Pan Am Apparatus Finals

Vault
🥇 Ellie Black, Canada, 14.450
🥈 Yesenia Ferrera, Cuba, 14.391
🥉 Shallon Olsen, Canada, 14.183

Bars
🥇 Riley McCusker, United States, 14.533
🥈 Leanne Wong, United States, 14.300
🥉 Ellie Black, Canada, 14.000

Beam
🥇 Kara Eaker (USA) – 15.266
🥈 Ellie Black (CAN) – 13.566
🥉 Riley McCusker (USA) – 13.333

Floor
🥇 Brooklyn Moors, Canada, 13.900
🥈 Kara Eaker, United States, 13.800
🥉 Flavia Saraiva, Brazil, 13.766

Floor
🥇 Tomás González, Chile, 14.600
🥈 Robert Neff, United States, 14.166
🥉 Andres Martinez, Colombia, 14.100

Pommel
🥇 Francisco Barretto, Brazil, 13.533
🥈 Robert Neff, United States, 13.466
🥉 Carlos Calvo, Colombia, 13.233

Rings
🥇 Fabian de Luna, Mexico, 14.500
🥈 Arthur Zanetti, Brazil, 14.400
🥉 Federico Molinari, Argentina, 14.066

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Vault
🥇 Audrys Nin, Dominican Republic, 14.416
🥈 Jorge Vega, Guatemala, 14.383
🥉 Alejandro de la Cruz, Cuba, 14.183

Audrys Nin

P Bars
🥇 Isaac Nuñez, Mexico, 14.433
🥈 Caio Souza, Brazil, 14.366
🥉 Cameron Bock, United States, 14.033

Isaac Nuñez

H Bar
🥇 Francisco Barretto, Brazil, 14.566
🥈 Arthur Mariano, Brazil, 14.533
🥉 Huber Godoy, Cuba, 14.200

Canada left happy.

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Pole fitness training

Former Level 10 National Champion Karry Summers runs Altitude Pole and Fitness in New Zealand.

Click PLAY or watch some classes on Facebook.

Kara Eaker – 15.266 Beam !

So fluid.

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Stanford gymnast – ‘Pechanec’ on Bars

Nicole Pechancova competed for the Czech team at the World Championships in Rotterdam. In ‘merica we know her as Nicole Pechanec from Stanford.

Recall she competed Free Hip Geinger, a ‘new‘ skill Stanford was calling the ‘Pechanec’.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (2012)

Old timers like myself will have seen that skill done as early as the early ’80s. … I can’t remember any names, however. Leave a comment if you recall.

Ellie Black does NOT have retirement scheduled

Despite this misleading headline, Ellie is not planning to quit after Tokyo.

HOW ELLIE BLACK ENVISIONS HER SWAN SONG AT TOKYO 2020

Already a two-time Olympian and one of Canada’s best female gymnasts ever, it’s easy to wonder when she might be done.

And Black at just 23-years-old is used to facing questions about when she’ll hang up her grips.

“I don’t even know what I’m doing tomorrow, basically,” Black said with a laugh Saturday. …

“I always say age is just a number,” said Black.

That’s something the Nova Scotia-native proved as she’s continued to get better, year-after-year. …

“As long as I’m enjoying gymnastics and I’m loving what I’m doing, why not keep doing it?”

related – Ellie Black becomes Canada’s most decorated Pan Am gymnast (ahead of Willie Weiler of The Weiler fame)

training Yurchenko without a Board

Gymnasts should do hundreds of progressions before introducing the Spring Board.

Click PLAY or watch one example on YouTube.

Canadian Trampoline Championships

Jon Schwaiger of Caledonia, ON repeated his double gold-medal performance from 2018, taking gold in both senior men’s tumbling and DMT for another year.

“The competition went pretty well for both,” said Schwaiger who captured his eighth-consecutive senior tumbling title this weekend. “I went four for four on both (apparatus) which is really all you can hope for, and I also set a new difficulty record on DMT on my first pass. Looking forward to Worlds, my plan is to just clean up some of my passes, and up the difficulty in the straight passes and just get them more confident and consistent.”

Read more – 2019 Canadian Trampoline Championships wrap-up in Oshawa, ON

Jon Schwaiger