Canada’s Cory Paterson retired

Super competitor and dependable teammate for so many years on Team Canada and Iowa in the NCAA.

Quebec put together a career retrospective video. Cory will stay involved in the sport in leadership roles.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Suni DID compete 1/2-on, Fwd Layout

As a competitive Vault, that’s crazy. SO difficult to land consistently.

I’d argue it’s even tougher than the Handspring Fwd Layouts we’ve seen a few times in NCAA.

When I saw it in training online I ASSuMEd she was using it as a “timer” — and would add twists later.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. Spencer would have given  9.8 though she was scored 9.925.

50 Most Artistic Gymnasts

The edition of Inside Gymnastics I most look forward to each year.

NCAA Divison III teams scored lower

As we’ve always known, NCAA judges apply the rules more accurately when at Div III competitions. It’s one of the worst aspects of the silly College judging scheme.

Spencer crunched the numbers on the recent GymCastic podcast:

  • Using data from every meet for the DIII WIAC teams (the 8 teams in Wisconsin/Minnesota) for the last 10 years—679 team scores—the average score when they compete away at a DI or DII school is 186.104. 
  • Compared to when they compete at home or at other DIII schools or neutral venues, when the average score is 183.776. 
  • That’s a difference of 2.328 in the team score—or greater than four falls—maintained across an entire decade of meets for an entire division of teams.
  • Far from being an urban myth, DIII teams scoring far higher at DI and DII schools is a long-standing and verifiable reality.

Men’s NCAA week 7 Power Rankings

  1. STANFORD (-)
  2. OKLAHOMA (+1)
  3. MICHIGAN (-1)
  4. NEBRASKA (-)
  5. ILLINOIS (-)
  6. OHIO STATE (+1)

After winning arguably the biggest upset of the season against B1G rival Michigan, the Buckeyes jumped a spot in the rankings to number six.

With the help of their all-arounders including Jesse Tyndall and Justin Ah Chow, Ohio State was finally able to break the 400 mark with their 403.60. …

College Gymnastics Association

Trinity 10.0 Vault

YES.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

video analysis in Figure Skating

Seems to me Omega is ahead of Fujitsu in technology.