Category: vault

ย ‘Big Cheeseโ€™ย mats

I do love ‘cheese’ mats. Inclines and declines.

And a BIG cheese mat has many, many uses.

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Jade Carey – Cheng 

Two views.  Judges, now sitting in a line, see the second angle, where itโ€™s far more difficult to see the split of the legs in preflight.

GREAT vault otherwise.ย 

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Vault – highest E-scores (2006-2022)

McKayla Maroney, Simone Biles, Cheng Fei, Rebeca Andrade, Aly Raisman, Shawn Johnson, Gabby Douglas, Jade Barbosa, Jordyn Wieber, Elizabeth Price, Maria Paseka, Jade Carey, MyKayla Skinner, Kyla Ross, Anna Pavlova, Jordan Chiles, Alicia Sacramone, Aliya Mustafina, Oksana Chusovitina, Giulia Steingruber.

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DAVTYAN Artur (ARM)ย – Dragulescu STUCK

Itโ€™s amazing how often Artur sticks this.ย 

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no Amanars in Liverpool

The reward for attempting Amanar is not enough to risk falling and/or injury.

BUT it’s a good idea to train more twists than you intend to compete on to hard mats.

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Worlds โ€™22 Apparatus Final 2

Beam

Japan is THE up-and-coming team in the world right now.

I felt Skye Blakely and and Ou Yushan had the best routines โ€” but Beam is an apparatus where you have to hit under pressure. The medal winners did that.

Ellie Black had zero falls or major errors over 4 Beam routines in Liverpool. In fact she had no falls or major errors on any apparatus in Qualification, Team Final, AA Final or either Apparatus Final. Truly sheโ€™s been the most consistent of the top gymnasts in the world.

Floor

Crowd went wild.

In the craziest Final, Jessica Gadirova won the Floor title. As did her GBR teammate Giarnni Regini-Moran in Men’s Floor.

This will be the most discussed podium as nobody understands exactly what the judges want in terms of artistry.

USA appealed Jade’s Floor score โ€” as many teams did for many athletes โ€” but this time the score went DOWN 0.1.

That can happen.

As a result, Jade went into a tie with Rebeca. This made pretty much everyone in the arena happy. ๐Ÿ˜€

Vault

Fantastic vaults to get on to this podium. It was one of the best finals in years. Only 1 fall over 16 super difficult vaults.

You beat, Yulo โ€ฆ you are GOOD. Congratulations to 30-year old Artur Davtyan. Two fantastic vaults.

P Bars – Zou Jingyuan

The man. The legend. The greatest of all time on Parallel Bars.

Arguably the greatest routine of all time on any apparatus.

H Bar

Superb Final. No falls. No drama. Just great Gymnastics.

Brody hit the best routine I’ve ever seen him do.

Brody Malone – World Champion. I like the sound of that.