Marian Dragulescu – Vault

The legend is not quite as good as he once was. But still good enough for the silver medal at Europeans. 🙂

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Jr Men’s European Apparatus Champions

Floor
1 REGINI-MORAN Giarnni GBR 6.000 9.166 15.166
2 MAKOLOV Andrei RUS 5.600 9.100 14.700
3 BONCSER Krisztian HUN 5.800 8.866 14.666

Pommel
1 NAIDIN Sergei RUS 5.800 8.866 14.666
2 McCLENAGHAN Rhys IRL 5.900 8.666 14.566
3 FRASER Joe GBR 5.700 8.633 14.333

Rings
1 KLESSING Nick GER 5.500 8.858 14.358
2 AVETISYAN Artur ARM 5.200 9.100 14.300
3 IUSKAEV Ildar RUS 5.300 8.900 14.200

Vault
1 MAKOLOV Andrei RUS 6 14.983
2 REGINI-MORAN Giarnni GBR 14.966
3 IVANOV Maksym UKR 14.824

P Bars
1 FRASER Joe GBR 5.600 9.133 14.733
2 REGINI-MORAN Giarnni GBR 5.800 8.800 14.600
3 YERMAKOV Eduard UKR 5.800 8.766 14.566

H Bar
1 MAKOLOV Andrei RUS 5.300 8.666 13.966
2 KRATTER Moreno SUI 5.700 8.233 13.933
2 FRASER Joe GBR 5.200 8.733 13.933

Men’s European Apparatus Champions

Floor
1. Nikita Nagornyy (RUS) 15.566
2. Marian Dragulescu (ROU) 15.333
3. Alexander Shatilov (ISR) 15.300

Pommels
1. Harutyun Merdinyan (ARM) 15.366
2. David Belyavskiy (RUS) 15.233
3. Christian Baumann (SUI) 14.900

4. Louis Smith (GBR) 14.733

Rings
1. Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) 15.866
2. Vahagn Davtyan (ARM); Denis Ablyazin (RUS) 15.633

Vault
1. Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) (15.366, 15.433) 15.399
2. Artur Davtyan (ARM) (15.400, 15.233); Marian Dragulescu (ROU) (15.433, 15.200) 15.316

P Bars
1. David Belavskiy (RUS) 16.033
2. Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) 15.716
3. Marcel Nguyen (GER) 15.566

H Bar
1. Nile Wilson (GBR) 15.300
2. Kristian Thomas (GBR) 15.000
3. David Belyavskiy (RUS) 14.941

full results

That would be the Longines Prize. 🙂 Stupid auto-correct.

Simone Biles – backward handspring

Long. Resulting in a sharp attack angle.

But is as so often the case, it’s not necessarily the target technique for every gymnast.

Personally I like beginners to do long, low backward handspring series. Later change the technique to whatever works best for each tumbling line.

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on deliberate practice

Wendy Bruce Martin posted an excellent article on Ericsson’s concept of deliberate practice (PDF).

1. The lesson must have clear goals.

2. The lesson must include specific tasks to increase performance.

3. The lesson must include constant monitoring and feedback.

Deliberate training is not as fun and exciting as just chucking tumbling passes. …

Is All Training Created Equal?

eye target

Japanese Olympic sportswear

See Ryohei Kato on Tumblr.

http://a1tumbling.tumblr.com/post/144997709831/team-japans-official-sportswear-for-the-rio