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Adler (Eagle) is what the FIG Code calls the Stoop circle rearward forward on H Bar.
Stoop shoot we always called it in my Gym.
Unless the gymnasts is extremely flexible, there’s a chance to do damage to the shoulders training stoop shoot.
Ideally we’d teach Adler 1/2 (Takemoto) and 1/1 without doing the Adler itself.
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Dory Dynna has been posting some old routines on YouTube.
As a sample, watch 16 year old Curtis Hibbert on H Bar. Curtis went on to win the silver medal on this apparatus at Worlds 1987.
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Extremely difficult. A bad idea in most cases, I’d say. You are just as likely to cause an injury as prevent one.
Almost all male gymnasts try to land flat when they miss, absorbing the impact over as much surface area as possible
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David has been excellent this season. Looked great at Europeans. Looked to be a man on a mission in Montreal.
His fall on Horizontal Bar in the AA final — his last apparatus — was a fluke, in my opinion.
It’s an easy, consistent release move for him. He must have been shocked not to regrasp. He couldn’t believe it happened.
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Listen to the GymCastic interview.
Some will say David choked at the last minute. That’s nonsense.
Hardy Fink spoke on the difficulty of regrasping a Bar that is oscillating wildly. No gymnast is 100% on regrasp even when they are in great position in the air.
I use David as an example for gymnasts who miss a routine for reasons having nothing to do with their mental preparation. It’s NOT all mental at the highest level.
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It’s not all that rare.
Davide Bardana once caught one handed from 1-arm Geinger into 1-arm Giant.
I believe he won H Bar at Elite Canada with that routine. Though I’d never seen it before, Dave had done it a number of times training over the pit.
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Miyachi on H Bar the most anticipated routine.
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Here’s how that new skill is supposed to look.
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