reenacting gymnastics history

British Gymnastics:

1988 marked 100 years of gymnastics in Britain – get a glimpse of how the sport has changed in this exclusive event held in the Wembley Arena.

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British girls wore leotards for the first time in … 1960.

USA and British Gymnastics are the two best organizations for posting video.

How does your nation compare?

Komova 7.3 Beam

Viktoria Komova or Anna Rodionova for Worlds?

RRG:

… If Komova is ready, she will compete either bars or beam or both but, it seems, not all around.…

In 2009 Russia’s Viktoria Komova performed an incredibly difficult beam routine. She did two F rated acrobatic elements “Arabian” and “Full twisting back tuck”. She also did the Arabian with an amazing rare acro series ” back handspring, layout step out, Arabian”. She ended her routine with a G rated dismount.

wogymnastike

IF you give her everything.

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Luo Huan – Beam

When’s the last time you saw double pike dismount with toes pointed? 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (15.067)

I understand she’s the current Jr. national champ on Vault and Bars, age eligible for Rio. Second AA Jr for girls aged 13 and under.

See Couch Gymnast – 2013 Chinese Junior Nationals: Recap and video

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high D-score Bars

A few of the high difficulty sets we might see at Worlds.

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I’m guessing Aliya will up her difficulty for Apparatus Finals, assuming she qualifies.

AA scores from Team

Chinese National Games

AA (unofficial) calculated from Team Finals competition.

1.) Shang Chunsong 56.901
2.) Lv Jiaqi 55.401
3t) Huang Qiushuang and Zeng Siqi 55.334
5.) Xiao Kangjun 54.868
6.) Liu Tingting 54.735
7.) Yao Jinnan 54.068

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The AA Final is coming up.

CND Champion Elijah Thompson

The toughest division to win in Canadian Men’s Gymnastics is the youngest (age-12 and under).

In 2013 the winner was Elijah Thompson, coached by Miguel Costante & Scott Rayment at Calgary Gymnastics Centre.

Results (PDF)

Watch an interview by 2004 Olympic Floor Gold medalist Kyle Shewfelt.

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Kyle was the one who inspired Elijah to start his own Right to Play page.

Elijah’s raised nearly $4000 for the charity.

A group of athletes and coaches from Alberta trained in China this summer. They told me the biggest gap between the Canadians and Chinese boys of the same age is Parallel Bars. Since their return, Elijah’s working hard to upgrade P Bars and H Bar.

Shixiong, Rongbing, Shudi

China not nearly as weak in the AA as we thought.

The All Around Gymnastics News:

The top 3 at Chinese National Games MAG AA final score above 90 points

1. Zhou Shixiong 90.269
2. Liu Rongbing 90.135
3. Deng Shudi 90.035

Click PLAY or watch Zhou Shixiong’s H Bar from earlier this season on YouTube.

Worlds 2014 will be held in Nanning, China.

Ukrainian Gymnastics rap

Featuring Igor Radilov, London Olympic Bronze medalist on Vault.

This is good. High production values.

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