Using single floor Bars.
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spotting Air Flair
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Pommels – pendular swing conditioning
Active flexibility.
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FIG Ambassador Fabian Hambüchen
At Worlds Stuttgart, Fabian was everywhere.
He’s still training. For fun. Not competition.
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Daiki Hashimoto wins All Japan
18-years-old!
Super AA final:
1. Daiki Hashimoto 86.031
2. Kazuma Kaya 85.664
3. Kazuyuki Takeda 85.364
There was a weird 0.5 deduction from the AA if you didn’t have a high enough difficulty total.
For example, Shogo Nonomura scored 85.699 but the difficulty penalty knocked his score down to 85.199 and 4th.
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Top scores on each apparatus:
FX Carlos Yulo 15.2
PH Yanato Kanayama (?) 14.933
SR Yuya Kamoto 14.966
VT Daiki Hashimoto 14.933
PB Yuya Kamoto (?) 14.933
HB Yuya Kamoto (?) 14.566
MAGnastics was covering it on Twitter.
O by Cirque du Soleil – Bateau
Bars – introducing shoot from High to Low
Jason Mortimer.
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Bea Gheorghisor on Romanian Gymnastics
Romania finished 22nd as a team at Worlds 2019. It would seem they are just another team, no longer a superpower.
But the next generation of Juniors is looking good. And here’s some other promising news.
Bea:
I think that Romania will qualify a team to Paris and even win at least an individual medal there.
The project called Tara, Tara, Vrem Campioane [“Country, country, we want champions”] was initiated in 2014 and is being coordinated by Bellu and Bitang.
This is Romania’s response to a half-centralized system (camp based) that has worked for other countries.
The idea is to de-centralize in order to encourage healthy competition among [the various] centers and also stimulate the development of gymnasts and coaches. …
In order for this to work long-term, we need some key elements that are still missing: realistic judging in internal/national competitions, more and better prepared coaches, finding a way to transition junior elites into successful seniors, a way to motivate gymnasts without physical and mental abuse.
Read the full Dvora Meyers interview:
The Fall (and Rise?) of Romanian Gymnastics
One big question remains – Can the next generation of Romanians be competitive on Bars?
They are now wearing grips. But — oddly — still rely on Free Hip when the rest of the world uses primarily Sole Circle. Watch Ana Maria Barbosu competing Bars.
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