Author: Rick Mc

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Get well soon.

piibunina traveled to China – once again – to video Chinese Nationals in Shandong province.

The Chinese WAG program is really pushing twisting. They are testing Juniors on-bed. (Off-bed would have been easier and safer. So they must like training the control needed to land on the same spot.)

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For basic D-score 5.0, a gymnast needed to perform a triple twist back and a 1.5 twist forward. Each extra half turn is 0.3 bonus, each half turn less is minus 0.5. There was a heavy deduction for insufficient difficulty as well.

Trampoline scores counted for all phases of competition. The final score was 80% of gymnastics plus 20% of trampoline score, also for teams and AA.

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Repost. One later upload of this video has over 700,000 views on Facebook. Viral beam. 🙂

Born 2002.

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Here’s the routine in Team Finals (VIDEO). Not nearly as solid. But with a better dismount.

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… to overgrip regrasp.

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The skill is named for 1991 World Bars Champion Kim Gwang-suk who was even more famous for submitting different birth years at least three different international competitions.

On Bars. 🙂

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Recall that the injury that took her out of Elite was shoulder surgery.

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Kenzo may have to up his game. 🙂

Video quality is poor. Looks like he’s WAY overtime.

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There’s a better quality version here.

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How many 33yr-old single Moms are training towards Olympic Gymnastics?

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She in shape. 🙂

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Raj competed this ”Bhavsar” 2009 at the Moscow World Cup. Something like a Tkatchev starting one end of the bars, finishing on the other.

At age-30, she’s still working upgrades. 🙂

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