He was lying on the ground after peeling off on a dismount before he discovered what had happened.
The manufacturer is Reisport, as good as any of the competitors, I’d say.
Over the years I’ve seen many Reisport grips break in only a matter of days, but never Ring grips. Horizontal Bar grips normally get stretched and break sooner.
NOT unheard of. Our friend, Mario West, had the exact same thing happen at the Winter Cup a year and a half ago — High Bar was his first event, and it happened during warmups. It didn’t injure him badly, but it affected the whole meet.
Since then, he’s been going to a gentleman in Gaithersburg, MD named “Tien” (not sure of the spelling), who handcrafts his grips. Apparently, the Japanese and Chinese national teams both buy from this craftsman as well, and Mario seems to have more confidence in his grips.
Leave a comment if you have any advice on where to get gymnastics grips more durable than Reisport.
Yesterday Andrew Hampy on behalf of Cal Berkeley Gymnastics submitted a business plan for financial viability to their chancellor’s office. It will be 3wks before they get a response.
Gymnastike linked a video from Cal Gymnastics Forever.
The International Gymnastics Federation has a laughable record for bungling skills named after gymnasts.
In my copy of the code of points they misspell Shavahn Church‘s name. (Some might quibble that she should be listed as British since she competed internationally for England.)
Church Savannah (USA) Hstd on HB – Pike sole circle bwd counter pike reverse hecht over HB to hang
… word around the Hershey Centre is that Jason Nicholas Burnett , Olympic silver medalist who has broken the world DD record 3 times, broke his leg at Pulsars last week while attempting a double side somi sort of par-kour move.
Apologies. Google flagged this site with a malware warning for a couple of days. After much scrutiny, it turned out to be code I had put on the site myself.
In fact, I’m quite sure that the code was innocent. But better safe than sorry. Once I took off the suspect code, Google removed the warning, concluding this site was clean.
Aussie Dr Glenn Singleman has held the record (jointly) since 1992.
First Glenn and Nic Feteris climbed, then BASE jumped 5,955 metres (19,537 ft) from one of the Trango Towers.
In 2006 he and his wife Heather Swan climbed Mt Meru in the Indian Himalaya, jumping from 6604m (21,667ft), in the process setting new Guinness World Records for both BASE jumping and wingsuit flying.
