Author: Rick Mc

It was in the 2000 Olympics that 2 ½ was named after Kyle Shewfelt, one of two gymnasts that competed it there.

13yrs later the extra half twist will be named for Kenzo.

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He should make the Vault Final. But no guarantees.

#WChAntwerp Men’s prelims have begun. Here’s the highest P Bar score, so far.

… (UZB), qualifications, Parallel Bars : 15.800 (D score : 6.90, E score : 8.90). …

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The American YouTube channels are geo-blocked to U.S. only. The ROTW can watch routines on the FIG YouTube channel.

Men’s World Championships prelims begin TODAY.

Let the chase to catch Kohei Uchimura begin.

Click PLAY or watch his Floor on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/MjM0NzIwOTA5?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2013 World Championships on gymnastike.org

I’m betting Kohei will be holding up 4 fingers for 4 World Championships at the end of this meet. 🙂

Canadian judge Gordon Bennett believes men judging Women’s Artistic Gymnastics and vice-versa should not be considered something out of the ordinary.

“Eyes are eyes and Gymnastics is Gymnastics,” said Gordon, who has been judging Women’s Gymnastics for more than 20 years. However, it is still worth mentioning that here in Antwerp he will become the first man to judge a women’s competition at an Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. …

read more on FIG – Eyes are eyes, Gymnastics is Gymnastics

Gord is a strong coach, as well.

Once upon a time there was a rule that Men could not judge women at some level of competition.

Olympics?

I assume that rule has been deleted. Otherwise we’ll need organize a petition.

Thank Meike Behrensen for the interview. 🙂

Silvia is one of the sweetest girls you’ve ever met.

A few days ago she was soaking up the Florida sunshine, a rookie on the NCAA Champion Gators.

I was surprised to see her registered for #WChAntwerp.

On the other hand, she’s competing one of 11 13 new elements submitted for evaluation during the 44th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships:

Aerial Cartwheel Across the Beam

Though that element is hardly “new”, Silvia does do it easily. And beautifully.

Click PLAY or watch it in podium training on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTEyNzIxMTg1?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2013 World Championships on gymnastike.org

I’ll be cheering.

… And NOW I hear that Silvia’s been registered for the AA.

Good luck! 🙂

CONGRATS to the USA video team. Awesome job … even if you could only watch their LIVE stream of #WChAntwerp in the States.

Here’s the kind of editing you get from Video Team America.

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Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

On YouTube, this video can be played 720p at 25% speed.

The “Moors” deserves to go down in history. This is a double double layout. With deduction. 🙂

Thanks for posting this version, Ron.

Beautiful.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. #WChAntwerp

(via Inside Gymnastics)

The super cool 2 ½ step out to 3/1 twist is back.

It’s one of 11 new elements submitted for evaluation during the 44th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships.

The list of provisional new elements include five on Floor Exercise, three on Balance Beam, two on Uneven Bars and one on Vault.

Question?

Those two elements are in the Code. Ellie competed the line at the Olympics.

What’s to be evaluated?

@Advenshire @GymCoaching we're looking for 0.3 for the D+E Ellie pass, recognizing exceeded difficulty. They're still thinking about it.

— Grace Chiu (@GraceClick) September 29, 2013

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YouTube won’t let me slow down the double double layout.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

It’s certainly impressive in regular speed.

Bring that to FINALS. 🙂

(via Inside Gymnastics)