In general, I don’t link to videos of gymnastics crashes. It’s more than a little sick to laugh at scary falls. Most gymnasts seem to love watching them though, even their own.
… On the other hand, there’s some educational value in knowing what can go wrong.
Adrian de los Angeles posted 8min of University of Michigan wipe outs.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Evidence that Pommels is the most dangerous apparatus. No two falls are alike.
Check the Horizontal Bar tie down system breaking at 2min 20sec.
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I was a diver in high school and a gymnast before that and unfortunately I do enjoy bloopers even though I know the risk of injuries. But even in diving when someone had a mistake at times we did laugh and I even did at myself a few times. I think it comes partly from the knowledge that most of the time they are never the same or predictable and from the fact that we are just glad that it didn’t happen to them. Mainly I think it is the later.. that they are just glad that it didn’t happen to them even though they know that person is in pain from falling or messing up.. plus the expressions that you get when you mess up esp when you have dvr are pretty comical as well
being a gymnast completely disensitizes you for watching most falls, except of course serious injuries. But rug burn on the face or a pommel in the back is always funny, unless it happens to you.
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