5280 Gymnastics in Wheat Ridge, CO is one of the top elite men's club gymnastics programs in the country. In recent years, the club has become a consistent producer of collegiate gymnasts such as Stanford's Lucas Hughes, Iowa's Anton Gryshayev and Air Force's Colton Wulf. 5280 is also the home of rising star Yul Moldauer. In convincing fashion at the 2010 JO Nationals, Moldauer, a three-year Level 9, captured national titles in the All-Around and on parallel bars. Coached by the Artemev family (Vladimir, Irina Bendassova and Sasha), Moldauer is a 2-year member of the Junior National Team (Level 9) and is now training hard for his upcoming debut as a Level 10. According to Yul's dad, Shaw, he had an atypical early aptitude for gymnastics. At 18 months, Yul rode his little [...more]
USA Gymnastics hosted a media tele-conference this morning featuring Jonathan Horton, Chris Brooks and Danell Leyva. The 45-minute conference offered the first soundbites from prominent gymnasts about Paul Hamm's comeback announcement. Horton and Brooks had nothing but glowing things to say about Hamm, and they expressed a lot of excitement about the [...more]
Paul Hamm has rocked the men's gymnastics community by announcing that he is back to training full time with aspirations of making the 2012 Olympic Team. While he definitely kept the door open to a potential return to the sport, his announcement will likely send shockwaves to our current crop of Olympic hopefuls. If his comeback is successful, Hamm will be America's only gymnast capable of scoring [...more]
High-scoring Jesse Silverstein picked up where he left off at May's JO Nationals by winning the final qualifier (88.10) for the 2010 VISA U.S. Championships. He also racked up the most points (96) as he posted the day's top score on rings (14.75) and had top-5 scores on parallel bars (15.05), vault (15.85) and high bar (14.25). Danell Leyva placed 2nd in the AA (87.70), while fellow Senior Team member Alex Buscaglia placed 4th (86.30) and compiled the second highest [...more]