advanced Gymnastics skills in training

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Forward Walkover progressions

A long and comprehensive video. Of course many are appropriate, as well, for Backward Walkover and combining the two.

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Ke Qinqin – oversplit on Beam

Ke Qinqin’s highest balance beam score to date is 14.900 at 2026 Chinese National Championships.

Amazing flexibility.

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Nadia 50 years later

As a young coach, I almost jumped in a vehicle and drove 3 days to Montreal to watch Nadia win the 1976 Olympics.

It seemed to far. Too expensive. I didn’t go.

My mistake.

Her performance in Montreal was one of the great stories of our sport.

Nadia had a lot of difficulty. But β€” Nellie Kim had more. Nadia was more impressive to me for her astonishing execution.

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Varna World Cup – Highlights

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Dong Yixuan – Beam Handspring Front

Have we ever seen higher on Beam?

Amazing.

Giorgia Villa retires

One of the GREATS is hanging up her grips.

Varna World Cup ’26 RESULTS

Vault

πŸ₯‡ Mara Slippens, Netherlands, 13.233
πŸ₯ˆ Julia Weissenhofer, Liechtenstein, 13.116
πŸ₯‰ Tijana Korent, Croatia, 13.100

Bars

πŸ₯‡ Roni Shamay, Israel, 13.200
πŸ₯ˆ Shantae-Eve Amankwaah, Great Britain, 13.133
πŸ₯‰ Coralie Demers, Canada, 12.800

Beam

πŸ₯‡ Maria Drobniak, Poland, 12.866
πŸ₯ˆ Nikolett Szilagyi, Hungary, 12.700
πŸ₯‰ Amy Jorgensen, Canada, 12.600

Floor

πŸ₯‡ Shantae-Eve Amankwaah, Great Britain, 13.233
πŸ₯ˆ Grace Davies, Great Britain, 12.966
πŸ₯‰ Floor Slooff, Netherlands, 12.800

Full WAG results.

Floor

πŸ₯‡ Victor Tournicourt, Belgium, 13.466
πŸ₯ˆ Martin Miggitsch, Austria, 13.300
πŸ₯‰ Ravshan Kamiljanov, Uzbekistan, 13.166

Pommel

πŸ₯‡ David Ivanov, Bulgaria, 14.633
πŸ₯ˆ Ravshan Kamiljanov, Uzbekistan, 14.166
πŸ₯‰ Ihor Dyshuk, Ukraine, 13.900

One of the BIG stories of the meet was the return of Max Whitlock, the greatest British gymnast of all time. With nothing more to prove, now age-33, Max qualified for both the Pommel and P Bar Finals, but didn’t medal. This time.

Rings

πŸ₯‡ Artur Avetisyan, Armenia, 14.233
πŸ₯ˆ Artur Sahakyan, Germany, 13.566
πŸ₯‰ Akhrorkhon Temirkhonov, Uzbekistan, 13.466

Vault

πŸ₯‡ Ng Chun Chen, Malaysia, 14.183
πŸ₯ˆ Daniel Trifonov, Bulgaria, 14.083
πŸ₯‰ Botond Molnar, Hungary, 14.050

P Bars

πŸ₯‡ Altan Dogan, TΓΌrkiye, 14.166
πŸ₯ˆ Yoan Ivanov, Bulgaria, 13.866
πŸ₯‰ Ron Pyatov, Israel, 13.866

H Bar

πŸ₯‡ Timo Eder, Germany, 13.666
πŸ₯ˆ Daniel Trifonov, Bulgaria, 13.566
πŸ₯‰ Ron Ortal, Israel, 13.566

Full MAG results.

Every Perfect 10 from ’26 NCAA Gymnastics Regionals

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