Double double mount.
Before the last tumbling pass she’s not even breathing heavily. This routine looks easy for her.
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Category: floor (women)
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)
Simone’s National Gymnastics Day CHALLENGE
… she’ll wait.
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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. 😀
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related – Biles coach Cecile Landi hints at difficult floor routine to come
