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January 23rd, 2009 | Gymnastics, horizontal bar
Unbelievably, it was first done by Maik Belle of East Germany at the 1987 European championships.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
The only other gymnast I’ve seen compete it was Olympic Silver medalist Jon Horton at Blackjack Invitational in Las Vegas. (Or was it at the Winter Cup Skills Competition?)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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That’s a crazy big skill. Horton does it magnificently… what’s it worth in the code?
I remember a British gymnast tried it at a Worlds in the 90s, but he landed on his face, so it probably doesn’t count
Raj did it as well i believe. There was a vid of him doing it on youtube..but can’t find it. Horton however totaly owned it.
Did Mitch Gaylord compete this? There was talk of him training them years ago. The triffus….
Still waiting for that 1/1 triple pike!
I saw him do it in a movie …
There is a video of a guy doing a triple layout on tumbling strip. (He lands almost in prone.)
If I remember correctly – that video of Horton is from the Winter Cup Skills challenge, not an actual ‘competition set.’ It doesn’t take anything away from the quality of his execution, but I’d imagine that the difficulty of this skill goes up immeasurably when it’s done at the end of a full-difficulty routine.
On a side note – anyone find it odd that Mitch Gaylord didn’t do either of his signature skills in American Anthem, but needed some (not-so-skillful) editing to make it look like he’d done a triffus?
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