Category: beam

Nastia’s Onodi is still better than yours

And always will be. 😀

Nastia still has a better AWO than you

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Get to know Chen Yile

In Chinese gym fan circles people often joke that Chen Yile is “the best painter among gymnasts and the best gymnast among painters”.

Artistic on the floor and with a pen, she loves designing leos, artistic outlets like drawing and sculpting are the sixteen-year-old’s favourite past times and de-stressors. …

get to know chen yile

Beam with Erika Penamante

2018 JO National Beam Champion Erika Penamante from Legacy Elite breaks down her beam routine that won her the title back in May. She walks us through what she is thinking about during each of her skills.

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Ana Padurariu – silver medal Beam

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FIG is uploading individual routines like that to YouTube.

the Jurkowska-Kowalska on Beam

Gainer with double twist off the end. #cool

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via GymCastic

Nush’s Beam dismount

FIG won’t allow her to slide mats further to the dismount side.

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Recall Alan Nolet and Davide Bardana competing Flyaway double back off the side of P Bars. We were allowed to move the mats.

Vasiliki retired … sob

Vasiliki Millousi (Greek: Βασιλική Μιλλούση) is a ten-time World Cup Series medalist on beam and represented Greece at the 2000 , 2012 and 2016 Olympics.

Now age-34, she was the second oldest competitor in Doha.

I feel blessed to have worn our national emblem and to have represented my home-country. I feel blessed to have had the people who guided me from beginning to end. I am full of experiences, sounds, and smiles. …

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We’ll always have her fashion video.

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(via See_Me_Noww)

Beam Scoring: Montreal vs Doha

Montreal was stupid. At the peak meet of the season judges suddenly began applying the code rules on fluidity more rigorously. I felt it was very unfair to the gymnasts.

Breaks in the flow were deducted more:

Adjustment – 0.1

Pause (2 sec)  -0.1

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Judging geeks should check stats on Score For Score:

Beam Scoring: Montreal 2017 vs Doha 2018

Judges have been slightly tougher than at meets earlier in the season, but it’s not been super severe as it was in Montreal.

AND gymnasts have been much more fluid on Beam since Montreal.