ArnoldRimmer
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- Feb 5, 2021
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I hadn’t seen this PT set until now, and rewatched it alongside the US Nationals routines. And yeah, for all that there’s a decline in the quality of Jordan’s work between Nationals/Trials and the Olympics… the leaps were still pretty crap before Tokyo weren’t they! She looked a lot more poised and fluent on the beam in May and June, but she wasn’t hitting the leap positions much better.Jordan’s leaps on beam, looking back now, were REALLY bad. Like, Skinner bad. I can’t believe we were all so blindsided by the execution deductions. Looking back now it’s so clear that, compared to the Russians, those body shapes absolutely deserved being hammered. I guess we were so deep in the USA Classics Nats Trials tunnel that it was hard to take a step back.