“He’s eight weeks old. Of course he’s better on pommel horse than me.” — Jonathan Horton on newborn son David, to NBC
The quotable U.S. Gymnastics Championships
McKayla Maroney, Danell Leyva, John Orozco and more are quoted.
(photo via MCSMaria)
Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
Jen and Bobby go hiking
Bobby Robinson and Jen Hansen – Angeles National Forest.
Nicole Meyer responds:
Wow…way to make my hiking experience seem dull. thanks, asshole 🙂
Gabby is gone
The rumours turned out to be true.
Olympic all-around gymnastics champion Gabby Douglas has left coach Liang Chow’s program in Iowa to join her family in California. …
Douglas’ mother, Natalie Hawkins, did not immediately return a phone call from The Associated Press on Wednesday.
“She came over (Monday) and said goodbye to us,” Chow’s wife, Liwen Zhuang, told the Des Moines Register. “I didn’t ask her (the reasons). I did talk to her. She was a little upset. I guess that’s a family decision for her.” …
Some say she’ll be training with Chris Waller in L.A.
USA Horizontal Bar at Worlds?
Sam Mikuluk will compete Horizontal Bar for sure.
Most likely a second AA gymnast will, as well. Most likely Jake Dalton.
Who gets the #3 spot?
Ruggeri or Orozco could qualify to the Final. And have a chance at a medal.
Click PLAY or watch Paul Ruggeri – H Bar on YouTube. (15.250)
Very clean.
Click PLAY or watch John Orozco – H Bar on YouTube. (15.700)
Neither has a gawd awful Rybalko, the skill that almost always should cost 0.3 or more. These are two very clean routines for this Code.
UPDATE: Orozco was named to the competing Team. It’s going to be him on H Bar.
(via GymCastic)
FIG – single point of failure
Yet another piece of FIG approved equipment fell in competition, this time in Iceland.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
This is a serious and obvious design flaw in FIG approved Bars, Rings and Horizontal Bar.
Earlier in 2013, another Gymnova H Bar fell over a pit in Iceland.
Another example …
Examiner – Notes from Cottbus 2012:
… The high bar collapsed on Croatia’s Marijo Moznik (who is a World Cup gold medalist on the event) in training at Cottbus, prompting organizers to spend half the night looking for other equipment failures (turns out the high bar fell became it had become dislodged from its anchor on the floor). Moznik’s foot was X-rayed for fractures, and though it does not appear to have any broken bones …
Here’s the most famous in history.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Any engineer can tell you that any structure that can fall due to a single point of failure is badly designed. If only one equipment manufacturer came up with a design that could not fall if one anchor failed, FIG would make it the new standard.
Why does the FIG not require a double tie down system?
Thanks Gummi.
best 1st (gymnastics) pitch ever
Dan Keatings – Hard Way To Success
when Beam was beautiful
Tatiana Frolova and Olga Mostepanova compete on beam during the 1983 World Championships.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Tatiana Frolova finished 5th AA. Mostepanova was 2nd AA and won Beam.
Here’s Tatiana guest coaching at Manjak’s this week. She has her own children in the club.
Madison Kocian tribute
A pretty montage dedicated to Madison Kocian who withdrew from day 2 USA Championships after spraining her ankle. (Stepping back out of triple twist. A fluke.)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Madison Kocian opened her meet with a hit bar routine earning an impressive 15.0. On beam, Kocian hit her routine beautifully, performing elements including a standing Arabian, switch ring, handspring layout stepout, switch side leap, and a stuck double back tuck dismount. She earned 14.8, with a 9.0 execution score. …
That Beam double tuck with hands on shins, the best technique.
Artistic Men’s artistic FX
GymCastic linked to a YouTube playlist of Men’s Floor routines that actually wouldn’t make a dancer cringe to watch.
For example, Scherbo – Olympics 92 compulsory.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Compulsories were beautiful. To win you needed to do simple elements better than anyone else.
See more optional Artistic FX routines. (Shewfelt, Thomas, Rivera, etc.)
If you only want to watch tumbling, follow Power Tumbling and TeamGym.
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