Random gymnastics questions

[ArnoldRimmer]

Chusovitina looked like she barely broke into a sweat doing those tumbles. What a feast of phenomenal acrobatics and incomplete dance elements.

 

[RichardL]

2002 was a dark year, and I blame it all on athletes struggling to learn D dance elements on floor. RIP Liz Tricase etc

 

[irichluck21]

That damn tuck jump double!!!!

 

[Lisaelaine80]

Which gymnasts have done “split leg” tumbles on floor? I can think of Tatiana Gutsu (double layout) and Michelle Campi (double pike). Any other examples?

Too many. It’s hideous. When I was 12, I thought it was a huge form break. Lolol

 

[flappergirl]

Too many. It’s hideous. When I was 12, I thought it was a huge form break. Lolol

I knew it wasn’t technically, but it sure did look as if it was

 

[Sasha]

Yeah, I've always found them ugly too.

 

[Hatsumomo]

Those and the split-leg toe-on elements on UB. It looks juvenile.

 

[Sasha]

Though neither are as bad as double tuck jumps, to be fair. Those were a true blight on the sport.

 

[MaryClare]

I suppose the thinking is that if you can do a single layout with split legs, why not a double. But to me they are just a novelty skill.

I did however like it when pavlova did a front layout step out of her front double twist on floor

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

I suppose the thinking is that if you can do a single layout with split legs, why not a double. But to me they are just a novelty skill.

I did however like it when pavlova did a front layout step out of her front double twist on floor

I adored that pass. It was such a throwback to all the stylistic tweaks on front tumbling in the mid 90s when everyone was trying to make theirs look a bit different.

 

[irichluck21]

I also loved Katie Heenan's 2001 opening pass of front double full to punch barani stepout

 

[Snowfan]

I also loved Katie Heenan's 2001 opening pass of front double full to punch barani stepout

Would that be a deduction if it were done today? Technically she didn't hop or step on the landing.

 

[Concorde]

Would that be a deduction if it were done today? Technically she didn't hop or step on the landing.

No - a salto with a stepout can land in a lunge position with no deduction.

 

[Denn]

I wish we saw a lot more of these kinds of things. They are pretty, easier to control landings, and cool.

 

[FrolovasDoubleLayout]

Maybe not the right thread, but what is going on in GER? According to a SM post, it is being reported that Boorman is done in GER.

 

[Matilda23]

Yelena Grudneva in 1991 ended her second tumbling line with an arabian layout step out (Onodi with no hands). She stepped or danced out of it. Interesting work

 

[rlayt]

Maybe not the right thread, but what is going on in GER? According to a SM post, it is being reported that Boorman is done in GER.

I think she only had a short-term contract.

 

[Aizheng]

I think she only had a short-term contract.

Her contract had apparently been renewed to 2028, but was now terminated “im Einvernehmen” (code for she was given a large sum of money, IMO). The German article stated that the cooperation did not work as expected. Didn’t Helen Kevric move to Italy to train?