Cheng Fei Floor 2004

The first truly great tumbler and vaulter from China.

Japanese Gymnastics (2): Training Protocols

Part 2 of an analysis by zhoxxyy.

Read part 1 here.

The Japanese gymnastics training system emphasizes injury prevention through extensive warm-up routines, active mobility, and specific strength development. Techniques focus on enhancing flexibility and precision, optimizing performance in key events while strategically managing strength.

Table Of Contents

Training Protocols Training Protocols Training protocols

The Warm-Up & Body Care: The “Injury Prevention” Protocol

Conditioning: “Specific Strength” vs. “Big Strength”

Apparatus Deep Dive: The Technical Secrets

Summary of Technical Specialties

Read the article online ➙ Inside Japanese Gymnastics (2): Training Protocols


Osijek World Cup ’26 RESULTS

Full results.

Vault

Bars

Beam

Floor

Floor

Pommels

Rings

Vault

P Bars

Barajas has the top P Bar score in 2026, so far.

H Bar

Super fantastic Final this year.

Yang Fanyuwei 15.266 Bars

Great routine. But the surprise for me was a Chinese gymnast achieving 6.6 Difficulty without using the usual Forward Giants in different grips series.

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Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships $100,000 prize money

For the first time in its history, the Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships will cross the USD 99,000 mark in total prize money — more than five times what gymnasts were competing for just one edition ago.

The 2026 Championships, set for Zunyi in the People’s Republic of China this June, will see men’s and women’s gymnasts compete for a combined purse that dwarfs the USD 18,000 on offer in previous years, when men took home USD 10,000 and women USD 8,000.

The jump didn’t happen by accident. Under a new funding model approved at the AGU’s Executive Committee meeting and Extraordinary Congress, the Union commits to matching whatever the host organizing committee puts in. For 2026, the Chinese side chose to go beyond the standard baseline — voluntarily — and the AGU matched them dollar for dollar, bringing each side’s contribution to USD 49,500.

The model is now the template for all future AGU championships. Host committees set the floor, the AGU meets them there, and if a host wants to go further, the Union follows.

Beyond the headline figure, the structure of how prize money is awarded has also changed. Payouts will now reach gymnasts finishing as far back as eighth place in every apparatus final — not just the podium. It’s a deliberate move to make more gymnasts feel the weight of a result, and to raise the stakes across the full field.

Historic Boost: Asian Gymnastics Championships Prize Money Jumps to USD 99,000



Elena Colas – Beam

French AA champ to Algeria

21-year-old Djenna Laroui has announced she’ll be changing citizenship from France to Algeria, where she’ll join Olympic Bars champion Kaylia Nemour who did the same in 2022.

We wish her well.

The French Federation has to consider why some of their best gymnasts want to represent other nations.

Like the men from Columbia and Philippines, Algeria has a chance to qualify a TEAM to the L.A. Olympics.

Greenville Claims ECAC Championship Title

History made.

The men’s gymnastics team traveled to Army and brought home the ECAC Conference title, the first in program history.

The Panthers sat in fourth place heading into the final rotation but scored a season-high on vault to secure the championship.
Results

USAG

Hamlet Manukyan – Pommels

Amazing.

We’re going to need more deductions in the Code to separate the best specialists.

  • Stretched position on Circles?
  • Hip extension and split on Flairs?
  • Amplitude of C of G above the Horse?

Perhaps more credit for VARIETY of elements.