… Pop lives and coaches in Marseille, France, but travels extensively designing routines for the national teams of Romania, China and Australia. In the United States, she choreographs exclusively for the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy.
Pop has created routines for some of the world’s best gymnasts, including reigning world champion Cheng Fei of China and Olympic floor exercise champion Catalina Ponor of Romania. …
Called Xiao Ruizhi after the Chinese gymnast. And sometimes referred to as “Marinich” after Vitaly Marinich who competed it at about the same time. Watch a video of Vitaly doing it in 1989.
Charlie does a HUGE version. From Stalder. (No name for that variation.)
Some video from a couple of years ago. Charlie Tamayo working on some new skillls.
There’s a thread on the IG Forum right now on women who have competed this skill most famously the 1991 World Champion on Bars, Kim Gwang Suk. She connects it from Tkachev!
She certainly deserved to win Bars that year, a giant step forward for North Korea. Unfortunately, she was the first of the age falsification scandal gymnasts.
… The FIG punished the North Korean gymnastics federation by barring their women’s team from the 1993 World Championships. Kim, however, was permitted to keep the medals she had won in international events, including her 1991 World Championships gold. …
The first gymnast to do “Miller” on an Artistic competition Floor was Steve Elliot (a power tumbler), decades ago in the NCAA. It’s been very rare since.
Our World Champion does it with ease. Is Kohei Uchimura the greatest AA gymnast of all time?
GymNiceTic linked to a a related post on the American Gymnast blog.
Andy Thornton posted 4 Floor routines from the Japanese Men’s Championships 2009.
Click through to watch the other 3 routines. Okiguchi mounted with double pike with a full-out to a punch front 1 ¾. INSANE.
Shusuke mounts with Tamayo, laid-out double Arabian. That’s the skill where Kyle Shewfelt shattered both knee caps during podium training at World Championships.
A couple of weeks ago I posted a comparison between Jordyn Wieber (USA) and Viktoria Komova (Russia):
Almost everyone on the IG forum that commented likes Komova better. I think I’ll bet on Weiber. If she can stay healthy training all that difficulty, she’ll be tough to beat. …
My thinking was that you MUST do an Amanar to medal in the AA at in 2012.
Here’s skinny little Viktoria Komova doing Amanar at the Mikhail Voronin Cup competition. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
live.breath.love gymnastics:
At the rate Viktoria Komova is going she will be World All-Around Champion by a longshot! She threw an amanar vault, the patterson dismount on beam, a stellar floor set, and a new low to high bar transition at the Veronin Cup. Amazing!!! …
Perhaps I’d best concede that of the dozen or so top Juniors, Viktoria Komova is the girl to beat.
You can quote me.
… Now, why haven’t I heard anyone complain about “too much difficulty” for Komova. Does she really need to risk that vault now, so far in advance of the Olympics 2012? … UPDATE: Apparently many have been saying exactly this about her. I’ve not seen it.
UPDATE: Senor Nico translated an interview with Viktoria and her coach, Gennady Elfimov:
… By the way, regarding injuries, I see that you bandage her ankles…
G.E. – This is a precaution from injuries. We put special arch supports under her heels to protect her feet on landings. These supports only work when wrapped with a bandage. Otherwise, nothing is going on. So we bandage her.
GymnasticsReport.net did some detailed research into Women’s College Gymnastics social networking.
Impressive.
This graph is an audit of the social media being used by Gymnastics programs and their Athletic Departments. An x signifies a program is using that form of social media, more than one x indicates more than one instance of the media being used. Feedback, corrections, additions, are certainly appreciated. This information current as of 12-26-09
Click through to see who does what. You can follow your favourite team on Twitter. Or Facebook. Or by RSS feed.
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