Category: floor (women)

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.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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)

Simone’s National Gymnastics Day CHALLENGE

… she’ll wait.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

watch a STICK vaulting

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The human body is not a stick. It’s more like a ruler.

Click PLAY or watch Tony Retrosi on YouTube.

These simple examples are useful for biomechanics analysis. Contact angles, etc.

7.7 dream routine for Simone

That’s Kenzo level difficulty even though WAG counts only 8 skills, MAG 10 skills.

Double layout to double tuck ain’t happening, though.  😀

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

related – Biles coach Cecile Landi hints at difficult floor routine to come

Elena Naimushina 1980 Floor

Yelena Naimushina competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a gold medal with the Soviet team. Individually her best achievement was fifth place in the floor exercise.

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via Gymternet Clan