Category: floor (women)

incline cartwheels for beginners

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Good idea. Uphill to encourage a good lunge and strong leg action. Downhill to help the newbie land in a more vertical position.

Turnier der Meister – day 2 finals

GREAT Beam!

Beam
1. WANG, Cenyu CHN 14,166 (8,766 E-score)
2. SCHAEFER, Pauline GER 14,000 ( 8,800 E-score for the World Champ)
3. KHARENKOVA, Maria RUS 13,766

Click PLAY or watch Cenyu Wang on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Pauline on YouTube.

Floor
1. AKHAIMOVA, Liliia RUS 14,000
2. KHARENKOVA, Maria RUS 13,600
3. SCHAEFER, Pauline GER 13,500

Liliia is the most powerful Russian tumbler we’ve seen in … perhaps ever. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch her on YouTube.

Vault
1. ASATO, Keisuke JPN 14,966
2. RADIVILOV, Igor UKR 14,883
3. REMKES, Christopher AUS 14,816

P Bars
1. TAN, Di CHN 15,566
2. VERNIAIEV, Oleg UKR 15,166
3. NGUYEN, Marcel GER 15,133

Click PLAY or watch the super clean TAN, Di on YouTube. Front toss to long hang.

https://www.tumblr.com/twoflips-threetwists/167911258272/tan-di-at-cottbus-2017-full-routine-here

H Bar
1. BRETSCHNEIDER, Andreas GER 14,566
2. KIMBLE, Marvin USA 14,033
3. GIACHINO, Pietro NOR 14,000
– TAN, Di CHN 14,000

FIG – Ten take gold at Cottbus Individual Apparatus World Cup

One of the oldest international tournaments in Artistic Gymnastics, the event has been held in Cottbus annually since 1979.

quad twist attempt

Japan’s Chiaki Hatakeda. Younger sister of Hitomi and daughter of 1996 Olympian Yoshiaki Hatakeda.

via Gymternet Clan

Aleksandra Schekoldina – tumbling

Click PLAY or watch her Massilia Masters FX on YouTube. (fall on turn)

Click PLAY or watch her on a tumbling trampoline on YouTube.

Some call her Schek.

I got that from a post listing Russian gymnast nicknames.

Brooklyn Moors slow-mo

Brooklyn is not the most powerful tumbler. She has very good technique.

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via Fans of Canadian Gymnastics

hurdle drills

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Note that all these demonstrators take off from the sprint for their hurdle from the opposite leg they put down first on round-off. The legs switch during the hurdle.

That’s far more common than the alternative (taking off with the same leg).

Boris Verkhovsky first told me decades ago that a switch leg hurdle should increase power, but that it wasn’t essential.

(via Swing Big)