Speed Climbing in the Tokyo Olympics

Sport climbing will be included in the 2020 Summer Olympics for the first time.

The proposed format will consist of three disciplines: lead climbing, speed climbing and bouldering. The winner will be determined based on who performs best in all three disciplines. It was previously tested at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. …

The decision to combine three disciplines—Lead climbing, Bouldering and Speed climbing—with one set of medals per gender—caused widespread criticism in the climbing world.

Climber Lynn Hill said the decision to include speed climbing was like “asking a middle distance runner to compete in the sprint.” …

Personally I think Speed Climbing will be the most popular of the three with a worldwide audience.

The Usain Bolt of Men’s Speed Climbing (so far) has been Reza Alipour from Iran.

Click PLAY or watch his World Record on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch women’s World Record Holder Aries Susanti Rahayu on YouTube.

Neither will be in Tokyo as they are specialists.

Yulo’s triple back

Yep.

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Carlos Yulo for Nestlé MILO

Inspiring ad.

That’s Yulo’s brother Karl playing him as a boy.

MILO was a sponsor of the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.

However, World Floor Champion 2019 Carlos Edriel Yulo was not brought up in an expensive house like this. His father worked as a messenger.

Yulo started  as a street tumbler in a public park near Manila Zoo.

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Katelyn Ohashi for HP Spectre

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introducing Tsukahara

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Coach Gordon Lam.

Before you have them flip from the table, do some mental preparation with this progression.

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In Calgary, Canada, Gordon consults with dancers and other acrobatic athletes on flexibility improvement.

Gordon is a Gymnastics Canada clinician out of Calgary.

His website is EnduranceSport.ca.

Stick Crown for Kiya Johnson

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(via BBS Only the Best … week 3)

Hailey Klein – Free Hip to Nabieva

For me this is even more impressive than Sunisa’s Nabieva to mixed grip.

It’s MUCH harder to generate the counter rotation from Free Hip.

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Hailey is a Level 10 from Flips Gymnastics North Shore in Illinois.

Lauren Hopkins’ NEW podcast – Gymterpod

The Gymterpod – Episode 1 is FREE. 

The first episode of The Gymternet’s tie-in podcast, The Gymterpod!

Future episodes will be available for a $5 monthly subscription via Patreon.

00:00 – Intro

04:50 – Sunisa Lee’s Bars Upgrades

07:10 –Jennifer Gadirova’s Upgrades

13:30 – Amy Tinkler Retired

15:38 – Aly Raisman Officially Retired

19:43 – Laney Madsen is Training to 2024

24:33 – Isabela Onyshko to Stanford

26:20 – Melbourne World Cup Roster Announced

29:00 – RD761 Junior International Cup Recap

32:05 – Mini Explanation of My Pronunciations

33:31 – Finishing up the RD761 Recap

33:56 – Preview of Next Weekend’s Meets

36:51 – You Asked, The Gymternet Answered*

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