Category: vault

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

related – Stick it Media – Upcoming Conference Championships Will Dominate Weekend

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

University of Calgary International Cup RESULTS

The annual international “friendly” in Canada was better than ever this year. Canada’s top guys vs very strong teams from China and USA in a 6-5-4 format.

The top 2 international stars for Canada were out of the team. Scott Morgan competed only Rings, protecting a “lower body” injury. Kevin Lytwin (knee ligament injury) did LIVE colour commentary.

When Team USA had ZERO falls starting on Pommels, I got the feeling they’d win this event. They did.

1. USA 346.75
2. CHINA 341.75
3 CANADA 340.90

1. Yixin Du CHN 86.250
2. Baisen Gu CHN 85.750
3. Paul Ruggeri USA 84.250

Floor
1T Eddie Penev USA 6.70 15.500
1T Jile Mu 6.60 15.500
3. Paul Ruggeri USA 6.70 15.050

Click PLAY or watch Eddie’s Floor on YouTube.

Pommel
1. Marvin Kimble USA 6.70 14.800
2. CJ Maestas USA 6.10 14.650
3. Jackson Payne CAN 6.40 14.500

Click PLAY or watch Jackson’s Pommels on YouTube.

Rings
1. CJ Maestas USA 6.70 15.300
2. Yixin Du CHN 6.50 14.500
3. Damien Cachia CAN 6.00 14.450

* Scott Morgan CAN 6.50 15.450 (competing as an individual)

Click PLAY or watch CJ’s Rings on YouTube.

Vault (one Vault)
1. Eddie Penev USA 5.80 15.100
2. Damien Cachia CAN 5.60 14.800
3. Baisen Gu CHN 5.20 14.600 3

Click PLAY or watch Eddie’s Vault on YouTube.

P Bars
1. Yixin Du CHN 6.70 15.700
2T Paul Ruggeri USA 6.30 15.050
2T Jackson Payne CAN 6.30 15.050

H Bar
1. Huanzhang Jin CHN 6.50 14.700
2. Marvin Kimble USA 6.50 14.550
3. Yixin Du CHN 5.90 14.450

FULL RESULTS

UCIC on Facebook

related – USAG – U.S. men compete in University of Calgary International Cup this weekend

GymneoTV – Handspring Front Vault

The teaser is up for the latest Gymneo tutorial.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook. (French)

Giulia Steingruber documentary

Back from injury at World Championships 2015.

Click PLAY or watch The Hard Way profile on YouTube. (21min)

She also talks about her 2014 mental block on twisting. Giulia went back and relearned twisting from the beginning.

Rachael Lukacs – Yurchenko Double Back

Click PLAY or watch it on Vine.

Better than Simone’s attempt, I’d say. I’d love to see video of Maroney’s.

(via GymCastic)