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GymNiceTic was the first to link to this yesterday. NASA met up with Nastia Liukin to discuss how gymnastics and astronauts in space are similar.  The video is available to download and watch on the NASA website. Of course, she had to throw in the word “Super Girl” into it! It’s a short video but none the less enjoyable.

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Coach Dawn Writes has composed a list of 5 gifts that every coach might like for Christmas.

Great athletes.  I’m sure I don’t have to expand on this, but I’ll quickly define what I mean by “great”.  Surely skill comes into play, as well as a high sports I.Q., a love of the game, a love of hard work, an understanding of and commitment to team, the ability to rise to the occasion, and a strong desire to be a leader.  And that’s just the start.
Understanding bosses.  Administrators that know …

Tweet Watch below or on YouTube. If you can make out who the gymnast featured is, leave a comment below.

“True Beauty” features a beautiful CG x-ray energy effect that emanates from within a gymnast, zebra, skate, eagle and the fuel efficient Ford Mondeo’s ECOnetic. The ad illustrates that the new Mondeo has even more than surface appeal – it looks beautiful, but its streamlined and efficient mechanics underneath look even more beautiful. To get this message across, Digital Domain combined real photographic imagery (to …

Tweet Shannon Miller was recently interviewed by Gym Power about her thoughts on the World Championships in Rotterdam. I did see during the World Championships that Miller was busy endorsing new social network GymnastSpotlight.com. I had been meaning to take a look at it but the Worlds were just far too exciting, coincidentally the website is working for me at the moment.

On World Champion Aliya Mustafina:
What in an incredible talent. Mustafina reminds me a lot of myself (although i believe she is much more talented). She doesn’t take …

Tweet Gymnastics…. Audi Cars, umm… you know how they’re related right!?! Either way, love this advert for Audi.

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Geoffrey Taucer is looking for suggestions, what would you like to him him write about in his blog? Technical of course!
Nadia Comaneci calls for more opportunities for women in their sport
CBC has compiled a list of what they consider to be the top 10 most influential (and bizarre) drugs scandals in sport
Watch some Women’s Podium Training videos via Gymnastics Australia
Shawn Johnson tweeted that she is getting a new website

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British Gymnastics have become quite active on their Facebook page in the last week or so coming up to the Commonwealth Games and have become even more active today. Become a fan of them to keep up to date with news.

BBC also have great coverage on their website
You can keep an eye on the Official Commonwealth Games site for gymnastics information and also results.
Here is the BBC’s TV coverage of Artistic Gymnastics starting today, share with your friends on Facebook, on your blog etc. It’s often quite hard to …

Tweet The Globe and Mail recently posted an article about Michael Taylor, a California-based gymnastics risk-management consultant, who has created a list of dos and don’ts for parents of young athletes.

Here is a summary of Michael’s list:

Don’t think of your child’s sport participation as an investment for which you want a return.
Don’t show negative emotions while you are watching your child at a competition.
Don’t do anything that will cause your child to be embarrassed.
Don’t make enemies of other parents.
Don’t interfere, in any way, with coaching during competition or practice.

Are …

Tweet Over the last few years, the interest in gymnastics seems to have increased. There are many possible reasons for this, obviously Spelbound winning Britains Got Talent has caused a surge in interest in gymnastics among children in the UK and Ireland. I think another major factor that has added to this interest is the new level of competition involved in the sport at Olympic level. For many years it was the Romanians, USA and Russia etc dominating the sport but as we have seen in the last few months, …

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So do you think they did enough to win the competition?
Embedding is disabled – View the performance here on YouTube

I certainly think so!! The performance was much stronger than Monday nights, it was a lot more concentrated so that we could actually see everything that was going on rather than looking as chaotic as the semi final performance. They had a huge advantage considering poor 81 year old Janey Cutler was a little off on her song minutes before they came on stage. I definitely think they come …

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In the last few months there’s been chitter chatter and comments on forums and blogs relating to gymnastics physique and look. One gymnast who has been commented on a lot, mainly in regards to her legs, is Shawn Johnson. This week KCCI reports on how Shawn Johnson has been helping to spread a positive message to girls about body image and self esteem. Read the report here and see a very short clip of Shawn speaking.
Well done Shawn, it’s great to see people using their fame for good …

Tweet Spellbound – the Gymnastics display group from Episode 2, Season 4 of Britain’s Got Talent.
Watch it below or on YouTube.

Tweet Click here to read the regular live updates on the Gymnastics Examiner from Podium Training at the French International in Paris this weekend.

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.

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The UEG have announced nominative entries for the 29th European Championships in mens artistic gymnastics. The competition is to be held from April 21st to 25th in Birmingham, UK.

A total of 151 senior and 149 junior gymnasts will compete in the different competitions of these championships. In the senior category, 28 teams are entered plus some individual gymnasts. The ECh in Birmingham will offer the possibility to discover the generation of the 2012 OG and, with regard to the juniors, the generation of the YOG 2010 and 2014 and …