I like John to challenge for an AA medal at the Rio Olympics.
You need both Pommels and Rings to aspire to that podium.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (4 handstands)
John was disappointed with his 5th AA finish at the DTB World Cup.
Oleg Verniaiev 92.165
Oleg finally HIT. 🙂
Congratulations.
1. Oleg Verniaiev 92.165
2. Fabian Hambuchen 90.264
3. Daniel Purvis 89.931.
full AA results (PDF)
DTB World Cup
graphic via via gymfanconfessions on Tumblr
MIGHT be good strategy. Huge start scores early in the Quad. Stabilize those routines in the lead-up to Rio.
Trampolinist Natalie Burr’s recovery
Here’s a good news story. 🙂
Mail Online:
‘I was determined to walk down the aisle’: Trampolinist left paralysed fulfills her wedding dream thanks to her own tenacity and support of fiance
Natalie Burr, 30, from Maidstone, Kent was an Olympic hopeful
Was training for World Championships when she fell in 2007
Fireman fiancé Shane helped her recover and they married in 2009
Became a mother to daughter Holly in 2012
Now coaches trampolining
Couple shortlisted for Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year Awards
Michigan’s Oakland Gymnastics
Kim Dowis filmed the workout.
Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/NjE2NzI1Mzgz?related=1&autoplay=false
Watch more video of Workout Wednesday, Season 5 on gymnastike.org
People are awesome 2013
I’m a sucker for these videos. It’s a guilty pleasure.
There are a number of acrobatic stunts I’ve never seen before in this edit.
The highlight for me is the very last stunt. So simple. So terrifying.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Popa, Nichols, Ernst
WOW. Check these scores …
Roxana Popa ESP 57.350
Maggie Nichols USA 57.300
Peyton Ernst USA 57.150
Chusovitina UZB 55.80
Scott Bregman via email:
Maggie Nichols of Little Canada, Minn./Twin City Twisters, and Peyton Ernst of Coppell, Texas/Texas Dreams, won the silver and bronze, respectively, in the all-around today at the 2013 Mexican Open in Acapulco, Mexico.
Popa was born in Romania but trained in Spain after her family moved there for work.
In Antwerp she finished 12th AA 53.366.
Click PLAY or watch her World’s Bars on YouTube.
related – TCG 15 Questions: Roxana Popa
In the men’s competition:
1 Jossimar Calvo (COL) 90.50
2. Nikita Ignatyev (RUS) 87.95
3. Koji Uematsu (JPN) 87.050
4. Zhang Yang (CHN) 86.30
5. Josh Dixon (USA) 85.250
detailed results on IG – Popa, Calvo Claim Victories at Mexican Open
Ebee Price wins Stuttgart
1. Elisabeth Price (USA) : 58.032
2. Larisa Iordache (ROM) : 57.998 (with fall on Bars)
3. Vanessa Ferrari (ITA) : 56.866
4. Giuila Steingruber (SUI) : 56.699
5. Ruby Harrold (GBR) : 55.099
full results (PDF)
Click PLAY or watch her Amanar on YouTube.
Watch her other 3 routines on the USAG YouTube channel.
Read Bea Gheorghisor’s commentary on the LIVE video stream. She felt Ebee was “using about 70% of her potential”.
cast handstand ‘dump’
Before you can start working cast on a Bar, young gymnasts need to be comfortable leaning forward. Falling over.
Back in the day we called this drill a ‘dump’.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Swing Big)
tour jeté full
It’s really difficult to do twisting leaps well.
The Gym Press on Facebook linked to a good one.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Yao Jinnan – Bars
UB TQ 2013 DTB Cup, Stuttgart
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
6.5 + 9.0 = 15.5
9.0 execution?
Too high.
9.1 is “perfect” in 2013. And that was far from perfect. In fact, that kind of grip shuffling in handstand is embarrassing for one of the best gymnasts in the world.
That was piibunina‘s video #3,332.
What would we do without him?
