Over on the (normally excellent) Gymnastic Bodies strength forum there’s a bizarre thread:
Need urgent help…
by Zingam
See, most guys seem to like smaller women but I like them tall like 6 feet at least. There is one big problem though – they tend to weight quite a lot – 154 pounds wouldn’t be unexpected.
So what would you recommend to do to gain the strength to get one up and carry her around without breaking myself. … I actually can do it but I’m not convinced that I am strong enough and that I won’t get injured some day. So I need to train.
I didn’t see much beam I particularly liked last year. Dearly departed Porgras declined – still moved beautifully, but everything interesting was slowly sucked out of the routine. …
So I’m going leftfield – Danusia Francis at British Nationals. Lovely carriage and posture, and she got to show it off at Worlds this year. News flash GB coaches – you get about one athlete a decade who can actually do this event. Don’t waste her. …
1. Mark Sohn (USA) – 1/1 Kehr mount
2. Koji Yamamuro (JPN) – Honma + 1/4 to long hang
3. Steven Legendre (USA) – Double Front + Front Double Twist
4. Kelly Lang (USA) – the ‘Lang’ I & II
5. Miguel Rubio (ESP) – Full Ono to one-armed giant + Immediate Jaeger
6. S. Yokoyama (JPN) – Kip to V-Sit
7. Ahmed Al Dayani (QAT) – Tippelt Half to Upperarm
8. Ross Bradley (USA) – Stalder with 2/1 pirouette
9. Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN) – O’Neill
10. Ryan McCarthy (USA) – Front Uprise Layout 1/1 to upperarms
11. Shirai Kenzo (JPN) – Back 7/2 + Front 1/1
12. Daisuke Nakano (JPN) – Triple Back [tucked] – Rings
13. Chen Chen (CHN) – G Flop [Stokli + Stokli + 1080 wende]
14. Ryan Lieberman (USA) – Felge Makuts
15. Jesus Carballo Jr. (ESP) – Carballo I
16. Sean Doolan (USA) – Front Triple Twist + Front Salto
17. Shirai Kenzo (JPN) – Back 5/2 + Front 2/1
18. Kohei Uchimura (JPN) – Double Twisting Kovacs Attempt – 2008/2009
19. Makoto Okiguchi (JPN) – Lou Yun + Front 1 3/4
20. Vladimir Novikov (USSR) – Front Uprise to V-Sit
21. Giovanni Quintero (COL) – Belle with 1/1 to upperarm hang
22. ??? (LAT) – Dorsal Giants + Immediate Gienger
23. Alberto Busnari (ITA) – DSA Handstand with 720 Travel to Flairs
24. Danny Rodrigues (FRA) – Azarian to Maltese + Front Uprise V-Cross
25. Max Whitlock (GBR) – Forward Salto with 5/2 Twists – Rings
26. Sam Oldham (GBR) – Back Double Twist off Parallel Bars
27. Flavius Koczi (ROU) – Back 5/2 + Front 5/2 [attempt]
28. Jeff Crockett (USA) – Double Twisting Balabanov
29. Ri Se Gwang (PRK) – Full Twisting Double Tsukahara
30. Ryosuke Baba (JPN) – Stoop 1/2 + Kolman
31. Cyril Tommassone (FRA) – Li Ning + Back Scissor to Handstand
32. Huang Yuguo (CHN) – Front 2/1 + Van Roon
33. Ji Lianshen (CHN) – Stalder 1/1 to el-grip + Balabanov
34. Kohei Uchimura (JPN) – Stoop 1/2 + Liukin
35. Prashanth Sellathurai (AUS) – Spindle Magyar between Pommels
36. Hikaru Tanaka (JPN) – Kasamatsu Stretched to Roll Out – Floor
37. Paul Ruggeri (USA) – Uprise 1 1/4 Straddle Front to upperarms
38. Matthieu Jordan (FRA) – Triple Back Salto Piked – Floor
39. Matteo Morandi (ITA) – Marinich to Feet
40. Jeff Bender (USA) – Back Uprise with Counter Salto
41. Tim McNeil (USA) – Bezugo on a Single Pommel + [flop series]
42. Tomi Tuuha (FIN) – Double Back with 5/2 Twists – Rings
43. Lee Joo Huang (KOR) – Healy to Mix Grip [single rail] + Jaeger transfer
44. ??? (JPN) – Full Twisting Triple Back Somersault – High Bar
45. Kelly Lang (USA) – Suarez – High Bar
46. DJ Bucher (USA) – Layout Belle – Parallel Bars
47. Matthias Fahrig (GER) – Arabian Double Pike with 3/2 Twists
48. Glen Ishino (USA) – Triple Layout – High Bar
49. Epke Zonderland (NED) – Diamidov 1/4 + Healy
50. Shirai Kenzo (JPN) – Quadruple Twist
51. ??? (USA?) – Guzcoghy with 1/2 Twist … Doug Stibel. (thanks Nick)
52. Steven Legendre (USA) – High Rybalko
53. Guillermo Alvarez (USA) – Front Layout with 3/2 Twists – High Bar
54. Michael Strathern? (USA) – Back 3/2 + Marinich
55. Epke Zonderland (NED) – Cassina + Kolman
56. Ian Makowske (USA) – Stoop Hop with 1/1 Pirouette to mixed-grip
57. Regulo Carmona (VEN) – Momentary Back Lever to Inverted Cross
58. Daniel Keatings (GBR) – Chiarlo + E Healy + Healy
59. Yang Hak Seon (KOR) – Handspring Front Layout 3/1 Twist
60. Vladimir Gogoladze (USSR) – Straddled Healy – Parallel Bars
61. Li Xiaopeng (CHN) – Forward Uprise with Double Pike to upperarm
62. Timo Niemela (FIN) – Double Kovacs [attempt]
What’s the toughest skill there?
I’d love to vote for Uchimura’s double twisting Kovacs attempt. But of the successful skills shown, maybe it’s Ri Se Gwang’s Tsuk double with 1/1 twist.
Leave a comment if you have an opinion.
Thanks @SyqueCaesar … and good luck with that Olympics thing. 🙂
… I posted a few things 1996 double Olympic gold medalist Shannon Miller said during a live webchat with The Seattle Times. Someone asked Miller directly whether she had ever vaulted a double-twisting Yurchenko, which was something of a rarity in her era. …
Any one of the top teams could win this year. You might call Florida, UCLA and Alabama favourites, IF they hit. They have the top 3 high scores, so far.
… The No. 1 Utah gymnasts overcame an uncharacteristically bad day on the floor exercise to beat No. 25 Arizona State 196.150-194.000 and improve to 4-1 overall and 1-1 in the Pac-12.
“We’re back to planet earth,” said coach Greg Marsden, “Although floor was the only event where we did poorly. We’re still learning. We need to do a better job of adjusting to the equipment on the road.” …
