Category: horizontal bar

treating & preventing Gymnastics hand rips

Nath Comber.

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developing early pirouettes

The biggest problem with pirouettes is finishing the turn too late.

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Thanks Mary.

H Bar – 4 releases in series

Japanese gymnast. Leave a comment if you can confirm that’s Koji Uematsu.

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(via Men’s Gymnastics Australia Podcast)

Uchimura 16.15 Horizontal Bar

Huge difficulty. Execution as good as anyone in the world.

Despite two conspicuous angle deductions, on any given day I’d say Kohei is the man to beat on this apparatus.

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Osijek MAG Final day 2

Vault
1 Oleg VERNIAIEV UKR 15.325
2 Paul RUGGERI III USA 14.838
3 Igor RADIVILOV UKR 14.725

P Bars
1 Emin GARIBOV RUS 6.700 + 9.050 = 15.750
2 Manrique LARDUET CUB 6.700 + 8.775 = 15.475
3 Sean MELTON USA 6.400 + 8.475 = 14.875

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H Bar
1 Umit SAMILOGLU TUR 6.500 + 8.725 = 15.225
2 Paul RUGGERI III USA 6.800 + 8.250 = 15.050
3t Oliver HEGI SUI 6.600 + 8.100 = 14.700
3t Tin SRBIC CRO 6.500 + 8.200 = 14.700
full results

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Justin Spring – Kolman

I guess we can assume Justin’s coming out of retirement. 🙂

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Epke Zonderland – Gold in Rio

Our defending Olympic champion at the Rio Test Meet.

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Epke wins Horizontal Bar

After a disastrous ranking at Worlds 2015 we feared Epke would not get the chance to defend in Rio.

He will. 🙂

Team Netherlands did qualify and will almost certainly include Zonderland in their lineup.

I watched the warm-up. Bart DEURLOO, BRETSCHNEIDER and ZONDERLAND are all capable of linking multiple big releases in a final. Here’s how it turned out.

1 ZONDERLAND Epke NED 7.100 + 8.633 = 15.733
2 BRETSCHNEIDER Andreas GER 7.300 + 8.300 = 15.600
3 OROZCO John USA 6.800 + 8.566 = 15.366
full results

Ultra clean Nile Wilson fell twice. John Orozco hit superbly with Liukin for the Bronze. (John was 9/9 in Rio.) But as he’s done so many times in the past, Epke hit the routine best when it counted.

Congratulations. Netherlands may be the happiest nation coming to the Olympics at this point.