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Rings – introducing Maltese

Coach Sommer:

Negative Maltese Board Presses (NMBP) are an excellent introductory exercise for those ready to begin maltese work on the rings. Note that the elbows are supported during the entire exercise …

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Rings 17.8 start score

The highest possible Still Rings D-score (without kip to victorian and O’neill to Li Ning hang).

Azarian to Maltese F
Rodriguez F
Azarian to Planche E
Carmona F
Layout Yamawaki E
Backuprise to Maltese E
Maltese to Inverted Cross E
Layout Honma to Handstand D
O’neill E
Layout Double Double F

Difficulty: 5.3
Connection: N/A
Element groups: 2.5

Start Value: 17.8

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I want to be Jotchov

Says Andres Montoya:

Jordan Jovtchev’s competed something like 15 Olympics and 37 World Championships. Something like that. :)

Here’s Jotchov’s excellent Ring Strength Training VIDEO.

via @TumblTrak and Luke Wiwatowski

Hambuechen – 4 apparatus

Back to competition after injury, Fab’s Pommels are improved. And he’s perhaps stronger on Rings.

Fabian uses the new Rybalko to layout Jaeger 1/1.

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(PH): 5,7 / 14,2
(SR): 6,0 / 15,433
(PB): 6,2 / 15,1
(HB): 7,5 / 16,4

Looking forward to seeing what he brings to European Championships.

GymNiceTic:

Hambüchen says that he won`t compete at Europeans. The Euros don`t fit in his schedule as he is mainly preparing for London. So his next competition will be the national trials for the Olympics in June.

Alexander Balandin – Rings 15.775

D-score: 6.7
E-score: 9.075

15.775 2nd Europeans 2011

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Cirque Swinging Rings Team

Reinventing the former NCAA discipline Flying Rings.

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Swinging Rings were at one time included in the Olympics.

(via Cirque casting scout Magalie Coleno on Facebook)

Olympian Stanescu to Canada

Love brought former Olympic gymnast Robert Stanescu to Windsor.

A member of Romania’s national team, the 27-year-old made the finals in the rings at the Beijing Olympics where he finished seventh.

The next year, he came within a whisker of reaching the podium at the world championships, finishing fourth by one-tenth of a mark.

Later in 2009, Stanescu joined his university sweetheart, Ruxandra in Windsor.

Now married, both coach gymnastics at Winstars.

Ruxandra works with the competitive girls and Robert trains the boys. …

Robert Stanescu at Winstars - photo Jason Kryk, Windsor Star

Olympian follows heart

Romanian gymnast Stanescu coaching with wife at Winstars

Gym owner Carey Vigneux thinks Robert could compete for Canada, one day. He’s still in great shape.

dogs and cats do gymnastics

Dogs make lousy gymnasts. They can’t swing Rings. … except for this one.

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Cats, make excellent gymnasts. :)

That photo was shared by FIG on Facebook.

Cottbus Cup – day 1

The first day of qualifications got underway Thursday at the Cottbus Challenger Cup in Cottbus, Germany, with the men competing on floor, pommel horse, and rings, and the women on vault and uneven bars. Originally scheduled for one day, the large field necessitated the addition of a second day of qualifying.


VAULT
1. Maksiuta, Valeriia ISR 14,025
2. Rogers, Brittany CAN 13,937
3. Menendez Gonzalez, Claudia ESP 13,912
4. Pegg, Dominique CAN 13,812

BARS
1. He, Kexin CHN 7,1 8,125 15,225
2. Van Gerner, Celine NED 6,0 8,125 14,125
3. Kononenko, Nataliya UKR 6,4 7,625 14,025

FLOOR
1. Boy, Philipp GER 6,2 9,050 15,250
2, Gonzalez Sepulveda, Enrique Tomas CHI 6,6 8,575 0,1 15,075
3. Whitlock, Max GBR 6,5 8,525 0,1 14,925

POMMEL
1. Keatings, Daniel GBR 6,7 8,800 15,500
2. Whitlock, Max GBR 6,6 8,750 15,350
3. Bertoncelj, Saso SLO 6,0 9,300 15,300
4. Likhovitskiy, Andrey BLR 6,4 8,900 15,300

RINGS
1. Nabarrete Zanetti, Arthur BRA 6,5 9,175 15,675
2. Chen, Yibing CHN 6,8 8,825 15,625
3. Van Gelder, Lambertus NED 6,4 8,900 15,300

Chen Yibing was bested on Rings! … How about that.

That’s from ALBERT on TAA – Cottbus Challenge Cup: Qualification Results Day 1

Thomas Hubener – quad double

(4 twist in double back)

Off Swinging Rings.

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And triple layout. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Emilio Toledo on Facebook)

Chen Yibing – orchestrated

Weird.

The God of Rings inspires some … music?

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Thanks (I think) to Ws van Wijk for the link.

WC TOKYO 2011 Rings

… a montage with the best parts of the routines on the still rings …

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via Ajit Jarande

Chris Brooks – Olympian

Looks that way right now.

Good AA. Reasonable Pommel and Rings, the weakest apparatus for team USA.

Click PLAY or watch his POMMELS on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch his RINGS on YouTube.

Ron Noe:

… I would say the past few weeks have been pretty good for Mr. Brooks. His performances at American Cup and PacRim have demonstrated that he is healthy and getting a lot closer to his Olympic dream. Brooks’ improving skills on PH and SR are making people take notice. …

Stick It Media

Ono and Clinton are not completely convinced that those routines are strong enough for top 3. Certainly the scores are too high, relative to what they would have scored at Worlds.

On the other hand, consistency over a long series of pressure situations may end up deciding the Team. I like his chances.

If you had Leyva, Orozco and Brooks … who else do you need to have 3 strong routines on each apparatus?