The skill is named after Daiane dos Santos in the WAG Code. But Blythe Lawrence reckons the first to compete it was American Lisa Marzan in 2001.
Leave a comment if you can recall seeing it earlier than that.
Click PLAY or watch a Mostepanovafan montage on YouTube. (Dec. 2009)
I still love this skill in women’s gymnastics. But variations are getting over popular on the men’s side.
(via Gymnastics Examiner – An encyclopedia of Arabian double pikes)
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