Yana Kudryavtseva Wins Rhythmic World Cup

Russia's Yana Kudryavtseva won the recent Rhythmic World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria, ahead of hometown girl Miteva. Russia's Margarita Mamun took 3rd.

1 Yana KUDRYAVTSEVA RUS 16.900 18.600 18.050 18.600 72.150
2 Silviya MITEVA BUL 17.650 18.150 17.900 17.850 71.550
3 Margarita MAMUN RUS 17.700 18.350 17.350 18.000 71.400

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Watch Miteva's ribbon

Massachusetts Reviews Decision To Drop Boys' Gymnastics

A few months ago there was much dismay as Massachusetts decided to drop boys' gymnastics as a high school sport, leaving only a handful of states offering boys gymnastics. But now some of the coaches have been able to get decision reviewed:

Richard Ellis, coach of the Braintree High School boys gymnastics team, and Braintree Athletic Director Michael Denise, presented evidence in support of the sport to the MIAA Executive Board. In an email to Braintree Patch, Ellis said both "gave compelling reasons to secure the recognition in the Commonwealth."

http://attleboro.patch.com/articles/miaa-to-revisit-decision-to-drop-boys-gymnastics-d75cffd6

The review will occur on June 6.

Interviews with Abie Grossfeld

Abie was a dual-Olympian for the US in 1956 and 1960. He has also coached many top US gymnasts from the 60's through to the 80's.

In an interview with Tom Pace he discusses how different gymnastics was back in his time:
http://youtu.be/iI21uDNUHnQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvHcRpXRplE


Watch him in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7LOV3WHjIU


See all the videos from the interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl4dJsQT5T0&playnext=1&list=PLdDelfjAHNC78GByT_DZCAzlKFWWeVPL5&feature=results_main

Florida Gators Win Fueled By 2012

A video about their lead-up to their first win at the 2013 NCAA's

Watch below or on YouTube

Utah Utes 2013 Season Montage

Watch below or on YouTube

Epke Zonderland Performs for the King

Epke Zonderland performed a high bar routine during the crowning of the new Dutch King in Amsterdam. It wasn't his full routine, but it was amazing considering the setup.



Click here to see his routine:

http://www.telegraaf.nl/telesport/21527876/__Zonderland_verrast_koning__.html

Georgia GymDogs Season Review

The GymDogs have put together a great video recapping their 2013 Season:

Alabama Women's Gymnastics

Behind the scenes at 'bama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCYjR3S_RGI

More Than A Sport Gymnastics Documentary

This is a great amateur documentary about some UK gymnasts.

A film made by Alyssa Patel. This is a short fly on the wall documentary looking into the sport of Gymnastics. It focuses on 3 elite gymnasts that train at the Dynamo School of Gymnastics: Laura Edwards, Kelly Simm and Casey Spry.

Why Do Kids Drop Out of Gymnastics?

British Gymnastics has just conducted a study to find the answer to this question. Overall the findings are what one would expect:

Found it ‘boring/repetitive’ – a lot of people said it became boring partly due to waiting around and partly due to repeating the same sort of warm-up or activities in each session. “More time doing actual gymnastics, less warm-up and standing around” “They just did the same thing every week and the classes were very big so it was on a sort of a circuit. So I could see they were getting a bit bored when it was the same thing each week”

http://gymnasticscoaching.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Website-dropout-research.pdf

Of course, this does provide the challenge to coaches to make classes more interesting for the gymnasts while still developing the required skill, which can be quite difficult.