The best quadruple twisting layout I’ve seen on Floor was from Michigan’s Kent Caldwell, who used it to win the Winter Cup new skills challenge in 2007.
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… Leave a comment if you know of a better one on video.
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related – KentCalwell.com (online portfolio of his gymnastics artwork)
related – Getting to Know… Kent Caldwell (VIDEO)
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I believe he’s in cirque
I guess i should have kept reading
It’s such an ugly skill. that one is the “best” and is still 90 degrees short, crossed legs, lot of nutation going on, landing angled forward.
I remember seeing a biomechanics video discussing Nastia and Artemev’s work on this sort of stuff. And they were ugly too. And basically the analsysis was you take someone who can do a triple and have them basically try to squeeze a little more into it. but they look like junk.
@Polytroll
so I guess it shouldn’t be done at all?
or is it just that you do it better – giving you the right to dismiss it in such way!?
Who cares what it looks like! It’s a quad!
i almost feel that the skill should be defined with leg crossing.
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