GYMN-L Digest - 18 Jul 1996
There are 8 messages
totalling 143 lines in this issue.
Topics of
the day:
1. GYMN-L Digest
- 15 Jul 1996 to 16 Jul 1996
2. Chinese Gymnastics
3. Finger nails
4. That
mem thang!
5. American Anthem?
6. Attention all ncaa
men/ j.o.?
7. GYMN-L Digest - 17 Jul 1996 to 18 Jul
1996 - Special issue
8. international video swaps
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 00:44:11
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From: ***@AOL.COM
Subject:
Re: GYMN-L Digest - 15 Jul 1996 to 16 Jul 1996
In a message dated
96-07-16 06:03:52 EDT, you write:
<< A member of the race that
knows Joseph
Angela
email address:
***@freenet.scri.fsu.edu >>
Okay, I've been meaning to ask
you this for months now. What is
the origin
of this sig? I believe I know, but I don't want to
look stupid unless I have
to. :D Or maybe I should just ask if you're a
"Kindred Spirit."
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:50:09 +1000
From: ***@JCU.EDU.AU
Subject:
Re: Chinese Gymnastics
Hi Gymners,
I
believe the reason gymnasts are not suspected of taking performance
enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids (for strength
gain) is that
there is a side effect of balance
problems, so to date there is no known
drug that
can assist a gymnast without causing some fairly major problems.
This
theory was from a few years back so if amyone has
more up to date
knowledge on this please
share!
There was and maybe still is, a suspicion that femle gymnasts use 'brakes'
to
prevent the onset of puberty, this is unproven and denied by coaches
who put long training and strict diet as the reason for late
menarche and
development of elite female
gymnasts.
Regards Sharyn
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 15:12:49
+1000
From: ***@COUGAR.VUT.EDU.AU
Subject:
Finger nails
Silvia Mitova
had extremely long nails in Barcelona 4 years ago. It has
always
baffled me why they wouldn't be a disadvantage or a hassle, but i
suppose they must't be as so many gymnasts have them.
Corey
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:09:52
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From: ***@GOODNET.COM
Subject:
That mem thang!
Personally,
I'd love to compete with no top at all- that damn
jersey
is annoying and uncomfortable! Much
easier to compete with just
shorts!
Of
coarse, that two piece thang for the women is a great
idea!
I'll second that motion!
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:20:43
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From: ***@GOODNET.COM
Subject:
American Anthem?
Did
anyone really enjoy this movie?
When it first came out, of
coarse, we all
loved it- it was a movie about gymnastics!
But
I saw it again not too long ago, and I honestly have to say, it
sucked! Look at
the technique they used for all the gymnastics shots
(speaking
about the men's gymnastics)- it was terrible and embarrasing! (I
mean,
what the hell is a "tripus" anyway?) Mitch Gaylord needed to stay in
the gym, and away from acting!
I
know the women's gymnastics wasn't the greatest, either! They
all
looked like they should be in a photo shoot for a modelling
agency
wrather than
tumbling!
Of
coarse, there was always that joke of a movie "GymKata". That's
almost
up there with Jerkey Boys, Brady Bunch, and Monty
Python!
Are
there any DECENT gymnastics movies?
I think we all need to ban
together and
gang up on the movie directors until we get one created (one
maybe with a little realism!)
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:22:57
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From: ***@GOODNET.COM
Subject:
Attention all ncaa men/ j.o.?
Any NCAA men or even some of you j.o.'s
out there? Email me and
let me know; I have some info for next quadrinium's
requirements.
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:37:15
-0700
From: ***@PRIS.BC.CA
Subject:
Re: GYMN-L Digest - 17 Jul 1996 to 18 Jul 1996 - Special issue
Hi Jordynn & others on the Gymn
List.
I will do my best to record all CBC english coverage, and there is a fair
bit of it. Jordynn if you are keeping a list going, could you forward
me
some info.
Others on the list, let me know who you are, just
in case.
ttyl
Chad
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 18:28:17
+1000
From: ***@OZEMAIL.COM.AU
Subject:
international video swaps
Jordynn -
Your
idea is a great one, but perhaps not quite so straightforward as you
might think.
One major problem is that videos from
North America use a different system
to ones made
in Australia. I believe the UK and
Germany use the same system
as us. One system is known as PAL, the other as
NHS (?). I think we use
the former.
Anyway, the two systems are not compatible, therefore I cannot
play a tape from the US on my video, unless I get it
converted.
I dont' know much about the
technical aspects of videos, but I don't think
the
conversion process is that difficult.
Some state of the art VCRs can
play both,
however.
The other problem, as Ann Reed pointed out, is
copyright.
At any rate, I will be attempting to stay up all night for
women's team
optionals
(starts at 1am). Lucky me, AA doesn't start until 4am!!!
(Melbourne time)
BTW,
for Aussies gymners, there was a great pic of Lisa
Skinner on beam in
today's "The
Age".
:)
Simone
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