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Yesterday, an announcement was made that the Croke Park stadium will offer a birds eye view over Dublin City, with walking tours of the roof top. Croke Park was originally built just for use by the GAA for Irish sports Gaelic Football and Hurling but in recent years due the refurbishment of Lansdowne Road, which up until 2007 hosted football and rugby matches and also music concerts, the GAA over turned an old ruling (Rule 42) to allow other sports to be played in Croke Park. This is while …

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As previously mentioned, I’ve been asked to try out Reeboks new line of trainers Easy Tone. I have been wearing the trainers, although I haven’t been out and about in them as much as I’d hoped.
I wore the shoes again at mid week training and also at the long 6 hour coaching session on Saturday. I really can’t say that I’ve noticed anything different to my normal trainers yet. I still had the same foot pain I always get after the long stint at gymnastics on a Saturday. I …

Tweet Last month, I was approached to try out Reeboks new “Easy Tone” trainers. The description from the Reebok Ireland site describes the shoes as:

Tailor-made for walking, with a slanted heel to propel your foot forward. Combine that with the latest technologies for comfort and muscle-toning benefits.

According to the website, Easytone uses;

Balance pods in the shoes to create natural instability, much like walking on a sandy beach, which encourage toning through increased muscle activation in 3 key areas of the leg

SmoothFit technology hides all …

Tweet New Blog (at least to me!) GymFinity
Research suggests that Americans are becoming fatter younger
BBC Sports Ollie Williams was at Lilleshall last night with a film crew, taking footage of the British National Squad who are in preparation for the European Championships later this month
I must congratulate Blythe on her excellent coverage of the French International last weekend. There’s lots to read about the whole weekend on the Gymnastics Examiner

Tweet NY Times on Sports Injuries – When to tough it out.
Balance training effective at reducing falls and improving function
How much water is enough? Nutritionist Amanda Carlson explains what to drink and when in this video
I like the information posted on the London 2012 website for Artistic Gymnastics, Trampolining and Rhythmic. Some great information there for those who aren’t involved in the sport but enjoy watching it and getting to know how the competition works.

Tweet An update from the GK Blog – including Nastia Liukin
USA Gymnastics invites you to enter their Chalk Full of Beauty Sweepstakes
An article from New Scientist Achilles Tendon is key to evolution of human running
Andy Thornton’s follow up What physical skills do you use to test a young kid for competitive gymnastics? to the previous post linked to in Little Links 30/3/10

Tweet Whilst I adore straight arms and tight legs in gymnastics, I still love seeing these kind of videos! Watch here on YouTube or below

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I’ve begun doing “star charts” with my group again, whereby they have a list of moves on each piece that they are to work to achieve.  Some are long term and some are short term goals. For each move that they achieve by themselves and can continue performing, they earn a star. Stars are also earned for hard work and effort in class and also when for working hard at their flexibility and conditioning. We have agreed on the end of the summer when we take a months break …

Tweet Help Shawn Johnson again on Dancing With The Stars
Key Hydration and Nutrition Tips for Competitive Sports
Article on Australian gymnast Larrissa Miller being “back on her feet”
I see Beth Tweddle is a lot more active on her Twitter account. Wish she’d fix up the way it links to Facebook also, looks rather messy

Tweet Yesterday Rick linked to a post and discussed whether gymnastics coaches must be fit. You can see from the comments in response to the post that readers tend to agree.

Personally I think it is a good example to set to your gymnasts if you are physically fit yourself… if you are overweight/unfit it doesnt mean you are a worse gymnastics coach but perhaps not the best role model for kids in later life.

A coach should practice what they preach.

I definitely agree that a coach should practice what they …

Tweet This article from February was posted on Shannon Miller’s new Facebook fan page. It’s short and sweet, I enjoyed it.

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London 2012 have put out details of ticketing for the 2012 Olympic Games. Tickets are not yet on sale but you can register your interest for tickets here

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Tickets are on sale for the 2010 Artistic World Championships in Rotterdam

Unfortunately Full Twist didn’t make it as a finalist to for the Irish Blog Awards. Congratulations to everyone who did and thanks to those who voted for Full Twist. Considering the number of blogs nominated, Full Twist did so well to make the short list. My money is on Kevin and the guys for BackPage Football , good luck!

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Hula Hoops are trying to make it into the Guinness World Record Book for the most amount of people Hula Hooping at the one time. There are a total of 17 Hula Hooping Events taking place in the UK & Ireland. The Irish Event will take place as follows:
Where: 3 Spencer Dock, Mayor St, Dublin 1
When: Arrive at 10am , Sunday 21st March to register
What: We will give you a Hoop to participate with, a Trainer to teach you and then up to 200 people will participate in the …

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I’ve just come across Chelsea Hobbs blog (Emily from MIOBI)
Singapore 2010 unveils Journey of the Youth Olympic Flame Torch design
Shannon Miller inducted into the National Association for Sport & Physical Education
Australian Gymnastics Blog has started a petition to encourage the National Sports Museum to feature more gymnasts