Category: horizontal bar

Eddie Penev training clips

Men are now training Stalder Tkachev skills like WAG. It’s a thing. 🙂

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(via papaliukin)

Kovacs in series

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Wevers, Hambüchen getting Finals apparatus

Janssen Fritsen is giving Olympic Beam Champion Sanne Wevers the finals Beam.

Sanne Wevers Beam

Germany’s Fabian Hambüchen is getting the Horizontal Bar from his gold medal final, as well. 🙂

via Gymternet Clan

H Bar: HAMBUECHEN, LEYVA, WILSON

After four Olympic Games and a decade as the leader of the German team, Fabian Hambuchen finally has his long-awaited gold at 28. The 2007 World champion on High Bar won bronze in 2008 and silver in 2012 but considered himself over the hill before the Rio Games, which he says will be his last. He nevertheless qualified first to the final.

The expected duel between Hambuechen and London gold medallist Epke Zonderland never materialized. “The Flying Dutchman” fell to his stomach a risky release combination and finished seventh. …

FIG

1. HAMBUECHEN Fabian GER 15.766
2. LEYVA Danell USA 15.500
3. WILSON Nile GBR 15.466
full results

Olympic Games Rio 2016: HAMBUECHEN Fabian/GER

How about this guy? Team alternate ends up double Olympic silver medalist. Olympics brings out the best in Danell.

Men’s pirouetting deductions

The rules on Men’s Horizontal Bar are stupid. 1 1/2 pirouetting elements are overvalued so almost every gymnast uses them.

Deductions are not as severe as in WAG, but they are severe. It’s very easy to suffer a 0.3 or 0.5 deduction.

pirouette MAG deductions

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FIG graphics via papaliukin

The problem had been that FIG judges were not enforcing these rules. Instead of a 0.3 deduction, they’d take only 0.1, for example.

But at Worlds 2015 evaluation suddenly became more severe. I asked judges at Worlds if a message had been sent to start enforcing these rules more accurately. They had not.

Here’s one of the best you’ll ever see. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Nobody likes messy late regrasp skills. Not even this cat.

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It’s obvious that those overused elements should be devalued. Unfortunately they’ve not been devalued in the most recent DRAFT Code of Points. We’ll suffer another 4 years. 😦

Chris Brooks rocked it

Respect.

I can’t think of anyone who surprised me more than Chris Brooks in the lead ups to Rio.

We should study his training plan. His psychology.

Click PLAY or watch his H Bar on Facebook.