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1. Ohashi 60.95; 2. Finnegan 57.9; 3. Ross 57.5; 4. Priessman 56.45; 5. Baker 56.3; 5. Dowell 56.3; 7. Hundley 55.55; 8. Winston 54.75.

Quick hits: Junior women’s prelims at the 2011 U.S. Championships COMPETITION

Katelyn was born on April 12, 1997 in Seattle. …

When Katelyn was three years old, she began gymnastics at Gymnastics East. She later moved to GAGE and then WOGA.

Click PLAY or watch her Floor on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch her Vault on YouTube.

Congratulations to all her coaches. You did a fantastic job. She’s one American gymnast with many of the best qualities of the Russians and Chinese.

Just came up.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (16.9 including BONUS)

The score of is about 0.5 higher than it would be at Worlds due to USAG BONUS rules. (PDF)

I don’t mind bonus rules, but it would be less confusing if nations posted straight FIG results … and then printed a separate results list with Bonus included for ranking, team selection, etc.

Danell’s 92.50 AA, of course, is also higher than FIG.

Thanks to The All Around for finding that Bonus document. We’re assuming the same BONUS system was used for this routine.

Best video tutorial I’ve yet seen. From Cal Gymnastics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That’s not what I do, though. Instead of Lyle’s Golden Syrup (more often honey), I like supersaturated sugar water. I boil sugar water in a microwave for perhaps a minute. … It’s much less slimy than honey.

(via All Things Gym)

Leave a comment if you’ve other systems you like better.

Nathan Gafuik has worked as hard for as long as any gymnast I can recall. It’s great to see him put it together in such a big meet.

After putting Canada on the board on Monday thanks to a third-place finish in the individual all-around competition, Nathan Gafuik struck again on Tuesday with a silver medal at the vault on the final day of artistic gymnastics action at the 26th Summer Universiade.

Click PLAY or watch Nate’s routines on YouTube.

related – Gymn.ca – GAFUIK WINS SECOND MEDAL AT UNIVERSIADE

Prelims:

1. Afanasyeva 58.675
2. Dimentieva 58.550
3. Komova 57.150

… Ksenia Afanasyeva is looking to be a lock yet again with those strong scores across the board. Her many fans will get another chance to see if she can get past the psychological issues that seem to dog her at every final. It would be nice see her return from Tokyo with an individual medal this time.

Komova looks to have had trouble on beam. …

read more on Couch Gymnast – Russian Cup Qualifications

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it ain’t bragging if you do it

CONGRATULATIONS Danell.

1. Danell Leyva, 92.5; 2. Jonathan Horton 90.4; 3. Steven Legendre 89.4; 4. John Orozco, 89.2; 5. Chris Brooks, 89.15; 6. Jake Dalton, 87.85; 7. Alex Naddour, 87.55; 8. CJ Maestas, 87.35.

Examiner – Quick hits: Senior men’s prelims at the 2011 U.S. Championships COMPETITION

* Note that USAG rules have a few bonus tenths. For example, 0.1+ for a stuck landing of elements D or more difficult. (Leyva’s HBar had +0.5 bonus this night.)

… “I need some more to reach [Kohei] Uchimura, but that’s what I’m working on,” he said.

Alvarez was not surprised by Leyva’s effort on day one. He says he always hits his routines at their Miami gym, where they do extra on pommel horse, a weakness of the U.S. team. He also wrote down his potential score on paper and showed it to Danell a while ago, but Danell thought the lofty number was crazy.

It was 92.50. …

Dwight Normile’s take on the meet on IG – Leyva Impressive on Day 1: Horton Trails by 2.10

2011 NCAA All-Around Champion as a Michigan Freshman, Sam Mikulak …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I had view #1 on this awesome video. Sweet.

Jonathan Deaton (16-18) and Sean Melton (14-15) (top) All Around at Day 1 USA MAG Championships. Scores on USAG

(via The All Around Gymnastics News and Double Front on Facebook.)

Amanda Robinson for USAG:

SAINT PAUL, Minn., Aug. 17, 2011 – Jonathan Deaton of Longmeadow, Mass./Tim Daggett’s Gold Medal Gymnastics (16-18) and Sean Melton of Orlando, Fla./Orlando Metro Gymnastics (14-15), lead the all-around with a score of 83.450 and 83.000, respectively, after the first day of the junior competition at the 2011 Visa Championships at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minn.

“It’s really great to be leading the standings.” Deaton said. “I am really happy with my performance and I think I did the best gymnastics I could. I hope on Friday, I’ll be able to repeat my performance and place just as well.” …

She’s connecting Shushanova (G) to get to 6.7, I’m assuming.

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

Watch more video of Visa Championships 2011 on gymnastike.org

Leave a comment if you’ve got a breakdown of this Anna Li routine.

Inside Gymnastics on Facebook called Katelyn’s Floor – “great music, beautiful leaps and dance” – the highlight of podium training yesterday.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Certainly she’s one of the few gymnasts who can make twisting split leaps look good.