Author: Rick Mc

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

introducing Cast Handstand

Very young gymnasts can have success with this skill. Short, slim limbs make it easier.

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Serena Williams – Dream Crazier

If they want to call you crazy, fine.
Show them what crazy can do.

Feat. Simone Biles, Chloe Kim, Ibtihaj Muhammad, U.S. women’s soccer team, …

… Sam Gordon, the young girl who’s dominating football with the boys; Lisa Leslie, the first woman to dunk in a WNBA game; Becky Hammon, the first woman to be a full-time NBA assistant coach.

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Canadian gymnasts modelling Louis Vuitton, HUGO, etc.

Heart this.

World Cup Finals Melbourne day 2

Beam

  1. Zhao Shiting China 13.566
  2. Emma Nedov Australia 13.500
  3. Mana Oguchi Japan  13.066

Floor

  1. Vanessa Ferrari Italy 13.600
  2. Paula Mejias Puerto Rico  12.533
  3. Zhao Shiting China 12.266

full WAG results

Vault

  1. Igor Radivilov, Ukraine 14.949
  2. Loris Frasca, France, 14.900
  3. Dominick Cunningham, Great Britain, 14.749

P Bars

  1. You Hao, China, 15.066
  2. Ahmet Önder, Turkey, 14.633
  3. Ferhat Arican, Turkey, 14.366

H Bar

  1. Hidetaka Miyachi, Japan, 14.733
  2. Epke Zonderland, Netherlands, 14.733
  3. Zhang Chenglong, China, 14.333

Shadae Boone – Vault

When I see judging like this, I DREAM of computer video evaluation. It would be easy for software on Vault to be more accurate.

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What are the names of those judges?

related – I would have been 10.0 on a number of these YDTs.

World Cup Finals Melbourne day 1

Vault

      1. Yeo Seo-jeong KOR 14.266
      2. Oksana Chusovitina UZB 14.200
      3. Yu Linmin CHN 14.083

Bars

      1. Fan Yilin CHN 14.833
      2. Lyu Jiaqi CHN 14.355
      3. Georgia-Rose Brown AUS 13.366

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Floor

      1. Carlos Edriel Yulo PHI 14.566
      2. Hibiki Arayashiki JPN 14.500
      3. Rayderley Zapata ESP & Dominick Cunningham GBR 14.500

Pommels

      1. Lee Chin-Kai TPE 15.266
      2. Weng Hao CHN 15.233
      3. Tomomasa Hasegawa JPN 14.666

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Rings

      1. Liu Yang CHN 15.166
      2. You Hao CHN 15.133
      3. Arthur Zanetti BRA 14.966

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