Category: beam

USA verification at LSU

Depending on routine readiness and the individual athlete’s goal, gymnasts were allowed to do modified routines at the verification.

Good idea.

Here are some examples.

Click PLAY or watch Jade Carey’s Floor on YouTube. (Moors on a separate tumbling line.)

Click PLAY or watch Jordan Bowers’s Beam on YouTube. (Rest before dismount.)

(via FloGymnastics)

another 10 for Maggie Nichols

She has nine perfect 10s already this season.

Laurie-Lou Vézina dismounts

Watch them on Tumblr.

https://www.tumblr.com/16-233/170593074009/laurie-lou-v%C3%A9zina-showing-some-unique-dismounts-at

Peng 10.0 Beam

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Alex McMurtry’s two 10s in one night

Update – Some say those high judges were crack.

Lauren Hopkins was really angry with judge CAROL.

At the best meet of the season (sellout crowd) so far, Florida 198.15 over Oklahoma 198.125.

Click PLAY or watch her Beam on Facebook.

Click PLAY or watch her Vault on Facebook. (no stick)

McMurtry is the 10th in NCAA history to record a “Gym Slam”.

Alex McMurtry, Florida           2015-present
Maggie Nichols, Oklahoma     2017-present
Bridget Sloan, Florida          2013-16
Courtney Kupets, Georgia      2006-09
Ashley Kelly, Arizona State     2003-06
Kristen Maloney, UCLA          2001-05
Karin Lichey, Georgia             1996-99
Heather Stepp, Georgia         1990-93
Kristen Kenoyer, Utah            1990-93
Missy Marlowe, Utah              1989-92

world Beam champion Pauline Schäfer

SCHÄFER ABOUT TRAINING ON BEAM: THE WHOLE THING IS A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.