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From Rebecca Sykes.

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Big Swing will like this one. 🙂

via Tony Retrosi

Sargis Siradegyan sKT posted this interesting variation in flare.

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The hands should be parallel on each step or take a deduction for skew.

I asked Canadian Head Coach Tony Smith his opinion on skew deduction in 2013. He feels most gymnast are getting deducted. But that those with a very high start score get deducted less than the rest.

Mitigation.

If possible, use other (less deductible) D elements instead.

Danusia Francis will have the most talked about Beam routine in the NCAA this season.

http://seenive.com/v/1025504543498452992/embed?mute=1

Click PLAY or watch the full routine on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/OTU3NzI2ODE2?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of 2014 UCLA Gymnastics on gymnastike.org

Watch the interview with Danusia.

Leon Purvis, that Gabby Douglas stalker 🙂 , finally got to chat with our Olympic Champion.

He assumes that Gabby wants to date all the fans she chats with …

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Gabby’s been training at Chris Waller’s club.

Short film by Nicolas Devaux.

Produced by Cube Creative Productions & Orange.

With the participation of Arte, the support of the City of Paris and the partnership of CNC.

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Thanks Stu.

Extreme basketball dunking. Fliffus, gainer, crash dives!

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Thanks Brett.

Canadian FISU team competitor Sarah Flett.

Our World Floor Champion was the youngest competitor in Antwerp at age-17. He’s been competing highest level difficulty combinations on FX for years!

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D – 6.9
E – 8.750
Final score = 15.650

Uncle Tim predicts it might be 10yrs before we see another gymnast who can twist like this.

GymCastic named Kyla one of the most interesting gymnasts of 2013. 🙂

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Thanks James.

The new Gym Geek blog summarizes recent discussion on artistry in gymnastics, comparing wildly different types of routines:

• Viktoria Komova vs. Lloimincia Hall – floor routines

• Nastia Liukin vs. Shawn Johnson – Beijing beam

… I for one find it very interesting that many fans mis-label elegance as artistry.

As elegance is a more quantifiable and narrower subset of artistry, it would seem that it would be easier to judge and reward within the code.

However, is this really a goal to strive for?

In the case of Simone Biles or Shawn Johnson, their artistry may very well lie in their power and execution of tremendous tumbling and their ability to sell a routine to the crowd. …

Gym Geek – Fans don’t REALLY want more artistic gymnastics

That is must read for anyone interested in the artistry dilemma.

My own solution to the dilemma is simple. Drop deductions for artistry from the Code. Reward difficulty, but only when very well executed.

Prior to the 2004 Olympics Courtney McCool was my favourite to win the AA. As clean and precise as any gymnast in Athens.

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That’s one of MCSMaria’s favourite routines.

Courtney went on to win NCAA titles on Beam, Floor and Team. 🙂

Thanks Marcus.