GYMN-L Digest - 1 Nov 1995
There are 8 messages totalling 171 lines in this issue.
Topics of the
day:
1. Serious
Injuries....
2. Regional Invitationals
3. Full-twisting Shushonova
4. Olympic Trials Tickets
5. Olympic trials tickets (Again!)
6. Compulsories & NCAA
7. maltese/planche
8.
NCAA format
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:06:28
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From: ***@ASTRO.OCIS.TEMPLE.EDU
Subject:
Re: Serious Injuries....
The question about serious injuries is hard
to answer without
defining
"serious." If, by serious
we mean life-threatening,
I think the numbers are probably quite small--a
fraction of a
percent of top gymnasts and a
smaller fraction of a percent of
non-elite
gymnasts. If we mean
"requiring surgery" the
numbers are
quite a bit higher. Many of the top
gymnasts
on the US team alone have had surgery. A
lot of these injuries
have to do with long term
wear and tear rather than a single
traumatic event. If by "serious" we mean
"injuries that are
uncommon for a
non-athlete," gymnasts and all other athletes
have
high levels of injuries, while non-athletes get off
easy
while they're young but suffer much more osteoporosis and
other problems as they age.
Ilene
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 12:45:00
EST
From: ***@NSO.UCHC.EDU
Subject:
Regional Invitationals
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Subject: RE: Looking for
Parents:5,6...
Date: Monday, October 30, 1995
11:34AM
C.A.T.S. Gym Club in Cheshire CT is going to the
Kingstown Invitational,
November 11-12. We are sending Levels 5-6 only, although
there will be
many other levels competing. CATS will be holding their
own Invitational
December 15-17. , in Cheshire
CT. The 9 th
Annual CATS Christmas Classic
will compete levels
5- ELITE.
The ELITE level is where the future Shannon Millers' come from. For those of
you on
this list who wonder, these are the kinds of meets where future
World and Olympic
hopefuls get their
experience. And these
are almost
never talked about on this list. These meets are never televised,
only
recorded by dutiful parents who can manage to
afford a videocamera after
paying
for gym time and leos. I hope that we can get some more gym
clubs to
post their meets, so that people on GYM ,
who cannot get enough of the
championship level
televised meets, can go out and support their local gym
club,
from which those champions come.
Arta
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 15:33:23
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From: ***@DELPHI.COM
Subject:
Full-twisting Shushonova
Dear Gymners,
Does anyone know what
a full-twisting Shushonova on floor is worth in
men's gymnastics?
I'm going to be doing it in my floor routine and don't
know its value.
It's not in the code of points yet.
Does anyone know of
any other male gymnast
to do this in their floor routine?
Gymnastically yours,
Dave
:)
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 18:42:02
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From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Olympic Trials Tickets
Hello,
I called, received a brochure,
and sent away an application for tickets to
the
U.S. Olympic Trials in Boston in '96.
So far, I haven't gotten the
tickets, and
it's been a few weeks. Has anyone
else had a problem getting
tickets? I've lost the phone number to call, so
if someone could post it
again I'd appreciate
it. It was a sports association in
Boston. Thanks!
Faye
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 18:50:14
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From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Olympic trials tickets (Again!)
Well, I just found out the information
about the Boston tickets, so I figured
I'd post it in case anyone else is wondering. I talked to someone at the
Massachusetts
Sports Partnership, and he said that none of the orders have
been processed yet, but they are all date stamped from when
they came in.
They're waiting for the television people to figure out where
their cameras
will be located before they can
assign any seating tickets. Once
that
happens (by the end of this month) they will
start processing the ticket
requests in date
order. Your charge on your credit
card or canceled check is
your receipt, and
tickets will be sent out a few weeks before the event in
June. '
Faye
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:03:10
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From: ***@YALE.EDU
Subject:
Re: Compulsories & NCAA
> Susan wrote ....
>
Factoring compulsories into the mix adds yet another dimenson
that the NCAA
> has never had to deal with. If
a gymnast has weak compulsory excercises but
>
strong optionals do you
compete them in compos or not? Keeping them out
> eliminates
their chances for AA and finals (which are both optional only
> comps) but using them when they're not the best could hurt
the team score.
> -------------------
>
> One small
comment on the NCAA -- they did do compulsories, at least the men
> did, through 1992, dropping them in 1993. I thought they should have kept
>
them through '96, but well, no.
>
> Mayland
>
I thought only the all-arounders did compulsories the Saturday afternoon
before event finals.
If that's right, it wouldn't affect
do-you-compete-him-or-not strategy Susan is talking
about.
:)
Adriana
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:03:53
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From: ***@YALE.EDU
Subject:
Re: maltese/planche
On
Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Steve Craig wrote:
> only
woman I've seen do a correct planche was Natalia Shaposhnikova, doing her
> staddle planche on
beam. That was beautiful. The whole routine was
beautiful.
I
would include Shushunova on the very short list of
women who do correct
planches.
:)
Adriana
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:04:18
-0500
From: ***@YALE.EDU
Subject:
Re: NCAA format
On Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Rachele
Harless wrote:
> This is incorrect; there
is a limit on the number of competing athletes.
> For men, at the
Championships (and I believe Regional qualifiers), it's nine
> men, max. I
think it used to be 12? I am not
sure what the magic number is
> for women's
teams.
Last I heard, it was 12 for the
women.
:)
Adriana
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