Gymtruthteller makes a good point:
… in 2010 the event bringing the US down big time is the Uneven bars and bringing back Nastia for one event is not going to help the US beat China or Russia who have some amazing up and comers on the uneven bars …
For many months now I’ve been predicting that Russia will be the team to beat in London. And it’s possible that China will put together a strong team, and HIT, as they did in Beijing. Bars is the highest scoring apparatus. (I’ve more faith in the Russian program, though.)
Gymtruthteller feels the American National program needs to address the problem by promoting gymnasts with potential on Bars. And by having specialist Bar coaches work with them and their coaches.
Get rid of the flexed feet on releases, for example.
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When a comeback by Nastia or Chellsie Memmel (montage video) is your plan to beat Russia, you’ve got serious problems.
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Which bar workers would they promote? I was watching the juniors from last year, and bars was a pretty big mess — lots of falls, lots of technical problems, and little originality.
I think GTT’s point was find the potential and work with the gymnast to be better on the event. I forget but she mentioned a few gymnasts.
It’s true. Get Tom Forrester and Ed Burch to get some kids geared up for a nice bar routine. Kelli Hill and Valeri Liukin seem to be good bar coaches for technical aspects, as well, but it seems like the code doesn’t really promote the kind of bars most spectators would want to see – release move combos and BIG stuff.
But we don’t need big stuff. What we need are smartly constructed routines with high D values if we want to win.
Valeri is not good for technical stuff have you seen Nastia s Giants?
Valeri put a hard routine together and the judges overscored it if anything the judges get credit for that.
Who said Valeri is not good for technical stuff?
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