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Inspiring.

It’s great to see Nakayama again, my boyhood hero.

A couple of the choices are surprising. Dityatin and Bilozerchev would be the first to tell you that Ring strength was their greatest weakness.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (10min)

(via the Gymnastic Bodies blog – Lords of the Rings)

Andy Thorton:

As you may know, a “Ri Jong Song” is a triple twisting double back on floor (named for the Korean who competed it in Athens in 2004). There have been a very small handful of other gymnasts who have competed or at least done this skill on the real floor…Justin Spring and Kohei Uchimura to name a couple.

Want to see it stuck perfectly in competition? Germany’s Marcel Nguyen did just that in the all-around competition of the Japan Cup this weekend. This video shows four of his routines, but his floor routine starts right at 3:00. …

Click PLAY or watch Marcel Nguyen PB, HB, FX, PH 2010 Japan Cup on YouTube. Or you can jump directly to Floor by clicking here.

Andy Thornton – American Gymnast – Smooth Skills…Incredible STUCK tumbling pass!

Russia dominated the competition in Japan last weekend. The talk of the meet, however, was this new skill.

You could call it a “layout Ray Church“.

I’m going to call it a Nabieva. Awesome.

It’s at 6min 20sec on this YouTube clip from Japanese TV. Or you can jump directly to that skill here.

… What a shame she didn’t Pak out.

Couch Gymnast:

Remember cute little Hannah Whelan? She was the tiny little thing in the British Beijing Olympic Team, who then kind of disappeared off the International elite scene?

Well, it seem the gymnast, who trains at Liverpoool under Sarah Attwell has been nursing a wrist inury for the last while. She is all grown up and, it seems, she is back and in form, as she has taken the senior AA title at the British National Championships (57.800), followed by Nicole Hibbert (55.80) and then, in third place was Danusia Francis (55.350). …

Hannah said: “ I’m really, really happy! I didn’t have any aims or expectations coming into the competition. So to then go out and win is just incredible. I’ve had injury problems so to then return and become British Champion is fantastic.”

According to the British Gymnastics website via Couch Gymnast

Beth Tweddle competed only bars, easily winning.

Sisters Venus and Angel Romaeo are names to remember.

JUNIOR ALL-AROUND
1. Laura Mitchell 54.300
2. Rebecca Tunney 53.900
3. Venus Romaeo 53.200

results and details on IG – Whelan, Mitchell Win British Championships

Competition was June 26-July 2 in Virginia Beach, VA.

Click PLAY or watch Kalon Ludvigson Tumbling on YouTube.

And another pass on YouTube.

Some results and photos were posted by USAG.

Click through to see a HUGE photo (slow loading) of all 1800 competitors at the 2010 Championships.

A fun photo slideshow from the Calgary Gymnastics Centre Trampoline and Tumbling team.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Team CGC TV on YouTube

Thanks Brett.

Tom Forster’s gym, Aerials Gymnastics in Colorado Springs, has these floor bars that Tom made, with octagonal wheels on the ends- 4 sides longer than the other 4.

A common drill for swinging is to have gymnasts practice backward roll to push-up to reinforce the candlestick shape and scooping action that becomes critical for good barwork. With Tom’s floor bar, the gymnast can actually grab a real bar to simulate a baby giant or extend the shoulders open and bring it up to a handstand to simulate the giant swing. The octagonal ends forces the gymnast to work on shifting the wrists ….

Click PLAY or watch it demonstrated on YouTube.

(via Gymnastics Crossing)

Afanasyeva scored 58.350. Uchimura an intimidating 93.450.

Breaking via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook

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Fabian Hambuechen on Facebook:

” I hate pommel horse and I will hate it forever…my all around was good, just PH sucks…but I´m back in the all around and it feels great…I´ll be back at worlds!!!”

Fab scored a disastrous 12.550 on Horse, still finishing with 88.70 AA, 6th.
UPDATE – watch his PB, HB and FX on YouTube

MAG and WAG AA results (PDF)

I actually prefer straddle giant. … When well done.

Great giant on the girls uneven bars showing an excellent straddle tap technique narrated by Tom Forster.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

One additional tip: If the girls “toe out” while straddling, they often feel more confident that they won’t hit their toes. It also makes the feet look more stretched from the side, the judge’s angle.

Tom has 2 GymSmarts Bars DVDs.

(via Gymnastics Crossing)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.