Category: floor (women)

introducing SPRING from the arms on Tramp

Best practice is to start from hands & knees drop.

Click PLAY or watch Shane Spencer’s tips on YouTube.

the Ferrari is still improving

Note the long pauses before tumbling in 2008.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

via Gymternet Clan

P&G Championships – Jr Women day 1

1. Maile O’Keefe, Las Vegas, Nev., 57.200
2. Emma Malabuyo, Flower Mound, Texas, 57.050
3. Kara Eaker, Grain Valley, Mo., 55.500
4. Leanne Wong, Overland Park, Kan., 54.700
5. Adeline Kenlin, Coraville, Iowa, 54.050
6. Olivia Dunne, Hillsdale, N.J., 53.750

Vault
1. Leanne Wong, Overland Park, Kan., 14.650
2. Maile O’Keefe, Las Vegas, Nev., 14.600
2. Grace McCallum, Isanti, Minn., 14.600

Bars
1. Maile O’Keefe, Las Vegas, Nev., 14.200
2. Emma Malabuyo, Flower Mound, Texas, 14.100
3. Kara Eaker, Grain Valley, Mo., 13.500

Beam
1. Kara Eaker, Grain Valley, Mo., 14.850
2. Maile O’Keefe, Las Vegas, Nev., 14.500
3. Emma Malabuyo, Flower Mound, Texas, 14.200

Floor
1. Emma Malabuyo, Flower Mound, Texas, 14.250
2. Maile O’Keefe, Las Vegas, Nev., 13.900
3. Leanne Wong, Overland Park, Kan., 13.850

Click PLAY or watch Emma Malabuyo – Floor on YouTube. 14.250 (5.5, 8.750, -0.1)

via Gymternet Clan

“Cart-off progression”

Love this drill. Half way between a cartwheel and round-off.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Ragan Smith’s new Floor

I like it.

Tumbling is all deductible. But choreography and leaps are strong.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Ilaria Kaeslin’s beautiful Mustafina

Heart this on Tumblr.

https://www.tumblr.com/tsarinamustafina/145420072434/ilaria-kaeslins-beautiful-mustafina

when your coach gives you a standing ovation

Puerto Rican National Team Member Paula Mejias.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

Emma Malabuyo is GREAT

The “star” of the 2017 U.S. Classic. A Junior, Emma trains at Texas Dreams.

Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her Bars on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her Beam on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her DTY on YouTube.

Watch her post-competition interview.

Definitely a contender for the senior team starting next year. Form needs to improve. In the end — even with Marta gone — it will be consistency that gets you on the American teams. Texas Dreams counted no falls, I believe, with 6 gymnasts at Classics.