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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.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

See more videos on the Gibson Saltocafe YouTube page.

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!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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. …

That’s what I’d like to see happen if China is found guilty of deliberately falsifying documents for their girls at the 2000 Olympics (ruling Feb. 26, 2010). The athletes should keep the medals, the national federation punished. … And yes I realize that current Chinese athletes would be punished for the mistakes made 10yrs-ago.

Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time.

Greg Townley (U.K.) is a young power tumbler coached by the great Damien Walters.

(If you’ve not seen Damien’s videos, you don’t use YouTube.)

Damien posted this highlights reel of his student.

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For those kids who did not get their Kip on Bars for Christmas, here are some some conditioning drills posted by Benjamin Carson.

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

These drills lead nicely into the excellent teaching the Kip videos we linked to last July.

Shayla Worley returned to Athens today. I’m looking forward to her NCAA debut Saturday, January 9th against Stanford.

The 2010 season is here.

As Shayla said on Twitter.

It’s go time baby!

They’re going to need her big time, I predict.

Time to start defending their National title. They’ve won the past 5yrs in a row.

Georgia GymDogs snowball fight.

I just saw this on GymNiceTic. Thanks.

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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.

Here’s Kohei .Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Great landings. Especially the triple twist.

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.

American Gymnast – What the heck was that??!!

Update: After Andrew saw this, he posted the routines of Justin Spring and Ri Jong Song competing Miller.

by site editor Rick McCharles

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. …

best Jr gymnast – Komova v Weiber

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!!! …

VIKTORIA KOMOVA

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.

Her Bars are already great. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Love the Tkachev to Pak. Full swing.

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.

read the entire interview and commentary – IG Forum – “Gimnastika” Magazine Interviews

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.

GymnasticsReport.net – Gymnastics Social Media Tracker

… some hip flexer stretching drills from Mary Lee Tracy and Cassie that you can do at home …

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The Gymnastics Minute is a series of free introductory video tips produced by GymSmarts.

Speaking of powerful vaulters not retiring, GymNiceTic translated a GYMmedia post (German):

… Oksana Chusovitina plans to compete in 2010! At the moment, she trains everyday on vault, which she will hopefully show at the World Cup in Cottbus next March (in three month!), as well as on beam for the Worlds in Rotterdam.

In January she will return from Tashkent to Cologne and continue her training at the age of 34 (!) with her longtime coach Shanna Poljakova. …

GymNiceTic

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Recall that Chusovitina tore her Achilles’ tendon Nov. 2008 on floor, landing double back short in competition. (video)

Oksana Chusovitina. Gymnastics Hall of Fame. For sure.

The first 10 episodes are available free to watch on ABCfamily.com … if you live in the U.S.A.

Some full episodes are free for Canadians on MuchMusic.com.

The new series starts in the States on January 4, 2010.