8 new Men’s Gymnastics skills

The new skill from Japan’s Shirai has been awaited since a video of the 19-year-old training the element surfaced on the internet last year. The only other skill to be considered so difficult in the entire Men’s Code of Points is the Bretschneider, a complicated release move on Horizontal Bar introduced by Germany’s Andreas Bretschneider in 2014. …

FIG – Eight new elements named, added to Men’s Gymnastics Code of Points

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Shirai 3- click to see larger version
Shirai 3- click to see larger version

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