Brandie Jay has a routine is quite different than most, using no true salto releases.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/Mjk1NDY1MDY1
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Smart. … If you can get away with it.
Personally I feel that skill (VIDEO) is the most over valued in the Women’s Code. (G)
I’ve always called it Shushunova, since she was the first to do it internationally. Others sometimes call it 1/1 twisting Tkachev. That’s wrong – it’s nothing similar to the Men’s layout Tkachev 1/1. (Liukin)
Most accurately it’s Blind to Markelov, the same skill she does earlier in the routine.
This is a good example of a contemporary routine with decent start value, with too little variety.
(via Gymnastics Examiner)
