Author: Rick Mc

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

Nina is awesome on Bars

Nina hasn’t competed internationally this year. Yet looks ready to contend for the Bars title.

Jake Jarman – “Air Pirate”

GymCastic is trying to come up with a nickname for the new British star. 😀

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Worlds MAG Podium Predictions

From The Yee Three. A very astute student of the sport.

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Daiki Hashimoto – H Bar

Daiki Hashimoto (橋本 大輝, Hashimoto Daiki, born 7 August 2001), is the defending Olympic champion. And Olympic H Bar champ.

The routine to beat at Worlds, I reckon.

I believe this is an Insta360 X3 camera, by the way. Even if the camera is fixed, you can watch the action from many different angles.

Worlds Liverpool QUIZ

In the trivia battle Olly Hogben vs Blythe Lawrence, Olly called in some “ringers” to help him: Stephen Nedoroscik. Alana Slater. Kyle Shewfelt. Cathy Johnson Clarke. Shannon Miller.

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I did badly. As usual. 😀

Stephen Nedoroscik – Podium Pommels

The defending World Champion had planned to do just first half on this approach.

BUT as it went well, he decided to finish the excellent routine.

He’s still getting used to the Gymnova Pommel Horse. Different than the AAI he trains on at home.

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watch Jake Jarman

One of the big stories at Worlds Liverpool is Jake Jarman, from Huntingdon Gym Club.

Now age-20, he’s the 2022 Commonwealth Games AA Champion — and is still improving.

With a British dad and a Filipino mom, he’s very popular in the Philippines as well as the U.K.

Looks like Jake will compete triple twisting double layout on Floor. It’s so fast and clean I had to watch slowmo to confirm it’s 3 twists. 😀

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On Vault he made the most difficult twisting skill look … EASY.

I spoke with Jake after training. He was once injured on Kas + 2 twists landing in competition. At that point he and his coach decided to move to Kas + 2.5 twists as the landing is so much safer.