Gymnasts at NCAA championships qualified for apparatus finals with one vault. You need a near perfect landing to get into Finals.
Once in Finals, however, girls were required to show “2 different vaults”. In some cases gymnasts had not trained their second vault all season as it was not high priority.
I decided to videotape only landings and, as expected, there were problems.
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Even the best landings are not superb technically, in my opinion. And the tradition of pivoting to present to judges on both sides of the landing podium — then rushing away — is also inelegant.
Better we study the landings shown on Floor (video) by Daria Joura 2008 at Australian Nationals.
Leave a comment if there are any other female gymnast who shows excellent landings.
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