I will be cheering on the guys at Men’s Elite Canada Saturday.
Then skiing Sunday. The snow is good early this season and a Chinook is rolling in to warm the temperatures.
: )
Category: gymnastics
my latest website
For years I’ve been a volunteer Board member on the Altadore Weightlifting and Fitness Club. I put together a website / blog for the club to improve our visibility and communication.
More importantly, I want to store our documentation in password protected folders on the site for ease of access and revision.
Using gymnastics as a base, our club offers strength, power and flexibility improvement training in an adult social environment. Our members are age-16 and older.
Under the supervision of certified gymnastics coaches, you decide your own training regime. Our facility has gymnastics equipment not available in the weight room. You use your own body weight as resistance.
Altadore weightlifting & fitness club
new baby boy
Debbie (Broderick) Rodriguez, long time Altadore gymnast, now coach / owner of Byers Gymnastics Center in California just sent me photos of #2.
Big sister welcomes Luke into the world, all 5lbs, 11oz of him. Healthy and content, and with Eli Rodriguez as father — I’m thinking we have another good gymnast here.
Canada 6th at World Gymnastics Championships
Everyone happy happy about the best ever performance of the Canadian men’s team at Worlds. It’s no fluke. These guys are good.
Five of seven team members are from Alberta.
Kyle Shewfelt added to his medal collection with a Bronze on Floor Exercise and the first Canadian female gymnast medalled at the Worlds — Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs on beam.
Details on KyleShewfelt.com
exercising while travelling
The worst part of travel is the inconsistency of exercise and food. You have far more control over your life at home.
I would like to be riding a bike to a gymnastics gym (or weight room) but — instead — I’m jogging to playgrounds.
This one (VitaCourse) in Vegas is of the best playground gyms I’ve found.
» next travelogue post on this trip – leaving Las Vegas
Stewart / Colbert in 2008
Jon Stewart said the T-shirts promoting him and Stephen Colbert “are a real sign of how sad people are” with the state of affairs in the country.
Get your T instantly at CafePress.
video – diving bloopers
Summer is over. This is already nostalgia for me.
Those who can’t do, teach.
After a long gymnastics camp, we coaches recreated at the swimming pool, mistiming every dive we could dream up.
Click PLAY on the video below or watch the clip on YouTube.com
Funtastics Gymnastics in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
PEI hospitality
Jim and Lea Rand were my most excellent hosts in PEI.
I enjoyed fresh baking, ate surf and turf. We toasted marshmallows and poured Bailey’s into the melted centres. Mmmm.
The family has it’s own beach volleyball court and games were very competitive.
Jim, spiker right, has been running the gym in Charlottetown for 31 years. He’s 2 years retired from teaching and now can devote himself full-time to gym and home construction projects.
Lea is still working two jobs. : )
The club is planning their first ever trip to a Japanese gymnastics meet.
This was the last post on this travelogue. It’s back to Calgary after over 4 weeks on the road.
St. Paul, MN
I’ve visited the capital of Minnesota several times over the years, always enjoying the quiet, picturesque city.
The wide streets, big trees and lovely architechture remind me a bit of Winnipeg, Manitoba, not far to the north.
This time I was here for the USA Gymnastics Championships, hosted at the Xcel Energy Center, home of the Minnesota Wild hockey team. I was impressed. The venue, the city, and the organizing committee (with whom I had drinks) were all fantastic.
more St. Paul photos on Flickr
» next travelogue post on this trip – want your corpse posed and displayed?
Woodward West Sport Camp, California
I coached 3 weeks at Woodward in 2005.
This summer I stopped in for 3 days, a goodwill ambassador from Cirque du Soleil.
It was great to get reacquainted with so many of the same coaches and camp staff from the previous year.
Woodward West is a HUGE camp, half boys, half girls. They offer gymnastics and cheer, as well as some trampoline, tumbling and acrosport.
The Action Sports offered: BMX, mountain biking, skateboard and in-line skating.
It is one fantabulous place!
Details on the Woodward West website
» next travelogue post on this trip – driving California
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