Too bad Sacramone can't compete NCAA's anymore, right? because she turned pro and accpeted sponsorship deals. Her 24 hour fitness commercials are on tv now. Or else she could start with NCAA diving. Same thing with ineligibily for NCAAs for Shawn Johnson (who said she wants to go to Stanford) and Nastia Liukin, unless the rules have changed.

Sounds like Ashley Priess is saving her back from all of the poundings and aggravating her back injury, good choice for the future: [QUOTE] "A lot of people don't understand why I would choose this route so close to the Olympics, but all I can say is I have so many more goals and ambitions in the future," said Priess, who turned 18 on March 8. "I couldn't stand not seeing those happen because of[ Read More... ]

USA JO Championship are on the 10 point scale. So are club gymnastics.

One of the "newcomers" competing at the coming USA Nationals at Visa Championships, coached by Kim Zmeskal (who was coached by Bela Karolyi): [QUOTE] Davis is already making a name for herself by being the youngest member on the U.S. Women

[quote=doublefront;36361]Named Skills Montage [youtube]cACUd83W21Q&NR=1[/youtube] Check it out - it's a really good montage![/quote] [youtube]WnL3vqVtLT0[/youtube]

Men who qualified for the 2008 Visa Championships 1. Todd Thornton, Houston/U.S. Olympic Training Center, 156 2. Ryan Lieberman, Lake Forest, Ill./Stanford University, 106 3. Danell Leyva, Miami/Universal Gymnastics, 106 4. Alexy Bilozertchev, Hilliard, Ohio/OSU Boys Team, 105 5. Andrew Elkind, Cherry Hill, N.J./U.S. Olympic Training Center, 104 6. Josh Dixon, San Jose, Calif./Stanford[ Read More... ]

Jake Bateman 2008 NCAA Championships [youtube]PvFNzKw6hHs[/youtube] Jake Bateman 2008 NCAA Championships 2 [youtube]0cENdHQ0AUQ[/youtube] Steven Legendre GOLD Floor NCAA 2008 [youtube]bGH6RMY9628[/youtube] [youtube]Oklahoma

Watch online from georgia gym dogs website: http://www.georgiadogs.com/mediaPlayer/video.dbml?LCH=1&CLIP_ID=102919&CLIP_FILE_ID=107521&CONTENT_TYPE=ONDEMAND&db_oem_id=8800

Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Alicia Sacramone, and Chellsie Memmel are in the April 2008 Vogue issue (page 312) - photograh by Annie Leibovitz: article: http://www.nastialiukin.com/vogue1.jpg There's a typo in the article - Oksana Chusovitina is the 32 year old Russian gymnast competing (she'll be 33 at the 2008 Olympic Games), Oxana Rakhmatulina is a 31 year old Russian basketball guard:[ Read More... ]

USA women's team: Nastia Liukin, Jana Bieger, Darlene Hill (seniors), Rebecca Bross, Samantha Shapiro and Jordyn Wieber (Juniors). Olivia Courtney is the alternate. [quote]In other news, Nastia has been at the National Team Training Center this week for the National Team Training Camp. Following this camp she has been named on the Pacific Rim Championships (formally known as the Pacific[ Read More... ]

Here's one way Utah is doing it: [quote] Utah's meet against Minnesota on Friday is being billed as "Short people appreciation night." Life-sized cutouts of Utah's shortest gymnast, 5-foot senior Katie Kivisto, will be placed at each entrance and anyone shorter than the cutout will receive a free general admission ticket. Sophomores Stephanie Neff and Beth Rizzo are also listed as 5-foot,[ Read More... ]

Great videos! IG did a page layout of the history of the uneven bars this issue, online: http://www.internationalgymnast-digital.com/internationalgymnast/20080102/?u1=texterity At one point, there were people holding the bars down! related: http://www.gymchat.com/messageboards/viewtopic.php?p=21251#21251

2007 National team member Kayla Hoffman on home school vs. real school as she goes to Alabama for college, after homeschooling for 9 years and 1 year off: [quote]

Positive coaching when your gymnast is scared of a skill: "Coaching to Overcome Fear (Coaches)" Author:Alison Arnold Ph.D. http://www.headgames.ws/articles-009.html [quote]Gymnastics is a scary sport. But dealing with a fearful gymnast can be even scarier. How do you do it? Whether it is a new skill or a skill a gymnast has competed for years, there are things coaches can do to help their[ Read More... ]

Ping Pong Door Ping Pong in pool floating table tennis http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/search/tennis+gadget

[quote]The 14 celebrities won

Beth Tweddle: [quote]Earlier she had performed a near flawless A-bars routine only to fluff her final element and lose momentum. On dismount, Tweddle then fell forward, putting her hands on the floor and dropping out of medal contention. Later, she was philosophical, shrugging off the disappointment. "Up until the last skill it was one of the better routines I'd done," she said. "If I want to[ Read More... ]

Back from torn ACL: [quote]FREMONT

Aljaz Pegan release move called Pegan is USA's Mitch Gaylord's release move (double front) with a half twist. Here is the video showing his Pegan release and also triple back dismount!! From the 2007 World Championships in Stuttgart, event finals, it's the WCSN coverage with Bart Conner and Blaine Wilson: [youtube]24GJDNiLiv4[/youtube]

Steliana Nistor making good comeback: [quote]2007 world all-around silver medallist Steliana Nistor of Romania was the most successful female gymnast, qualifying to three event finals: uneven bars (second), balance beam (third) and floor exercise (first). Performing with sublime ease, Nistor re-affirmed her status as one of the sports leading ladies, as she effortlessly negotiated her new bars[ Read More... ]

Steliana Nistor making good comeback: [quote]2007 world all-around silver medallist Steliana Nistor of Romania was the most successful female gymnast, qualifying to three event finals: uneven bars (second), balance beam (third) and floor exercise (first). Performing with sublime ease, Nistor re-affirmed her status as one of the sports leading ladies, as she effortlessly negotiated her new bars[ Read More... ]

Britain bringing in experienced gymnasts and also new comers to competition. Romania's Steliana Nistor added a new combination of Maloney: "shoot 1/2 to handstand, Stalder shoot to high", bars A score goes up to 7.0 if she does all the difficulty. Russian Lyudmila Yezhova has husband 2004 Olympian Georgy Grebenkov as coach. According to IG, women practiced through routines and "The men took a[ Read More... ]

At the 2007 Worlds the more experienced older gymnasts - like Catalina Ponor and Elena Zamolodchikova - didn't do the robot walk but the younger girls newer to the international elite scene totally did. It looks really unnatural and robot-like.

Ha Ha Ha. It's really funny when the girls stick their chins up obnoxiously high too.

It does look too robotic lol! Natural is better! :D