Category: floor (men)

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

Nagornyy – twisting tumbling lines

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(via papaliukin)

Penev – forward double double

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(via papaliukin)

Kyle Shewfelt’s 2008 comeback

Kyle had every reason to retire after 2004, the Olympic Floor Champion.

But he felt driven to train for one more. Beijing would be his 3rd Olympics.

In 2006 FIG changed the Code of Points to reward difficulty over execution, Kyle’s forte. In 2007 Kyle suffered a horror-show injury landing Tamayo with straight legs at Worlds. Yet he still wouldn’t give up.

This week @Olympics posted his comeback story.

Nikita’s gold medal Floor 15.566 Floor

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Nice style. Unusual hurdle for roundoff.

(via papaliukin)

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.