For Skating Fans Who Also Like Rhythmic Gymnastics

[Sabine]

I thought so too (I wasn't sure whether you'd be on GS during the RG season so I didn't mention you, apologies), but more people than I expected are interested, which is nice.

If you get Telegram there are two channels that provide competition schedules and streaming info as well as videos of routines and gossip, Gimnasia Mundial (Spanish, but machine translations are enough) and RG Pirates (English, but the owner of the channel is Russian so their English can be off sometimes). In general, as @Jumping_Bean mentioned streams are scattered across Youtube channels, streaming platforms, and regional TV channels.

@Jumping_Bean already answered this, but wanted to add that Telegram is currently the best way to get streaming info (the two channels mentioned above). And while the hero Gutsufan has been repeatedly blocked as of now the channels of Vanessa Freitas (https://www.youtube.com/@vanessafreitasRG), Mahyril (https://www.youtube.com/@Mahyril), and Lyudmila Georgieva (https://www.youtube.com/@smlelena1643) are still up, although I'm not sure whether they'll post full segments as they did before this year as well. And there are many channels that post individual performances that are well and alive, just search the gymnast's name+competition+apparatus(+year).

Thanks for the links. RG Pirates is uploading a lot of Routinen from Gymansics International. Great Service!

 

[Weathergal]

I'm also an RG fan although mostly I'm one of those "every four years" type fans because the Olympics is the only time I can reliably watch it in the US. The past several Olympics I've been able to watch every competitor, which is surprising because even though Women's Artistic Gymnastics is VERY popular in the US, RG is rarely even mentioned at all.

I've also pulled up random performances on YT, of course, but like other posters have mentioned I've found it difficult to find a site that discusses it or to know how to watch other competitions.

I think there's enough interest here to have a thread in Le Cafe as someone suggested so I checked there, and it already has three pages!

 

[Bluediamonds09]

I'm also an RG fan although mostly I'm one of those "every four years" type fans because the Olympics is the only time I can reliably watch it in the US. The past several Olympics I've been able to watch every competitor, which is surprising because even though Women's Artistic Gymnastics is VERY popular in the US, RG is rarely even mentioned at all.

I've also pulled up random performances on YT, of course, but like other posters have mentioned I've found it difficult to find a site that discusses it or to know how to watch other competitions.

I think there's enough interest here to have a thread in Le Cafe as someone suggested so I checked there, and it already has three pages!

How do I get to Le Cafe? So, do we discuss RG stuff the same way we discuss skating stuff? I'd love to find the new place we're posting comments to. Is it behind a pay wall or available to anyone with a goldenskate acct?

 

[Diana Delafield]

How do I get to Le Cafe? So, do we discuss RG stuff the same way we discuss skating stuff? I'd love to find the new place we're posting comments to. Is it behind a pay wall or available to anyone with a goldenskate acct?

In the row of choices across the top of your screen (well, my screen anyway), first click on Forums on the far left end of the row. Then scroll way, way down past all the skating topics and then the competitions and you'll finally come to Arena II. Le Cafe is the first one there.

It's for everybody, like all the other topics and threads.