Category: floor (men)

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

straight front leg on Round-off Hurdle

Personally, I’ve had a lot of success over the decades introducing the aerial phase of the Round-off hurdle with the front leg quite straight.

NEXT I work on a deep lunge before the Round-off.

And finally combine the two segments.

I know Chinese coaches and many others who prefer a bent front leg in the hurdle — and it works for them. My fear is that lifting the knee is backward rotation, and it may limit my ultimate forward rotation.

Here Tammy Biggs emphasizes the straight leg.

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overview of Men’s Gymnastics

An excellent summing up of the sport — including some of the all time greats.

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What are the 6 apparatuses in Men’s Gymnastics?

nobody wants SCALES on Floor

I can’t believe this new special requirement will be in place very long.

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super clean Double Double Layout

Charlie Larson.

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World Challenge Cup 2024 winners

  • Vault – Greta Mayer
  • Bars – Melanie de Jesus dos Santos
  • Beam – Anna Lashchevska
  • Floor – Melanie de Jesus dos Santos

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  • Floor – Illia Kovtun
  • Pommel – Nariman Kurbanov
  • Rings – Balazs Kiss
  • Vault – Assan Salimov
  • P Bars – Krisztofer Meszaros
  • H Bar – Tang Chia-Hung

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details – France, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Ukraine big winners in Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup series

Flipping LONG JUMP

I’m old enough that I competed the Western Roll on High Jump in Jr. High School.  (Dive roll was already banned.)

Technique changed to the Fosbury Flop before I finished High School.

The evolution of technique.

In the Long Jump, Kiwi Tuariki Delamere competed a new technique at the Pacific 8 Track and Field Championships 1974. Front flip.

He was no gymnast.  😀 

That jump was not far off the sea level World Record at the time. 

Flipping was quickly banned. 

Click PLAY or watch an interview with Tuariki on YouTube.

Others had tried that flip.  I heard future Olympic gymnast, Sid Freudenstein, tried it High School competition for Triple Jump in 1968.

Related – How Tuariki Delamere’s somersault turned the sport of long jump on its head

Szombathely Challenge Cup results 1

Vault
🥇 Darya Yassinskaya 🇰🇿 13.166
🥈 Greta Mayer 🇭🇺 13.016
🥉 Leni Bohle 🇦🇹 12.833

Bars
🥇 Charlotte Booth 🇬🇧 13.266
🥈 Tonya Paulsson 🇸🇪 13.033
🥉 Celeste Mordenti 🇱🇺 12.933

Floor
🥇 Krisztofer Meszaros 🇭🇺 14.433
🥈 Filip Lidbeck 🇸🇪 13.833
🥉 Danny Crouch 🇬🇧 13.800

Pommel
🥇 Edoardo De Rosa 🇮🇹 15.133
🥈 Gabriele Targhetta 🇮🇹 14.933
🥉 Shiao Yu-Jan TPE 14.633

Rings
🥇 Nikita Simonov 🇦🇿 14.700
🥈 Lin Guan-Yi TPE 14.266
🥉 Sokratis Pilakouris 🇨🇾 14.100

training Arabian Double Layout

FIRST — don’t train this skill until your 1/1 twisting Double Layout is consistent.  Otherwise there is a risk you’ll make the twist too early. 

But if that’s not a problem, I love this skill.  Especially when straight or slightly arched.   It’s very difficult to land, of course. 

Many gymnasts can do it from Tumbling Trampoline.  Very few from competition Floor. 

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