One easy drill is to turn late … to flat back (or handspring into a pit).
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Category: bars
unicorn Bars routine goes viral
Georgia Elite Gymnastics coach Janessa Davis is everywhere.
Click PLAY or watch the ESPN opening on YouTube.
Here’s another clip from one of her gymnasts.
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spotting Bars on blocks
Spotting blocks are even better than a channel pit for introducing new skills on Bars and Horizontal Bar. There are hundreds of different configurations.
For example, introducing forward Giant.
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Al Fong went through 5 prototypes before deciding on length, width, channel gap, and adjustable heights.
Great for the kids. And great for the coaches who will suffer fewer spotting injuries.
Tumbl Trak – Al Fong Spotting Blocks System
Bar handstand drills
Tom Strange from DeVeaus takes the High Performance camp athletes through a bars complex that works the handstand lines and pirouette shapes.
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Nabieva tantrum
Nina & Beth
Many compare 2018 World Champion Nina Derwael with the great Beth Tweddle who won Bars at 2006 and 2010 Worlds.
Both competed the most connected releases of the day. Both were astonishingly consistent.
Beth did many different routines.
Click PLAY or watch her 2012 Olympics set on YouTube. Fantastic. If only she’d stuck the dismount.
Nina is still improving. Having won Worlds I’m guessing she’ll be training upgrades in preparation for the Tokyo Olympics. She’ll certainly be able to qualify in the AA even if Belgium does not get there as a team.
Ana Padurariu’s silver medal
The whole world knows Ana Padurariu now. Like Shallon on Vault, Ana competed without her personal coach at this meet.
Click PLAY or watch the interview on Twitter. Mind blown.
And click PLAY or watch interview part 2. Ellie really helped the whole team.
Recall Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs was Bronze on Beam at the 2006 Worlds with coach Carol Angela Orchard.
World Champs Liu Tingting & Simone Biles
Beam
1. LIU Tingting CHN 14.533
2. PADURARIU Ana CAN 14.100
3. BILES Simone USA 13.600
results
Disappointing final. Only Tingting and Ana hit close to their best routines.
Floor
1. Biles Simone USA 14.933
2. Hurd Morgan USA 13.933
3. Murakami Mai JPN 13.866
results
The most controversial final. Some felt Angelina Melnikova 13.833 should have been in the medals. Some felt Flavia Saraiva 13.766 should have been top 3.
World Champions Biles & Derwael
Vault
1. Simone Biles (USA) 15.366
2. Shallon Olsen (CAN) 14.516
3. Alexa Moreno (MEX) 14.508
North American #NAFTA podium. The first Worlds Vault medal for Canada. The first Worlds medal ever for Mexico. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch Simone on Twitter.
Bars
1. Nina Derwael BEL 15.200
2. Simone Biles USA 14.700
3. Elisabeth Seitz GER 14.600
The best line-up of any apparatus this year.
Nina has been unbeatable all season. A deserving World Champion.
Click PLAY or watch Nina on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/pipinoko168/status/1058380922397937664
Nobody in the world — aside from Valentina, I’m guessing — questions whether Nina deserves Gold. But judges gave her 8.7 E-score. That’s too high compared with Simone’s 8.5 E-score. Aliya was cleaner than both yet was only awarded 8.633.
Nina’s 15.1 Bars in AA
Nina had a terrific meet to finish a Belgian record 4th AA. That with only a full twisting Yurchenko.
Click PLAY or watch her Bars on Twitter.
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