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Category: floor (men)
Specific to Artistic gymnastics. More posts are included in the TUMBLING category.
Kacy Catanzaro – Air Flare
Zach Liebler – 16.15 Floor
Holy Kenzo! No obvious landing deductions.
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Kato, Douglas American Cup Champions
1. Douglas USA 60.165
2. Nichols USA 59.699
3. Black CAN 57.132
1. Kato JPN 88.931
2. Whittenburg USA 88.565
3. Wei Sun CHN 87.665
full results
Nick Zaccardi:
Just like four years ago, Gabby Douglas posted the highest all-around score at the American Cup. There was just one significant difference on Saturday.
“My scores counted!” Douglas said.
Lauren was there. Here’s her LIVE commentary.
Ryohei is the first Japanese man to win this meet since Tsukahara the 1st did so in 1977.
Personally I don’t like meets with so few competitors. When things go badly, as they did today, fans start to ask … “What’s the point?”
Marta says Gabby performs best under pressure. Our Olympic Champion has never looked better on Beam.
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Yes. That’s a “Thing Leap” not a “Ring Leap”. 🙂
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backward handspring drill
I like all drills for beginners that encourage hip extension. This one in particular because it works in conjunction with the shoulder hyper flexion.
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Dom Cunningham – NO WAY !
A tumbling pass I’d never even considered possible.
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http://papaliukin.tumblr.com/post/139673204059/more-of-dom-cunninghams-insanity-this-is
8 new Men’s Gymnastics skills
The new skill from Japan’s Shirai has been awaited since a video of the 19-year-old training the element surfaced on the internet last year. The only other skill to be considered so difficult in the entire Men’s Code of Points is the Bretschneider, a complicated release move on Horizontal Bar introduced by Germany’s Andreas Bretschneider in 2014. …
FIG – Eight new elements named, added to Men’s Gymnastics Code of Points
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planche Air Flares
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Thanks Peter.
MAG 2020 Code of Points draft
Mens Gymnastics Australia Podcast is reviewing the DRAFT Code of Points. The review period is over end of January. No doubt there will be changes to the next draft.
But if you are interested NOW, click through.
General – Part 1 / 7 2017 Draft CoP Series
Floor – Part 2 / 7 2017 Draft CoP Series
Pommel – Part 3 / 7 2017 Draft CoP Series
Eddie Van Hoof – the gymnast
Carol-Angela Orchard linked to an old video of her husband – current British Men’s National Coach – training Floor. 🙂 Back in the day.
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