz dance;
* Classical dance;
* World and ethnic dance;
* Acrobatic rock’n’ roll;
* Acrobatic abilities an asset (trampoline, tumbling, etc.);
* Improvisational skills;
* Unique and diverse styles;
* Sensuality.

Requirements:

* Sex: male or female;
* Age: 18 and over;
* Very good stage presence;
* Multi-talented an asset.

Cirque du Soleil official website – Casting

(via L.A. Daily News)

One of the many great photos by Mynd Ársins.

PICTURE OF THE YEAR 2006 on Flickr

… Picture of the year 2006 in the annual photo contest that the Icelandic Press Photographers Association.

This is Sif Palsdottir, The Nordic champion in artistic gymnastics 2006.

List of all the winners.

FIG adopted the “vault table” — and tens of thousands of the old style vault horses became superfluous. (Jan 1, 2003 the table became mandatory for Levels 5-10 in the USA.)

What did you do with your old horse?

Here’s one idea I saw in Australia.

It’s used for vault drills jumping from tramp, landing in the pit.