Year: 2010

MostepanovaFan | November 12, 2010

This is a guide to the new elements the FIG has added to the code of points following the Youth Olympic Games and World Championships.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Going for Gold)

… oh, and China.

At Asian Games event Finals hosted by China.

Men’s Artistic Gymnastics

Floor
1. ZHANG Chenglong (CHN) 15.400
1. KIM Soo Myun (KOR) 15.400
3. KUMAR Ashish (IND) 14.925

Pommel Horse
1. TENG Haibin (CHN) 15.375
2. YAN Mingvong (CHN) 14.725
3. HUANG Che Kuei (TPE) 14.700

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Still Rings
1. CHEN Yibing (CHN) 16.075
2. YAN Mingvong (CHN) 15.900
3. CHEN Chih Yu (TPE) 15.625

Women’s Artistic Gymnastics

Vault
1. HUANG Qiushuang (CHN) 14.787
2. TANAKA Rie (JPN) 14.237
3. OZAWA Momoko (14.112)

Uneven Bars
1. HE Kexin (CHN) 16.425
2. HUANG Qiushuang (CHN) 15.825
3. TSURUMI Koko (JPN) 14.300

http://view.picapp.com//JavaScripts/OTIjs.js

full results via FIG

Right now the Russian women’s gymnastics team are favourites to win Team Gold at the 2012 Olympics.

China, USA and now Romania are trying to find a strategy to challenge. With the return of Anamaria Tamarjan, Romania now has 17 gymnasts in their Olympic training squad.

The excellent new Russian gymnastics blog, out of the UK, summarizes (based on an extensive review of recent media reports) the many challenges remaining now that Russia is again the Russia of old:

If revolutions can only be acknowledged and recognized with hindsight, we are still too early to celebrate the Russian women’s team and all around victory at the Rotterdam World Championships 2010 as such. In many ways, Russian gymnastics is only beginning to turn a corner and to build the foundations for future more solid and consistent victories. …

The Russians’ current success has largely been forged at the hands of Soviet veteran coaches such as Andrei Rodienenko, Alexander Alexandrov and Oleg Ostapenko. Few ‘new faces’ exist in the Russian gymnastics coaching world, and this is clearly a worry. Both Rodienenko and Alexandrov emphasize the sorry state of Russian gymnastics at grass roots level and Rodienenko highlights the problems for mature gymnasts in pursuing their sporting/professional careers once their competitive lives are over.

The mass base of sports that existed during the Soviet era has been eroded, with few professionals available to select and coach young potential thanks to lack of pay. …

Sport in general has become globalized and gymnastics is in no way immune to the effects. Discussions of Dina Kamalova’s apparently sudden exodus to the USA make it clear that this was a significant threat to young Aliya Mustafina’s career in the sport. The intervention of CSKA chief Galina Stepanova and Russian team coach Alexander Alexandrov ensured that Russia did not lose this brilliant, unique gymnast. Kamalova migrated to Valeri Liukin’s empire in Texas to train none other than Mustafina’s main rival for the recent world championships title, Rebecca Bross. …

click through for more – Russian gymnastics – risk, originality, virtuosity – The New Russian Revolution – the way forward. A brief media directory

Click PLAY or watch Mustafina win Beam at the Freddy Cup, changing her routine from Rotterdam.

… She added a full turn to the right immediately after her double turn to the left; a switch-half, back tuck combination, and a new side aerial to one foot (bringing her held leg all the way up) after her front aerial, Onodi. …

Viktoria Komova won Bars. Read the Freddy IG report.

GymSmarts is the leading producer of coaching DVDs. Everyone knows their free Gymnastics Minute vids.

Finally “rental” videos have arrived. (Only available in the USA.)

The first is Hideo “Mizo” Mizoguchi on Diamodov.

This video covers progression development from the basic swing forward on Parallel Bars to the complete Diamodov. Starting with teaching the proper forward swing, continuing with several developmental progression drills, Mizo gives a complete road map to learning his important advanced skill. His explanations are thorough, has great demonstrations of each drill and detailed spotting directions.

Click PLAY or watch an introduction on YouTube.

That 22min instructional is available as a DVD ($20) or as a rental ($20) in the States.

Cool. I’m looking forward to that being rolled out world wide.

The era of DVDs is coming to an end. (My new MacBook Air doesn’t even have a DVD player.)

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Free Running, Parkour, Martial Arts and Acrobatic stunt team.

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Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Note the Hecht Back Tuck vault, a skill I once thought impossible when first listed in the MAG Code of Points. I was wrong.

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(via TumblTrak on Facebook)

Mattie Larson returned to her home club, AOGC, after a post-Worlds break. (… I shouldn’t believe everything I read on the internet.) Still awaiting her decision on whether or not to report to UCLA for January.

Confirmed: Peng Peng Lee signed a letter of intent with UCLA. Here are 12 new College gymnasts we’ll be cheering this season.

Russia’s Tatiana Nabieva dominated the second day of competition at the Elite Gym Massilia, winning the all-around, vault and uneven bars.

Nabieva caught her now trademark toe on layout Tkatchev …

Gymnastics Examiner

… And I thought we’d never see Navieva compete again for Russia, after this one last scheduled meet. Wrong am I.

THE ALL AROUND has added a Weekly Round-up feature. Check a sample from 8-14 November 2010. Essential, since that multi-blogger site posts so much content that I can’t keep up.

New Elements added to WAG Code of Points from Worlds includes the Nabieva, Mustafina as well as the Mitchell triple turn on Beam.

http://view.picapp.com//JavaScripts/OTIjs.js

Full Twist posted videos of many of the newly listed skills.

Switch split mount (VIDEO) is a C-part on Beam? … hmm

Still in development, Brigid has a welcoming new format for Couch Gymnast.

Love the BIG font. And the magazine type layout of the home page.

Or check out the new site for yourself – Couch Gymnast.

If you subscribe by RSS, resubscribe.

I’ve been following the depressing court case in Northern Australia.

… A GYMNASTICS organisation has been fined $70,000 for breaching safety obligations which led to the death of a teenager.

Townsville Gymnastics was charged with breaching the Workplace Health and Safety Act after gymnast Michelle Maitland, 19, fell and hit her head on the floor while practising at the Aitkenvale gym in June last year.

Ms Maitland fell and hit her head on a piece of concrete not covered by a safety mat. She died in hospital the following day. …

Gymnastics Townsville “acknowledges the fine imposed by the industrial Magistrate in Townsville earlier today. We are devastated that the life of a young woman has been tragically cut short”.

It’s in the hands of lawyers, however. The club will appeal.

The only upside is the warning we all can take from Michelle’s death. Be sure there’s no way anyone can reach concrete from any trampoline device in your gym.

This is the Champions Trophy, an international all-around invitational for men held Sunday 15th.

The new British co-champion, only age-20, bested the #2 and #3 all-arounders from Worlds, … and some other guys.

1. Daniel Purvis (GBR) 88,300
2. Mykola Kuksenkov (UKR) 87,525
3. Maxim Deviatovski (RUS) 87,450
4. Eugen Spiridornov (GER) 86,800
5. Philipp Boy (GER) 86,550
6. Jonathan Horton (USA) 85,625

There are a couple dozen men in the world who could score 90+ … if they hit.

Albert on THE ALL AROUND:

This is the third year for the Champions Trophy, and has been heralded as one of the few legitimate All Around competitions outside of World Championships, Olympics, and continental championships.

Next year it becomes part of the FIG’s newly re-organised World Cup series, featuring All Around competitions in Jacksonville, Glasgow, and Tokyo. It remains to be seen if the seemingly strict participation rules of these events will produce more high-level competitions, or further reduce the importance of the All Around.

This meet was hosted in conjunction with the DTB World Cup for men and women. FIG has highlights and links to results – Terrific atmosphere takes Stuttgart

The World Cup season comes to an end in Glasgow, November 19–20.

Men’s Individual All-around Final
1. TENG Haibin (CHN) 91.100
2. LU Bo (CHN) 89.850
3. MIZUTORI Hisashi (JPN) 89.700

Teng Haibin was 11th in Rotterdam.

In Albert’s commentary on THE ALL AROUND, he notes that Anton Fokin, Ashish Kumar and Malasyan Wan Foong Lum all scored zero on vault.

Women’s Individual All-around Final
1. SUI Lu (CHN) 58.400
2. HUANG Qiushuang (CHN) 58.050
3. TANAKA Rie (JPN) 54.850

Full results linked via FIG

How many Gold and Silver medals will China win in apparatus finals? … I’m guessing, all of them.