Comments on: foward double front to double twist

By: PolyisTCOandbanned

PolyisTCOandbanned — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:37:57 +0000

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.

By: Confused

Confused — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:29:35 +0000

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?

By: apolytongp

apolytongp — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:58:03 +0000

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:56:20 +0000

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

By: apolytongp

apolytongp — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:52:42 +0000

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.

By: apolytongp

apolytongp — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:51:20 +0000

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…

By: apolytongp

apolytongp — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:48:58 +0000

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.

By: coach Rick

coach Rick — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:16:12 +0000

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.

By: Geoffrey Taucer

Geoffrey Taucer — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:00:47 +0000

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.

By: Jim from Seattle

Jim from Seattle — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:48:58 +0000

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