narrow Yurchenko hand mat

I’m a big fan of narrow hand mats for beginners. They should place their hands as much as possible like tumbling for as long as possible.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Eventually – when strong and fast enough – they will (most likely) β€œoverturn” their hands which requires the FIG width hand mat.

That’s one piece of the Shannon Miller Collection.

MyKayla Skinner is amazing

Click PLAY or watch her vault on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her tumble on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch a montage of old training clips on YouTube.

Natalia Yurchenko mini-montage

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBT7751gieo/?taken-by=gym_art_
 
There are more like that on the gym_art_ Instgram page.

Arianna Robinson – Handspring Handspring Front

Watching 12 Yurchenko fulls made for a dull dual meet in the past. I feel devaluing that vault to 9.95 maximum has worked. There’s more incentive for other vaults. Like this one. πŸ™‚

Click PLAY or watch Arianna on Facebook.

Doha World Cup results

Preliminaries.

VAULT
1 Giulia Steingruber Switzerland 14.650
2 Teja Belak Slovenia 14.250
3 Zsofia Kovacs Hungary 14.075

BARS
1 Jonna Adlerteg Sweden 6.6 8.400 15.000
2 Rebeca Andrade Brazil 6.0 8.500 14.500
3 Zsofia Kovacs Hungary 5.9 8.450 14.350

BEAM
1 Catalina Ponor Romania 6.0 8.650 14.650
2 Giulia Steingruber Switzerland 5.8 8.450 14.250
3T Bai Yawen China 5.6 8.600 14.200
3T Thauany Araujo Brazil 6.1 8.100 14.200

FLOOR
1 Giulia Steingruber Switzerland 6.0 8.700 14.700
2 Ilaria KΓ€slin Switzerland 5.5 8.450 13.950
3 Zsofia Kovacs Hungary 5.5 8.350 13.850

full WAG results

FLOOR
1 HYPOLITO Diego BRA 6.800 8.600 15.400
2 BATURIN Danil KAZ 6.700 8.500 15.200
3 KLAVORA Rok SLO 6.200 8.900 15.100

POMMELS
1 SELIGMAN Robert CRO 6.200 9.150 15.350
2 MERDINYAN Harutyun ARM 6.200 9.000 15.200
3 STEPKO Oleg AZE 6.400 8.700 15.100

Last place on Pommels. No toe point. πŸ™‚

RINGS
1 PETROUNIAS Eleftherios GRE 6.800 8.900 15.700
2 DAVTYAN Vahagn ARM 6.700 8.950 15.650
3 TOVMASYAN Artur ARM 6.600 8.800 15.400

VAULT
1 HUANG Mingqi CHN 15.325
2 DAVTYAN Artur ARM 15.025
3 HYPOLITO Diego BRA 14.900

P BARS
1 HE Youxiao CHN 6.800 9.050 15.850
2 LARDUET Manrique CUB 6.700 8.900 15.600
3 PHAM Phuoc Hung VIE 6.700 8.850 15.550

H BAR
1 MAENO Fuya JPN 6.300 8.900 15.200
2 WATSON Ashley GBR 6.600 8.350 14.950
3 CORDOBA Nicolas ARG 6.200 8.700 14.900

full officials results MAG & WAG

Pacific Rim Championships competitors

Just posted on USAG.

The American women’s gymnasts are not listed aside from Simone Biles. No doubt they are still confirming the remaining selections. πŸ™‚

USA men

AAI Award Finalists

Caitlin Atkinson (Auburn)
Ivana Hong (Stanford)
Lindsay Mable (Minnesota)
Nina McGee (Denver)
Haley Scaman (Oklahoma)
Bridget Sloan (Florida)

For 25 years, American Athletic, Inc. (AAI) has presented the prestigious AAI Award to the most outstanding senior female gymnast in the country.

The award is considered the Heisman Trophy in gymnastics. …

AAI

2016 American Award Finalist Ballot

Olympic Vault Champion – Achilles

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Olympic vault champion Yang Hak-seon is likely to miss the Rio de Janeiro Games due to an Achilles injury, state media reported.

Yang suffered the injury during floor practise in Seoul on Tuesday and had surgery the following day …

The Star

Yang