Category: floor (men)

Specific to Artistic gymnastics. More posts are included in the TUMBLING category.

Rick McCharles Gymnastics TIPS ðŸ˜€

For Boys and Girls. 

This is a video I put together some years ago showing some of my favourite Gymnastics progressions.

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Round-off drills

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My preference is to teach beginners a straight leg hurdle, with late lunge. Tammy Biggs talks about the pros and cons of straight leg vs bent leg hurdle here.

Straight leg is cleaner, for sure.

My two favourite round-off drills could be added to Jason’s list.

• “cartoff” (cartwheel to run backwards)

• fly round-off on trampoline (feet together round-off)

Both are easy for beginners. Neither allows the kids to pike down.

Kazuki Minami – AMAZING landings

Check out some of Kazuki Minami’s landings in training and competition at the 2025 Cottbus World Cup.

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Noam Berkovich – Floor

Remember the name. One of the best up-and-coming tumblers in the world. Super clean.

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One of the best Triple Backs I’ve seen on competition Floor.

This is the guy who kicks out of Double Pike.

Varna World Cup – Highlights

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Varna World Cup ’26 RESULTS

Vault

🥇 Mara Slippens, Netherlands, 13.233
🥈 Julia Weissenhofer, Liechtenstein, 13.116
🥉 Tijana Korent, Croatia, 13.100

Bars

🥇 Roni Shamay, Israel, 13.200
🥈 Shantae-Eve Amankwaah, Great Britain, 13.133
🥉 Coralie Demers, Canada, 12.800

Beam

🥇 Maria Drobniak, Poland, 12.866
🥈 Nikolett Szilagyi, Hungary, 12.700
🥉 Amy Jorgensen, Canada, 12.600

Floor

🥇 Shantae-Eve Amankwaah, Great Britain, 13.233
🥈 Grace Davies, Great Britain, 12.966
🥉 Floor Slooff, Netherlands, 12.800

Full WAG results.

Floor

🥇 Victor Tournicourt, Belgium, 13.466
🥈 Martin Miggitsch, Austria, 13.300
🥉 Ravshan Kamiljanov, Uzbekistan, 13.166

Pommel

🥇 David Ivanov, Bulgaria, 14.633
🥈 Ravshan Kamiljanov, Uzbekistan, 14.166
🥉 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

🥇 Artur Avetisyan, Armenia, 14.233
🥈 Artur Sahakyan, Germany, 13.566
🥉 Akhrorkhon Temirkhonov, Uzbekistan, 13.466

Vault

🥇 Ng Chun Chen, Malaysia, 14.183
🥈 Daniel Trifonov, Bulgaria, 14.083
🥉 Botond Molnar, Hungary, 14.050

P Bars

🥇 Altan Dogan, Türkiye, 14.166
🥈 Yoan Ivanov, Bulgaria, 13.866
🥉 Ron Pyatov, Israel, 13.866

H Bar

🥇 Timo Eder, Germany, 13.666
🥈 Daniel Trifonov, Bulgaria, 13.566
🥉 Ron Ortal, Israel, 13.566

Full MAG results.

Jorge Vega – Floor

I recall meeting Jorge Vega at his Gym in Guatamala when he was a teenager.

Super talented.

Jorge Vega is now age-30. And getting better.

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