We’ve spent two quadrennials in fear of catastrophic injury on WAG Vault – Handspring double front.
This new vault is significantly more dangerous. 😦
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. Igor Radivilov, 2012 Olympic Bronze medalist.
Handspring TRIPLE front
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Yikes!!! Somebody is going to die!!!
Scary.
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That is no where even close… of course we haven’t seen the attempts into soft mats but that does not look even close to be ready for hard surfaces.
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what’s the D score for this in WAG theoretically? d score 9? would this be like a 7.5 -8 D score in MAG?
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Holy cow!!!! When I saw the title, I expected it to be into the pit, not on the competition landing mats. Mind blown!
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Since Igor Radivilov is nowhere close to landing this, I wonder if he is going with the Yamilet Pena strategy of trying to plant his heels into the mat a split second before he sits down the vault. I give him kudos for trying the handspring triple front. Until I saw this video, I did not believe this vault was possible. He better not use this in qualifying because Ukraine needs his vault score to have any chance of qualifying for TF. If he makes vault EF, then he might go for broke (hopefully not any of his body parts).
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