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April 10th, 2009 | floor (men), Gymnastics, Power Tumbling, twisting
I missed watching this routine from European Championships. But went back to it on recommendation from Darius.
It’s the most original and outrageous set I’ve seen in years.
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Handspring forward layout double twist punch double front. Stuck.
AMAZING.
Fahrig finished second.
Floor Exercise Final Men
1 HAMBUECHEN Fabian GER – 15.450
2 FAHRIG Matthias GER – 15.400
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Yup. Very cool. A couple skills are landed a tad low, but I love how he fights for sticks and tries to be clean.
full twisting 1-3/4 is interesting too.
oh but those knees and toes!
a bit of a random question for other coaches here, now I can’t tell you how many times I’ve yelled at my kids for bending their arms and having their hands wider than shoulder width on handsprings (front and back), but the more times I see elites do this the less I believe it to be necessary, if you look at :46, and most kids do this in back handspring into double saltos, it brings you closer to the ground, so you flip faster, giving you more momentum to be transferred to more power (like doing a whip with you hands barely touching the ground), so the question is is a push stronger than a shove in tumbling and have I been making an unnecessary correction over and over for the last 6 years?
Wow!! very cool. he’s got some definite form issues, but overall i love that he’s performing unique combinations.
Hey Coach Frank,
I think you are right to insist on parallel arms and “good technique” with age group gymnasts.
Kyle Shewfelt had fantastic basics, yet later went to some wide arm round-offs and backward handsprings.
It was never deliberate to change. Kyle speculated that his body learned the modified technique to increase consistency on the landing.
Frank: I do believe it is most effective to start off by teaching backhandsprings with the hands shoulder width and the arms straight. However, in some cases bringing the body closer to the ground on the backhandspring (ie bending the arms) sets up for better height and rotation on the following skill. If a gymnast has straight arms and gets too much block on the backhandspring, they’ll overrotate it, causing the next skill to rocket straight backwards.
I don’t know that I would specifically tell a kid to bend their arms, though; as Rick said, the change tends to make itself over time, without the gymnast having to deliberately adjust.
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