Wowser. 🙂
She works that rail like Nastia.
On GymCastics I heard that Catherine had the highest E score on all 4 apparatus at European Jr Championships AA Finals. All hail.
related – more posts mentioning Geinger
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Bars – wrists and thumbs
Small sample study in wrist shift and thumb use during level 3 bar skills.
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Personally I don’t like to much mention grip change and thumb position to gymnasts. Instead, I do specific drills to improve the grip change. Double back hip circle for female beginners. Various sole circle series, both forward & backward.
Don’t be too dogmatic on wrists and thumbs. It’s not critical.
Safest is for girls to keep their thumbs around or partly around in support, with the fingers or half way around during swing.
Look at what’s really happening on Porgras’ Stalder 1 1/2 to Jaeger.
That .gif was linked by paksalto.
best SPOT ever
A CCTV camera caught a man successfully catching a one-year-old boy after the child fell from an apartment building during a heavy rainstorm in China’s Guangdong Province.
Reuters reports that the child may have escaped through a window in his second-story home while looking for his mother. …
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Bar wrist rips?
Leave a comment if you have tips on first preventing, then treating wrist rips?
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Thanks.
It’s a dilemma.
Nile Wilson – Floor
Jr Euros: Wilson, Starikov, Bevan
More good performances from the GBR lads in the Jr Europeans AA competition.
Rise and shine on a podium: Wilson (GBR) does! Starikov (RUS) and Bevan (GBR) assisting… #EChSofia2014 pic.twitter.com/NqVPSBhvUE
— 2014SofiaWAGMAGECH (@2014SofiaECH) May 23, 2014
Lauren Mitchell – Beam
Lauren is back. We should be cheering her at Commonwealths and Worlds.
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That’s from the AA Final. I’m still looking for her (unbelievable) 15.5 Apparatus Final routine.
Seems she’s getting credited for full difficulty.
Here’s her Day 1 routine, not nearly as good.
inflatable Gymnastic Air Floor
Now this would be fun.
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Note the video does not show many landings.
Force elastic surfaces are great for take-offs, not nearly so good for landings. I’d use landing mats to absorb impact if I was lucky enough to use one of these.
What’s the price?
I don’t know. You’d need to email my friends at Eurogym in Belgium to find out. 🙂
info (a) eurogym.be
Huang Huidan’s new Bar dismount
via GymScoop.com
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Here’s her Gold medal winning routine at Worlds 2013.
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Tatiana Groshkova – 1990 Floor
Double full-in, tuck out.
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Queen E:
This is the best video of this outstanding floor routine that exists to my knowledge. Groshkova has never competed at World Championships; her light shone all too briefly when she won a silver medal at 1990 Europeans. …
Tatiana trained at Moscow Dynamo where her personal coach was Elvira Saadi …
The genius of Tatiana Groshkova
The only other female gymnast who competed it, that I can recall, was Alexis Brion (1995) from Excalibur. In pike.
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