Tweet The Japanese have announced the gymnasts who will represent the country in the 2011 World Gymnastics Championships in October. The NHK Cup took place this weekend which served as the second qualifying event which served as team trials for the World Championships. As predicted  Kohei Uchimura and Koko Tsurumi, the current National Champions secured their third consecutive titles at the NHK Cup and also, a place on the National Team for Worlds.
Men’s Team:

Kohei Uchimura
Kazuhito Tanaka
Kenya Kobayashi
Koji Yamamuro
Makoto Okiguchi
Yusuke Tanaka
Shogo Nonomura (alternate)
Ryohei Kato (alternate)

Women’s Team

Koko Tsurumi
Rie Tanaka
Yuko Shintake
Asuka Teramoto
Tomomi …

Tweet Since the venue has finally been confirmed for the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, the tickets will go on sale tomorrow, July 11th. They will be available from 10am Japanese time which is 2am Dublin / London time and 9pm New York time (10th June).

Japanese residents can purchase tickets through Ticket GYM, Ticket Pia, 7-Elevens, Circle K Sankus, Pia outlets around Japan. Those wishing to buy tickets can visit this website for more information. Those purchasing from outside Japan should use this website as the official seller. There you can …

Tweet The prototype for  London 2012 Olympic Torch has today been revealed.

The piece which has been designed by London designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby will be a three sided golden cone with the flame burning through its perforated shell. It will stand at 800mm in height and weigh just 800g.
The triangular design has been inspired by the multiples of three identified across the vision and delivery of the Olympic Games. These include the three Olympic Values of respect, excellence and friendship; the fact the UK has hosted the Olympic Games three …

Tweet You may notice that Full Twist rarely posts at the weekends, usually only if there is a major competition going on or with some breaking news – my work in the gym can be quite demanding at weekends, taking up all of Saturday and Sunday. As usual some of the other Gymnastics Bloggers and news outlets have done a fantastic job in covering the news from around the world over the weekend.

The All Around: Germans unhappy with Tokyo Decision
Inside Gymnastics: tickets on sale for the 2011 Visa Championships August …

Tweet By now, most of you will have heard yesterdays announcement that the FIG are looking for gymnasts help in revising the current Code of Points.
Wanted!
Gymnasts input for Code of Points.
Lausanne (SUI)/ FIG Office, June 06, 2011: FIG is organising a symposium for WAG, MAG and TRA aiming for future development in Code of Points in these disciplines starting June 17th. Now is the time for you as an athlete affected by the Code to express your feelings and ideas for next four year cycle regarding Code in these disciplines.
Please …

Tweet There’s a great new article on the BBC Sport website as part of the World Olympic Dreams series on Shawn Johnson. It follows Shawn at the Nike HQ in Portland, Oregon. There is an accompanying video which I just love, it shows Shawn inside the Nike laboratory doing moves and covered in body movement receptors. She looks like she is in fantastic shape. We also get to see a short little clip of her on bars where she really shows that she hasn’t lost it!
The article is great, it …

Tweet The new Science of Gymnastics Journal has been released by editor Ivan Cuk. I always enjoy reading the articles, specifically the WAG articles. This issues articles are as follows:
 

Thermal Imaging and Gymnastics Injuries: A means of screening and injury detection.
Is gymnastics a dangerous sport in the Australian club context?
Self esteem, trait anxiety and parental educational level of children practicing non – competitive gymnastics sports.
Influence of dance elements on balance beam results.
Reliability of real time judging system.

 
That reminds me, I must pick up my copy of The Science of Gymnastics …

Tweet The Street Performance World Championships will once again come to Ireland this month. Lots of street performers will descend on Dublin, Cork and Portlaoise to show off their talents. Like last years event, all shows will be free.
Cork & Portlaoise: June 11th – 12th
Dublin: June 16th – 19th View timetable here.

There isn’t too much information on the official website just yet but if it’s anything like last years event, it’ll be great!

Tweet Singapore Gymnastics have room to recruit a new Finance Executive to their organisation. You can view the full job description here. Resumes should be sent to Fionna Thong – fionnathong@singaporegymnastics.org.sg before the deadline which is June 30th.

Job Role and Responsibilities:The Part-time Finance Executive  takes the lead for compliance with financial accounting standards and design of processes to safeguard good governance and sound financial controls on a risk based basis.  The position works closely with the GM and the SG Treasurer to:
• Ensure full compliance with accounting standards, the internal controls and practical …

Tweet One of my favourite tools to use in the gym with my gymnasts are resistance bands. If you’ve not heard of them before, these bands are stretchy elastic resistance bands which are used to flexibility and strength. The bands are most commonly used in rehabilitation after injury by Physical Therapists. As John Howard points out;
…one of the most effective, in terms of time-efficiency and rapid progress, and scientifically documented (by renowned U.S. gymnastics scientist, Bill Sands) methods of stretching involves using TheraBand™ elastic resistance bands in active stretching
I use …

Tweet The Managing Director (MD) and President of the Special Olympics in Europe and Eurasia has cited her interest in running for the office of President in the Republic of Ireland. On May 26th Mary Davis announced that she was to seek nomination to run for the Presidency of Ireland as an independent candidate.
Ms Davis has responsibility for the development of the Special Olympics in 59 countries across Europe and Asia. Before being appointed MD and President, she was the CEO of Special Olympics Ireland and was also CEO of the 2003 Special …

Tweet According to reports, tonight is the night when money will be withdrawn from millions of bank accounts across the UK and Ireland for London 2012 Olympics tickets. Sports fans who have applied for tickets will find out tonight / tomorrow morning if their application has been successful. Payments are due to be taken from accounts at midnight tonight. Successful applicants will be told which tickets they have been allocated by June 24th whilst those who have had payments that have bounced will be told by June 10th. Lucky ticket …

Tweet Tickets for the 2011 Artistic World Championships in Tokyo were due to go on sale tomorrow, June 1st. Organisers have pushed back the on sale date to June 11th in order to finalise the schedule of events.

Tweet This weekend was yet another busy weekend for the world of gymnastics.
Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships 2011
As thought, the Russian rhythmic star Evgenia Kanaeva shone at the Euro’s,  winning 2 gold medals and a silver in the Individual Apparatus and a team gold medal with team mates Daria Kondakova and Daria Dmitrieva. The FIG has a full write on the weekends competition up here. View all of the results on the UEG Website.
Spanish Cup
The All Around has a great round up from the Spanish Cup competition. Current top Spanish gymnast Ana María Izurieta tied …

Tweet This weekend sees the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships taking place in Minsk and the second FIG Trampoline Gymnastics and Tumbling World Cup of 2011 which will be held in St. Petersburg.

33 nations will participate in the senior category and 23 with junior groups in the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. This is an increase on participation in the 2009 European Championships. All eyes will be on Russia’s star rhythmic gymnast, the 2010 European and World Champion Evgenia Kanaeva.

View the competition schedule here.
View the list of tv channels broadcasting the championships here.
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