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Def on Bars – MostapanovaFan

November 2nd, 2009 | bars, Gymnastics

A great skill named after a man, French gymnast Jacques Def, on Horizontal Bar is named after Snejana Hristakieva, on Assymetric Bars. She’s woman who competed it first, so far as I know.

Yet I’ve never heard a WAG coach who did not refer to this skill as “Def”. It’s so much shorter and easier to pronounce.

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(via Full In Full Out)

related post: Def on Bars (video by Andrew Thornton)

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#1 shergymrag on 11.02.09 at 3:45 pm

It actually is named after her but nobody calls it the Hristikayeva. Could be because she wasn’t as well known as Mo Huilan or Khorkina. A Mo salto is really a Gaylord and a Khorkina is really a Marinich.

#2 tp on 11.02.09 at 4:38 pm

As sherm said, it is named after her, but come on which name would you rather refer to it as?

#3 coach Rick on 11.02.09 at 10:32 pm

Thanks Sher. I’ve never known that.

… “Def” is a wonderfully short name.

#4 shergymrag on 11.03.09 at 1:47 am

Hey, you lined out the wrong part. It IS named after Def on HB. It’s also named after Hristakayeva because she was the first WAG to transfer it to uneven bars. Some people stil call “Mo Saltos” and “Khorkinas” a “Gaylord” or “Marinich” when done on uneven bars. It’s just part of the gymnastics tradition that just about every skill has umpty kabillion names.

#5 Marcus on 11.03.09 at 10:21 am

I love saying the name Hristakieva (she also has the Yurchenko Arabian vault named after her). But I still call the release skill a Def because it’s shorter to type and is more recognizable.

#6 coach Rick on 11.03.09 at 12:01 pm

Right. Cross out is good for flagging mistakes made. But I mucked that one up.

I just rewrote the intro to make it clearer.

Thanks Sher.

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