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Floor
G Regini Moran GBR 14.700
H Carter GBR 14.100
K Boncser HUN 14.050

Pommel
A Sychugov RUS 14.700
J Fraser GBR 14.200
L Galli ITA 14.000

Rings
M Sinichkin RUS 14.150
N Klessinj GER 14.100
J Fraser GBR 14.050

Vault
Y Sharmakou BLR 14.400
G Regini Moran GBR 14.400
D Govorov GEO 14.500

Parallel Bars
J Fraser GBR 14.600
E Yermakov UKR 14.450
K Carvalho FRA 14.200

H Bar
M Kratter SUI 14.050
G Regini Moran 13.850
L Galli ITA 13.800

Full Twist links to results

This is very dangerous.

I’ve found balking to affect far more WAG than MAG. That it’s almost always on a backwards skill. And that it tends to be more common around the competitive season. Stress may be one factor.

Gymnastics Mental Coach offers some good advice – How To Remedy Balking In Your Gymnastics Routines…

I love tumbling up on to a table of mats. Good technique. Safer. And it provides no incentive to balk.

More advice here – how to deal with balking

Video courtesy of Jeff Reid. Acrobatics/Gymnastics has been part of Muscle Beach since 1934. Glenn Sundby started coming here in the early 1930, and in 1963 he promoted Gymfest at the original Muscle Beach …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I made it there myself once in the late 1970s. Swinging Rings landing in sand was definitely the most impressive highlight. 🙂

via Steve Arkell

Jag Gym posted some quotes attributed to Coach Einstein:

3. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

4. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

9. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

11. “I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

12 THINGS ALBERT EINSTEIN TAUGHT ME ABOUT COACHING

Click through to read the rest.

He Chao is the FINA World Championships Men’s 3m Springboard Gold medalist in Kazan (RUS).

Click PLAY or watch him training his new dive on YouTube.

Thanks Vadim.

The kid makes this look so easy. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via @theallaround)

Hiroshima.

Vault
1- WANG Yan CHN 14.987 pts
2- MIYAKAWA Sae JPN 14.812 pts
3- KARMAKAR Dipa IND 14.725 pts

Bars
1- ZHU Xiaofang CHN 15.050 pts
2- SUGIHARA Aiko JPN 14.675 pts
3- FAN Yilin CHN 14.450 pts

Beam
1- FAN Yilin CHN 14.550 pts
2- TERAMOTO Asuka JPN 14.475 pts
3- WANG Yan CHN 14.425 pts 14.425 pts

Floor
1- WANG Yan CHN 14.575 pts
2- SUGIHARA Aiko JPN 14.350 pts
3- MIYAKAWA Sae JPN 13.600 pts

full results

A very good competition for Japan. At home.

Hiroshima.

Floor
1- SHIRAI Kenzo JPN 16.450 pts
2- HAYASAKA Naoto JPN 15.650 pts
3- SHAULOV Eduard UZB 14.575 pts

Pommel
1- KAYA Kazuma JPN 15.600 pts
2- XIAO Ruoteng CHN 15.575 pts
3- JAMEI Abdollah IRI 14.675 pts

4- KEIKHA Saeed Reza IRI 14.575 pts

Congratulations to Iran on their Bronze medal! And for taking 4th place on this apparatus, as well.

Rings
1- YAMAMURO Koji JPN 15.525 pts
2- CHEN Chih-Yu TPE 15.450 pts
3- KUDRATULLAYEV Azizbek KAZ 15.200 pts

Vault
1- SHEK Wai Hung HKG 15.162 pts
2- SHIRAI Kenzo JPN 14.575 pts
3- KIM Hansol KOR 14.562 pts

Parallel Bars
1- HE Youxiao CHN 15.625 pts
2- ZHU Xiaodong CHN 15.550 pts
3- KAYA Kazuma JPN 15.275 pts

Horizontal Bar
1- TANAKA Yusuke JPN 15.550 pts
2- SHEK Wai Hung HKG 14.500 pts
3- LEE Junho KOR 14.175 pts

full results

Uchimura sat out this meet and the All-Japan individual event championships in June with a shoulder injury. He wants to be healthy for Worlds.

Much less scary than in the past. You can actually watch this one from Asian Championships.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Still, WAY over-scored at 15.325. FIG simply must do something to properly evaluate the “canon ball” landing. 😦

via GymFever2012

Bekah put together infographics of the (proposed) changes to NCAA Championships.

… Not as Bad as You Think

Click through to see them all. They are NOT all as bad I as I thought.