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Cy Platt of Victory Gymnastics in San Diego throws out some gymnastics challenges. World Records, he calls them. These was part of their National Gymnastics Day 2013 celebrations.

Cy – Most Muscle-Up Exercises While Wearing Snorkeling Mask, Snorkel, And Fins

Click PLAY or watch it on Record Setter.

http://recordsetter.com/embedvideo/33374

Charlie Tamayo – Most Eight-Inch Foam Cubes Stuffed Into A Worn Button-Up Onesie While Performing A Double-Twisting Double Backflip Tumbling Pass On A Tumble Track Into A Foam Pit

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http://recordsetter.com/embedvideo/33387

• Most Webster Front Flips In 30 Seconds

• Most Fly-Aways On A Single Bar In One Minute

• Most Flash Kicks Hitting A Pool Noodle In 20 Seconds

• Most Standing Back Flips Performed In A Roll-Off In One Minute

• Most People To Simultaneously Hold A Handstand

Impressive, Cy.

Any challengers?

#WChAntwerp

Kirsten Beckett has a great reason for this proud smile. She just earned South Africa’s record high finish in a qualification, with her 43rd finish and 50+ score. Well done!

Photo: JGC Gymnastics.

I’m planning to visit South Africa in February.

That’s from Couch Gymnast

FIG – Eight nations medal on first day of Antwerp Apparatus Finals (RESULTS)

Examiner – Quick hits: Event finals day one at the 2013 Worlds

RRG – Grebyonkin: Aliya succeeded in spite of knee pain

Bea Gheorghisor – So, What Did I Miss? Worlds Edition Day Eight

American women and Japanese men were the biggest stars of Day 1.

The most exciting apparatus of Day 2 is most likely going to be Men’s Horizontal Bar.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Arthur Zanetti, Brazil, 15.800 (6.8 D)
Aleksandr Balandin, Russia, 15.733 (6.9 D)
Brandon Wynn, USA, 15.666 (6.7 D)

Click PLAY or watch Balandin’s latest NEW skill on YouTube.

CONGRATULATIONS to Brandon on the Bronze medal.

Uncle Tim explains what why Brandon’s start score was 0.1 lower in the Final than in prelims.

Only ONE DAY left at the #WChAntwerp.

Highlights montage of some very tough ladies.

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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

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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J&F World Championships Antwerp 2013

… 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

In ice skating, it’s considered good technique.

Lizzy sends a link of some flying trapeze training.

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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.

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.