Here’s better video of our Olympic Champion, Yang Hak Seon, training a vault not yet competed.
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How’s Uchimura going to compete with that?
I can’t recall any gymnast who’s competed as many different Vaults as Kohei. Here are a few.
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Kohei’s forte is twisting. If he wants to compete for Vault medals this cycle he’d need at least Yurchenko triple twist and Handspring 2 1/2 twist (… or 3/1 twist). 
Update. One commenter recalls that Kohei has not competed 2 vaults in prelims since 2007. Team and AA are his highest priorities.
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Has Kohei ever competed in Vault (at Worlds) since 2007? He said that he doesn’t practice different vaults because it takes time away from doing well for the team events, since he does all six. His highest priority is team Japan and the team final. At the 2010 Japanese Nationals, it looks like he was having fun with the Dragulescu and Yurchenko Triple.
I could see Uchimura competing one of those 6.0 vaults in TF if he could do either one of them well enough that it would outscore his current almost perfect Shewfelt.
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