… Penn State coach Steve … Shephard said he thought this perfect 10 was about the same as the one earlier this season, and still said he has seen the senior do it even better.
After watching it on video, Personett said she thought the perfect score from this past Saturday was better. She added, however, that a couple of her friends in the stands said the Feb. 23 vault routine was better.
The new issue starts with an article by German authors Thomas Heinen, Pia Vinken, and Konstantinos Velentzas addressing a very interesting dilemma of twist directions.
The second article is the contribution by Trevor Dowdell from Australia who is exploring characteristics of coaching.
The third article is about the reliability of judging in men’s artistic gymnastics at the University Games in Belgrade 2009, written by a group of authors from Slovenia and Hungary: Bojan Leskošek, Ivan Cuk, Istvan Karacsony, Jernej Pajek and Maja Bu?ar.
The fourth article comes from Slovenian author Matjaž Ferkolj who has researched kinematic characteristics of Roche vault on vaulting table.
The second issue of our journal concludes with an article from Portugal in which José Ferreirinha, Joana Carvalho, Cristina Côrte-Real and António Silva analyze the evolution of flight element on uneven bars from 1989 to 2004.
It’s all free. Click through to the home page for links (PDF) to each article.
… Mas Wanatabe shows a drill for working the punch off the table and post flight that you can use to increase the number of repetitions you can do by using two spring boards and a pit. Mas Watanabe is currently the vaulting coach for the US National Team.
Many have been waiting years for this. Former Cuban World Championships medalist Charlie Tamayo competed as a “guest”, scoring 13.100 on Floor (with problems) and 15.8 on vault. Tamayo defected to the U.S. during 2003 Worlds in Anaheim and is seeking U.S. citizenship.
From Don Eckert:
Charlie is coming off an injury and wasn’t able to train like he wanted but his talent is obvious and I would love to see him train the way that other have the privilege in this country because of their college/parent or help from USAG. I really believe he could help the USA team but has to prepare properly to do so.
The first time I ever noticedVanessa was her perfect 10 vault last season. She was a rookie.
I like her vault from January 31, 2010 even better. She only scored 9.85, but this was only the first time she competed Yurchenko half-on front layout half.
Gem wants to see it in super slow motion. Look at that “block”. Totally extended. Very unusual. And very cool.
If Vanessa can qualify to Vault Finals at NCAA Championships, she’d be the favourite. She’s got 2 different superb vaults.
By far the worst of NCAA regulations is that gymnasts qualify to Championships Finals with one vault, then must compete two. It’s stupid, even dangerous.
This week’s Gymnastike Stick of the Week – Kyndal Robarts, a junior at the University of Utah launched a huge vault at the end of the Utes vault lineup when they defeated the Georgia Gym Dogs at home. She nailed the landing cold a sent a crowd of 15,552 to their feet. She even received a perfect 10 from one judge!
A small statistical analysis from IG forum posted by spezi3. In brackets are the number of mentions of each athlete on that site vis-a-vis each apparatus.
Blythe Lawrence said, “If I had to choose a female gymnast of the decade, Cheng would be it.” I’d agree.
BARS
1. Svetlana Khorkhina (18)
2. He Kexin (17)
3. Ma Yanhong (13)
4. Lu Li (13)
5. Nadia Comaneci (12)
6. Kim Gwang Suk (12)
7. Mo Huilan (11)
8. Olga Korbut (9)
9. Beth Tweddle (9)
10. Nastia Luikin (8)
Bars had a very nice mix of gymnasts from different eras. There were gymnasts from the ’70s all the way up to 2009 in the top 10.
BEAM
1. Yang Bo (21) – video
2. Tatiana Lysenko (14)
3. Olga Mostepanova (10)
4. Kui Yuanyuan (10)
5. Oksana Omelianchik (10)
6. Shannon Miller (10)
7. Nastia Luikin (10)
8. Aurelia Dobre (9)
9. Li Li (9)
10. Mo Huilan (9)
11. Catalina Ponor (9)
The results show that after 20 years, Yang Bo’s beam work is timeless. There was the biggest difference between the number of votes between 1st and 2nd place on any of the events.
Ha. Oksana Omelianchik, one of the weakest tumblers ever put on the Floor by the old Soviet Union, is #1 on Floor.
I was there in 1985 when she was co-World Champion with Shushanova. This routine was shocking and revolutionary in many ways at that time. The talk of the competition.
TsukThePain asked for recommendations on the best “gymnastics performances” over the past 10 years.
Those videos are being posted in batches of 4 at a time. Here’s one:
Monica Rosu vaulted ahead of the pack with her beautiful tsuk double, but it was her Amanar that really left gymnastic fans around the world in awe. Performed with the right amount of power, Rosu’s yurchenko 2.5 was near perfect. Monica is Tsuk the Pain’s 23rd pick for Best Perfomance of the Last Decade.
1. Four gymnasts appear twice on the list.
2. Americans, Russians, and Chinese comprise 72% of the list.
3. Four Countries have only ONE entry in the list.
4. There are 8 FX routines, 6 Vaults, 6 Beams, and 5 bar sets.
Here’s the first competition of the new NCAA Women’s College Gymnastics season.
A dual meet on YouTube!
From coach Steve Shephard on College Gymnastics Board:
Penn State and Ohio State agreed to do a head to head competition between the two programs.
We set up a Youtube site usernamed Head2Head2010.
Each coaching staff voted to pick a winner between the two routines that were matched up in each video. The final results were PSU 10, Ohio State 9. However, as a disclaimer related to the validity of the outcome of the competition, we made up the rules as we went along.
It was a very educational, and eye opening experience for both programs.
Please feel free to post comments, or vote for your favorite on the youtube channel. Our goal was to create a dialogue about what this type of format would mean to the sport.
