Holy Shit Batman!

For those of you headed to Three Rivers, Michigan this week for the Trampoline & Tumbling Scholarship Camp. Keep an eye out for this "clown!"



This actually made national news. Here is a blurb from the Associated Press:

These mugs released by the Three Rivers Police Department show Spencer Taylor, 20, of Three Rivers, Mich. Police arrested Taylor who they say tried to steal posters and other items related to the new Batman movie from a cinema lobby while dressed up as the Joker. Police officers were dispatched early Sunday, July 27, 2008 to the Three Rivers 6 theater arrived to find employees restraining a man wearing a purple suit, a green wig, and face paint in the style of Batman's nemesis in "The Dark Knight."

I don't know whats funnier....this punk or the thought of Three Rivers having a movie theater!

Someone's rollin in the dough...and it ain't me!

Exxon Mobil Corp. is reporting a second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion today. The biggest quarterly profit ever by any U.S. corporation!

That's BILLION not MILLION folks!

You'd think they could afford to do something about the outrageous gas prices.



That's probably asking too much. Jerks!

Paul is Done-zo

2004 Olympic All Around champion Paul Hamm has withdrawn from the upcoming Beijing Olympics. You can bet that somewhere in China Yang Wei is having a major party right about now! Raj Bhavsar will be the replacement, who in my mind should of been on the team to begin with! (since he finished 3rd at Trials) The thing that pisses me off the most is that USAG built this entire team around Paul Hamm. Who is INJURED!! Knowing about his injury they named other athletes to the olympic team to compliment their beloved $$$$ cow! These other athletes are ALSO INJURED!

Red flags anyone?



It's only a matter of time before one of the other walking wounded goes down! When are they going to learn their lesson? Enjoy the bronze medal!

My Five Favorites for July

5. Monster "Irish Blend" Energy Drink

4. The song "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay

3. Gas prices under $4.00/gallon

2. Dark Knight in IMAX

1. An Olympic team without Jana Bieger

"What's so bad about Jana?" you ask....well feast your eyes on this Dancing Queen!


Hahaha! I laugh everytime I see this video! Need I say more?

It's Official - I'm moving!!!

Back in 2006 I decided to leave Orlando to focus on my gymnastics career. Moving to Michigan to train with some members of the National team/staff. While in Michigan I was able to travel the world with the U.S. Team. Competing in places like Belgium, England, Russia, and Canada. As well as making my first World Championship team were I earned a silver medal with the U.S. team, and placed 6th individually. It was really hard to leave Florida, but it was something I had to do in order to reach all of my goals.

However, looks like I'm headed back to Orlando! This time to co-own my own gymnastics facility. I had this really great opportunity come my way to buy into a gym down in Florida. After going down there a couple weeks ago to check it out and meet the owner, I absolutely couldn't resist. I've always wanted to own my own gym, and what better way to do it, than to team up with an exsisting program! I will be making the long trip home middle of August! As far as training and competing goes...I still have the desire to keep going through 2009 Worlds. It will certainly be difficult to operate a gymnastics facility, and still find time to compete, but I think it's something I can handle.

Just a few pics of the new gym. Florida here I come!!!

Out and About

Went to Grand Haven for the day. Stopped by the beach for a bit, then did a little shopping in the downtown area afterwards. Look what I stumbled across...

Being the Olympic freak that I am...you know I had to take a pic!

My First Time - Blogging That Is

So we all can thank Amy McDonald for getting me hooked on this blogging stuff. After checking out her blog the other day (http://amesmcdonald.blogspot.com/) it got me thinking about creating my own. I liked the idea of posting my thoughts, pics, and videos online. Most of the time I am pretty quiet and reserved, but from time to time I do get a little nutty and have some pretty outlandish things to say. So I thought I'd share that with everyone. Consider yourself lucky!

I know you are probably thinking "people have been blogging for about 8 years now, what a dork!" But you know what? It's new to me and I am enjoying it! So looks like you'll be hearing from me quite often here on my page as I am officially jumping on the blogging bandwagon. Say what you want about it...I could care less!

I posted a picture of Amy and I at the banquet for a World Cup event back in 2007. Not the best picture of us...we'll have to get a better one when she comes to Michigan for Camp Kumbayah.