Suni Lee new UB combo (training)

[KristyJ]

Honestly it’s probably somewhere above 1/3 of all elite WAG athletes, if not 40%+

 

[irichluck21]

That would be a fun stat to see calculated. Sounds like a TMC blog to me.

Already done! LMAO

The Longevity of Oksana Chusovitina Visualized

The career of Oksana Chusovitina career has been so impressive that it is difficult to put her longevity into words. So instead I created a graphic to demonstrate how impressive it has been.

themedalcount.com

 

[Denn]

Sigh… I knew what you meant.

 

[Denn]

Luconi style vaults are 3/4-on to Tsuks. That is considered a correct technique nowadays. (It was not then, though)

 

[Denn]

In MAG, it HAD to be 3/4 basically because the horse was sideways. But the code says 3/4 in both WAG and MAG now. That’s the expectation.

 

[KristyJ]

I don’t really mind the 3/4+

I do mind it being called a Luconi and being less than a half turn

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

I paused the slo mo and it really is a perfect 270 degrees. Dead on.

 

[Denn]

Some fun facts about Scherbo’s vaulting:

• You can see that he really is thinking “3/4 on, Tsuk off.”
• One reason DTYs and Scherbo vaults were good for him was that he twisted the wrong way to do Kas vaults.
• He taught Morgan and Paul Hamm how to do DTYs, but not Scherbo entries, as far as I know. because both of them twisted the wrong way (Kas style)
• 1992 was when he debuted “his” vault I think. In 1990 and 1991 his two vaults were FTY and DTY.
• He usually did a DTY in AA events after that and saved “his” vault for finals.
• At the 1996 Olympics, he switched his second vault. I think it was hard to get distance on it, and that quad had that weird distance rule with all the distance lines on the mat.
• He later did a Round-off half-on to laid out barani vault (see below) which was actually a twist less for him.
• Hardy Fink told me once that he could do the Scherbo with a second twist, which Kenzo Shirai later got named after him.
• So he really was a master of ALL roundoff entries — the only person on Earth that can claim that.

Scherbo could actually do this vault. Shirai didn’t have a great block.

 

[RedBirdie]

Man, imagine what Sherbo could have accomplished on the table!

 

[Denn]

Now I -AM- wondering. Plus the vault rules over the last 3 quads keep changing what pairing of vaults guys can do in finals. that would have messed with him a bit, but certain quads he might have been a dominant force in vaulting with Scherbo and Yurchenko and half-on vaults

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

I don’t like seeing his face.

 

[tempest]

This one looks like at least 3/4 on