Only ONE DAY left at the #WChAntwerp.
Highlights montage of some very tough ladies.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Individual Worlds format?
Who should compete Worlds?
Too few spots are available at Olympics to showcase the very best gymnasts in the World.
Assuming FIG keeps Trampoline and Rhythmic, there’s not likely to be an increase in the number of Artistic Olympians.
It would seem logical to offer more places at Worlds.
Post-Olympics we have Individual Worlds. In Belgium any nation can bring up to 4 women, 6 men.
That’s very inclusive of the smaller nations. This competition was, perhaps, too inclusive. Any coach can point out some athletes that shouldn’t have been competing. Either due to injury. Or because the gymnast truly wasn’t at a high enough level.
But the 4/6 numbers to me already seems unfair. To the ladies.
Better would be up to 6 women and 6 men. Or up to 5 women and 5 men, if time doesn’t allow six.
Why not?
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If a gymnast flies to Belgium, they should compete. It’s a waste of time & money to have Brenna Dowell uninjured, training — and not competing.
Click PLAY or watch Brenna’s Bars in training on YouTube.
No coach needs to stand in. Brenna is confident on those releases.
More Bars training video.
Al Fong’s opinions on the situation.*
Every gymnast registered for Individual Worlds should get to compete.
Why not?
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I’m one of the few who likes the 2 gymnast / nation to Finals rule. That would stay.
If Romania happened to have the top 6 gymnasts on Beam in prelims one year, only two would advance to the Beam Final.
Blog comments are a poor place to have a conversation. But leave a comment if you like. I’d be happy to put up your opinion as a “guest post” if you have any other alternatives to the current rules.
related – Bruno Grandi wants to again change the World Cup format
Janssen-Fritsen VIP lounge
A of retreat from the craziness of the World Gymnastics Championships.
So elegant and exclusive, my credentials can’t get me in.
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Aliya and Alexandrov
… Aliya says that in beam qualifying she was much worse than in the (AA) final, and yet the score was about the same; she doesn’t know how to understand it. But she doesn’t like to question the judges …
I’d like to question the judges.
Why did you overscore Aliya in prelims?
That’s from a very interesting Rewriting Russian Gymnastics post – Aliya Mustafina, a bronze medal, and Alexander Alexandrov – a review of the Russian press
photo – Heather Maynez for Examiner.com
crossing the legs twisting
In ice skating, it’s considered good technique.
Lizzy sends a link of some flying trapeze training.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
She crosses her legs in an attempt to increase speed of spin.
AND — more importantly — scissors on release to generate twist. (equal, opposite, concurrent reaction force … according to Newton)
She doesn’t consider “stacking the legs” a form break. Or bad technique.
Landing is a non-issue. Happily trapeze acrobats don’t have to “untilt” the twist, then STICK a landing on a hard surface.
Huang Huidan – WORLD CHAMP
Bare handed.
Click PLAY or watch HH on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Kyla on YouTube.
… and some IDIOTS 🙂 said there was no way Kyla could medal. Difficulty too low. Execution deductions too conspicuous.
Click PLAY or watch Aliya Mustafina on YouTube.
Despite the errors, that’s my favourite of the 3 routines. Aliya also lost connection compared with prelims by not immediately connecting Pak to Shaposh variation. She added a Stalder on low.
Gold–Huang CHN–15.400
Silver–Ross USA–15.266
Bronze Mustafina RUS–15.033
Yao Jinan fell on Mo salto. She would have won without using the Mo.
No mo Mo, please.
POMMEL: Kameyama, Whitlock, Corral
GOLD: Kohei Kameyama, JPN
SILVER: Max Whitlock, GBR
SILVER: Daniel Corral, MEX
Fantastic.
Click PLAY or watch Kohei Kameyama on YouTube. A specialist, not likely to be back on the Team this quad.
Click PLAY or watch Max on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Daniel Corral Barron on YouTube.
First Worlds medal ever for MEXICO!
Tony Pineda will be proud.
Click PLAY or watch Alberto Busnari on YouTube.
This kind of routine is the FUTURE of Pommel Horse. … But FIG should not allow this many handstands combos.
VAULT: McKayla, Simone, Hong
Fantastic medalists … after a scary Final.
Click PLAY or watch McKayla on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch Simone on YouTube. RIGHT down the MIDDLE.
Click PLAY or watch Hong Un Jong on YouTube.
Congratulations to North Korea. It’s good to have you back.
KENZO – World Champion
Kenzo Shirai (JPN) FX 2013 Worlds EF
16.000 (7.4, 8.600)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
NOW … When FIG “fixes” the rules to disallow so much use of one kind of skill, Kenzo will STILL win. 🙂
1. Kenzo
2. Jake Dalton (VIDEO)
3. Kohei Uchimra (VIDEO)
I would have had Kohei ahead of Jake.
legs together on twisting
FIG Execution judging is in 2013 as bad as ever.
Judges “box” the scores: the best are too low, the worst too high.
Judges are afraid (except on Vault) to award high E scores. The 9.8s of the past would be 8.8 or less in 2013.
Famous gymnasts and those from top nations tend to be over-scored. (Not always, as we saw with Kyla Ross in prelims, but more often than not.)
One way to separate the best from the rest would be to deduct more severely crossed legs on twisting.
It’s easy to see this error. Deducting more would dissuade gymnasts from trying to add one more half twist — at the risk of landing injuries.
About.com Gymnastics – Good Form: Twisting on Vault
