Tumbl Trak Spotting Blocks

All I want for Christmas is the Al Fong Spotting Blocks System.

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Jessica Hutchinson & Silvia Mitova – Floor

Silvia Mitova was a 5-time champion of Bulgaria.

She competed in at the 1992 Summer Olympics with the best result of eighth place in the floor exercise.

Her daughter, Jessica, will be competing a tribute routine in 2023.

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Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Silvia’s FX in the 1992 Olympics.

most Olympic Medals

10=) Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR) – Cross-country skiing/12 medals (8🥇 & 4🥈)
10=) Birgit Fischer (GER) – Canoeing/12 medals (8🥇 & 4🥈)
9) Paavo Nurmi (FIN) – Athletics/12 medals – (9🥇 & 3🥈)
8) Takashi Ono (JPN) – Gymnastics/13 medals (5🥇& 4🥈& 4🥉)
7) Edoardo Mangiarotti (ITA) – Fencing/13 medals (6🥇& 5🥈& 2🥉)
6) Boris Shakhlin (URS) – Gymnastics/13 medals (7🥇& 4🥈& 2🥉)
5) Ole Einar Bjørndalen (NOR) – Biathlon/13 medals (8🥇& 4🥈& 1🥉)
4) Nikolai Andrianov (URS) – Gymnastics/15 medals (7🥇& 5🥈& 3🥉)
3) Marit Bjørgen (NOR) – Cross-country skiing/15 medals (8🥇& 4🥈& 3🥉)
2) Larisa Latynina (URS) – Gymnastics/18 medals (9🥇& 5🥈& 4🥉)
1) Michael Phelps (USA) – Swimming/28 medals (23🥇& 3🥈& 2🥉)

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Tom Cruise – Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning

Age-60, Tom is still doing super advanced stunts.

Motorcycle BASE jump off a Norway cliff.

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Joe Fraser – Pommels

This hit set was from Podium Training day 1 Worlds Liverpool.

I felt Joe looked the most prepared of all the top AA gymnasts that day.

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 ‘Big Cheese’ mats

I do love ‘cheese’ mats. Inclines and declines.

And a BIG cheese mat has many, many uses.

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FIG MAG H Bar grip change deductions

From FIG MTC Newsletter December 2022.

An additional grip change is considered an “additional or intermediate hand support” and will be deducted 0.1.

Examples include:

– Zou Li Min or Adler 1/1 turn to mixed grip followed by an immediate grip change to undergrip will be deducted 0.1

– Endo, Kip or Backuprise with overgrip followed by two consecutive grip changes to undergrip will be deducted 0.1 for the 2nd grip change

Elements in mixed grip (Giant Forward, Endo, Backuprise, Kip etc.) followed by one grip change to undergrip will not receive a deduction.

Note that WAG are rarely, perhaps never, deducted for similar unnecessary grip changes.

FIG MAG landing deductions

From FIG MTC Newsletter December 2022.

The Code of Points, Article 9.2.17 states the following:

Landing with feet slightly apart and gymnast lifts heels and joins both heels together without lifting and moving the front of his feet – No deduction

There have always been discussion surrounding what is meant by “slightly”. …

If the feet are more than 10cm apart there will be a 0.1 or 0.3 deduction taken, even if the heels are brought together after the initial landing. (Article 9.4)