Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

Blue Tokyo: Dancing Acrobats

My Mom sends the link to this excellent and entertaining act. Japanese Rhythmic Gymnastics PLUS.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Komova on her comeback, her career

Click over to Luba’s site to read a very interesting perspective. Vika is well spoken.

VIKTORIA KOMOVA ON HER INJURY AND COMING BACK TO GYMNASTICS

Mersin World Cup Women’s FINALS

Vault
1 Dipa Karmakar India 14.200
2 Rifda Irfanaluthfi Indonesia 13.700
3 Göksu Üctas Sanli Turkey 12.650

Bars
1 Demet Mutlu Turkey 4.6 7.950 12.550
2 Tutya Yilmaz Turkey 4.6 7.700 12.300
3 Maria Del Sol Perez Chile 4.8 7.000 11.800

Beam
1 Göksu Üctas Sanli Turkey 4.8 7.750 12.550
2 Tutya Yilmaz Turkey 5.5 6.700 12.200
3 Yuliya Inshina Azerbaijan 4.9 7.200 12.100

Floor
1 Göksu Üctas Sanli Turkey 4.8 8.250 13.050
2 Tutya Yilmaz Turkey 4.7 7.800 12.500
3 Rifda Irfanaluthfi Indonesia 4.5 7.650 12.150
Full results.

Göksu has a baby. Yep. She’s a super MOM.

wildest choreography ever?

Gabi Gheorghiu 1977.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Much of the most bizarre choreography I can recall came out of Romania.

Thanks Spencer.

Mersin World Cup Men’s FINALS

Floor
1 Ahmet Onder Turkey 6.0 8.450 14.450
2 Frank Baines Great Britain 5.8 8.600 14.400
3 Ferhat Arican Turkey 5.6 8.400 14.000

Pommels
1 Rhys McClenaghan Ireland 5.9 8.250 14.150
2 Frank Baines Great Britain 5.8 7.850 13.650
3 Justin Karstadt Canada 5.2 8.150 13.350

Rings
1 Ibrahim Colak Turkey 6.2 8.900 15.100
2 Andrei Muntean Romania 6.1 8.500 14.600
3 Yuri Van Gelder Netherlands 5.9 8.400 14.300

Vault
1 Rene Cournoyer Canada 14.150
2 Dimitar Dimitrov Bulgaria 13.950
3 Robert Ghiuzan Romania 13.900

P Bars
1 Andrei Muntean Romania 5.9 9.000 14.900
2 Ahmet Onder Turkey 6.4 8.350 14.750
3 Ferhat Arican Turkey 6.2 8.450 14.650

H Bar
1 Umit Samiloglu Turkey 5.5 8.450 13.950
2 Samuel Zakutney Canada 5.4 8.100 13.500
3 Frank Baines GBR 5.3 8.000 13.300
full results

Click PLAY or watch winners on YouTube.

Mary Lou Retton competed Tsuk 1/1, not Kas

#respect

Tsuk 1/1 is much more difficult than the Kasamatsu used by Ellie Black, Oksana and … almost everyone.

Mary Lou did half-on, full-off. (1.5 twists total)

Kasamatsu is quarter-on, three quarter-off (1.0 twists total)

Watch it on YouTube. (Right hand on the horse first, left twist on the salto.)

In addition, she trained Tsuk double full. Seriously.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Almost nobody does the more difficult version of Tsuk twisting. René Cournoyer from Canada is one.

If still confused on Kasamatsu, click over to Uncle Tim’s post – What the H is a Kasamatsu?

Julien Gobaux – H Bar releases

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

USA Tramp and Tumbling Championships

Hosted this year in Greensboro NC.

Trampoline Women
1. Thompson
2. Ahsinger
3. Oh

Trampoline Men
1. Gluckstein
2. Shostak
3. Rowley

DMT Women
1. Howard
2. Lockett
3. Lowell

DMT Men
1. Hawkins
2. Padilla
3. Renkert

Power Tumbling Men
1. Floisand
2. Bravo
3. Schultz

Power Tumbling Women
1. Krzynefski
2. Renkert
3. Lehmer

Full results.

12 U.S. titles awarded at 2018 USA Gymnastics Championships