This is a montage of all the two most difficult categories of skills in the men’s code.

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… Peng Peng Lee’s awesome Homma-variation mount, Dorina Boczogo’s high rated Rankin mount, Ana Porgras’s jump to split and Vanessa Ferrari’s traditional show of brute strength with her planche mount …

read more – Interesting Beam Mounts

Click PLAY or watch Dorina on YouTube.

She’s gorgeous. Watch her Olympics 2008 Beam here. Or a montage titled … How come I have never heard of this incredible gymnast before??!! … here.

On Couch Gymnast’s Facebook, Simone Alexander linked to Sarah Lauren’s “side somi” mount on Beam at the 2001 Aussie Nationals.

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Slovenia’s Maja Hribar may have competed that in 2001, as well. Here’s a training video.

Leave a comment if you’ve seen other gymnasts compete anything like a side somi mount.

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Ivan Cuk
Editorial

PUBLIC SPORTS POLICY: THE IMPACT OF THE ATHLETE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ON BRAZILIAN MEN’S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

BODY COMPOSITION PROFILE OF ELITE GROUP RHYTHMIC GYMNASTS

SELF-ESTEEM AND TRAIT ANXIETY IN GIRLS PRACTICING COMPETITIVE AND RECREATIONAL GYMNASTICS

CHANGES IN GYMNASTS MOTOR ABILITIES DURING THE NINE MONTH TRAINING PROCESS OF FEMALE GYMNASTS 5-6 YEARS OF AGE

THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT TEACHING SYSTEMS IN LEARNING RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS APPARATUS

JUDGING PERFORMANCE IN GYMNASTICS:A MATTER OF MOTOR OR VISUAL EXPERIENCE?

MODELING THE FINAL SCORE IN ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS BY DIFFERENT WEIGHTS OF DIFFICULTY AND EXECUTION

read it free here

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Alabama gymnastics sophomore Diandra Milliner (from Folger’s) scores a 10.0 on the vault against Florida on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 in Coleman Coliseum. The Crimson Tide beat the Gators 197.725-196.900.

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I’m not happy with so many “perfect” 10 vaults so early this season. That was a superb vault, but not nearly “perfect”.

Either the judges should be more judicious, … or Yurchenko 1/1 should start out of 9.9.

That way Diandra would still get this 10, but there would be fewer total. AND it would encourage more variety on that apparatus.

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They assume Kohei will better than ever — a safe assumption. He’ll be plenty motivated having fallen twice in Beijing during the AA Final.

They assume that China has a plan to win team — but that lack of depth in the AA right now will prevent them from overtaking team Kohei.

… OK — I’m in. Japan will win the Olympics.

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Ladies judges, for your information, the way Kohei Uchimura lands IS the correct way to land. There should be no deduction. Please correct your Codes of Points.

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… but who are these judges?

International elite gymnast Mackenzie Brannan earned a perfect 10.0 for this jam-packed uneven bar routine during the exciting event finals session of the 2012 Alamo Classic in San Antonio. Watch for Brannan as she makes her senior international debut this year and works to achieve her dream of qualifying to the 2012 Olympic Trials.

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From that PDF on your computer you can click on links to watch “unlisted” YouTube videos of the skill. Those are private to you.

Actually, it might be possible to embed the video IF you use the “unlisted” URL. Can you watch this?

That’s now the “Penev”. Seems you can competed both the Penev and double layout with 1/1 twist in the same routine.

Leave a comment if you’ve an opinion on the new list. Personally I’m disappointed to see YAMAWAKI 1/2 STRETCHED TO MIXED GRIP INTO BACK UPRISE TO HANDSTAND (MUNOZ) be awarded an E-part. Over-used, layout Yamawaki and variations should be devalued. And still might be, next Code.

(via Full Twist)

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Men’s Vault is by far the apparatus with the most difficulty in Artistic Gymnastics. No woman has ever competed any of these.

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FIG landing mats are not safe for this level of trick. We need something more like the Double-mini landing surface.

Thank Canadian judge Dave Copeland for the link.

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nastia2012:

Olga did not have a fairy tale career, and is remembered for many things that were out of her control, including age falsification, the 1984 boycott, and the “injuries” that kept her and Irina Baraksanova out of the all around in 1985 …

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She was first (1983) to compete Onodi. Yes, that’s another named gymnastics skill bungled by the FIG WTC.

This song happens to be called “Eighties”

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What’s with the College judges handing out 10s so early in the season? LOVE that vault, but they could have gone 9.95.

… “She does gymnastics on a whole level that you can’t teach,” Kondos Field said. “It’s god-given. She can do the same exact skills that any other athlete does, but she has this lightness and she makes it seem effortless. It’s ethereal, like she is flying.”…

… In her career as a Bruin, she has performed four flawless vaults, earning scores of 10.000 three times in 2009 and once in 2010. …

Daily Bruin

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