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WAG competed 3 apparatus, MAG competed 4.

1. Larisa Iordache ROU 43.500 (VT 14.9 / BB 14.050 / FX 14.55)
2. Pauline Schaefer GER 41.500 (VT 14.3 / BB 13.7 / FX 13.95)
3. Diana Bulimar ROU 41.400 (VT 13.85 / BB 13.6 / FX 13.950)

1. Oleg Verniaiev UKR 61.800 (PH 15.5 / SR 14.9 / VT 15.2 / PB 16.2)
2. Kaya Kazuma JPN 59.950 (PH 15.3 / VT 15.05 / PB 14.7 / HB 14.9)
3. Christian Baumann SUI 58.300 (PH 14.1 / VT 14.25 / PB 15.25 / HB 14.7)

results on Full Twist

Zachary Clay from Canada suffered an ACL injury on Floor. 😦

Amanda Turner has a write-up on the meet.

Why do Larisa and Oleg compete so much?

Good question. Prize money is part of the answer.

Bounce Inc. Freerun Terrain Park

Aside from the usual Damien awesomeness 🙂 check the unusual camera angles & actions used by Joe O’Brien.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I just voted in this fan poll. #GYMMYs2015

U.S. Domestic Elite Awards, International Elite Awards and NCAA Collegiate Awards.

You need not vote in every category. Some have a blank where you can write-in your own favourite.

Saturday December 26, 2015 is the closing date. Winners to be announced early in the new year.

Start here.

I can use this simple training aid.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The more visual information, the better. This kind of thing leads directly to Tumbl Trak’s Laser Beam.

Click PLAY or watch the repeat World Champion on YouTube.

Last year he could barely walk. He looked much healthier in 2015. Very happy to land on his feet on both of those near impossible vaults.

#Glasgow2015 Beam silver medalist Sanne Wevers recalculates her score immediately after her routine. It was appealed. And her score was raised 0.1, one of very few successful appeals at Worlds.

(via Turn News)

The biggest sensation in Glasgow – especially for the Europeans who did not know him – was Silver AA medalist Manrique Larduet from Cuba. 19yrs-old, 160 cm (5ft 3in), 63kg (139lb).

He’s going to improve a lot before Rio.

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Recall the Adult Gymnastics Camp in Portsmouth, NH – at Atlantic Gymnastics – July, 2015?

Watch some video from that Camp here.

Their 1st Winter Camp is Jan 16-18, 2016. Deadline for registration is Nov. 16th.

18+ WAG and MAG welcomed. Training will take place on WAG events as well as tumbletrak, tramp, rings and strap bar.

We need more camps like this. 🙂

There was far less controversy regarding judging at Worlds 2015 than at Worlds past. 🙂

One of the biggest issues was the ranking of the top Floor finalists. The GOLD on floor was 2nd place, seeing as Simone was in the Final.

Click PLAY or watch Sae Miyakawa’s routine on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Margaret Nichols’s routine on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Ksenia Afanasyeva’s routine on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Chunsong Shang’s routine on YouTube.

At the time I thought Sae’s crazy difficult tumbling would win her the medal.

full results

PQST linked to a heart warming story – Fan Yilin Gives the Best Birthday Present to Her Coach:

During her time at Glasgow World Championships, Fan Yilin shared a room with one of her coaches, Xu Jinglei. …

“I think it’s November 1st in Beijing time? November first is my birthday, and this is the most valuable present Yilin could have given me.

“She performed superbly,” coach Xu continued, “this is her first time participating in the World championships, and the fact that she could get into the finals and experience the process of competing with the best, all the while performing to her full potential—I am extremely proud of her! …

“She knows what her D score is, so of course, she has expectations for herself, she knows how people talk about her online, how people feels that since she’s got the highest difficulty, if she can perform without error, she can reach the top of the podium. To the honest, before the actual competition, I don’t want her to hear those things, because she’s still young, I worry that she would feel more pressured and be unable to cope with it …

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And how did Fan Yilin’s Bar routine go? Not well. In the end she had to SHARE her Gold medal. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch her Finals routine on YouTube.

Interestingly, she used a different dismount just a few months ago to win Chinese Nationals.

Click PLAY or watch that routine on YouTube. {6.7 + 0.1 bonus} + 8.4 = 15.2 – 1st

piibunina was there filming that meet, as he so often is. He was in Glasgow, as well. Every coach should be subscribed to his YouTube channel. He has about 7.5 million views, so far. Some really unique stuff including training hall footage from Worlds.

related – Consensus opinion online is that Komova was the best of the 4 Gold medalists. But that there is not much harm done by having no tie break at Worlds. It was fun. Nellie Kim, when asked, said that kind of thing is the decision of the FIG Executive, not the Technical committees.