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It won’t be difficult to remember the name of Daniel Iley, the Edinburgh-born gymnast.

He’s hoping to qualify to the Commonwealth Games Team competing in Scotland this summer.

He admits that things can get confusing on the Daniel front. “Dan Purvis is ‘Danny P’ and Dan Keatings we refer to as ‘Keatings’. I’m ‘Apples,'” said Iley.

Click PLAY or watch his Pommels on YouTube.

With Purvis, Keatings and Baines in stellar form, it is his belief that everyone else is realistically battling it out for two spots. “I do feel sorry for whoever has to make that decision because it’s going to be tough one,” said Iley. “We have three guys who are among the best in the world and they are going to be the core of the team.

“Then there are six or seven of us fighting for those two remaining places. …

Same name, same talent shown by the third Dan

They’ll be looking for a few BIG scores to bolster Purvis, Keatings and Baines. No doubt

A highlights clip from Gator Zome.

Check Bridget’s extraordinary Bars tap for double layout. It’s even bigger than last year, I believe.

http://www.gatorvision.tv//mediaPortal/embed.swf

(via Balance Beam Situation)

related – NCAA Champs again! Gator gymnasts share NCAA Super Six team title with Oklahoma

Florida was the favourite this season. I’ve got a feeling they’ll not be the favourite come Championships 2015. Too many other teams are catching up.

Stanford with Ebee Price? 🙂

May 9th we’ll learn more about how FIG World Cup meets will lead to Olympic qualification.

FIG Press Operations Officer Philippe Silacci:

“The FIG will dramatically redesign its calendar and thereby its Olympic qualifications system,” he stressed.

Silacci went on to say that the new rules will not affect the tournaments within the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, and will come into effect at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

“The objective is Tokyo 2020. Indeed, such decisions will affect all the rules that govern artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline gymnastics: Codes of Points and Technical Regulations,” he said.

Silacci also stressed that time will be necessary to adjust and to test all the new procedures. …

Trend

(via GymCastic)

Looks legit.

He joined April 28th.

Belu on Facebook

mustdefine quotes the Romanian coach:

Yes, this time it’s true, this is an official page and I owe this to Diana and Larisa, our ‘specialists’ in the field.

I will try to get into the swirl of the internet and I hope I can keep up with it these day when I’m really busy. …

Vault is the worst judged apparatus in College Gymnastics.

In fact, it’s a disaster. Fans sitting close to the Vault table at Championships 2014 (including me) were livid at times watching blatant injustice directly in front of our eyes.

Obviously inferior vaults would score the same as much better vaults. Or even higher in some cases.

Merde. 😦

That said, the NCAA has fixed the biggest problem already. September 2012 WAG NCAA finally decided to eliminate the required dangerous 2nd vault in Finals. To “lessen the possibility of injuries“.

In 2008 (the bad old days) Susan Jackson won Vault. She rarely trained her 2nd vault. And only into pit.

Pretty much everyone agrees, including Miss Val, that there are too many Yurchenko 1/1s in the NCAA.

One way to solve that problem is to make Yurchenko 1/1 start at 9.95.

The 10.0 start would be reserved for Yurchenko 1 1/2 and a list of more advanced vaults.

That would solve most of the problem, right there.

In 2014 there’s too much emphasis on landing. Nebraska happened to stick in Championships prelims. I recall the year Stanford happened to stick. Landings are important, but not that important.

If you follow this site regularly you know I want landings rewarded that best absorb impact forces safely.

Uchimura-type landings.

Tory

Any set of rules that rewards gymnasts for landing with feet together and torso vertical is increasing the risk of injury on landing.

If not by lucky landings, how should we separate the best from the rest?

• add grid lines to the landing mat to check alignment and distance. Reward vaults that are straight, high and long relative to height of the gymnast.

Trampoline has added “flight time” as a component of their scoring. It works. Those spending the most time in the air are rewarded. If you have a video analysis system than can measure flight time of postflight, let’s try it out a competitions next season. Time is height.

• add 0.25 final score increments in competitions with more than 2 teams. That way we’ll have fewer ties, as well.

Leave a comment if you have additional ideas for improving Vault judging.

related

• Gymnastike – Preview: NCAA Vault Final 2014

• FIXING College Bars Judging

Thanks for the memories.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

One of the few incentives left for ORIGINALITY under FIG rules is to get a skill (or sequence) named.

Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) – 2014

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Inside Gymnastics posted a 40min video interview. McKayla’s still training for Rio. And wants to be remembered when she (eventually) retires.

I don’t think we’ll ever forget the height of her vaulting. 🙂

That screen grab was posted by Stoi. From the 2012 Olympic Trials. A timer.

Amanda Turner:

The European Gymnastics Union released an initial nominative roster for the men’s European championships, taking place May 18-25 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The men’s competition comes on the heels of the women’s European championships, May 12-17, and will follow the same format. The seniors will compete for honors in the team and individual apparatus, while there will be a full junior competition with team, all-around and apparatus titles. …

Led by reigning European all-around champion David Belyavsky, a strong Russian team will try to defeat defending titlists Great Britain. …

IG

I’m liking Team GBR to defend.

Daniel Keatings
Sam Oldham
Daniel Purvis
Kristian Thomas
Max Whitlock

One of the founding Technical Committee members for the NEW sport (decades ago), I’m proud of how far T&T has come in Alberta. 🙂