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more Liukins: Buscaglia and Burbar

February 9th, 2010 | Gymnastics, bars, horizontal bar

Danell Leyva, the young American World Championships Horizontal Bar finalist, recently added Liukin (Layout Tkachev 1/1 twist) into his long, difficult routine.

I hadn’t realized that Stanford’s Alexander Buscaglia caught Liukin Day 1 of Winter Cup. (Leyva missed it Day 1.)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Wasef Burbar (age 16-18) is competing it too. You can see video of Wasef doing it in training on YouTube.

Thanks Jeremiah for sending us the links.

==== melanie ponders whether we’ll ever see a female gymnast do this trick. I think we will, but not for many years yet. We need layout Tkachev first.

5 comments ↓

#1 Janet Durant on 02.09.10 at 1:28 pm

However, women have performed the tkatchev 1/1 in the straddle position. (See Yelena Shushunova-bars-1988)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BCIlaR4UTs

#2 coach Rick on 02.09.10 at 1:47 pm

Right Janet. But the mechanics of that skill are so dissimilar (and easier) compared with Tkachev that I won’t count it.

… In fact I did that skill myself after I saw her compete it. And, trust me, I could never do a real Tkachev in a million years.

#3 Coach M on 02.09.10 at 5:00 pm

I think Anna Li could do layout tkachev, and maybe Courtney Kupets.

#4 Kyle on 02.09.10 at 7:52 pm

I think he connected this to a geinger on the 2nd night!

#5 Jeremiah on 02.09.10 at 8:34 pm

I’m pretty sure this girl (Jordan Moore) could do a Liukin or Stretched Tkachev, maybe even a Tkachev salto haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nlm65PxhWY

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