Russian Coaches Migrating ?

British MAG head coach Andrei Popov, who with his colleague Sergei Sizhanov (Head coach of the junior team) is leading the British men to greater victories than ever imagined possible just ten years ago.

Popov and Sizhanov are arguably the most successful migrant Russian coaches on the men's international scene, having lifted British gymnastics from a relatively lowly standing to their medal-contending status today. Popov says that when he took over leadership of the coaching efforts, there were hardly any top seniors competing in Britain, so he looked for the best juniors.

Andrei Popov took up his position in 2004. Before that, he had been a successful international gymnast competing for the Soviet Union, a coach at his home gymnastics club in Vladimir, and a club coach working in the UK.

To all Gymnastics Fans

Tatiana Nabieva retire from Competitive Gymnastics

Sad news. Tatiana Nabieva indirectly confirm on her Instagram account that she will retire from competitive gymnastics stated that she will become a coach. It seems that she will make her announcement around New Year's Eve. 

We wish her all the best in the world knowing for sure that she will become a great coach. 

Davai Tanya

Ana Porgras of Romania.

Happy Birthday,,, Ana Porgras.( 19 December )

In a time of great change in gymnastics, Ana rose as an array of hope, bringing back elegance, grace and style but basically just ARTISTRY. We still miss her gymnastics and we will always do! Happy Birthday, Ana Porgras! Wish you  Good health and great success in Gymnastics

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The Best Scores of 2013 Updated December 15 Men's Artistic Gymnastics

All hail King Oleg!

Kohei Uchimura may have won Worlds, but Oleg Verniaiev was the first gymnast to break 92 under the new Code. And he did it TWICE!

Last year, the All Around created some handy dandy  rankings leading up to the Olympics. Until The All Around steps in and takes over.

As per usual judging varies from meet to meet, and as you can see, These scores from several meets. I've included the competition names so that you can decide how much crack the judges smoked before handing out the scores.

More than anything, you should think of these tables like this: New quad, new Code of Points. What the H is a good score nowadays?

Many,to Cinese GymnasticsTumblr and Uncle Tim Talks Blog.,

Name	Country	Score	Meet
1. Oleg Verniaiev (Олег Верняєв)	Ukraine	92.165	Stuttgart
2. Kohei Uchimura (内村航平)	Japan	91.990	Worlds
3. Sam Mikulak	USA	(91.650)	U.S. Nationals
4. Liu Rongbing (刘榕冰)	China	90.650	East Asian Games
5. Max Whitlock	Great Britain	90.650	British Championships
6. Alexander Naddour	USA	(90.600)	U.S. Nationals
7. Jossimar Calvo Moreno	Colombia	90.500	Mexican Open
8. John Orozco	USA	(90.400)	U.S. Nationals
9. Deng Shudi (邓书弟)	China	90.350	East Asian Games
10. Wataru Tanigawa	Japan	90.300	Valeri Liukin
11. Zhou Shixiong (周施雄)	China	90.269	Chinese National Games
12. Fabian Hambuechen	Germany	90.265	Stuttgart
13. Ryohei Kato (加藤凌平)	Japan	90.250	University Games
14. Oleg Stepko (Олег Степко)	Ukraine	90.050	University Games
15. Cheng Ran (程然)	China	89.969	Chinese National Games

Brazilan Women's Artistic Gymnastics Camp

The Brazilian Gymnastics Confederation,, with the Brazilian Olympic Committee , organizes Artistic Gymnastics Camp for Women  Artistic Gymnastics .Begining  Monday 9 – 19 December, at the Regional Training Center Planet Life in Three Rivers (RJ). The athletes are accompanied by technical and performed daily training in the morning and afternoon.

Participants, included  are Daniele Hypólito, Flavia Saraiva, Jade Barbosa, Juliana Santos, Leticia Costa and Rebecca Andrade. . "The gymnasts are well and the coaches are seeing the result Alexander Alexandrov -. One of the commanders of the Women's National Team -. Gives opportunity for everyone to participate and this is very important as well This group is being worked on a project that is working "he said. 

China's New Bonus System/COP

China are set to introduce a new bonus system and COP changes for all of their internal competitions. This system aims to boost innovation and difficulty, particularly in areas where they are weak as a country. The source is here- 

FLOOR

- F skill +0.1 G skill +0.2 H skill +0.3 (no super unrealistic provision for I skills I see. G and H are very optimistic already. G is the Dos Santos 2, H are the double double tucked and full twisting double layout).

- Max +0.5 for good artistry

- + 0.1 for E dismount or above

- Bonus for D+B turn combination (not sure amount)

VAULT

- Female junior gymnasts cannot choose basic front tuck/pike vaults.

- +1.0 for vaults worth 6.3 or more (*coughamanar*) 

- +0.3 for DTY, DTT etc, +0.5 for Rudi

BARS

-  +0.3 Pak full (Bhardwaj) or Shap full (Seitz). Extra 0.1 if either are connected to another skill.

- -0.2 deduction for each extra kip-cast-handstand for more than three kip-cast-handstands.

- +0.1 for E bars dismount, +0.3 for F (Example- Fabrichnova. Presumably if someone does a G rated dismount they'll get this bonus too).

-0.1 for flight series of D+D, 0.2 for D+E or more.

BEAM

- +0.2 triple twist dismount, +0.4 full twisting double back dismount. (The latter is almost funny but Chinese gymnast Jiang Wei invented it in 1980).

GENERAL

- +0.1 stick bonus.

- -0.3 Double front salto cowboying, except on vault. Not sure of the correct term- knee and leg separation?

- -0.2 Crossed legs in twisting. 

- Female juniors in their last year before turning senior may not compete at Junior Nationals or the Intercity Games. This is a great move, discourages peaking at the wrong time and lessens the risk of burnout and inopprtune injuries. aids burnout and. For instance, as an old China hand pointed out to me, Zeng Siqi has never fully bounced back from an ankle injury she sustained at the 2011 Intercity Games, her last year as a junior.

- Female senior gymnasts must compete at least two events to qualify for event finals on any one event. Their 2 event total must be higher than the total of 85% of the rest of the gymnasts. Juniors must compete three, and their total must be higher than the total of 80% of the rest of the field. Essentially, MOAR all-arounders please.

- The format of team finals is changing to 6-4-4 for senior nationals and 4-4-3 for junior nationals. Each team should have 4 all-arounders.

Gymnasiade 2013, Brazil

Ended on the 3 Disember ,,thus ending the competition. The Brazil competed well in the female and began to reap the fruits of the investment made ​​with the hiring of Alexander Alexandrov. You men, our gymnasts were not well. 

,MAG team ,, the gold went to Russia, Silver  Englans and Bronze France. Overall individual, no Brazilian ranked among the top eight. In this final, gold and bronze went to Russia (Kirill Potapov and Arthur Dalaloyan) while silver went to England (Nile Wilson). Only Angelo Assumption qualified for the finals: Vault (1) and parallel  bars (6). Angelo finished the final jump in 2nd and parallel 7th. A male gym in Brazil has grown in recent years and has been doing a great campaign, Congratulations to the boys, but I believe they can

WAG team - Gold Russia, Silver  Brazil and Bronze England.

Congratulations to all the gymnasts.For more results :

http://pt.slideshare.net/gymblogbrazil/resultados-gymnasiade-2013-classificatria

Team China Has A New Training Motto

"Innovate, Breakthrough, Strive, and to Realize Dreams" are printed in bold font on the new banner over looking the national training center.  With this new training motto, the National Team has set forth new expectations for preparations leading up to the Rio Olympics.  The two smaller banners on either side read "To break down obsolete training ideas and practices" and "To reform and improve training methods and means." 

Big changes are happening on the National Team championed by Head Coach Huang Yubin.  The changes include everything from training methods, coaching staff, to training groups. So far these changes are well received by the coaches and gymnasts alike. Hopefully we’ll be able to see some results by the end of winter training. 

source: Blosson Chinese Gymnastics

Anna Pavlova - Azernbaijian invited her to compete 2015 Baku 2015 European Championships

On her latest interview given for allsportinfo.ru, Anna Pavlova spoke abut her decision to compete for Azerbaijan and her carrier. 
I receive an offer from the Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation which interested me. Back in August, during the Russian Cup in Penza, I had a conversation with the leaders of our Federation, which agreed to let me go and we filed a enquiry on the International Gymnastics Federation. FIG approved my transition. I certainty wanted to get the approval of the country for which I compete therefore head coach Valentina Rodionenco and Valentina Nikanorova Russian Federation vice president approved my transition.

A couple of years ago there was some proposals to compete for Uzbekistan, but there was nothing official. And I wasn't ready to accept them. I was still hoping that the Russian team was after all, counting on me. I wanted to compete for the country in which I was born. But now my priorities have changed. My dream is to prove to everyone that I still can have results on the international competitions. Azerbaijan has invite me for a specific purpose - to compete in the European Championship that will take place in Baku in 2015. Azerbaijan wants dignity in that competition and I want to return in the international arena. Here our interests converged. About the financial side is really to early too say. In Azerbaijan, as in Russia, you are paid on the result, for the medals. No medals - no money.

GYMNASTICS AZERBIJIAN TO WATCH

 Azerbijian has made greater strides toward Olympic qualification in gymnastics than some countries make in a decade. Some  Russian gymnasts might find it worthwhile to become naturalized citizens, especially with Azerbijian "lucrative" offers. 

Gymnasts such as Ekaterina Kramarkenko?

Alexei Bondarenko? Elena Zamolodchikova?"Anna Dementyeva? just to speculate.