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Chris Brooks – Parallel Bars – 2012 Winter Cup Prelims

Feb. 2, 2012 – Las Vegas Sports Center – Las Vegas, Nev.

Ties World Champion Leyva.

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… Great routine. Score seems a little high. They have some kind of bonus points system — that may account for it.

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There are a number of athletes who qualified for Olympics you might question. (See the full list.) But not Daniel Corral — this guy’s the real deal. Loaded with potential. The best gymnast representing Mexico since the great Tony Pineda.

Click PLAY or watch his P Bars from Mexican Open 2011 on YouTube.

He won P Bars at the London Test Meet.

Read the Examiner profile – Daniel Corral: “I just can’t describe the feeling” of Olympic qualification

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The finalist list is here. (PDF)

Nice to see Ireland’s Kieran Behan in there on Floor.

Ken Ikeda is sitting 3rd on P Bars. Watch for his HUGE double pike dismount. He stuck that monster in prelims.

Thanks GraceClick.ca (as usual) for all the terrific Facebook pics.

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Coach Jason:

… After considering about a dozen different options, I decided to try a mixture of super glue/sealant and wood. …

details on Coaching Gymnastics in the New Millenium … or Millennium?

That’s the first time I’ve ever heard of anyone trying to repair one.

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Ryan Lieberman from Stanford has a high start routine without double somersaults to upper arms. That means he’s got some cool and original skillz. (And an old school Streui.)

I’m loving all the different ways Parallel Bars can be put together in 2011. The FIG Code is working really well on this apparatus. No need to change a thing.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. 15.50

Ryan had an 88.950 AA at the NCAA Finals 2011 helping Stanford win the national team title

I saw that linked from Andy Thornton’s American Gymnast post – Men’s Videos…Recent Valeri Liukin Invitational

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Did you get one of these for Christmas?

Jay Soucy, of Evergreen Gymnastics in Lisbon, NH recommends this product for cleaning chalky mats. It’s intended for hardwood floors and other flat, smooth surfaces.

The Shark Steam Mop and replacement Cleaning Pads.

Keeping a gym clean is one of the biggest challenges for any manager.

(via gymmomentum – A NEW WAY TO CLEAN CHALK!)

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Danell won P Bars at Worlds with a 6.4 difficulty. (VIDEO)

He’s trying to up that start value.

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He added a peach half and took out the diamidov.

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Chinese Individual Championships Apparatus Finals competition Hong Kong.

FX
Fang Hailiang 15.075(6.3)
Zhou Shixiong 14.625(6.1)
Du Wei 14.025(5.7)

PH
Zhang Hongtao 15.975(6.6)
Lu Chenxi 15.45(6.4)
Fu Yu 14.9(6.4)

SR
Luo Xuan 15.5(6.9)
Liu Yang 15.45(6.6) 
Jian Lei 15.25(6.8) 

Chinese Gymnastics Blog – MAG Event Finals Results – Day 1

V
Zhang Zhongbo 16.575(6.4) /15.975(7.0) – 16.275
Qu Ruiyang 15.725(7.0)/15.975(7.0) – 15.85
Huang Xi 15.85(7.0)/15.50(6.6) – 15.675

PB
Dong Zhendong 15.175(6.7)
Deng Shudi 15.125(6.4)
Wang Peng 14.925(6.2)

HB
1 Zhou Shixiong 15.15(6.6)
2 Deng Shudi 15.0(6.8)
3 Lu Le 14.9(6.7)

Click PLAY or watch Zhang Zhongbo’s Vaults on YouTube.

Chinese Gymnastics Blog – MAG Event Finals Results – Day 2

See more results & routines via those links.

Though the Vault champion did Dragalescu, there weren’t many in the competition. And surprisingly few Yurchenko vaults. (I heard that there had been in the past several of the top gymnasts injured on Yurchenko vault landings. Some coaches don’t like that family.)

Almost every Chinese gymnast in the meet did either Kasamatsu or Handspring vault. Or both if they were trying for Finals. It’s difficult to tell the difference as Chinese coaches teach the vault from “Tinsica” (handspring with 1 hand in advance of the other). … I don’t like it. A vault should be either Tsuk or Handspring — anything in-between should be significantly deducted.

Horizontal Bar was the “weakest” apparatus. Check out the winning routine.

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I saw perhaps 90% of the HBar prelim routines, counting only 1 double somersault over the Bar. No Kolman. No Pegan. …

If FIG devalues some of the skills used by Zou Kai and most Chinese, they’ll need scramble to learn new elements. A Chinese official is responsible for Horizontal Bar on the MTC, however. Let’s wait and see what happens with the next Code.

Japan could beat China in a Team Final, 3-up 3-count. But I’d still call China the favourite to win the London Olympics.

Their biggest weakness is lack of a strong AA. Ono suggests that Zhang Chenglong could get on the podium if he improved his Rings. Strategic thinkers, I’ll bet China concedes the AA medals to others, and trys to win Team and as many apparatus medals as possible.

With the smaller team size it’s not likely we’ll see Zou Kai defend his Olympic Floor and H Bar titles … but never say never. He keeps surprising me.

Videos come from Alar’s piibunina YouTube channel and results via GymChina: News on Facebook.

Alar has been flying back and forth between Europe and China following domestic competitions this year.

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Original routine for our Pan-Am AA Champ. With a dismount I haven’t seen in a long time.

Jossimar Orlando Calvo of Colombia on parallel bars at the 2011 Pan American Games. Check out his dismount …

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He uses Moy Tippelt to long swing (the “Bhavsar“), too. That’s quite popular these days. Sergio from Brazil uses it a somewhat similar skill, as well. (VIDEO)

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SV: 6.40, Execution: 9.233, Score: 15.633

I was thrilled this routine — without any double salto between the bars — won the meet. This will usher in a trend in routine construction, I hope.

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I congratulated Danell personally. And congratulated one of the E judges even more enthusiastically. (That judge had Danell 1st.)

There’s not much separating many amazing routines.

full results (PDF)

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It’s possible — I guess — that some sort of judging system would have Komova 2nd, Wieber 1st.

The Floor scores actually don’t look all that whack:

Wieber 6.0D + 8.9 E with .1 O.B. deduction for 14.8; Komova 5.7D + 8.633 E for 14.333

But rather than stew on that possible miscarriage of justice, let’s look forward to the Men’s AA, Uchimura the huge favourite. But many, many challengers

Click PLAY or watch CHINA highlights from Team on YouTube.

They won mainly due to Rings and P Bars Pommels and H Bar. Full team results (PDF).

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FIG Official – Qualifications, Parallel Bars. Kohei Uchimura, All-Around world champion 2009+2010, has an appointment with History in Tokyo. No gymnast has won 3 times the World title. Uchimura started well. … presently 1st in the Qualifications (92.256).

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That’s an old school routine, with plenty of double saltos to underarm. I’m thinking Leyva can beat him, having no doubles to underarm.

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Sergio Sasaki from Brazil.

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Watch more video of World Gymnastics Championships Tokyo 2011 on gymnastike.org

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