Category: floor (women)

Aliya’s acro flight series

Many were wondering if the new Mom would have an acro series in time for Worlds.

Yep.

A bigger surprise is that she’s already back doing full Floor. (VIDEO)

Simone’s SET on Moors

Incredible. She could probably do triple twisting double layout.

Click PLAY or watch the first pass on YouTube.

Look how much later Simone initiates the twist than others. It’s almost lay-in, double full out. She gets that technique from her Biles.

https://twitter.com/sierradnv/status/1054780376378302464

TaiShan equipment at Worlds

Most of the athletes have never used TaiShan apparatus before. It’s a test of who can adjust quickly.

For the most part the apparatus and the TaiShan crew looks to be good. A pommel broke today when European Champ Rhys McClenaghan was training. That’s odd.

Some of the guys told me the vault is hard. Landing mats hard.

Most of the discussion has been about Floor.  Kenzo seemed to have trouble during podium training. Max and Dom seemed to be OK with it. Both Russians made triple back look easy.

Sam Oldham notes that the  Senoh floor in Japan is soft. It has a bigger margin for error on take-off. Timing has to be more precise on the TaiShan. 

I’m more worried for WAG — starting tomorrow — than MAG.

Anastasia Bachynska leads FX at YOGs

Here are the 8 finalists.

WAG does one apparatus a day for the first 4 days. YES this is a crazy idea.