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Post by MG Elite Girls.
Mallakhamb competitors
Indian pole gymnastics.
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Why do these kids have to wear bathing suits to compete?
Thanks Vadim.
Du-Shaunt “Fik-Shun” Stegall
I think he can dance. 🙂
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He was one of the winners of SYTYCD 2013.
Thank Vadim Golub for the link.
USA Men’s Nat Qualifier
2014 Men’s National Qualifier July 19-20
2013 World bronze medalists John Orozco of the Bronx, N.Y./Team Hilton HHonors, and Brandon Wynn of Voorhees, N.J./Team Hilton HHonors, headline the field of the 2014 Men’s National Qualifier July 19-20 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The event is the last opportunity for men to qualify for the 2014 P&G Gymnastics Championships in Pittsburgh, Pa., in August …
roof flyaway double back
H Bar – Shaham
That comes from this longer video – Kovacs 3/2 twist – Noam Shaham.
P Bars – double front pike half
The Strangest Sport
Gaar Adams:
In 1936, a troupe of 35 acrobats from a small town in Central India traveled to the Berlin Olympic Games to demonstrate the ancient sport of Mallakhamb. At a formal gala convened by the International Olympic Committee, athletics officials and eager media from around the world gathered to witness the 900-year-old exotic sport’s global unveiling. The team’s intricate feats of contortion, strength, and death-defying gymnastics atop a skinny, eight-and-a-half foot pole thrilled Adolf Hitler; the Führer personally bestowed each acrobat with an honorary Olympic medal before the group returned to India.
The world’s first real glimpse of this curious athletic form was also its last. But today, in the lush highlands that hug sprawling Mumbai, this peculiar sport with apparatuses that look uncannily like medieval torture devises is still practiced. …
Athletes perform 90-second routines packed with intricate skill combinations as a panel of three judges assesses each competitor’s speed, grace, and difficulty on one of the sport’s three apparatuses: Pole Mallakhamb, Hanging Mallakhamb, or Rope Mallakhamb. …
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Beam – flic LO LO LO
SEC coaches – “Sarah & Suzanne”
Watch that documentary on the great rivalry between the Alabama and Georgia head coaches on College Gymnastics Board. (52min)
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