UPDATE: Felipe sent us a link to a routine performed by Danny Rodrigues from France.
The best Victorian I’ve ever seen. Some judges would give it credit.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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original post – March 26, 2007
It’s actually a Front Lever with the body held at the level of the rings. Or, perhaps, an Inverted Maltese Cross. I tried it several times, but failed. Each time I was able to lift my body to ring height while rotating from a hang into a front lever – but I could never hold the position more than half a second.
Mark Williams, Assistant USA Gym Coach, informs me that it was first done perhaps by a Russian, and is called a Victorian Cross. In his 25 years in gymnastics he’s never seen it.
source – John Gill (legendary rock climber)
I’ve never seen it done. For me it’s still a fiction I first read about in International Gymnast magazine.
Here’s an attempt by Stanford’s Peter Derman – at Cal in 2005.
Click PLAY or watch the video on YouTube.
(Thanks Coach Dag, Florida)
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Somebody competed it at the 2005 world championships in Melbourne. completely unable to tell you who though, very impressive move.
I was going to comment on this yesterday, because I could have sworn you had posted the video of Danny Rodrigues before. I was going to hunt for it. But now, in reflection since your update, I think I saw it on a gymnastics forum.
Ah….Found it!
Before that, I had always thought that maybe it was a myth. Tony Pineda was the closest I had ever seen to anyone doing it; but I don’t think he seriously pursued it….probably because we all thought that it was a myth! And physiologically not possible.
Would love to see more victorians and butterflies.
There was a wicked false grip. Technically that disqualifies the move, I think. Both incredible attempts with the French guy more so.
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