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April 30th, 2009 | floor (men), Gymnastics, Power Tumbling
Who will have the highest start score on Floor this quadrennial?
Likely Steven Legendre.
Click PLAY or watch this amazing pass on Gymnastike.
But not as amazing as Matthias Fahrig’s handspring forward layout double twist punch double front.
(via About.com Gymnastics)
==== UPDATE – Chris Brooks working on connecting these two super skills, as well.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
Thanks apolytongp.
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Chris Brooks trying DT-DF:
http://www.gymnastike.org/videos/coverage/view_video/234156-university-of-oklahoma/174747-chris-brooks-double-full-to-double-front
Steve needs to learn a legs closed double front. He claimed in the past that he couldn’t because4 of fatigue, but even early in routines or on turns, he seems to do the trick with legs open. Not giving birth Nastia spread into a plane two times wider than shoulders style open, but still well open. Maybe he should watch Ivana Hong.
Wow.
That’s impressive. I actually like the double front first. Is there a difference in scoring the combinations? E+E ?
This is D+D. Not E+E.
simply insane……wow.
I was trying to think about which version was harder. I guess if you figure it takes more “lift” to do a double front than a double full, that would make the Brooks/Fahrig version harder. Since I assume you get more power into the the first trick.
That’s completely nuts. I think Legendre’s version might be harder though, punching anything out of a double front seems much less common (and harder) than punching out of twisting skills.
He does Nastia the double front though.
Thanks Matthew, and I think I agree with Darius that it’s harder to tumble out of the double front in combination bounding skills, but I certainly would not know from experience. very creative and nice either way. Looking forward to seeing these more.
Apolytongp:
I love it!
Your idol has the same form problem as Nastia Liukin, and you just can’t shut up about it.
Most people refer to this is “cowboying”.
perhaps i’m misreading some of these replies, but it seems that some people think “cowboying” is somehow inherently “wrong”….i heard the same thing from fans about Prudonova’s double front which is arguably the most amazing skill ever performed by a female gymnast….cowboying the double front salto in order to punch a double front out of it makes the skill mechanically possible…my opinion….there’s nothing INHERENTLY incorrect about it as a technique
I’ll throw in my two cents on the difficulty debate; I can do both double fronts and front doublefulls, but have not yet managed to punch anything out of either one.
I would consider it harder to put the doublefull first. To be able to comfortably punch a double-salto as the second skill in a sequence takes much more confidence, and therefore much more consistancy.
Like Jim, I’m OLD SCHOOL.
Leaving space for your face (cowboying) is a “technique” until someone does the series correctly. With knees together.
Unfortunately the code of points does not recognize that technique.
Enough gymnasts have done double front with knees together, however, that I think the top Men in 2009 should be deducted.
Mwahahaha! Listening to you wiggle worms whine about cowboy deduction. Love to pin you on the wrestling mat*.
*Except any of you that are ripped.
I think they are both insanely difficult. But my thinking was that a DF is inherently needing more lift than a DT. For sure if you don’t Nastia it. So that doing it out of a run (or FHS) is easier than doing it after an intermediate skill. That said Fahrig chooses to do the DT first, so who knows…
Oh….and I can’t wait until you Nastia frog lovers justify her froggy leg giants on HB. And that she can’t even do a basic level 10 skill (double back on FX). God she is miserable. I want the entire community to shun her.
I want the entire community to shun you, you worthless piece
Don’t mention Nastia when she’s not brought up, we all can see she has a gigantic leg separation on her double front without you reminding us every 5 minutes so shut it
I’m sorry guys but when you abbreviate the two skills double front tuck and double front twist as “DT” and “DF” I can’t tell which skill you’re talking about! Because “DT” can mean double tuck or double twist! And “DF” can mean double front or double full… Please clarify?
I just realized why Steve was so mad at me on Gymnastike when I said he Nastia-ed. He’s a WOGA boy. And he dated Nastia. It’s like calling a good looking male brown-haired singer, who you don’t know is Mormon, Donny Osmond. It has a twist of the knife to it.
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