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January 30th, 2010 | bars, Gymnastics
2008 Level 10 Nationals Bar Routine – Katherine Grable from Oshkosh Gymnastics Center.
I’ve never even dreamed of this Bars transition. Very cool though it may be impossible to do without major deduction.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (25sec)
She committed to Arkansas for September 2010.
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Cool party trick, but very messy. Pretty un polished routine.
very inventive
Damn, that was nasty.
Why bother doing the move? I don’t understand, it’s so messy (along with the rest of the routine) that it seems just pointless to do the move…
… Sounds like she is currently competing just the “Jaeger” into backwards swing, swing forward to Kip.
That would be a little cleaner.
It will never pass muster in the NCAA, however.
Very cool…but…
Messy! Judging from the rest of the routine, however, form does not seem to be of much concern to either the coach or the athlete.
“Why bother doing the move? I don’t understand, it’s so messy (along with the rest of the routine) that it seems just pointless to do the move…”
‘Cause she can, and ’cause it’s cool. Some people are motivated by things other than scores.
Being the first to ever compete a skill is motivation enough, sometimes.
I recall the Japanese gymnast who first competed internationally 3/1 back off Rings: Kitagawa.
He competed a short routine. Got a terrible score. And was admired worldwide.
I was on bars with my gymnasts when Katherine competed
In competition she missed one of her hands and still kept going it was better in warm up
Not very many people in the world have something named after them
I don’t know that scoring was the first thing that came to my mind. I just figure if you’re going to do something, especially at Nationals, you should be able to do it well. Have some self-respect and all that.
I guess from looking at the quality of the rest of the routine, bars was not a strong event for her. They may have decided that with her bars she didn’t really have a chance of placing, so go for some recognition in other ways. I haven’t seen other poorer quality routines posted, so I guess it worked.
Also, if you check out her gym’s website, you can find a few other skills that are unique to that gym. (scroll down a few steps to find the 3 listed http://www.ogcgym.com/ogc1.htm)
IMO, pretty creative coaching – execution needs some work, for sure, but it’s a “proof of concept” kind of deal. It can be done – now who can do it the best?
I love it!!!
In today’s gymnastics original work isn’t rewarded. In general the composition of most routines today is boring. It is killing the sport.
Most of my life has been in gymnastics (or some form of acrobatics)…and I don’t get much pleasure from watching gym competitions any more. If the competition side of the sport has lost my interest can you imagine the general public.
I might tune back in if exploration of new movements makes a come back.
Bravo to her and her coach.
You made me look…and my reaction was…
Wow! Cool!
Yeah, it was nasty but she still got her name in the USAG JO code of points. That’s a big accomplishment for her and a perfectly understandable thing to try and do. And she actually completed the skill. I’d like to see someone do this clean though.
She got a scholarship? Hopefully, her new coaches will give her form a jump start. Points for craziness though.
It’s just not worth doing if it looks like crap. Perhaps she can work on cleaning it up.
This reminded me a lot of a skill that a girl did whom I competed against in high school. Not the same but I haven’t seen it done many times and it’s fairly clean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLaQr7K2zDQ (24 sec)
Kudos for innovation and daring…but the entire routine is a major deduction. Yuck.
[...] seeing the The Grable – Jaeger 1/1 low to high, ch recalled a similar [...]
Thanks ch. I posted it:
http://gymnasticscoaching.com/new/2010/01/the-borkan-%E2%80%93-geinger-low-to-high/
… cannot recall where I’ve seen that skill before. But I’m sure it’s been done before Lindsay.
“It’s just not worth doing if it looks like crap. Perhaps she can work on cleaning it up.”
I disagree. Of course I as a coach would never push a gymnast to do something like this, but if the gymnast wanted to and could do the skill safely, I would allow her to make that choice, and I can completely understand why she would choose to throw it.
Being the first person to compete a skill — that’s a little piece of immortality. You don’t get that for a clean routine.
“You don’t get that for a clean routine.”
Actually, that depends on what’s in the clean routine and what you win with it. Just because a routine is clean, doesn’t mean it’s boring. And if you win a world medal with a clean routine that is, in fact, boring you will be pretty close to immortal. Just ask GG.
/nitpicky
completely agree with Geoff…..
“a little bit of immortality’ is a wonderful achievement and depending on circumstances, better than a medal…
the girl is pushing the envelope of what’s possible.
Rick:
Kitigawa….as I recall the circumstances were “event finals” of the Japanese Nationals…..
his routine was
kip L, press handstand, giant dislocate, triple….
and we’re still talking about it 30 years later!
You could be right. … But I recall the first triple in competition was in Toronto.
He was a guest of York University, training there for a few months.
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