Gymnastics Coaching.com

One of the most popular gymnasts with the bloggers here at Worlds is the beautiful Dorina Böczögo from Hungary.

Click PLAY or watch a montage on YouTube.

Nancy Armour compares her style and artistry to Mackenzie Caquatto.

Marian Dragulescu looked GREAT today. Says he’s been training all-around full time since April.

Click PLAY or watch his Floor on YouTube. (15.566)

Meet him in Finals!

He’s one of the biggest names here in Tokyo. Click PLAY or watch the post meet interview on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/embed/ODczNTA5NTc2?related=1

Watch more video of World Gymnastics Championships Tokyo 2011 on gymnastike.org

… Lets see the video of his second vault from prelims. I’m certain both knees touched the mat. He should not qualify for that final.

Recall that a number of the vault judges from Athens were suspended after gifting him with the Bronze in that meet.

FIG Official – Qualifications, Vault. Koji Yamamuro, second best Japanese gymnast in All-Around Qualifications (89.765).

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (16.400).

Lopez = Tsuk with 3 twists … or, more correctly, Kasamatsu + 2 additional twists … or, even more correctly: 1/4-on, 2 3/4-off.

But it’s a blurred line differentiating between Handspring 2 1/2 (Yeo 2) and Kaz + 2 twists (Lopez). Both are valued 7.0.

FIG Official – Qualifications, Parallel Bars. Kohei Uchimura, All-Around world champion 2009+2010, has an appointment with History in Tokyo. No gymnast has won 3 times the World title. Uchimura started well. … presently 1st in the Qualifications (92.256).

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That’s an old school routine, with plenty of double saltos to underarm. I’m thinking Leyva can beat him, having no doubles to underarm.

A great new talent on the world stage. So new, he’s got no Wikipedia page.

Click PLAY or watch him on YouTube. (8.866 E score)

Both John and Leyva compete Liukin (Tkachev 1/1). Cool.

I only wish John had better toe point.

A great rivalry. Two different styles of gymnastics, both girls at their first World Championships. Two strong contenders for Olympic Champion 2012.

Vault
Click PLAY or watch Komova on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Wieber on YouTube.

Bars
Click PLAY or watch Komova on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Wieber on YouTube.

Beam
Click PLAY or watch Komova on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Wieber on YouTube.

Floor
Click PLAY or watch Komova on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Wieber on YouTube.

What do you think?

Who will finish ahead in the all-around competition?

Or is there another girl that could beat both?

Jordyn has been far more stable in training, but Vika seems to rise to the occasion of the big stage.

Aunt Joyce likes Komova. I’d bet on Wieber.

1. JPN 364.191 2. USA 361.583 3. PUR 344.460 4. POR 334.352

I’ve been following and cheering team Puerto Rico. It would be a great testament to the small island if they could have qualified in the top 8 teams to the Olympics.

That won’t happen. Too many errors today, including a fluke “ping” from H Bar.

USA impressed.

Sadly Jon Horton won’t get through to the AA Final. I’m going to miss him there.

Uchimura is first 92.256, Orozco 2nd AA 90.532, Leyva 3rd 89.84

AA STANDINGS
1. Uchimura JPN 92.256
2. Orozco USA 90.532
3. Leyva USA 89.848
4. Yamamuro JPN 89.765
5. Horton USA 89.689
6. Rivera PUR 87.831
7. Legendre USA 86.598
8. Campos POR 85.832
9. Ramos PUR 84.897
10. Vargas PUR 84.897

full results

Jon’s two teammates finished higher. Only 2 / nation move on.

Japan had more problems than team USA and still finished well ahead of the States. Uchimura fell on Vault, yet still scored 92.256. His execution was underscored, as it always is under this current Code.

On Horizontal Bar the E panel gave him 8.83 … Are they insane? … Nope, in 2011 judges “box” the scores awarding no higher than about 9.10 no matter how much better the routine was than, for example, Legendre.

Tragically, Yusuke Tanaka suffered a concussion on Floor on a roll-out skill. I’d like FIG Men’s Technical Committee to answer the Japanese media when they ask why those skills are so valuable in the current men’s rules. … And why FIG bans them for women, yet encourage them for men?

If MTC has even an iota of intelligence, they’ll all be devalued next cycle. MT Chair Stoica is from Romania — Dragalescu’s worst injury ever was on a roll-out skill.

It makes no sense to encourage gymnasts to land close to the head.

The best routines of the 1st session: Uchimura P Bars and H Bar, Leyva P Bars, and — best of the best — Ha Thanh Nguyan from Vietnam – Yurchenko Double Pike STICK on Vault. Amazing.

Ron Bell, from California, was coach on the floor for South Africa.

Some of the best I’ve seen are …

… posted by by John Cheng for USA Gymnastics on Facebook.

The attendance for women’s prelims was a bit disappointing:

day 1 = 1800
day 2 = 4000 (JPN competed)

But there are BIG line-ups for the opening session of the men’s prelims. (VIDEO) Japan starts on Rings. USA on Floor.

All eyes will be on this guy.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

He had some ankle pain in podium training. Not sure our World Champion be trying to STICK every landing today. He may save that for Finals.

Starts shortly with two of the big hitters — USA and JAPAN.

See a larger wallpaper image provided by USAG.