Category: floor (women)

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 2

AKA the Tonya Paulsson show. She’ll likely end up competing for Cal as well as Sweden.

Beam

🥇 Tonya Paulsson 🇸🇪 12.966
🥈 Leni Bohle 🇦🇹 12.866
🥉 Charlotte Booth 🇬🇧 12.433

Floor

🥇 Tonya Paulsson 🇸🇪 12.933
🥈 Greta Mayer 🇭🇺 12.900
🥉 Leni Bohle 🇦🇹 12.700

Vault

🥇 Assan Salimov 🇰🇿 14.300
🥈 Daniel Trifonov 🇧🇬 14.150
🥉 Enkhtuvshin Damdindorj 🇲🇳 14.083

P Bars

🥇 Edoardo De Rosa 🇮🇹 14.233
🥈 Krisztofer Meszaros 🇭🇺 14.066
🥉 Alexander Kunz 🇩🇪 13.233

H Bar

🥇 Krisztofer Meszaros 🇭🇺 13.900
🥈 Lorenzo Bonicelli 🇮🇹 13.766
🥉 Szilard Zavory 🇭🇺 13.300

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. 

Click PLAY or watch some examples on YouTube.

late twist Tumbling drills

These encourage LATE twist.  AND good ROTATION.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Heron on Floor

Performed at the 2024 FIG Apparatus World Cup in Cairo (EGY) by Hillary Heron (PAN)

Element description: Double salto backward in the tuck position with one and a half twists (540 degrees).

Element value: F (0.6)

Name awarded: The Heron

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Carly, Alicia, Aly compared

Three of the greatest tumblers and Beam workers all time.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Qin Xinyi – Double Pike

I trust video AI judging to catch flexed feet on Double Pike much more than human judges.

Cheng Fei – Floor

My favourite ever Chinese gymnast.

Aside from excellent form and technique — Cheng Fei was dominant in an era where coaches around the world considered it impossible for Chinese gymnasts to be strong on Vault and Tumbling.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.