The Gymnastics Minute

I think many people have already found this YouTube channel. But in case you haven't seen it, it has lots of great tips for coaching and learnings skills and is a great resource.

The Gymnastics Minute

Toyota Cup

Congrats to Prashanth Sellathurai, Phil Rizzo and Larissa Miller who all medaled at the Toyota Cup in Japan. Proshy came 2nd on Pommel, Phil came 3rd on High Bar and Larissa came 3rd on Uneven Bars.

Proshy put up an amazing score of 15.9 on Pommel. He had the highest start score of 16.7 but couldn't catch the amazing Chinese gymnast and current world champion Zhang Hongtao. However, he may be developing a rivalry with Hungary's Kriztian Berki. Berki got the silver ahead of Proshy at the world championships, but now Proshy has beaten Berki twice in a row since then.

Phil Rizzo claimed the bronze on high bar despite only having a 7.9 Execution score, indicating that he may have had some problems. Silver medalist Uchimura also had a low E-score, allowing winner Nakase to have the biggest winning margin of the comp (1.35).

Larissa Miller put up a solid 14.65 on Bars, matching her qualification score from worlds, but with an improved D-score of 6.4 vs 6.1 from worlds.

The comp was dominated by Japan who took 6 of the 10 golds. China also put in a strong showing with 3 golds and the only other country to win a gold was Russia with Kurbatova winning Women's Vault.

We are now waiting on the results from the Valeri Liukin Invitational where Sam Simpson and Josh Jefferis both competed.

Gold Medal Greetings

You can now get a message sent from some of the top US gymnasts. Sounds interesting. It will also be interesting to see if enough people use it to keep it running.

Australia vs Japan Day 2

Lauren Mitchell won Beam and Floor while Shintake won bars and Oshima won floor. Unfortunately Mitchell and Tsurumi pulled out of the all-around which was a disappointment, but we wouldn't have been able to follow their all-around battle anyway as no all-around scores were shown. In fact there were only 2 little scoreboards that were only visible to part of the arena which only displayed the most recent apparatus scores - no all-around scores, no apparatus rankings.

Anyway, I have posted a few videos from the competition here (I may have got some of the Japanese gymnasts names wrong as I am not all that familiar with them):

Gymnastics - 2009 Australia vs Japan - Tanaka - UB
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Japan defeats Australia

Japan defeated Australia in the WAG Australia vs Japan in Canberra tonight. Japan won 221.75 to 212.775 (I think those were the scores).

Lauren Mitchell wins young sports performer of the year

Lauren Mitchell won the Young Sports Performer of the Year award at the Sports Performer of the Years Awards at Star City Casino in Sydney on the 25th. She beat out Soccer player Ben Kantarovski, High Jumper Amy Pejkovic, Tennis player Olivia Rogowska and Tennis Player Bernard Tomic.

Qualifers for Apparatus Finals

I finally found the qualifiers for apparatus finals here. They are

Floor
1 UCHIMURA Kohei JPN
2 DRAGULESCU Marian ROU
3 ZOU Kai CHN
4 GONZALEZ SEPULVEDA CHI
5 FAHRIG Matthias GER
6 SHATILOV Alexander ISR
7 LEGENDRE Steven USA
8 OKIGUCHI Makoto JPN

Pommel
1 ZHANG Hongtao CHN
2 BERKI Krisztian HUN
3 SMITH Louis GBR
4 KOCZI Flavius ROU
5 SELLATHURAI P. AUS
6 TOMMASONE Cyril FRA
7 SELIGMAN Robert CRO
8 MCNEILL Timothy USA

Rings
1 YAN Mingyong CHN
2 PINHEIRORODRIGUES FRA
3 IOVTCHEV Iordan BUL
4 VOROBIOV Oleksandr UKR
5 MORANDI Matteo ITA
6 STANESCU G. ROU
7 AIT SAID Samir FRA
8 NABARRETE ZANETTI A. BRA

Vault
1 GOLOTSUTSKOV Anton RUS
2 DRAGULESCU Marian ROU
3 KOCZI Flavius ROU
4 BOUHAIL Thomas FRA
5 RI Se Gwang PRK
6 BOTELLA PEREZ Isaac ESP
7 FAHRIG Matthias GER
8 WAMMES Jeffrey NED

P Bars
1 FENG Zhe CHN
2 WANG Guanyin CHN
3 TANAKA Kazuhito JPN
4 KIERZKOWSKI Adam POL
5 TSOLAKIDIS Vasileios GRE
6 CUCHERAT Yann FRA
7 YOO Won Chul KOR
8 ZONDERLAND Epke NED

High Bar
1 ZOU Kai CHN
2 CASSINA Igor ITA
3 PEGAN Aljaz SLO
4 LEYVA Danell USA
5 HORTON Jonathan USA
6 ZONDERLAND Epke NED
7 UCHIMURA Kohei JPN
8 TSAREVICH Aliaksandr BLR

Dragulescu is BACK!

With a 15.725 on floor, Wow! I was a bit worried about Sellathurai's Pommel with some quick hits suggesting he fell on the dismount, but IG's facebook page says his score is 15.575 which should be enough for finals. Phew. However, Rizzo will miss high bar finals after he sat down his dismount and Offord will miss all-around finals. It looks like he had a bad day as he only scored 82.25.

Promo video for London world

You can watch it here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/gymnastics/8287907.stm

It has some pretty cool special effects.

Wiwatowski out of worlds

Luke Wiwatowski will miss worlds after snapping his achilles tendon on Saturday. He was training on floor when he tore his achilles on the takeoff for a triple twist. Wiwatowski was set to compete on floor and high bar at worlds. He was the reserve for the worlds team in 2007.

Doha World Cup

France got off to a good start at the Doha world cup by qualifying in 1st place on 4 of the 6 men's apparatus and also on Uneven Bars. The field was fairly weak with most countries currently focusing on their preparations for worlds. However, there were a few top gymnasts there. Prashanth Sellathurai qualified 2nd on Pommel and 7th on Rings. Judging by his D-score on Pommel: 6.6, he did not do his new routine that he showed at the recent worlds trial. Perhaps he will do it in the finals. His score on rings was only 14.75, but it looks at though the judges were being hard on the execution deductions with top ringmen Angioletti, Tampakos and Coppolino also receiving relatively low scores in the 14 to low 15 range. In fact nobody got an E-score over 8.8.

Spanish MAG team for worlds

The Spanish men's team for worlds has been announced and is

Rafael Martínez
Isaac Botella
Manuel Carballo
Sergio Munoz
Ivan San Miguel
Javier Gomez

Dutch Men's World Trial

Here is a video featuring some action from the Dutch Men's World Trial. Features the well known Wammes and Zonderland and also an up-and-coming gymnast Deurloo. The Dutch men have shot up the rankings in recent years, having placed 36th at the 2003 Worlds, they came 23rd in 2006 and 20th in 2007. They now just need some more depth in order to be a contender for a top 12 placing, although the recent suspension of Van Gelder could hurt them.

Charlie Tamayo

There has some suggestions that Charlie Tamayo is making a comeback. In fact he competed at the National Qualifier before VISA Championships on 4 events: Floor, Pommel, Vault and P Bars. You can see his floor and vault for this comp here:



Charlie defected from Cuba to the USA back at the 2003 Worlds and I don't think he has competed internationally since, which is a shame because he is such an exciting gymnast. He has the double Arabian laid-out named after him and is a great vaulter, having won bronze at the 2001 worlds. He also has the best Yamawaki in the world as pointed out by coach Rick on gymnasticscoaching.com

He didn't compete at VISA championships because he is not a citizen yet, but it looks as though he may be able gain it soon, hence his comeback. However, it is hard to see him making a world or Olympic team for the US, since they are already very strong on floor and vault with the likes or Horton and Legendre among others. Still, I would love to see him make the National team and compete at some international competitions.

Australian MAG Worlds Trials

Australia had its men's world championships trials on Saturday in Canberra. Sam Offord came 1st and Sam Simpson came 2nd. Josh Jefferis had an off day with problems on floor, rings and high bar to drop out of all around contention, but he should still make the team for some individual apparatus. Philippe Rizzo also had some problems, missing his def on high bar. Prashanth Sellathurai showed an incredibly difficult pommel horse routine with a D-score of 7.0, including a brand new skill which could possibly get named after him. But I won't tell you what it is just yet. You'll have to wait until worlds for that.

Aus WAG Worlds Trials

Trials for the Australian WAG worlds team were held on Tuesday and yesterday (Wednesday). The results are due to be released today. With a maximum of 4 girls being selected for worlds this year (I think), it is likely that Lauren Mitchell and Shona Morgan will be on the team. Georgia Bonora and Emma Dennis didn't compete at nationals, but if they are back in reasonable shape they should also make the team, but Britt Greeley and Larissa Miller (for bars) will also have a shot at making the team.

US Men's Worlds Team

The US men's worlds team has just been announced and I am a little surprised. The team is Jonathan Horton, Alexander Artemev, Tim McNeill, Danell Leyva, Steven Legendre and David Sender. I am a little surprised at the inclusion of Sender and Artemev. I am surprised at Sender's inclusion, not because of his performance, but because he said that he would not be competing at worlds and that VISA championships would be his last competition as he is starting vet school. However, his day 1 performance certainly warrants his inclusion for at least floor, rings and vault. I am surprised at Artemevs inclusion on the other hand basically because of the hefty pommel scores put up by McNeill and also Daniel Ribeiro, making Artemev only the 3rd best pommel horse worker in the US. Ribeiro put up a 15.9 (6.8 D-score) on day 1 and McNeill put up a 15.6 (6.7 D) on day 2. In the past Artemev has only shown a 6.1 D-score and only put up 15.35 and 15.25 at the Olympics, and with his recent injuries it is unlikely that he will have been able to upgrade his routine. Admittedly, Ribeiro and McNeill only hit on 1 of the 2 days, but Artemev is also not known for his consistency, and could not have gained selection based on this.

More Yang Wei Controversy

Yang Wei is in some controversy in China again. Apparently he let it slip that he know that his baby will be a boy. However, in China you are not allowed to know the gender of a baby before it is born.

Rhythmic Gymnastics in Ukraine

This is an interesting news article about Rhythmic Gymnastics in Ukraine

Japan Cup Results

Well, Uchimura won this battle against Hambuchen and looks like he is moving from strength to strength. Five of his routines are shown in the following video



I was impressed with his P Bars, even with the new rule that you can't do the same skill in different positions he managed to show a lot of release moves. The routine also had a great flow.

Some of Hambuchens routines are shown here:



He has removed his maltese on rings, which is probably a smart move as he was probably getting more deductions on it that it is worth. Also, he has also gotten rid of his belle now that it has been downgraded to a D. I think this makes his P Bars look better as this is one of the rare skills that he does poorly.

The womens competition was won by China's Huang Qiushuang. Her score of 58.9 looks like it is a great score now that the women have reduced the number of skills to 8 (hopefully the men do this soon). It will be interesting to see how this compares to what the US women get at some competitions coming up soon.

It looks like there was a great crowd there and was a great competition. I believe it is on again next year. I think it is a great addition to the international calender, which needs some more team and all-around competitions like this.

Japan Cup

Japanese Gymnastics has posted the all-around line up for the Japan Cup. On the men's side, the all-around looks like it will be a great competition, with Hambuchen and Uchimura looking set to challenge for the all-around title at worlds with the retirements of Yang Wei, Paul Hamm and Tomita. Horton is also one of the worlds best, and if the Russians can knock any sense into Deviatovski (Disobedientovski) he can also challenge the best. It will also be interesting to watch the progress of Danell Leyva who looks like he will be one of the stars of the future.

On the women's side the top all-arounder from Beijing is Koko Tsurumi from Japan who came 17th there, however, there will be some top gymnasts on individual apparatus with Olympic Bars gold medalist He Kexin and Olympics beam finalists Li Shanshan and Koko Tsurumi and World Cup gold medalist Lauren Mitchell.

Aus Nationals - WAG Results

In WAG, Lauren Mitchell won the All-around over Shona Morgan and Britt Greeley. Mitchell also won Bars, Beam and Floor, while Emma Collister won Vault. There has been some talk about Lauren's beam having one of the highest start value's around.



Although GA didn't show her AA score from beam, only the 2 day total (29.15), but given that her 1st day score was 13.775, that means her AA beam score must have been 15.375, which should be very competitive internationally. Lets hope she can improve her consistency. She also got a great score of 14.725 on floor in finals.

chachakid has posted a few videos from nationals including this one of Stacy Umeh dancing in the stands

Aus Nationals - MAG Apparatus Finals

GA have finally put up the results from apparatus finals yesterday:

Floor
Sam Simpson QLD 14.725
Luke Wiwatowski NSW 14.65
Patrick Peng NZ 14.25

Pommel
Naoya Tsukahara JPN 14.95
Prashanth Sellathurai NSW 14.6
Sam Offord SA 13.75

Rings
Prashanth Sellathurai NSW 15.825
Sam Offord SA 14.775
Naoya Tsukahara JPN 14.45

Vault
Sam Offord SA 15.625
Luke Wadsworth VIC 15.062
Aaron Thanas VIC 14.912

P Bars
Naoya Tsukahara JPN 14.9
Philippe Rizzo NSW 14.675
Prashanth Sellathurai NSW 14.4

High Bar
Naoya Tsukahara JPN 15.075
Sam Offord SA 14.1
Aaron Thanas VIC 13.95

Aussie Nationals Update

2008 Olympian Naazmi Johnson won the Rhythmic section of nationals with a score of 92.55. Meanwhile, almost 4000km away in Perth, in the WAG section, ex-elites Chloe Sims and Monique Cowan helped Queensland win the level 10 team title.

Australian Nationals - MAG

Well, the 1st day of MAG nationals were held yesterday in Brisbane. As expected, the all-around competition was won by Naoya Tsukahara, although since he was a guest, the official champion was 2nd placed Sam Offord who put up a great score of 86.45. 2008 Olympian Sam Simpson came 3rd with 83.15. Luke Wiwatowski did well to finish 4th considering he had a nasty injury recently.

While training Weiler kips on loop bar earlier in the year, the loops snapped and Wiwatowski was flung off and he strained the medial ligament in his knee as he crashed to the ground. It was initially thought to be a serious injury. Luckily, he didn't require surgery and has since managed to recover quickly enough to be back in the all-around competition for nationals.

Prashanth Sellathurai scored an impressive 15.85 on rings, but it appears that he fell on pommel as his score of 14.75 is well below what he is capable of, but it was still the top score on pommel for the night. Pommel horse specialist Elliott Cook from WA posted a great 14.55 there.

Circus Oz

ABC has been showing a good 3-part series on circus Oz. It can be viewed online here on ABC iView. I believe this is only available if you are in Australia. So if you are outside Australia you will need to use a proxy server to view it. It is available for the next few weeks.

Ri Se Gwang

Looking at the results from World Uni Games, it appears that Ri Se Gwang received 2 7.2 D-Scores for his vaults in event finals (where he came 4th). This indicates that he performed his handspring double front pike 1/2 out and twisting full twisting double Tsuk. Well, it was most likely these vaults anyway as the only other 7.2 vault is the Li Xiaopeng. However, the bad thing is that this confirms that the FIG have indeed capped vaults at 7.2, and have not rewarded him with a 7.4 D-score for these vaults as they should have.

World Uni Games Videos

rhythmsofdevine has posted some videos from world uni games

UCLA Highlights video

From CBS Sports:

http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?media=129415

CBS Sports has some good college videos. Unfortunately it requires Silverlight.

Mediterranean Games

A couple of videos have appeared for the Rhythmic competition at the Mediterranean Games:





I haven't been able to find any videos for the Artistic comp yet, but hopefully some will appear soon. It looks like a good competition.

Full Twisting Double Tsukahara

This is Ri Se Gwang training a double Tsukahara with full twist. WOW! Even though he didn't land it, it is incredible. It will be interesting to see what value it will get from the FIG. It should get valued at 7.4, since a double Tsukahara is a 6.6 and a full twist is 0.8, however, I have heard that FIG is capping vaults at 7.2. I hope that it does get the 7.4 though, since if there is indeed a cap, it would defeat the purpose of the open-ended scoring system.

Interview with Louis Smith

There is an interview with Louis Smith on BBC here

Louis Smith to appear on the X Factor

Apparently Louis Smith will appear on the X Factor and may even give up gymnastics if he does well.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5478716/The-X-Factor-lures-Olympic-gymnast.html

Make It Or Break It Update

You can watch the first episode of Make It Or Break It on the ABC website here

Also, on the Make It Or Break It Twitter (http://twitter.com/miobishow) they mention that the show was the 2nd highest rating premier in network history. Wow! I hope that the show inspires at least a few people to get into gymnastics, even if the show does have some things that could reflect badly on the sport (such as the throwing up in the toilet).

Make It Or Break It

Well, there has been a fair bit of talk about the new gymnastics drama Make It or Break It. But for those of us who are not in the US, it doesn't appear to be online yet, so we can't watch it. I had a look on the ABC site, and they do have some free episodes, but Make It or Break It isn't on the list yet. But since it is new there is a chance it may appear there in the future (Although it has the usual stupid blocking of non-US IP addresses, so you will need to use a transparent proxy in order to watch these episodes). However, there is a 10 minute sneak peak here:



The level of gymnastics is pretty low for a senior competition (eg tucked Yurchenko), so we may need to look past this in order to enjoy the show.

Nationals

Well GA has put up the list of competitors for nationals. Interestingly Tsukahara is competing. I'm not sure why though, perhaps he is using it as preparation for Japanese worlds trials. But it will be great to have him here. Perhaps some videos will appear on YouTube. However, there were some notable names missing, a couple of which are Thomas Pichler and Matthew Curtis. I believe Tom is still recovering from an ACL tear that he suffered last year, but I am not sure about Matthew.

On the women's side the list looks pretty short with only 9 names listed. However, we often see the numbers shrink a bit in the year after the Olympics. Also, I believe Georgia Bonora and Emma Dennis are still training, and Dasha is still recovering from here ankle injury. Once we get these girls back, along with Shona Morgan and Lauren Mitchell, we should have a strong team for the next couple of years.

More NHK Cup videos

There are some more NHK Cup videos here - from oga0119.

NHK Cup

Looks like Uchimura won the NHK cup in Japan with a 3 day total of 276.75 (92.25 average), including a huge 16.05 on floor. On the women's side it looks like Tsurumi won with a 3 day total of 172.775 (57.59 average). This comp doubled as a world championships trial. There is a video of Uchimura's floor here:



and Tsurumi on bars:



For more videos see yu1207's profile on youtube:

German Nationals

German nationals were held recently with Hambuchen easily winning the men's competition with 90.9 over Marcel Nguyen (86.8) and Philipp Boy (86.3). The women's compeition was won by Kim Bui with 55.65 over Elisabeth Seitz (54.35) and Anja Brinker (54.1). Rhythmic was won by Annika Rejek, men's tramp by Martin Gromowski and women's tramp by Jessica Simon.

2009 Games of the Small States of Europe

The Games of the Small States of Europe is a multi sport event that is participated in by Andorra, Cyprus, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and Montenegro. It was held this year in Cyprus. Both team competitions were won by Cyprus. The women's all-around was won by Antonia Georgiou of Cyprus and the men's all-around was won by Dimitris Krasias of Cyprus. The is some footage of the women's competition here:



It is great to see that some of these small countries have gymnastics programs and are able to compete in a competition such as this. A few of these gymnasts have been to worlds before and it would be great to see a few more there in the future.

Prashanth Sellathurai Interview

There is an interesting interview with Proshy here:

Golotsutskov's new vault

IG reported that Anton Golotsutskov was going to perform a new vault in the finals of the World Stars 2009 in Moscow. The vault was supposed to be a handspring rudi in back out. However, the vault he performed vault a kind of 1/4 in 1/4 out.

This is the vault from Moscow:



It actually looks more like he has gone back to his 2003 technique where he almost does a double side sault.

Here is his vault from 2003 worlds:

Anton Golotsutskov - Worlds 2003 Vault
by rockygaz

Compare this to how he did it at the Olympics:



I actually think there may have been an error in translation and there is no rudi-in. That would be an incredible vault and I would have to see it to believe it.

Raj's new move

Well we can finally see Raj's new move, the Tkatchev on P Bars. You can see him doing at the 2009 World Stars in Moscow here:



And also in training here:


When I heard that it was a Tkatchev on P Bars I guessed it would be like a Tippelt, but was wondering whether he would be doing it to upper arms or to hang. As you can see, he indeed does it to hang. Although it is quite similar to a Tippelt, I think it looks pretty cool. I just hope the FIG actually name it after him. In the past I have seen a number of new moves either not being allowed or not being given a name, which is disappointing as I think one of the great things about gymnastics is innovation and the FIG seems to be actively discouraging it :(

Update: I just read that it is going to be given an 'E' value. Well I'm glad that it has been given a value, although I'm a little surprised that it was rated an 'E' and not a 'D' which is the value of a Tippelt.

Chalked up and ready to blog

Well, I have been meaning to write a gymnastics blog for a while, and have now finally gotten around to starting it. The name for the blog comes from what we used to call a Tkatchev when I was young after watching some of the older gymnasts having trouble with the move, which for some reason came back to me when I was thinking about possible names for this blog.

To start with I'll talk about the recent injury to Dasha Joura. For those that haven't heard, she had decided to have surgery on the ankle that she injured at the olympics after trying to let it heal naturally for 9 months. This will put her out of competition for the rest of the year, however, she hopes to be back for in time for the Commonwealth Games next year. I guess it won't be such a big loss for the Aussies at worlds this year given that it is only an individual worlds (which is a big disappointment in itself since the team comp is my favourite comp), although if she can't make it back in time for Commonwealth Games next year that certainly will be a big loss.

I have seen some questions about the decision to let the injury heal naturally, but as a former elite gymnast I can fully understand this decision as I always chose to avoid surgery if possible. Also, since it occured at the olympics and she had a bit of time to let it heal I think it was a valid decision. I know of some gymnasts whose ankle 'never felt right' again after surgery. However, I feel the biggest hurdle for her might be motivation. Given that the injury occured at the olympics that must have been a huge blow, especially given that she was looking so good at competitions in the lead up to the olympics. And then to find out 9 months later that it hasn't healed must be a double blow. It can be hard to get motivated when you have any injury, but this injury will be especially disheartening. I really hope Dasha can come back stronger and better, but it is going to have a tough road ahead. Good luck Dasha!