Fourth-place finisher on Floor at the 2009 NCAA Gymnastics Championships Brandi Personett threw a full-twisting double layout mount, becoming the second gymnast to compete it at the College level.
I saw on Gymblog that Kristin Maloney in 2005 was the first College gymnast to do this super trick.
This is the first of what I hope will be an ongoing series of videos of female coaches spotting BIG tricks. I’ll call these clips:
female coaches cannot spot … (I’ll abandon that attempt at humour. People won’t “get it“.)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
That’s coach Jessica Bastardi spotting.
Here’s another angle.
Brandi competed it last year at Championships in Prelims, actually. But fell.
Penn State’s Brandi Personett – the Gymnastike interview
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beautiful. did she compete that? very well done in this clip
Yes, she did compete it and nailed it during the competition. Unfortunately she had a mistake on her last pass of a double pike and finished fourth.
And the NCAAs are on compressed stick contest. More score compression than in the Soviet era. It is insane how they are all 9.9 to 10. Disgusting.
So why do you say female coaches cannot spot?
I actually take HUGE offense to that statement. I am a female coach and I know I am way stronger than alot of male coaches out there. I do all the spotting in my gym. We do drills, drills, and more drills so that the athletes are confident in THEIR abilities and not just the coaches when they try something new.
Could you spot Steve Legendre?
I was joking, Katrina.
I want video clips of female coaches spotting big tricks to give evidence of how wrong that statement is.
Send me a link of you spotting.
My own personal hero is a coach named Rachael in Idaho. Great spotter.
Tammy Stephenson in my gym spots anything. She could certainly spot Legendre.
could she hold me up by the feet for an assisted cross? I am weak and fat.
apolytongp…
I can clean and jerk 150# so I do have the ability to hold people above my head. If you weigh more than that you probably aren’t suited for gymnastics anyways.
I was just messing. You do some cool workouts and are very pretty. Kudos.
I am currently so far from any athletic state it’s not funny. When I was an athlete (and not really a gymnast, more of a wrestler) was in mid 150s. That is not really so unusual. Easy for other adult men to spot me on rings crosses or the like but impossible for a boy.
I knew guys who were decent that were 5-10 180, with lacrosse player builds. Wes Suter for one. Unusual, but not that strange.
Anyhow, would you spot these guys on a full in on floor? They’re not huge, but not tiny either. I figure they are 160+
http://www.gymnastike.org/videos/coverage/view_video/234802-ohio-state-at-ou/162424-ou-chris-brooks-1545
http://www.gymnastike.org/videos/coverage/view_video/234802-ohio-state-at-ou/162429-ou-steven-legendre-1555
I’ve spotted guys 190lbs when I am at 170lbs.
It’s tough for multiple somersaulting skills. If something goes wrong, you cannot “save” someone that big.
You can stand-in. Assist with landing. But that’s about it for most spotters.
I recall 200lb Steve Keegan crushing his spotter on double back off PBars back in the day.
The general rule is that it’s difficult to spot anyone taller than yourself, male or female coach.
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