Category: bars

Baku World Cup results

Olympic qualification points on the line.

Vault
🥇 Jade Carey USA 14.766
🥈 Oksana Chusovitina UZB 14.450
🥉 Alexa Moreno MEX 14.249

Bars
🥇 Lyu Jiaqi CHN 14.266
🥈 Anastasia Iliankova RUS 14.133
🥉 Georgia-Rose Brown AUS 13.566

Diana Varinska had 13.566 as well, but lost out in the tie-break.

Click PLAY or watch Lyu Jiaqi on Facebook. LOVE the double twist. Surprised at the loose form. And always disappointed in routines where gymnasts switch one hand at a time.

Beam
🥇 Emma Nedov AUS 14.100
🥈 Marine Boyer FRA 14.100
🥉 Mana Oguchi JPN 13.200

Click PLAY or watch Emma’s Beam on Facebook.

Floor
🥇 Jade Carey USA 14.600
🥈 Lara Mori ITA 13.866
🥉 Vanessa Ferrari ITA 13.733

preventing Grip Lock on Horizontal Bar

Vinnie Silber posted some good advice on how to prevent grip lock.

___ Repost of my advice from 2018:

Most male gymnasts are well aware of the terrible injury that can occur if leather touches leather around the Bar. If there’s any chance at all that the grips have stretched that much, they must be replaced.

Are your grips ready for the pearly gates?

I like the title of that article by Ten-O Gymnastics.

Mark Van Wyk had his gymnasts toss their old grips until they got hung up on the rafters of the Gym. Grip Heaven, they called it.

related – Human Kinetics – Grip Lock: A Unique Mechanism of Injury in Gymnastics

griplock

It happens on women’s Bars too, but very rarely.

Rebeca Andrade’s 6.3 Bars

Not much to deduct.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Sunisa Lee – NABS!

Sunisa has been awesome for a long time. Spencer feels she’s now getting confident and consistent, as well.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Russian apparatus finals – day 1

Paseka is back. And won vault.

https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1104340884726923265

Ilyankova won Bars.

https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1104354566206832640

Simakova wins Russian Championships

1. Angelina Simakova, 107.897
2. Angelina Melnikova, 107.463
3. Aliya Mustafina, 107.398
4. Daria Belousova, 106.164
5. Daria Elizarova, 105.963
6. Ksenia Klimenko 105.831

https://twitter.com/russiangymstan/status/1103720989660196865

Angelina Simakova crowned Russian all-around champion Four months after making her World Championships debut on bars and beam, Angelina Simakova bested a host of experienced contenders for the Russian all-around title Thursday in Penza.

Despite a fall on vault during the early rounds of the second of two days of competition, the 16-year-old from Obninsk, southwest of Moscow, persevered to take her first senior Russian title ahead of Olympic medalists Angelina Melnikova and Aliya Mustafina. …

Rocker Gymnastics

Click PLAY or watch Melnikova’s Bars on YouTube.