Marian Dragulescu – 1st Worlds video

On this successful comeback, Marian visited just about everybody in Glasgow. With his selfie stick. Mr. Congeniality. 🙂

Here’s the result.

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Marian did earn a personal invitation to the Rio Olympics due to his Vault medal.

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maximum # of tumbling passes?

Anna Rose Johnson:

When Eythora Thorsdottir of the Netherlands introduced her new floor routine this year, the gymnastics community went into shock. Her routine consisted of only two tumbling passes, while the norm for elite gymnasts is four passes—or at least three. …

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Eythora Thorsdottir and Coach Patrick Kiens are interviewed on GymCastic this week.

“Do you think the maximum number of women’s floor exercise tumbling passes should be limited to 2 or 3, instead of 4?”

Of the 333 votes in the poll, 31% said ‘yes’, and 69% said ‘no’.

Should women’s floor exercise have only 2 or 3 tumbling passes?

Click through to see Kristina Comforte, Sarah Finnegan, Rebecca Bross, Chelsea Davis and Carly Patterson quoted.

I voted 3 tumbling passes maximum.

FloGymnastics documentary – Simone Biles

Episode one premieres December 16th for paid members.

Watch the trailer here.

3 1/2 punch 2/1 twist

Muntean Andrei training Kenzo’s mount.

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Elsa Garcia – Bars

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related – Exciting Lives: Elsa Garcia and Ana Lago

Both Elsa and Ana are expected to compete at the Test Meet in Rio. Elsa was the Mexican gymnast that qualified to the London Olympics.

Bellu, Bitang Back for Romania

Legendary Romanian coaches Octavian Bellu and Mariana Bitang will return as coaches of the Romanian women’s team through next spring to help secure Olympic qualification.

The Romanian women finished a worst ever 13th at October’s world championships in Glasgow, failing to automatically qualify to next summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The team has one more chance to qualify via the test event in April in Rio, where they must finish in the top four teams to advance to the Olympics. …

Amanda Turner

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another Kenzo upgrade?

He’s been using a Side Somi with 1/2 twist (C part).

An Arabian double pike would fill the requirement with a higher start.

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Danusia Francis interview

Click PLAY or watch it on UCLA Bruins. (pre-roll ad)

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Gymnastics drone video?

Scott Morgan is working on one. 🙂

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