Author: Rick Mc

FX
Sr – Robert WATSON and Scott MORGAN
Jr – Damien CACHIA

HB
Sr – Nathan GAFUIK
Jr – Josh STUART and Kevin HSIAO

full results are posted on Gym Score Depot

VAULT
1. Shallon OLSEN
2. Rose-Kalam WOO
3. Victoria-Kayen WOO

BARS
1. Victoria-Kayen WOO
2. Rose-Kalam WOO
3. Shallon OLSEN

BEAM
3. Rose-Kalam WOO
2. Shallon OLSEN
3. Ivy LU

FLOOR
1. Heaven LATIMER
2 Shallon OLSEN
3 Taylor CHAN

full results are posted on Gym Score Depot

BARS:
1. Kristina Vaculik 14.4/6.0,
2. Victoria Moors. 13.65/5.6,
3. Laura Ann Chong 13.45/5.2

VAULT
1.Ellie Black 14.475,
2.Brittany Rogers 14.425,
3.Dominique Pegg 14.275

BEAM
1. Kristina Vaculik 14.60
2. Maddie Gardiner 14.40
3. Dominique Pegg 13.95

FLOOR
1. Victoria Moors 14.60
2. Kristina Vaculik 14.00
3. Ellie Black 13.95

full results are posted on Gym Score Depot

Points towards Olympic selection accumulate for the top 4 gymnasts on each apparatus.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

1. Biles, 2. Desch, 3. Hundley, 4. Priessman, 5. Key, 6. Ernst, 7. Guerra, 8. Hults, 9. Shchennikova, 10. Skaggs

results

Quick hits: Junior women’s finals at the Secret U.S. Classic (rotations 1 & 2)

Quick hits: Junior women’s finals at the Secret U.S. Classic (rotations 3 & 4)

Click PLAY or watch Simone Biles’s Amanar from earlier this season on YouTube.

Olympic host Great Britain continued its romp at the 2012 Men’s European Championships in Montpellier, France, capturing the senior team title Saturday.

The British men won their third straight gold medal of the championships and their first senior continental title with a tight victory over Russia, 266.296-265.535. Romania won the bronze with 261.319. …

The British owed their victory in large part to their supremacy on pommel horse …

IG – British Best Russia for First European Title

Click PLAY or watch Louis Smith on YouTube 15.900 (Difficulty : 6.900, Execution : 9.000).

4. Belarus
5. Ukraine
6. Germany
7. Switzerland
8. France

Augers well for GBR in the weeks left before the Olympics. They did this without Daniel Keatings.

Disappointing for Germany. Gawd awful for France.

There’s a bit of a discussion in the comments on this post — bad technique on double tuck.

Most coaches, I’m sure, agree with me that a double tuck with hands on the shins is superior (and prettier) than with hands on the back of the thighs.

Of course there are many superb gymnasts that use what I call the inferior technique. Both work. But I much prefer hands on shins, tight tuck. GS George would agree. In trampoline sports, grabbing the thighs is not only an inferior technique, it’s a deduction.

What do Artistic gymnasts use for triple back on Floor Exercise?

Click PLAY or watch Liukin on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Eddie Crane on YouTube.

Hands on shins.

Click PLAY or watch Li Xiaoshuang on YouTube.

Hands on the back of the thighs.

Both work. Shins is the preferred technique, especially for beginners.

Leave a comment if you have an opinion, especially if you disagree.

Alright. A feature with Todd Gardiner, one of my favourite coaches in the world. Humble, … yet his gym is one of the most successful in the States year-after-year.

Today’s gymnastics workout video features one of the top clubs in Illinois and Region 5, the Illinois Gymnastics Institute. Watch as their optional gymnasts prepare for their home meet, the 2012 IGI Chicago Style, and ultimately to peak at the Region 5 Championships and JO Nationals. The IGI team features 10 seniors going off to represent collegiate teams around the country.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/ODU0NjM2NDIy?related=1

Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org

Podium training at the US Secret Classic.

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An impressive group of young ladies. Congratulations.

1. Sydney Townsend ON 55.70
2. Cassandra Buchan ON 54.90
3. Meaghan Ruttan AB 54.35
4. Audrey Rousseau QC 54.175
5. Angel Zhong BC 52.80
6. Sam Haghighat-Joo 52.550

full results will be posted on Gym Score Depot