Category: floor (women)

Mia Sundstrom’s 7-element FX combo

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Arabian on Floor with good form

It’s difficult to do double front and — especially — double Arabian with good form.

But we had a couple of good Arabians at the Szombathely World Cup this past weekend.

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Qi Qi – Floor

Double double mount.

Before the last tumbling pass she’s not even breathing heavily.  This routine looks easy for her.

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Chinese Nationals Finals – day 2

Beam
Guan Chenchen – 14.933
Wei Xiaoyuan – 14.600
Liu TingTing – 14.533

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Floor
Qi Qi – 14.200
Qu Ran – 13.800
Lu Yufei 13.733

Faith Torrez training triple tuck

Off Air Floor Pro.

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Shang Chunsong – Floor

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Defying Gravity – part 1

Defying Gravity is a 6-part docuseries that explores … Women’s Gymnastics through its greatest champions.

It’s playing on the Glamour magazine YouTube channel. The first 2 episodes are free without YouTube Premium.

I actually signed up for a free month of YouTube Premium so I could watch the rest.  Could be that getting rid of ads MIGHT make it worth the subscription.  🙂

Bart, Nadia, Daniella, Svetlana, Laurie, Blythe, and more.

Lots of Aly and Katelyn.

This feel good introduction part 1 highlights Floor more than the other apparatus.

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I thought it was weird to include Shushanova doing a dangerous skill.

Sandeep Kumar Pal is paralyzed

“C4-5 fracture-dislocation with quadriplegia,” is how the doctors first described his injury.  …

… A month after he had won his medal at the Khelo India games, he had joined the national camp in New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Stadium. …

“I must have done it over a thousand times in my life. Even on the day I got injured, I performed it (Double Back on FX)  three times cleanly,” he recalls. The fourth time though, he lost control. “My mind went blank at the top of the jump. …

How one fall turned gymnast Sandeep Kumar Pal’s life upside down

After months of rehab, he’s still regaining movement.

(via Rocker Gymnastics)