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most twists backyard tramp?

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Gervasio Deferr – Tsuk, not Kas

Tassilo points out that the 2000 Olympic Vault Champion did NOT compete Kasamatsu as do 99%+ of male gymnasts.

Instead, he did Tsuk.

Right hand on first, left twist.

Watch Deferr on YouTube. (1min 45sec)

Tsuk is significantly more difficult.

Leave a comment if you know anyone else competing double twist or higher with Tsuk, not Kas.

Jason Burnett Miller++

Miller ++ is a double back flip in the straight position with 5 full twists.

… it has never been competed in a FIG (Federation of International Gymnastics) sanctioned event.

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Looks like Jason is keen to hold on to his DD record. Still 18.8 in competition, I believe.

Uchimura can twist

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triple twist punch back

Anna Myzdrikova (Russia)

triple twist

I’m not sure who originally created that .gif.

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TWISTER Kenzo Shirai – Floor

Wow.

Three tumbling lines never before competed, so far as I know. Including quad twist as a dismount.

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That said. To me this is overuse of one kind of skill.

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quad twisting “Toilet Bowl”

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Gluckstein – Miller Plus Plus

Steve Gluckstein performing a Miller Plus Plus (Double-in-Triple-out) which is a quintuple twisting double back somersault …

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Tamayo v double layout 1/2

Tamayo is an F-part (0.6)double layout Arabian. Named for the great Charlie Tamayo … who did not compete it often. I couldn’t find a routine on YouTube.

Everyone’s raving about Stacey Ervin’s at Winter Cup.

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Here’s Kieran Behan training a good one. (VIDEO)

Here’s Kyle Shewfelt training it.

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Kyle trained it into punch front 1/1, as well.

… On the other hand, that’s the skill where Kyle broke both legs and did ligament damage. At 2007 World Championships podium training. The landing is blind and dangerous.

As Jessica O’Beirne pointed out in the most recent episode of GymCastic, Winter Cup AA Champ Jake Dalton mounts with double layout half out, not Tamayo.

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That’s a great trick too. But it’s only a D-part (0.4) — and it’s in the same box as double layout, so you can’t compete both elements in the same routine.

In these cases, it’s clear. But there are going to be variations where it’s very difficult to tell the difference.

If I was Steve Butcher, I’d propose both be valued as E-parts. Both be considered the same skill.

double front 4 1/2 twist

And an attempt at 5 1/2 twist.

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on twist direction

Mathew Sparks is Head Coach and Dance Captain for Cirque La Nouba, Florida. He sees more flips and twists in a day than many coaches see in a month.

For an upcoming clinic, Matt’s recycled a video presentation from … that era when Men vaulted over a long skinny horse. (Kids today can get freaked out first time they see a vaulting horse so inferior to the Table.)

It’s a brief introduction to dominant twist, identifying twist direction and relation to skills like Kasamatsu, Tsuk 1/1, round-offs and pirouettes.

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Sean Doolan – salto forward with 3/1 twist

UPDATE:

Nick Blanton recalled this attempt from the Stanford gymnast.

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Sean Doolan Triple Twisting Frontflip punch frontflip attempt …

Denis Vachon – twisting sequence

Can all of your gymnasts do half twists in sequence up to their maximum number of twists?

Or have any “lost” some of those twists over time due to lack of training?

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