Kovacs catching without regrasping. 🙂
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Here’s another. VIDEO
Category: horizontal bar
Hasbro’s Fantastic Gymnastics Game
An ideal present for a gymnast. 🙂
$15.99 right now on toysrus
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Jackson Payne – H Bar
David Vecsernyes (6′1″/185cm) H Bar
Fabien Hambuechen Gold H Bar in Rio
Edgar Boulet – Bretschneider
Fabian Hambuechen – Olympic Champion
Bursting onto the international scene in 2004 as the youngest German Olympic athlete, Hambuechen now owns 9 World and 11 European medals, plus titles at the 2015 European Games and the Universiade. The German sportsman of the year 2007 … has had a rich and fulfilling gymnastics career. But there was this one medal that alluded him … Olympic gold. …
Going into the final as top qualifier …
When Zonderland came off the high bar, Hambuechen’s biggest rival –and good friend took himself out of the medal race. And none of the other gymnast could match Hambuechen’s score. After 12 years at the top, he was finally the Olympic Champion!
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Gaius Thompson – Liukin
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elgrip NOT required next Men’s Code
DRAFT FIG Men’s Code of Points 2020 page 135 – Horizontal Bar:
Article 15.2.2 Information about the D score
1. The Element Groups are (EG):
I. Long hang swings with and without turns.
II. Flight elements.
III. In bar and Adler elements.
IV. Dismounts.
Adler is German for “eagle”. An eagle or elgrip swing has always been required in the past. But with the reduction in Special Requirements from 5 to 4, gymnasts will be required to do either an In Bar skill or Eagle skill. An Endo, for example, would suffice.
We will be seeing this skill far less in future.
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The classic Stoop Shoot MIGHT damage the shoulders of gymnasts. I’m very happy to see it no longer a requirement. The very few genetically gifted may continue to use it.
Most have been done badly in the past. Flexed feet, bent knees, wide arms, etc.
Congratulations to FIG MTC for this change, something many have been calling for for decades. We’ll have fewer shoulder injuries in future.
Of course gymnasts will continue to use variations of that skill including Adler 1/2 and Adler 1/1, both much less for shoulder injury.
related – TECHNIQUES TO START THE STOOP CIRCLE (ADLER) ON HIGH BAR
Daniel Leyva Rio highlights
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