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International Gymnast Online Forum http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum This is a discussion forum for International Gymnast Magazine Online. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:12:48 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/redbar/misc/rss.jpg International Gymnast Online Forum http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum mattie larson http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5877&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:36:46 GMT hey, i just read this new interview with mattie larson earlier today from inside gymnastics magazine. it talks about her injuries, comeback, plans... hey, i just read this new interview with mattie larson earlier today from inside gymnastics magazine. it talks about her injuries, comeback, plans for the future, college gymnastics, etc. i think it's a great interview; what do you all think about it?

here's a link to the interview: http://www.insidegymnastics.com/cont...d=675&zoneid=1 ]]> Artistic Gymnastics alexandrite105 http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5877 What are you thankful for? http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5876&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:56:38 GMT In honor of Thanksgiving next week... - That my grandpa is still alive. This time last year my mom told me that my grandpa might not make it to... In honor of Thanksgiving next week...

- That my grandpa is still alive. This time last year my mom told me that my grandpa might not make it to Christmas. Now he's up, looks much healthier and walking without a cane again!

- That I made it through a rough week last week with all of my tests.

- That Ted is doing so well.

and lastly...

- My wonderful family and totally awesome friends! :) ]]> Off Topic Falconpilot5 http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5876 New Moon? http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5875&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:48:20 GMT Anyone going to see New Moon this weekend? Anyone already see it at the midnight showing last night / this morning?

I'm going tonight and I can't wait!!!! Yes, I'm a mature 31 year old adult who is in love with this series.

Too bad Taylor Lautner is jail bait - he's HOT!!! I am on Team Edward, though! I think that Robert Pattison is hot as Edward but not so much IRL. ]]> Off Topic megs2u http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5875 Utah Photo Shoot video - so fun! http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5874&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:55:49 GMT These photo shoots are a big deal - makeup artist and everything! It looks so fun... These photo shoots are a big deal - makeup artist and everything! It looks so fun
http://www.gymnastike.org/videos/cov...cs-photo-shoot ]]> College Gymnastics shelby12 http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5874 Goodbye cruel world! http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5868&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:27:05 GMT I don't feel wanted here anymore. I've been completely abandoned, left here on my own to distract myself without any other attention.

Why can't I attract my favorite trolls anymore?! I mean, everyone here keeps writing such interesting and thoughtful posts. But what happened to all the bullsh-t that my favorite trolls post? I'm not sure I can tolerate this void any longer since I'm a prince troll myself. Things just aren't right here! Not even punki-khorki visits my profile anymore! What does that say?!

I'm going to spare myself and everyone else the pain by just disappearing from this board for good. What's the point of contributing to the forum if I can't even stir up a good troll every now and then? It's making my life so empty and dark!

I shall part with my head held high, knowing real trolls exist elsewhere. Everyone else can just go about their merry business without me!

:p;) ]]> Off Topic Senor Nico http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5868 <![CDATA[not funny if it's true]]> http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5867&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:16:10 GMT Ok, so I dont know if I should post this or not... while browsing my favorite funny pics website, I came across this picture of Dufournet in a... Ok, so I dont know if I should post this or not... while browsing my favorite funny pics website, I came across this picture of Dufournet in a compromising situation. Is this real?? Has anyone heard about this?

PS. Please don't think I mean any disrespect over this, I really I'm just curious. (plus it's a little bit funny).

]]> Off Topic medstudent24 http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5867 1992 Unified Team http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5865&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:07 GMT So 1992 was the last time the republics of the former USSR competed together (minus Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, which competed independently).... So 1992 was the last time the republics of the former USSR competed together (minus Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, which competed independently). However, if they had competed separately, things could've been very interesting. At the time, Ukraine was by far the strongest force on the Soviet team. Many national team members were from Ukraine. Other countries like Belarus and Russia were already starting to lag behind. So as an independent team, Ukraine definitely could've challenged for the team title.

But perhaps in the individual rounds, things could've been different with gymnasts from the major republics.

It's worth noting that there really wasn't a choice in this matter. Since the USSR officially stopped existing in December 1991, there wasn't enough time for each republic to establish their own National Olympic Committee, so they were given the opportunity to compete as the Unified Team. The Baltic republics didn't hesitate to go off on their own since they achieved independence the earliest. ]]> Artistic Gymnastics Senor Nico http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5865 Lost gymnasts of the world http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5864&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:28:31 GMT *Whatever happened to so many great gymnasts of the world??? * I decided to start this thread because in our world, so many gymnasts retire... Whatever happened to so many great gymnasts of the world???

I decided to start this thread because in our world, so many gymnasts retire because of "injury"! I can give a few examples (Andreea Acatrinei of Romania)...but what concerns me is what happends to them?? Where are they now? What does the future hold for them?
Some more examples:Aluisa Lacusteanu, Alexandra Ghita, Roxana Stan, Floarea Leonida, Claudia Presecan, Yekaterina Kramarenko, etc.
Any ideas, reasons, suggestions?? Please feel free to add any info you like! [I know I said mainly Romanians, but under Forminte's power, if you want to say that, so many gymnasts have just GONE! Alina Stanculescu, Steliana Nistor, Elena Chiric, Loredana Sucar, Andreea Grigore, Simona Pauca (not under Forminte), Dana Druncea, etc]
Any info...please add!:) ]]> Artistic Gymnastics GOGONEL http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5864 Greatest Hits http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5863&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:45:48 GMT Forgive me if there have been many a similar thread before, but I was bored the other day and began making lists of some of my favorite things from... Forgive me if there have been many a similar thread before, but I was bored the other day and began making lists of some of my favorite things from certain gymnasts. Here's my (first!) list of greatest hits:

Johnson: arabian and layout to 2 feet on bb, double double, Ray off ub
Liukin: Geinger, Ono
Williams: stuck cold DTY. LOVE. and even though the form kinda sucked, her triple full side pass was fairly awesome.
Sloan: her opening floor pose! piked full in, Shaposh
Phelps: her bb acro series from '96
Strug: the vault heard round the world, planche on bb
Tweddle: her entire ub set. It's completely insane. Do you think she knows that?
Domi M: her '96 fx. Just seems so classic.
Mitchell: her front aerial to front tuck on bb. Plus the rest of her beam.
Miller: I always liked her bars.
He: That nutty Jaegar release combo
Kupets: for some reason I loved her NCAA bb dismount senior year and her tumbling run that ended in a Shushunova. I also loved her bars as an elite. And her NCAA vault was awesome.
Korbut: her flip! it makes me sad that thing is against the rules now, because it is so amazingly cool.
Lily Pod: her floor was just incredible.
Jordan Moore: Tchatev. So high.
Pezsek: her bb at Nats and her double layout on fx
Milosevic: her second? third? tumbling run on fx in 96...the one that went ro, whip, whip, whip, twist, punch front...just awesome.
Hong: bb mount, double front
Lepennec: Def! love.
Memmel: Dos Santos. Sheer tenacity.
Dawes: her bb, making straddle jumps exciting...
Hatch: DTY
Yang Bo: everything she ever did on beam.
Mo: her named skill on ub.
Patterson: her bb dismount, when stuck. Her back with a full early in her career, when her technique was really interesting.
I'm going to think of about a zillion more. ]]> Artistic Gymnastics vanessasarah http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5863 <![CDATA[5 Questions with Kim Zmeskal's "Dream Team"]]> http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5862&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:51:55 GMT Image: http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs083.snc1/4571_1156445397038_1404815879_416106_8242102_n.jpg (Photo Courtesy of Napualani Hall) ...

(Photo Courtesy of Napualani Hall)

Introducing 5 Questions with the Texas Dreams “Dream Team”! The “Dream Team” is made up of an insane number of Elite and Hopes Gymnasts who train over 30 hours a week with world champion Kim Zmeskal-Burdette and her husband, Chris Burdette. While I’m sure you haven’t heard of all of these gymnasts, I truly believe that many of them will go on to become some of the greatest National Team Members, World Champions, Olympians and College Gymnasts that our nation has ever seen. Texas Dreams is the home of 2004 National Team Members Brittany Magee and Meghan Blair and 2008 Olympic Training Squad Member Chelsea Davis.

Feel free to direct a question towards one specific gymnast; just remember to include general questions as well. But remember guys: Don’t be rude, these girls are 11-14 years old. You have to feel really crappy about yourself to be rude to a preteen girl.

To give you an idea of what training is like, here’s a conditioning video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8P-OVxuc5I

Here are the gymnasts participating:

Allison Cary- 11 year old Allison is a Hopes gymnast and placed 8th at the U.S. Challenge. Here’s her beam routine from the 2009 Region 3 Elite Qualifier. Does her mount look familiar? http://www.gymnastike.org/videos/cov...ison-cary-1330

Reagan Campbell- 11 year old Reagan Campbell placed 5th in the U.S. Challenge Hopes division this year with a competitive 13.4 on beam and floor. Here’s her floor from the 2009 Region 3 Elite Qualifier.
http://www.gymnastike.org/videos/cov...-campbell-1340

Napualani Hall- Pua, (as she’s known in the gym) who just turned 14, has previously competed for CGA, GAGE and Hawaiian Island Twisters and transferred to T.D. earlier this year. While towering over her teammates at 5’3, Pua placed 15th at the Visa National Championships earning her a spot at Pan Ams Selection Camp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAzv6Hwf-vc ]]> Artistic Gymnastics Bekah http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5862 Let the guessing begin for our next 5Q! http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5861&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:31:44 GMT I'll keep giving you hints until you guess it!

You'll be interviewing numerous gymnasts from 1 American gym! ]]> Artistic Gymnastics Bekah http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5861 Gems On Their Worst Event http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5860&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:51:37 GMT inspired from a note in another thread. certain gymnasts have a weak event but some prove to at least have a little something that stands out on... inspired from a note in another thread. certain gymnasts have a weak event but some prove to at least have a little something that stands out on that event.

Shawn Johnson - weakest event is bars but double double laidout dismount is to die for seriously, and i don't even like her.

Pavlova - also weak bar worker but that pak salto is unquestionable...completely laid out.

oddly enough I think previous codes wouldn't have been so hard on these two as bar workers. pavlova's is fantastic except for the obsession with handstands. it brings to mind what tim said about nastia trying to be too perfect and then what he said about pavlova just having fun up on the bars. actually pavlova's double layout of bars is second to mccools in my boook. ]]> Artistic Gymnastics selecious http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5860 Requiem for a dream floor music http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5859&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:30:14 GMT I was on another thread ,where someone posted a link to anna li's new routine to the requiem for a dream music.

I was just wondering if any other gymnasts had used this music,because i really like it, and wanted to see other choreography to it,so if anyone knows and could tell the gymnasts name or could post a link,i would be very grateful.

Also if anyone knows of any good routines that have good dramatic music? ]]> Artistic Gymnastics http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5859 do ex-gymnasts have better balence? http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5858&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:38:01 GMT This is a question for the retired gymnasts out there. Do you believe that the balance skills you learned in gymnastics have been useful later in... This is a question for the retired gymnasts out there. Do you believe that the balance skills you learned in gymnastics have been useful later in life? For instance, would walking across an icy parking lot be easier than for most people?

I'm sorry if this question is a bit dumb, but I've wondered if all that time on a balence beam translates into fewer falls later in life. ]]> Artistic Gymnastics slane http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5858 PHOTOS Alicia Sacramone’s tour is a ‘10’ (11/2009) http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5857&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:13:12 GMT Sacramone’s tour is a ‘10’
Olympian wows gymnasts

By Allison Fimognari
November 19, 2009

Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone signs the cheek of Rileigh Davenport, 8, of Rochdale
during a visit to Giguere Gymnastics in Leicester yesterday.

Alicia Sacramone accepts a medal from Emma Rokicki, 6, of Sturbridge,
who won the award in competition and wanted to present it to Sacramone.

Very nervous — I think I cried.-- Alicia Sacramone, ON HOW SHE FELT BEFORE HER FIRST GYMNASTICS MEET

LEICESTER — Olympic silver medalist Alicia Sacramone visited area gymnastics clubs yesterday to promote the Tyson American Cup, which will be held at the DCU Center in Worcester on March 6.

Greeted at Giguere Gymnastics on Route 9 by a sea of screaming elementary school girls, the 21-year-old Winchester native told her audience that they should put tickets to the prestigious international invitational on their wish lists for Christmas.

Answering questions that ranged from what her favorite color is (blue) to what she thinks whenever she falls (“Oh, man!”), Sacramone spent almost an hour with the young gymnasts at Giguere signing autographs, including a flag the gymnastics center has had since 1984, adding her name to those of a number of well-known gymnasts who have visited.

No doubt, Sacramone was just as popular during her stops at other area clubs yesterday, including Over The Top Gymnastics on McKeon Road in Worcester and the Gymnastics Learning Center in Shrewsbury.

A member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team who was known for her powerful vaults, Sacramone retired from gymnastics after the Games in Beijing, but since has returned to the sport and plans to start competing again next year. Her goal is to compete in the 2012 Olympics, and then work toward becoming a fashion designer.

Currently a business major at Brown University in Providence, Sacramone said she’s looking to transfer to a school in the Boston area to reduce the travel time between training and school, which are tough enough to juggle without the added time behind the wheel.

Sacramone began gymnastics when she was 8 and started competing at age 10. When asked how she felt before her first meet, she laughed and answered “very nervous — I think I cried.”

A former USA Gymnastics Sportswoman of the Year, Sacramone has come a long way since that first meet. She trains three hours a day, but when working toward the 2008 Olympics, she put in seven hours a day, which she admits sometimes became “repetitive and boring,” but it needed to be done if she wanted to do well.

At competitions, Sacramone manages to keep a calm head on her shoulders by listening to mellow music on her iPod and thinking, “It’s just another gym, you’re prepared and ready to do it.”

Growing up, Sacramone’s idol was Dominique Moceanu, a member of the 1996 Olympic gold medal-winning team. It was clear from her visits yesterday that Sacramone, too, has become an idol to many young girls, who also have high hopes and deep passion for gymnastics. ]]> Artistic Gymnastics marocanu http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5857