On the International Gymnast Forum numblemon states:
Many of you will disagree with me but I find that vault was at it’s cleanest and most powerful from 1989-1992. I know this is a small window and there were Yurchenko Fulls ad nauseum but I liked it then and I like it now – they were mastered and often stuck …
Click PLAY or watch Shannon Miller – 1992 Olympics AA – Vault 1 … STUCK COLD on YouTube.
Shannon was truly one of the greatest gymnasts of all time. Wow!
There’s been surprisingly little progress on Vault since that time. The introduction of the new table revolutionized Men’s Vault. But little has changed on the Women’s side.
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Check Gymblog for a quick overview of the Cover Girl Classic this weekend.
From Sports Girls Play:
… Fourteen year old Sabrina Vega of New York really impressed me on all four events and she is seriously packed with personality and a million dollar smile. Mark my words, Sabrina Vega is one to watch for in 2012!! She is coached by the famous Teodora Ungureanu – teammate of Nadia Comeneci – and Teodora’s husband Sorin. …
The gymnastics blogosphere has been cluttered the last few months with ‘favourite Floor” routines.
Here are more.
On the International Gymnast Forum numblemon picked two great eras: 1979-1983 and then 1987 to 1992.
… I picked this based on both innovative tumbling (Groshkova, Strazheva, Priakhina) unique and well-performed dance (Voinea, Silivas, Bogi, Dobre, Mitova) …
Instead of her choices, I’ll post the shocking routine of Oksana Omelianchik at the 1985 World Championships in Montreal.
In the Soviet Union there were dozens of stronger tumblers. But the charm of this routine won over everyone who saw it. Will we never see this kind of originality every again?
Wordsmith feels she was one of the most expressive gymnasts ever on Floor. Check the comments for another routine with more delightful facial expression.
Thiago Simões has started up a new Brazilian gymnastics blog, in English.
… Artistic Gymnastics has become a huge success in Brazil thanks to incredible world class gymnasts like Daiane dos Santos and Diego Hypólito. However, outside of Brazil very few people know about Brazilian gymnasts other than these two athletes. This is the main reason why I decided to create this blog: to make people around the world aware of Brazilian gymnasts …
I’ve not yet seen this documentary on performance enhancing drugs.
… The documentary examines the steroid use of the director Christopher Bell and his two brothers, Mark and Mike Bell, who all grew up idolizing Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hulk Hogan, and Sylvester Stallone, and also features professional athletes, medical experts, fitness center members, and US Congressmen talking about the issue of anabolic steroids.
Beyond the basic issue of anabolic steroid use, Bigger, Stronger, Faster* examines the lack of consistency in how America views drugs, cheating, and the lengths people go to achieve success. …
But Valentin Uzunov of The Gym Press found it very unsettling. He’s not nearly so sure now that gymnast, especially male gymnasts, are not experimenting with them … for Rings.
Click through to see why. Other routines shown as examples: Maloney, Bi, Chelsea Otto, Doni Thompson. Like Elise Ray, these are not routines often mentioned in 2009.
Terry Walker began his career in coaching in 1983 and has coached gymnasts at the national and international level since 1987. A coach of two former Olympians, Terry coached with Cypress Academy from 1988 to 1995. He returned to Cypress with his wife, Tamara, in May of 2003 and became the Competitive Girls Director in 2004.
