She really does look good.
… McKayla Maroney returned to The Ranch for the first time since the Olympics in May, showing her trademark vaulting and a new tumbling pass.
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Japan NHK Cup video
1 Asuka Teramoto 82.500
2 Natsumi Sasada 82.150
3 Murakami, Mai 81.875
50% Nationals + 50% NHK Cup
… This was an all around meet and was playing a part in the selection process for the World Championships and the World University Games. … a two-day meet. …
Couch Gymnast – Teramoto, Murakami and Sasada top Japan NHK Trophy
It sounds like Teramato is now guaranteed an AA spot for Worlds 2013.
You can watch it on YouTube – WAG GYMNASTICS FULL NHK Cup 2013
Thanks Brigid.
related – which Olympic body is Asuka Teramoto?
Asuka was the smallest Olympian 2012 1.36 m (4 ft 6 in) tall and weighing 30 kg (66 lb).
on Deltchev
Stoyan Deltchev from Bulgaria is the 1980 Olympic Champion on Horizontal Bar. Today he runs Deltchev Gymnastics in Reno, Nevada.
Here’s his signature skill.
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Couch Gymnast linked to Elena Piskun (1994). Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Here’s some Deltchev training VIDEO.
Most gymnasts, male and female, start with layout Geinger. Later doing the skill in pike or straddle pike (Deltchev) only if they cannot compete layout.
I can’t recall the last male gymnast I saw compete Deltchev. Leave a comment if you do.
It’s nice to see some variety in WAG release skills. But I’d only try Deltchev if a girl had problems with Geinger. It might work for those who already do a good straddled Jaeger. Girls very comfortable with fast straddled hip flexion.
Connecting like Piskun does is really tough.
Worlds 2013 in Belgium
The first World Championships after the Olympics I call the “unimportant” Worlds.
Balance Beam Situation explains why.
That said, I’m going. 🙂
Worlds 2013 in Antwerp looks to be really entertaining.
There’s no Team competition, so nations can send the individuals with the best chance of qualifying for a Final. By 2014 it will — again — be all about Team.
Uchimura will again be the man to finish second behind. He was happy with his performance this weekend at NHK Cup.
Click PLAY or watch his Pommels / Rings on YouTube.
It sounds like Ryohei Kato has also confirmed an AA spot to Worlds 2013 for Japan.
(via Gymnast #391)
best AA gymnasts EVER
Kristen Ras is posting a series of on the best all-around gymnasts of all time, starting with the Soviets:
Larissa Latynina
Lyudmila Tourisheva
Natalia Yurchenko
Olga Mostepanova
Oksana Omelianchik
Aleftina PryakhinaCouch Gymnast – Best of the All Arounders Series: The Soviets
Obviously there are some big, BIG names not included.
While Tokyo 1964 saw the final performances of the Soviet gymnastics legend Larissa Latynina at the Olympic Games, it also marked the rise of new upcoming star, Czechoslovakia’s Vera Caslavska, who would also gain iconic status in her career.
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Team Sask – behind closed doors
What does Saskatchewan Gymnastics do for FUN?
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Edited by Ariel Crawford. 🙂
Alexandrov to Brazil
Gym Blog Brazil is confirming the rumour we heard first from Rewriting Russian Gymnastics:
Is not yet official, but a very reliable and secure source confirmed the arrival of Alexander Alexandrov in Brazil later this month. More details soon! …
Things are looking up for the Olympic host nation. 🙂
Max Whitlock – paint him black
UPDATE. The video has been changed to PRIVATE. Likely at the photographers request.
Photoshoot.
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via GymFever
Rebeca Andrade – Amanar
Update the list of female gymnasts who have competed Yurchenko 2 1/2 twist.
The up-and-coming Brazilian superstar has got a good one.
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(via Kazukuni Ohno on Facebook)
Last weekend a competition took place for the British girls in Ipswich where they took part in a trial meet for the European Youth Olympic Festival which is due to take place in Utrecht, Netherlands next month.
Also in attendance was two teams from Brazil which included rising star Rebecca Andrade. She scored a whopping 15.7 on vault …
Andrade also won the junior division ahead of British hope Tyesha Mattis …
read more on Couch Gymnast – British Clubs and Brazil face in Ipswich
Brenna Dowell at Camp
Brenna Dowell trains at the May Women’s National Team Camp, including a new Amanar and two new tumbling passes.
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When I was at GAGE two years ago, Brenna was doing Amanar this well in training. Perhaps it’s new to show at Camp.
