Friday, December 3, 2010

National Clubs Round-Up

My sincere apologies for not covering the event this year.
Yes, the junior and senior sessions DID straddle my birthday (again!) and I WAS busy doing a few things during the week of the competition.

Here are some links to results, reports and media from the event for those who haven't managed to keep tabs on them yet. The listed links are only to those sources that provided results and reports from the event, apologies for any missing states/territories. I didn't include club reports because there are far too many of them!

If you happen to find something I missed, please put a link in in the Comments for this post and I will make an update, or email me at ozgymblog@gmail.com
Cheers!


Gymnastics Australia

NSW

QLD

WA

SA

44 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations Ping, MaJun, all other coaches, management and staff, and the gymnasts at Epping YMCA.

Anonymous said...

I notice Larrissa received a 6.1 D score day 1, and a 6.2 D score day 2...does anyone know what the difference was?

Anonymous said...

Check out Jazminne Cassis's floor -- choreography is awesome and she has such presence!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7-NjH92KOI&feature=related

Can't remember when I last enjoyed watching a floor routine more. And it looks like she has room (and time) to upgrade.

When does she turn senior?

Anonymous said...

No summary from Victoria?

Anonymous said...

I saw they had a couple of updates on their facebook page.... http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Gymnastics-Victoria/110828822282824

Anonymous said...

hello gym fans

Reading through the results from national clubs championships, I had two questions.

First, what is the latest on Ashley Cooney, is she still training? She was promising and will be senior next year.

And Emma Collister, where is she?

Anonymous said...

National Club photos are up!

http://www.sportsaction.com.au/

Anonymous said...

A few videos of the Nedovs here. Nice work for both of them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5nsH0MlF4k&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Who is that on the floor while Emma is on beam? The choreography is GORGEOUS!

Anonymous said...

I think Jasmine Cassis is 12 years old. she is still very young with heaps of room for improvement.

Anonymous said...

Only 12???? That girl is going to be a STAR! I'm very much looking forward to seeing her career develop.

Anonymous said...

According to her profile she has just turned 12 in October.Lets hope that she gets the attention at her new club like she had at the AIS, she was extremely lucky to train in a small group. Not many girls at other clubs get that privilege.

Anonymous said...

I think the ratio of gymnasts to coaches in oz is too high. With the extra funding they should get some more coaches. The ratio should be no more than 1:6.

Anonymous said...

Jazminne is awesome, does anyone know which club she will be going to next year?

Anonymous said...

@ December 6, 2010 2:40 PM I agree however it looks like australia is losing great coaches in Valery & Volha from the AIS. Does anyone know where they are going?

Anonymous said...

I agree we definitely need more coaches, as there are too many gymnasts per coaches. this does not get the best out of the gymnasts and some get left behind. Come on GA lets get more coaches.

Anonymous said...

I am pretty sure I heard Jasmine is going to MBC next year???

Anonymous said...

that youtube video of emma nedov is from last year...
she didn't compete this year.

Anonymous said...

I think the spread of good coaches is improving. I think that we need to have at least one strong, experienced coach for every key elite club or institute. Then there will be a greater range of legitimately competitive athletes coming out of more clubs, which of course equals greater depth on the national team.

Even in the last little while, things have been improving in this respect. We have Epping, MLC, and Gymjets all emerging with athletes of much higher quality than in the past. Castle Hill likely in the near future. QAS is recovering and has a big cohort of quality athletes coming up too.

One condition is that there needs to be a solid, long term arrangement. The coach swapping at QAS before Vlad was a disaster.

Now with Vlad at QAS in a steady arrangement, and Lutayenko at GYMJETS under a steady arrangement, things are more logical.

It was a waste when Lutayenko was at VWHPC because coaches of his and Koryakina's experience should be coaching the most senior gymnasts. I mean, it is bizarre to go from being head of the Ukrainian national team and leading them to 4th place in the team final at the Olympics to coaching sub-juniors.

I think it's a shame that Ming Lu and Li Xiaoqing are coaching at Carmel and Co. I mean hello, if someone coaches Liu Xuan to beam gold at the Olympics they should be given much better opportunities.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Anon @ 8.57. I'd still like to know who the gymnast is in the abckground, though, if anyone has any idea?

:)

Anonymous said...

December 7, 2010 12:26 PM, This is Ruth Neeves

Anonymous said...

I love the randomness of it all. These amazing coaches with their stamp on gymnastics history quietly working away in suburban Sydney.

When Xiaoqing Li and Ming Lu were at NBG I remember they even got Yang Bo to visit the club, which is fairly awesome. Too bad she didn't get an invite to a national training camp as an acknowledgment of what a goddess and legend of gymnastics she is!

I have high hopes for Gymjets in the future. If Lutayenko can produce gymnasts like Roschupkina, then I have great faith in his ability to do something great with Gymjets.

Anonymous said...

Anon @12.32 -- thank you! She is a besutiful dancer. Do you know how she is progressing at all?

Anon @ 12.41 -- Roschupkina had just hit the scene the year I started seriously following gymnastics, so she will always be a nostalgic favourite of mine. I had no idea that her coach was now rwesident in Australia -- how fantastic for us! Roschupkina was such a beautifully prepared gymnast (as all the Ukraine gymnasts were) -- this bodes well for the Gymjets club and Australian gymnastics.

I wonder if we will start to see a heap of front tumbling from Gymjets?

Anonymous said...

Vic HPC have started to put video from NC on their you tube site

Anonymous said...

Gymjets really impressed me at National Clubs, they have progressed so much it is wonderful to see the fantastic job Lutayenko is doing. VWHPC must be kicking themselves for not utilizing him better when they had him. From what I can see he is outstanding and his girls are polished. Well done and I am sure Gymjets will be a force to reckon with in the coming years.

Anonymous said...

I think the comment about Lu Ming being a waste at C&C is quite offensive. There might be talent there. I heard he chose to go there.

Anonymous said...

Yes I agree it was a very rude comment. Carmel & Co is one of the best elite gyms in NSW.

Anonymous said...

I just heard Lydia Lassila has launched a book about her life entitled 'Jump'. Given her gymnastics background it might make an interesting read for anyone interested in gymnastics.

Anonymous said...

GA now has a video up from the IDP clinic showing Jazzy doing a double layout. There is also a dance from the girls.

Does anyone know if the girl roughly in the middle of the first row in the first dance is Emma Nedov's sister? She looks a bit like her. Also, who is the girl with black hair to her right? That was a fantastic and confident performance from her.

I am surprised at how shy some of them seem given their sport is so much about performance, although I suppose they are very young and were trying their best. They were so cute and what a fun and lighthearted activity for them to do.

Anonymous said...

Can you post please post the link for the IDP clinic video you were referring to.

Anonymous said...

It's on the GA twitter site. And yes it is Emma Nedov's sister Maddy

Anonymous said...

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_n3t4DSXHE&feature=feedu

Audio has been disabled, unfortunately, but there are some great moments there!

Anonymous said...

Anon 8/12 10.19pm - the girl next to Madeline Nedov is Celeste Loo.

Anonymous said...

she is always the standout dancer at the clinics

she should be getting her own routine for idp10 floor soon too, it must be a choreographers dream

Anonymous said...

i can still watch it with audio when you watch the embedded version on this page

http://www.gymnastics.org.au/default.asp?Page=19041

Anonymous said...

well then you go gangsta celeste!

haha they all looking at her to remember what to do. So adorable!

Anonymous said...

omg! the blonde girl with the massive smile at the front of the Michael Jackson dance is possibly the cutest thing ever

additionally, I have long held the belief that Celeste will be a superstar

Anonymous said...

Anon 9/12 8.15pm: the smiling blondie is Fiona Wallace

Anonymous said...

I am loving the skills.

A weiler kip from a 10 year old!
a full in from a 12 year old..............

the list goes on

nade00 said...

I loved Elisha Lai's bar sequence the most. Refreshingly different for an aussie athlete!

Have they expanded the clinic numbers? I thought they used to only invite 50, now they seem to have more like 100?

Anonymous said...

Yes more athletes are invited to the camp. Two clinics held at the Perth and Canberra camp in 2010.

Anonymous said...

anon 9:35

Great skills.. but i think the age's of the girls were a little out..about a year and half

Anonymous said...

Usually they put the age they are turning in the year. So all girls born in 2000 would be listed as 10 even if they haven't had their birthday yet, which of course most have by November. I'd be surprised if they had the ages wrong except maybe the odd error. Who do you think is wrong?

Anonymous said...

Stacey choreographed Celeste's floor routine, a while back.

Anonymous said...

have you seen celeste's routine? is it any good? what style? I have liked most of Stacey's work, though the odd few routines, not so much

I hope she returns to competition soon. I really don't want her to become like a lot of other NSW girls, oh so lovely in IDP but then sort of fade away when they reach IDP10+