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Coach Xu posted this pic on Weibo

I assume they are just goofing for the camera.

(via Blossom)

In prelims, she qualified 1st on Vault, Beam, Floor … 4th on Bars.

CONGRATS

Results: Vault | Bars | Beam | Floor

via GymFever on Facebook

related – MAG prelim results (PDF)

Sounds like Egyptian gymnast Fadwa Mohamed competed Handspring double front on Vault at the World Cup meet this weekend. And did not get zero.

Click PLAY or watch her training it in the gym on YouTube.

Leave a comment if you see a video of the vault in competition.

She didn’t qualify for the Final. (prelim results)

(via GymFever on Facebook)

Jr RUS Champs AA

1. Maria Bondareva (56.000)
2. Viktoria Kuzmina (55.299)
3. Yvegeniya Zukhova (53.867)

via @theallaround

GymFever on Facebook:

Maria Bondareva won the Master of Sport Category and Seda Tutkhalyan won the candidate Master of Sport.

Both those two really deserved it IMO and were solid across all 4 events, in particular Bondareva who totally came to play. …

Maria won the Jr title in the Candidate for Master of Sport division in 2012.

via a thread on College Gymnastics Fans:

’09 Courtney Kupets won gold on Uneven Bars, Beam and Floor as well as bronze on Vault, UGA won the team title and Kupets took the All-Around

Update from NGM:

… 2006 Courtney Kupets was a freshman and won the team title with UGA, the AA title, tied for first on both Bars and Beam, and was second on FX. She had another great year as a Sophomore: 1st Place Team, AA, V; 2nd Bars (tie), FX; 3rd place BB (tie). …

’92 Missy Marlowe won gold on Uneven Bars, Beam and Floor, Utah won the team title, Missy won the All-Around.

’13 Bridget Sloan won gold on Beam, Team and AA. Silver on Bars.

Bridget’s already one of the most successful College gymnasts all time. And she’s got 3 more years.

Triple Twist posted a terrific, wide ranging interview with the 1991 World Champion:

What are some qualities do you think an elite gymnast and coach need to have in order to be successful together? Have you learned any do’s or don’ts along the way?

I’ve learned and continue to learn do’s and don’ts. It is a never-ending learning process because times change, rules change, and most importantly, every gymnast and situation are unique. There are certainly some absolute do’s and don’ts I believe are essential. Honest communication and trust between athlete and coach are number one. Discipline in preparation on both parties is essential too. The coach has to have a game plan and the gymnast must be on board with the plan and take ownership of things she is being guided to do. And DO enjoy the process together. One “don’t” that comes to mind… Don’t over-react. Bad days will happen. Missed skills and opportunities will happen. Both the gymnast and coach need to solution minded.

read more – From Golden Girl to Golden Coach- An interview with Kim Zmeskal

Blythe posted a tribute to the inventor of the fantastic Pegan release:

… Pegan, who at 38 will be saying goodbye to gymnastics at this weekend’s Salamun Memorial in Ljubljana. According to the FIG, the event will be held in part to raise funds to build a new gymnastics center, which will bear his name …

Examiner

Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube. (2008)

Weiler 1/1.

Great to see Jordyn so excited to be back in the gym. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.
http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/Mjk5NzA3MzI4?related=1&autoplay=false

Watch more video of The Fierce Five after London on gymnastike.org

That’s an outtake from a longer video to be aired on Gymnastike Gold. The cost of that membership is still difficult to find on the site.

Do you miss Vanessa already?

UCLA seniors Vanessa Zamarripa and Alyssa Pritchett have not hung up their leotards and grips just yet. The duo will compete in the Pro Gymnastics Challenge on May 10-11 at Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pa. The event will be televised on ESPN2 May 20-22 as part of a three-part series.

The PGC is a skill-for-skill competition with mixed teams of men and women.

On May 10, mixed international teams will compete in the “No Borders Competition”. The event concludes on May 11 with a USA vs. the World skill-for-skill battle. Events to be contested are tumbling; parallel bars and uneven bars; vault; rings and balance beam; rope; and high bar and single rail.

Competitors include Olympians Chellsie Memmel, Jonathan Horton and Jake Dalton, and team coaches include Olympic gold medalists Nastia Liukin and Svetlana Boguinskaia. …

UCLA Bruins

UPDATE:

The World:

Females: Laura-Ann Chong, Anna Pavlova, Jessica Lopez, Oksana Chusovitina, Jade Barbosa, Lisa Mason, Nathalia Sanchez, Marissa King

Males: Sam Oldham, Andrew Smith, Alexander Shatilov, Marcel Nguyen, Petrix Barbosa, Nathan Gafuik, Tommy Ramos

The USA:

Females: Chellsie Memmel, Jana Bieger, Kat Ding, Alyssa Pritchett, Vanessa Zamarripa, Shayla Worley, Alina Weinstein, Ashanee Dickerson

Males: Jonathan Horton, Paul Ruggeri, Brandon Wynn, Jake Dalton, Steve Legendre, Alex Naddour, Jesse Silverstein, Josh Dixon, Chris Brooks

Pro Gymnastics Challenge – official website

related – Vanessa is one of four finalists for the Honda Award 2013. The other three are Rheagan Courville from LSU, Bridget Sloan from Florida and Alina Weinstein from Illinois.

USAG:

… Jair Lynch was the first gymnast to compete the skill at an official FIG competition, having performed what is now known as the “Lynch” as far back as the 1992 season, and the skill is (now) included in the FIG’s 2013-16 Code of Points for Men’s Artistic Gymnastics.

… valued as a D skill …

Click PLAY or watch Jair on YouTube.

Under the last Code it was called Moznik after Marijo Moznik from Croatia.

_____ clarification by USA FIG Judge:

“Under the last Code it was called Moznik after Marijo Moznik from Croatia.”

That’s not quite right. A stretched Tkatchev half to mixed grip (E value) was called a Moznik.

A straddled Tkatchev half to mixed grip (D value) did not have a name (although it was colloquially known as a “straddled Moznik,” just like a hop 3/2 turn to mixed grip is referred to as a “Rybalko to mixed grip” or a ). See 2009-2012 Code v.6, p.123, #17. Consistent with the MTC’s naming conventions elsewhere in the Code, a notation for a differently valued variation of a skill that appears in the “same box” as that skill does not take the name of the skill in that box. (Side note: I say “same box” in quotes because skills in the same phyiscal box in the Code with different values occupy different boxes for the purposes of the D score.) No name appeared next to the asterisked notation for “Straddled D value,” and it was therefore unnamed. (Otherwise, if both were named after Moznik, one would, consistent with MTC naming conventions, be the Moznik 1 and the other the Moznik 2. See, for example, Balandin 1 and Balandin 2 on Rings.) This past weekend, the FIG judges at the NCAA Championships just had this same conversation about the Moznik being stretched after one judge mistakenly thought that the Moznik was straddled.

In v.2 of the 2013 Code (released this month), the MTC deleted the “Straddled D value” notation from the Moznik box and moved the straddled Tkatchev half to mixed grip into its own physical box in the Code with its own diagram and named that after Jair Lynch. See 2013 Code v.2, EG II, #22. So this is not an example of correcting a naming error; it is nothing more than just naming an existing unnamed skill. (That said, there is plenty to say on the FIG’s errors in naming skills.)

No doubt they considered moving that skill to the same box as Tkachev. Catching in a different grip does not make it all that much more difficult. It’s clearly overvalued. And therefore will be overused for the next 4 years.