An excerpt from the 2013 FloGymnastics Beyond the Routine documentary.
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Dad was a baseball player.
Alina Kabaeva profile
Alina Kabaeva is one of the most decorated gymnasts in Rhythmic Gymnastic history, with 2 Olympic medals, 14 World Championship medals, and 25 European Championship medals…
Kabaeva was among the six Russian athlete torch bearers who carried the Olympic flame through Fisht Stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. …
Click PLAY or watch an interview from before her first Olympics on YouTube. She is a very confident athlete.
She’s no longer a Russian parliamentarian, by the way.
Athen’s Olympics Men’s competition was a MESS
ILLYRIA BURKLE summarizes:
– In the all around, almost all the top contenders have a major mistake/fall (Paul Hamm, Ioan Silviu Suciu, Hiroyuki Tomita, Yang Wei, Marian Dragulescu, etc.)
– Yang Tae-Young was mistakenly credited with a 9.9 start value instead of a 10 like he was in the qualifying and team competitions, costing him the gold medal in the all around. Oscar Buitrago Reyes of Colombia, Benjamin Bango of Spain, and the head judge George Beckstead of the United States were all suspended for the mistake. …
read more – 2004 MAG
And who was the Men’s Head Judge?
introducing SPRING from the arms on Tramp
Best practice is to start from hands & knees drop.
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Jeff Bender 1992 Horizontal Bar
Mounts with what we called in my Gym a ‘Jonah Back’. (Perhaps wrongly using the Trampoline term.)
Coach Dave Juszczyk called it the “Mind Bender”, I believe.
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Leave a comment if you have a name for that skill.
via Gymnastics – A Golden Era
Kang Xin 2001 Beam
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the Ferrari is still improving
Note the long pauses before tumbling in 2008.
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via Gymternet Clan
Jordan Chiles – Amanar
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sport science for Rhythmic Gymnasts
Michael Jackson ONE acrobats
It’s a shocker to see the bounce landings performed on Air Floor in this show.
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