Category: floor (women)

Asian Jr Championships results

  1. China
  2. Japan
  3. South Korea
  4. Uzbekistan
  5. Kazakhstan
  6. Chinese Tapei
  7.  
        1. Chen Yile – China 55.000
        2. Chiaki Hatakeda – Japan  51.900
        3. Mana Oguchi – Japan 51.700
        4. Lee Yun Seo – South Korea 51.200
        5. Ryu Jim In – South Korea 50.950
        6. Zhou Ruiyu – China 50.850

    full results

    That’s a dominant finish for Chen Yile.

    Click PLAY or watch a recent Bars routine on YouTube.

    Click PLAY or watch a recent Floor routine on YouTube.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SNVtgHev6A

Liu Tingting – Floor

They’ve got to be suffering injuries in China from these triple twist punch fronts.

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4.9 + 8.2 = 13.1

backward triple twist punch back tuck

UPDATED POST.

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(via twoflips-threetwists)

Jerad points out that Anna Myzdrikova did it much better in 2009.

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Gymneo – Gymnastics sprint tutorial

The complete training clinic on the run for the vault, is available now on GymneoTV! (1h30)

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Chase Capps – Floor

She knows how to land.

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Oklahoma as a team tries to mark a safe landing position … then move slowly and gracefully into the College girl salute. OU obviously trains it this way.

Europeans Women’s Floor Final

1. Angelina Melnikova RUS 14.100
2. Ellie Downie GBR 14.066
3. Eythora Thorsdottir NED 13.700
full results

Finally. The super talented Angelina Melnikova is rewarded. Russia truly needs powerful tumblers like her.

are Arabians forward or backward tumbling?

MAG Code:

All Arabian elements are in the group of acrobatic elements backward, Example Arabian double front 1⁄2 = same as double back 1/1 (D value). The following Arabian elements (Jump bwd. with 1⁄2 t. to double salto fwd.) have the same value and Code box as the bwd. double salto element with the same amount of twisting: Arabian dbl. str. 1⁄2 (Penev), Arabian dbl. str. (Tamayo), and Arabian dbl. str. 1/1 (Hypolito).

WAG Code:

Arabian elements are considered Forward Elements

There is an argument for both. But FIG should standardize on one or the other. If only Steve Butcher had the FIG job looking at inconsistencies like this. 🙂

arabian-double-front

The takeoff is more critical than the landing position in my opinion. Arabians are much more a backwards tumbling skill than forwards.

Hattie points out that a backward layout with 1 1/2 twist lands forward like Arabian, but no-one would argue it’s a forward tumbling element.

(via Gigi)