quad salto off swinging rings

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Posted by Don Eckert.

I saw two Quads myself, the summer of 1977, I believe. We were in California for the Santa Monica Beach Fest.

Leave a comment if you can confirm who did it first off swinging rings.

3 comments ↓

#1 Jim from Seattle on 08.13.10 at 3:44 pm

Dennis Sherman is the guy in the video doing the quads….don’t know if he was the first ever…..
second clip in vid….that’s Steve Hug (2 time US Olympian, 3 time NCAA AA CHamp doing a double back off the “crossbar” of the flying rings apparatus…that, in the year before he made his second Olympic team…..
can anybody imagine somebody at that level today doing this kind of stuff?
those guys were:

a. amazing
b. madmen
c. both

#2 coach Rick on 08.14.10 at 10:57 am

c.

#3 robert bible on 09.28.11 at 10:02 pm

what happend to greg friel? i think he was one of quad men. love the vido brings me back to the old days. thanks

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