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Yet another piece of FIG approved equipment fell in competition, this time in Iceland.

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This is a serious and obvious design flaw in FIG approved Bars, Rings and Horizontal Bar.

Earlier in 2013, another Gymnova H Bar fell over a pit in Iceland.

Another example …

Examiner – Notes from Cottbus 2012:

… The high bar collapsed on Croatia’s Marijo Moznik (who is a World Cup gold medalist on the event) in training at Cottbus, prompting organizers to spend half the night looking for other equipment failures (turns out the high bar fell became it had become dislodged from its anchor on the floor). Moznik’s foot was X-rayed for fractures, and though it does not appear to have any broken bones …

Here’s the most famous in history.

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Any engineer can tell you that any structure that can fall due to a single point of failure is badly designed. If only one equipment manufacturer came up with a design that could not fall if one anchor failed, FIG would make it the new standard.

Why does the FIG not require a double tie down system?

Thanks Gummi.

FIG linked to this .gif posted by wang wei. 🙂

Laura Marcella likes South Korean rhythmic gymnast Shin Soo-ji’s first pitch. (VIDEO)

I’m really looking forward to this documentary. 🙂

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Tatiana Frolova and Olga Mostepanova compete on beam during the 1983 World Championships.

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Tatiana Frolova finished 5th AA. Mostepanova was 2nd AA and won Beam.

Here’s Tatiana guest coaching at Manjak’s this week. She has her own children in the club.

A pretty montage dedicated to Madison Kocian who withdrew from day 2 USA Championships after spraining her ankle. (Stepping back out of triple twist. A fluke.)

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Madison Kocian opened her meet with a hit bar routine earning an impressive 15.0. On beam, Kocian hit her routine beautifully, performing elements including a standing Arabian, switch ring, handspring layout stepout, switch side leap, and a stuck double back tuck dismount. She earned 14.8, with a 9.0 execution score. …

Gymnastike

That Beam double tuck with hands on shins, the best technique.

GymCastic linked to a YouTube playlist of Men’s Floor routines that actually wouldn’t make a dancer cringe to watch.

For example, Scherbo – Olympics 92 compulsory.

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Compulsories were beautiful. To win you needed to do simple elements better than anyone else.

See more optional Artistic FX routines. (Shewfelt, Thomas, Rivera, etc.)

If you only want to watch tumbling, follow Power Tumbling and TeamGym.

Uncle Tim‘s the new Nate Silver of the Gymternet.

He crunches numbers. And makes predictions.

From a recent post he calculates:

• MyKayla Skinner, Most Improved Senior

• Laurie Hernandez, Most Improved Junior

• Simone Biles often scores higher on Execution than Kyla Ross

details – P&G Championships Number Love: The Ladies

Very cool.

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Some of the best items were loaned by International Gymnastics Camp. Even more were brought in by Rome Milan from Texas.

🙂

Elite female gymnasts age-25 are mostly retired. A relatively high percentage have had Achilles problems.

Yet Chellsie Memmel decided to move on to Power Tumbling.

Respect.

She partly attributes her long career to training on a tumbling trampoline. For the past 20 years.

And later on Air Floors.

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Chellsie signed autographs at the Congress Tumbl Trak booth. (VIDEO)

Kids at Flip Fest Gym Camp post on the “Goal Wall“. Kids like Chellsie Memmel.