evolution of Asymmetric Bars

No apparatus has changed more.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (10min)

Note: Bars are asymmetric, not uneven.

8 NCAA superstars

Lucy Wener
Missy Marlowe
Karen Lichey
Mohini Bhardwaj
Jamie Dantzcher
Jenny Hansen
Courtney Kupets
Mykayla Skinner

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Click PLAY or watch Lucy Werner’s 1988 Bars on YouTube. Check that release.

the Domingo on Bars

UPDATE – Terry sent a link to former EliteΒ Andree PickensΒ competing this dismount tucked back in 1995. Perhaps there are others who have done it, as well.

Click PLAY or watch Andree on YouTube.

Ellie trained it in tuck in 2012. Thanks Jared.

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Jenna Domingo from Hawaiian Island Twisters lands the first toe-on Rudi pike dismount I’ve seen.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXpOhyGByrd/

(via FloGymnastics)

the Rodriguez on Bars

Cintia has been working this new low to high transfer for a long time, but it now looks consistent enough to put into the routine.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

(via BBS)

Brittany Rogers – Bars

The full twisting double layout is back.

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No doubt the National Team Director will be closely monitoring Brittany at FISU, Brooklyn Moors at Pan Ams.

new Bar grips available

We’ve been testing prototypes of these grips out of Canada for a long time. They are finally available for everyone.

Designed by former gymnast Ariel Crawford, the beginner grip has been customized for the first time grip user with small hands.

The advanced grips have firmer leather strong enough for highest difficulty routines.

Both buckle and Velcro are used to hit the sweet spot for security with adjustability.

A built in elastic loop ensures the Velcro strap cannot come undone on the Bars.

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Emma Malabuyo is GREAT

The β€œstar” of the 2017 U.S. Classic. A Junior, Emma trains at Texas Dreams.

Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her Bars on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her DTY on YouTube.

Watch her post-competition interview.

Definitely a contender for the senior team starting next year. Form needs to improve. In the end β€”Β even with Marta gone β€” it will be consistency that gets you on the American teams. Texas Dreams counted no falls, I believe, with 6 gymnasts at Classics.

Mohini catches Geinger

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Ragan Smith – 15.35 Beam

Score is too high. But AWESOME.

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I’m not a fan of her Bars. (VIDEO)

Ragan confirms Bars was her worst apparatus. But is happy that she’s improved so much.

(via FloGymnastics – First-Place Senior Routines At The 2017 U.S. Classic)