Recent content by Aeris

It's NCAA, not like there's much to do. Chow/Shaposh + overshoot (not to handstand), stand on low bar to get back to HB, Stalder + hip hecht 1/1 dismount (also C rated in elite and yet nobody does it for some reason) = 10.0

They are different people, I noticed on twitter in the leadup to the Olympics when my feed became filled with all kinds of random gymnastics posts. Hard to tell which one of them has made more bullshit proclamations and kept digging their heels in, after being proven wrong about specifics in the...

It's their fault if they are making their gymnasts feel more nervous and worse about themselves, leading to less consistency, but ofc it's hard to say exactly how much that can be put on them. The routine construction can always be criticized though. The most successful competitors have been...

Nastia should have trained BHS+Rueda after her Onodi for .2 bonus, instead of that questionable Wolf 1/1 where she only got .1 bonus on a good day.

Unfortunately social media has pushed humanity further away from being a meritocracy. An individual's art/reasoning/work is automatically devalued if that individual says a single "wrong" thing, regardless of it being unrelated to their expertise.

The Rueda is another one of those moves that should be seeing a good amount of usage. It avoids the low chest deduction of a back tuck/pike and can provide a more stable landing than a rebounding LOSO.

8 skills only routine: LOSO mount (E) + LOSO (C) + BHS split sit (C, still waiting to be named, and waiting to be used by tons of gymnasts with the side aerial, first performed by a Russian gymnast at national competition in the 70's or 80's if anyone can find a video) Triple wolf (E) Side...

LOSO mount + LOSO deserves to count as the acro series, it's silly how mounts are excluded from that CR. They let front roll mounts count for the turn requirement and those are trivial. Unless you're Sabrina Voinea.

Nemour's switch 1/2 has improved a lot! It was horrid before this year.

Thanks for the summary! This should have been Jade Carey's book name though.

Twisting on the table (and onto the springboard) isn't an illegal technique. It's been historically under-penalized, making it a competitively viable strategy. Probably the reason why Skinner found it natural to do a one-armed Cheng is because keeping the body weight more to one side makes it...

Skinner's Cheng was her primary vault, she had it before the Amanar and it consistently scored better. Simone's Cheng wasn't as good as her Amanar. Regarding 2015, it was the correct decision to bench Skinner there because judges at Worlds were saying they might not credit her one-armed Cheng...

Um?? Her Cheng scored higher, there's no reason she would do the Amanar instead. Skinner didn't get any boost domestically in comparison though? Even on the one event where her score did drop dramatically (beam), it's been argued constantly that Grace's dance series shouldn't have been...

Nice to see Nemour bring the inbar back after some doomdicting that she would never have inbars again. I wonder if Chuso could do a Tucked Rudi. Would make her a lot more competitive than doing the Pike 1/2. Also not sure why she hasn't fully committed to using a Kas technique on her first...

It doesn't, only her Vault and Floor mattered for the highest scoring team. Her AA score at the Olympics was better than both of Grace's anyway, that's the funniest part!