Category: falling & landing

DAVTYAN Artur (ARM) – Dragulescu STUCK

It’s amazing how often Artur sticks this. 

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dismount Floor like THIS

Yulo.

HOW did he stick this Vault?

Tanigawa Wataru.

more MAG Podium highlights

FIG will compile a medical report from Liverpool Worlds.

In it they will record what percentage of athletes left the competition due to injury.

Gymnasts were injured on day 1, including one of the H Bar favourites ➙ Tyson Bull. A lower back injury on H Bar.

But I felt there were fewer injuries than at past Worlds. MAG Vault landings were less horrific than in the past. Hopefully athletes are better prepared than in the past to survive a Code of Points where difficulty is so much more rewarded than quality. Hopefully.

MAG Gymnastics is really dangerous.

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.

Ioakeim THEODORIDIS – Parkour

Watch his run in an excerpt of the longer FIG video.

For Artistic coaches, these athletes must learn to fall safely. Landings are much more dangerous than in Artistic.

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Double Layout combinations

I’m impressed with gymnasts using elements into Double Layout.

But punching out of that difficult landing is — for me — too great a risk of Achilles damage.

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