I just saw this on GymNiceTic. Thanks.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The first gymnast to do “Miller” on an Artistic competition Floor was Steve Elliot (a power tumbler), decades ago in the NCAA. It’s been very rare since.
Our World Champion does it with ease. Is Kohei Uchimura the greatest AA gymnast of all time?
GymNiceTic linked to a a related post on the American Gymnast blog.
Andy Thornton posted 4 Floor routines from the Japanese Men’s Championships 2009.
Here’s Kohei .Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Great landings. Especially the triple twist.
Click through to watch the other 3 routines. Okiguchi mounted with double pike with a full-out to a punch front 1 ¾. INSANE.
Shusuke mounts with Tamayo, laid-out double Arabian. That’s the skill where Kyle Shewfelt shattered both knee caps during podium training at World Championships.
American Gymnast – What the heck was that??!!
Update: After Andrew saw this, he posted the routines of Justin Spring and Ri Jong Song competing Miller.
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These routines are BEAUTIFUL! Really creative construction and some cool corners.
Oh, yeah, and the tumbling is UNBELIEVABLE.
I am in awe.
Kohei really is the complete package. His floor routine is truly incredible. I have never seen anyone nail landings like him.
Okiguchi mounted with a Lou Yun, not a double pike with 1/1 twist. A Lou Yun, officially described by the code of points, is a straddled layout double side somersault with full twist. In actuality, it’s a 1/4 twist into straddled layout double somersault with 3/4 twist out. This skills is over 25 years old, and it’s worth a E under the current code.
Can the tucked triple twisting double back be considered a powerful element? Theoretically, one does not need to obtain more height than a simple tucked double back if one can twist fast enough. Uchimura certainly has very good twisting techniques.
I should note that certain gymnasts in the past have done layout double twisting double back by twisting 3/2 twists in the first salto and 1/2 twist in the second salto. Take a look at Yang Wei’s FX routine back in the 2000 Olympics. These gymnasts could theoretically be able to do a layout version of the triple-double.
As for Uchimura’s all around capability–I think he needs to be quite a bit better in pommel horse and rings before he can be considered the best all arounder ever. Hiroyuki Tomita back in 2004 may have been a better all arounder than Uchimura is now. Back then, Tomita’s FX and vault hadn’t yet degraded and was actually quite nice. Tomita then was strong on pommels, rings, parallel bars, and high bar. Currently, Uchimura is awesome on FX and slightly better than 2004 Tomita on vault, but lags behind 2004 Tomita in the other events (even high bar; remember that Tomita had very good technique on the 3/2 turn pirouettes). Tomita’s main problem in the last quad was that he aged quite badly. Unlike, say, Yang Wei.
Thanks Jack. You’ve got some great insights.
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