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Emily Gaskins – training
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Haley de Jong – Beam
Elite Canada 2015 Junior competition.
Great potential. Layout step-out to layout two foot.
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She trains at Flicka in Vancouver.
Oklahoma 198.150
… Oklahoma captured event titles on all four events, paced by a pair of crowns for Chayse Capps on beam (9.95) and vault (9.95). Haley Scaman tied with Capps for top honors on vault, while McKenzie Wofford earned her third straight event title on bars with a 9.95.
The dynamic true freshman duo of Brenna Dowell and Ali Jackson rounded out the titles for Oklahoma, tying for top honors on floor with identical 9.95 efforts. …
LSU 198.075
For the third time in program history, the third-ranked LSU gymnastics team earned a 198 score as the Tigers knocked off No. 9 Georgia, 198.075-196.850 …
Senior Rheagan Courville tied the second-best all-around total in LSU history with a career-high 39.825. Courville won vault, bars, floor and the all-around titles outright, and she tied Ashleigh Gnat and Erin Macadaeg for the beam title. …
LSU was without the services of senior all-arounder Jessie Jordan who suffered a minor injury during vault warmups and was held out of the competition for precautionary reasons.
“Jessie pulled something in her upper back or in her neck during vault warmups, and we caught it when she tried to warm up during bars,” Breaux said. …
read more – LSU Sports
Uncle Tim and BBS weren’t completely convinced by some of those scores. Still, without Jessie this team can score. That’s depth. Like Florida.
Ragan Smith – standing pike 1/1
Norah Flatley – stoop Endo el-grip
Has that skill ever been competed?
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@NastiaFan101 notes it’s a very unusual technique. She “stoops in”. Straddles out. Deduction for brushing the Bar it seems. He notes that Maloney did something very similar, but looks to have intended to touch the rail (toe-on, toe-off) rather than to miss it completely as Norah was trying.
Update. Jacob thinks she touched the rail deliberately, as Maloney did.
He could be right. Another of Chow’s gymnasts, Victoria Nguyen, is clearly doing the el-grip toe-on, toe-off.
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2 Aliyas
An interesting montage. When she’s ON, Aliya is very difficult to deduct. But there are times when she’s off.
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In 2010 she was the dominant gymnast in the world. Confident, healthy, strong. Unbeatable
But since the knee surgery, she’s been something of an enigma, usually surprising me with how well she scores.
In the end Aliya has only one major weakness – form in twisting. Check this telling post – Aliya Mustafina’s Vault From 2006 ’til 2014.
Some people feel her form is improving recently. I’m not so sure. Once this bad habit is repeated thousands of times at a young age, it’s very difficult to fix. Coaches should get it right at the beginning.
via GymFever2012
Michael Reid – Pommels
Judges are instructed to deduct almost everyone for height on scissors. Very few guys (not named Berki) can get the lower hip high enough.
Michael Reid can.
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Stick it Media has a good wrap-up on where we’re at, so far, with the Men’s NCAA – Cal Posts School Record Team Score, Led by Wolting and Zemeir
Orozco training Air Flare
the newest Memmel
See the photo on twitter.
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