Called Xiao Ruizhi after the Chinese gymnast. And sometimes referred to as “Marinich” after Vitaly Marinich who competed it at about the same time. Watch a video of Vitaly doing it in 1989.
Charlie does a HUGE version. From Stalder. (No name for that variation.)
Some video from a couple of years ago. Charlie Tamayo working on some new skillls.
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See more videos on the Gibson Saltocafe YouTube page.
There’s a thread on the IG Forum right now on women who have competed this skill most famously the 1991 World Champion on Bars, Kim Gwang Suk. She connects it from Tkachev!
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She certainly deserved to win Bars that year, a giant step forward for North Korea. Unfortunately, she was the first of the age falsification scandal gymnasts.
… The FIG punished the North Korean gymnastics federation by barring their women’s team from the 1993 World Championships. Kim, however, was permitted to keep the medals she had won in international events, including her 1991 World Championships gold. …
That’s what I’d like to see happen if China is found guilty of deliberately falsifying documents for their girls at the 2000 Olympics (ruling Feb. 26, 2010). The athletes should keep the medals, the national federation punished. … And yes I realize that current Chinese athletes would be punished for the mistakes made 10yrs-ago.
Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time.
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