GYMN-L Digest - 1 Aug 1995
There are 8 messages totalling 167 lines in this issue.
Topics of the
day:
1. Topper Pads for
sprung floors
2. 86 JUNIOR
EUROS
3. Marissa Medal
4. Trivia Quiz #31: Shooting Stars
5. World Cups?
6. World Cups (2)
7. USGF address needed
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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:42:04
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From: ***@IRL.CRI.NZ
Subject:
Topper Pads for sprung floors
Hi to all from New Zealand,
I
am the head coach at a gym club in Wellington NZ. We have recently
made
ourselves a full sprung floor base, and have temporarily covered
it with 60mm thick bonded foam mats, finally covering it all
with a
PVC cover. The floor is
great - very bouncy and quite responsive.
However the mats are too soft,
and some of our gymnasts (girls and boys)
have
developed wrist injuries. I am not
sure if this is due to mats
that are too soft, or
to the fact that we have not had such a good
tumbling
surface before!
Anyway, I have been looking at putting a
"proper" topper pad on it.
In NZ (and I am sure elsewhere) topper
pads are made from a light
weight material -
closed cell foam, glued to carpet.
In NZ we can
pay up to $14000 for a 14m x
14m topper pad (approx $US 9000). There
are
some suppliers who make their own here from these same materials,
but they are still quite expensive. An alternative is to use bonded
foam of a similar thickness (30mm - 1 1/4") glued to
carpet. This
foam
is a lot cheaper, quite an attractive option for our club. So
here are
my questions for the technical types out there:
Is there any special
reason why closed cell foam is used in modern
topper
pads, apart from its lightness? eg: Does it have better shock
absorbing properties, or better response? If I dont mind
having
haevier rolls of
mats (we wont need to shift them) will the bonded
foam
topper pad be just as good?
I realise this
is outside the usual discussion topics so if necessary
please
reply by private email to k.ryan@irl.cri.nz.
Thanks in advance for any
help.
Ken
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 21:16:15
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From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
86 JUNIOR EUROS
>2.
Which gymnasts (m & f) won the 1986 European Juniors then dissappeared
>two years
later?
>
>Svetlana Ivanova &
Alexander Kolyavanov
>
>
Again,
Boginskaya and Kolyvanov
won the 86 Junior Euros. Ivanova and
Kolyvanov won the
*88* Jr Euros.
Ivanova disappeared after '90 but Kolyvanov
won an American Cup
(I think) and was the Unified team alternate in
Barcelona.
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 21:56:12
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From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Marissa Medal
Marissa Medal is I believe at the American Twisters in
Florida. I saw her at
the 93 or 94 USAIGC competition and was very impressed with
her form and
line. I think I heard she was a level 6 in 92,
and she was level 9 or so at
that USAIGC meet, so
she is definitely moving up fast.
She competed at last
years Junior Nationals
but did not finish in the top 12 to make the team.
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 22:05:09
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From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Re: Trivia Quiz #31: Shooting Stars
>>2. Which gymnasts (m & f) won the 1986
European Juniors then dissappeared
>two years later?
>This has to be wrong either
way: Kolyvanov and Boginskaya
were '86 Jr Euro
Champs.
Mea culpa. Amanda is correct. I misread the original questions, and as
a
result, the final version of the question was
inaccurate.
>>About the Tatiana Tuzhikova,
do you mean (Mara) Tatiana
Tougikova, 1987 worlds?
That's who I thought was meant,
yes. She did have a long
coaching/touring
career, but her competitive
career (IMHO) does qualify as a 'starburst'
:-)
Mara
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 22:08:39
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From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
World Cups?
>Perhaps a better answer for this question would have
been Stella
Zakharova, who also won the World Cup twice. That's not to say that she
was a "shooting star"; her career was not as long
as Filatova's, though.<
If Filatova and Zakharova both won
two, how many World Cups were there?
I am
drawing a complete blank on the World
Cup winners.
Didn't Tourisheva win all five golds at the first one in 74? I thought there
was
one in 78 (won by Filatova) and then an odd one in
Brazil in 79
(Zakharova?). Then Yurtchenko
and Bicherova tied in 82, Shushunova
won in
86, and Lyssenko won the last one in
90.
Who/which ones am I missing?
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 22:23:53
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From: ***@MAGNUS.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU
Subject:
World Cups
I'd have to look up how many World Cups there were, but wasn't the one
in
Brazil won by Filatova? And I know for sure
that Stella Zakharova won the 1979
World Cup,
which was in Japan. The media often mistakenly say that Nadia won
this meet, but she had a fall in AA (bars I believe) and
finished 4th, if I
remember right. Wasn't there a
World Cup in Canada in 1980? Who won that one?
Beth
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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:39:27 +1000
From: ***@STUDENT.GU.EDU.AU
Subject:
Re: World Cups
Hi Folks
> Wasn't there a World Cup in
Canada in 1980? Who won that one?
Yes there was, and I believe Stella Zakharova won it.
(I have it on
video, but haven't watched it
in ages). A
German got 2nd, I think it was
Steffi Kraeker, but I wouldn't put my life on it. Competing in one
of
her final meets was soviet Elena Naimushina.......does
she qualify as
a shooting star - an appearance at
an Olympics then little else? I
still
love her FX routine (wish they'd show it in
Romania - maybe one of their
coreographers
would realise you're supposed to USE the music!)
Just
my thoughts
Michelle
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 22:50:58
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From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
USGF address needed
Please forward the address for United States
Gymnastics Federation, if
available...phone number
okay also.
Thanks in advance
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