Category: floor (men)

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

Simone Biles – backward handspring

Long. Resulting in a sharp attack angle.

But is as so often the case, it’s not necessarily the target technique for every gymnast.

Personally I like beginners to do long, low backward handspring series. Later change the technique to whatever works best for each tumbling line.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Regini-Moran wins Jr Europeans

1- Giarnni Regini-Moran (GBR) 86.198
2- Andrei Makolov (RUS) 84.965
3- Joe Fraser (GBR) 83.764
full results

Spotlight of Bern on … Giarnni Regini-Moran (GBR). He’s the 5th consecutive GBR gymnast to win the Jr meet.

Click PLAY or watch Gianni’s prelims FX on YouTube.

Sao Paulo Challenge Cup Finals 1

Vault
1 Daniele Hypolito Brazil 14.125
2 Michelle Timm Germany 13.850
3 Annika Urvikko Finland 13.700

Bars
1 Jessica Lopez Venezuela 6.4 8.250 14.650
2 Rebeca Andrade Brazil 6.0 8.500 14.500
2 Kim Bui Germany 6.3 8.200 14.500
full WAG results

Click PLAY or watch JLo on YouTube. (age 30 – Rio will be her 3rd Olympics)

Floor
1 GONZALEZ, Tomas CHI 15,650
2 HYPOLITO, Diego BRA 15,400
3 OKA, Jumpei JPN 15,000

Click PLAY or watch the stylish Tomas on YouTube.

Pommels
1 IMABAYASHI, Kaito JPN 15,150
2 SASAKI, Sérgio BRA 14,950
3 MAENO, Fuya JPN 14,800

Rings
1 CALVO MORENO, Jossim COL 15,550
2 SANDOVAL AFANADOR, COL 15,100
3 BARRETO JUNIOR, Fran BRA 15,000

full MAG & WAG results

Varna World Cup – Men’s Finals 1

Vernyayev, who qualified to all six finals in Varna, picked up gold medals on floor exercise and pommel horse, and finished second to teammate Igor Radivilov on still rings. …

IG

Floor
1. Oleg Vernyayev 6.9 8.500 15.400
2. Rok Klavora 6.5 8.733 15.233
3. Dominick Cunningham 6.6 8.400 15.000

Click PLAY or watch Cunningham on YouTube. HUGE, original opening pass.

Pommel
1. Oleg Vernyayev 7.0 8.533 15.533
2. Robert Seligman 6.4 8.900 15.300
2. Cyril Tommasone 7.0 8.300 15.300

Rings
1. Igor Radivilov 6.9 8.567 15.467
2. Oleg Vernyayev 6.6 8.767 15.367
3. Daniil Kazachkov 6.5 8.633 15.133

Click PLAY or watch Kazachkov on YouTube.

backward handspring drill

Ideal for improving the skill.

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Of course it works for Flyspring, as well, from a jump backwards. Eventually you can connect Flyspring to backward handspring in series.

Men’s FX – 10.0 execution score

There are male gymnasts with extremely good execution on Floor.

For example, this young Ukrainian who we think was given a perfect E-score.

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via Gymternet Clan