Category: vault

Jing Wu – the same Vault twice

Jing Wu finished in 2nd place in Cottbus.

Her first was supposed to be a Kasamatsu. (Left hand contacting first, left twist.)

Handspring

But NO JUDGE should call this a Tsukahara approach. It’s a Handspring with staggered hand position.

Click PLAY or watch both vaults on YouTube.

This is the same cheat the Chinese men were doing in the past. 😦

Simone Biles – Cheng

In a media phone interview Simone said she’d compete Cheng for the first time at Pac Rims.

If successful, that would make her the Olympic Gold favourite for Rio.

Click PLAY or watch one on YouTube.

Cottbus World Cup day 1

Preliminary results

Vault
1 Chusovitina, Oksana UZB 14,650
2 Wu, Jing CHN 14,300
3 Belak, Teja SLO 14,150

Click PLAY or watch Oksana’s Rudi on Instagram.

 

Bars
1 Scheder, Sophie GER 6,4 8,450 14,850
2 Zhu, Xiaofang CHN 6,2 8,600 14,800
3 Wevers, Sanne NED 5,6 8,450 14,050

Floor
1 Hypolito, Diego BRA 6,8 8,450 15,250
2 Klavora, Rok SLO 6,2 8,800 15,000
3 Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 6,8 7,950 14,750

Pommels
1 Weng, Hao CHN 7,1 8,900 16,000
2 Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 7,0 8,400 15,400
3 Corral, Daniel MEX 6,3 8,900 15,200

6 Smith, Louis GBR 6,9 7,450 14,350

Rings
1 Verniaiev, Oleg UKR 6,6 8,450 15,050
2 Goossens, Dennis BEL 6,6 8,450 15,050
3 Radilov, Igor UKR 6,9 8,100 15,000

Full prelim results are linked from this page.

top NCAA Men’s gymnasts (so far)

FX
1. Zach Liebler (Minnesota)
2. Akash Modi (Stanford).
3. Colin Van Wicklen (Oklahoma)

PH
1. Brandon Ngai (Illinois)
2. Timmy Wang (Air Force)
3. Alec Yoder (Ohio State)

Click PLAY or watch Alec’s Pommels on YouTube. Team USA could use this routine.

SR
1. Sean Melton (Ohio State)
2. Alex Diab (Illinois)
3. Thao Hoang (Oklahoma)

Click PLAY or watch Sean’s Rings on YouTube.

VT
1. Anthony McCallum (Michigan)
2. Yaro Pochinka (Minnesota)
3. Taylor Seaton (Stanford)

PB
1. Yul Moldauer (Oklahoma)
2. Sean Melton (Ohio State)
3. Dennis Zaremski (Stanford)

Click PLAY or watch Yul’s P Bars on YouTube.

HB
1. Chase Cannon (Air Force)
2. Jesse Glenn (Army)
3. Andrew Rickly (Ohio State)

AA
1. Akash Modi (Stanford)
2. Allan Bower (Oklahoma)
3. Kevin Wolting (Cal)

Allan’s had a great season. Click PLAY or watch his Vault on YouTube.

full men’s rankings

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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) “overturn” 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.

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. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch Arianna on Facebook.

Olympic Vault Champion – Achilles

😦

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