Athen’s Olympics Men’s competition was a MESS

ILLYRIA BURKLE summarizes:

– In the all around, almost all the top contenders have a major mistake/fall (Paul Hamm, Ioan Silviu Suciu, Hiroyuki Tomita, Yang Wei, Marian Dragulescu, etc.)

– Yang Tae-Young was mistakenly credited with a 9.9 start value instead of a 10 like he was in the qualifying and team competitions, costing him the gold medal in the all around. Oscar Buitrago Reyes of Colombia, Benjamin Bango of Spain, and the head judge George Beckstead of the United States were all suspended for the mistake. …

read more – 2004 MAG

And who was the Men’s Head Judge?

Adrian Stoica - Romania
Adrian Stoica – Romania

introducing SPRING from the arms on Tramp

Best practice is to start from hands & knees drop.

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Round-off Double Layout for Yurchenko

Ideal physical and motor preparation.

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Jeff Bender 1992 Horizontal Bar

Mounts with what we called in my Gym a ‘Jonah Back’. (Perhaps wrongly using the Trampoline term.)

Coach Dave Juszczyk called it the “Mind Bender”, I believe.

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Leave a comment if you have a name for that skill.

via Gymnastics – A Golden Era

the Ferrari is still improving

Note the long pauses before tumbling in 2008.

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via Gymternet Clan

Jordan Chiles – Amanar

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sport science for Rhythmic Gymnasts

Spain won the Silver medal in Rio for Group.

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Michael Jackson ONE acrobats

It’s a shocker to see the bounce landings performed on Air Floor in this show.

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difficult Men’s tumbling skills

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPTv7BSD5ts