Category: Gymnastics

Simone Biles – backward handspring

Long. Resulting in a sharp attack angle.

But is as so often the case, it’s not necessarily the target technique for every gymnast.

Personally I like beginners to do long, low backward handspring series. Later change the technique to whatever works best for each tumbling line.

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Russia, GBR, Switzerland

1 RUS 271.378
2 GBR 268.427
3 SUI 263.278

full results

Congratulations Russia. The team strategy of high start scores worked this time.

Russia

David Belyavskiy crushed it
David Belyavskiy crushed it

Larrissa Miller 14.400 FX

Australian Gymnastics Blog posted a report – National Championships 2016: Senior Men’s & Women’s All-Around

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related – Aussie 2016 Olympian Michael Merceica injured his hand on P Bars at Nationals. Hopes to be back in time for Rio.

(via papaliukin)