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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Eww!
Does that leotard seriously have an 'F' on the front? And yes, it's blue with orange shoulder-stripes.
This would give the Couch Gymnast's Worst Leo Competitions Competition!
Best New Code Uses
In this new code, to have a high start value, you (as a gymnast) will want routines with: Tons of connection, and difficult elements.
Best examples:
Nastia Liukin's ah-mazing bars, like, TEN skill connection (all d's or e's) worth 0.8. For one flipping connection. I'm stunned.
Shawn Johnson's beam: An F, G, and 2 E's. Pretty Killer connections. Shawn can easily add a pike back after her full twist for a 0.2 (?) connection.
Beth Tweddle Bars: F, E, D + D flight connection, E into D - Dismount, another E. She's going to do well. Clean it up, though.
Cheng Fei floor: G, E, Pretty big twisting connection, whip (A) into Triple (E)
Shawn Johnson floor: G, Whip into triple, Full-In (E), the crazy ability to stick that double double
Daiane Dos Santos floor (duh!): G, G, F, F, A into D. Yeah. Are you thinking 'Not human, man!' right now? But that's five passes: Ah-ha! SOLUTION taking the forward tumbling thing into account!
1st pass: Arabian Double Straight
2nd pass: Full Twisting DLO
3rd pass: Arabian double pike + Branny (tuck front 1/2) - 0.2 connection
Last pass: DLO (this could be interesting...)
That's 0.7+0.7+0.6+0.2+0.2+0.6 in that alone...who said you need leaps...that actually comes out to 3.0 (!) in just that, assuming she fills up all the requirements she has a 5.5, NOW comes the time for 2 'C' leaps and she has a 6.1 SV. Geez.
Li Shanshan BB: Not too many E's and zero F's, but she has good connections.
Anyways, what do you think?
And what's the current deal with Pavs?
Best examples:
Nastia Liukin's ah-mazing bars, like, TEN skill connection (all d's or e's) worth 0.8. For one flipping connection. I'm stunned.
Shawn Johnson's beam: An F, G, and 2 E's. Pretty Killer connections. Shawn can easily add a pike back after her full twist for a 0.2 (?) connection.
Beth Tweddle Bars: F, E, D + D flight connection, E into D - Dismount, another E. She's going to do well. Clean it up, though.
Cheng Fei floor: G, E, Pretty big twisting connection, whip (A) into Triple (E)
Shawn Johnson floor: G, Whip into triple, Full-In (E), the crazy ability to stick that double double
Daiane Dos Santos floor (duh!): G, G, F, F, A into D. Yeah. Are you thinking 'Not human, man!' right now? But that's five passes: Ah-ha! SOLUTION taking the forward tumbling thing into account!
1st pass: Arabian Double Straight
2nd pass: Full Twisting DLO
3rd pass: Arabian double pike + Branny (tuck front 1/2) - 0.2 connection
Last pass: DLO (this could be interesting...)
That's 0.7+0.7+0.6+0.2+0.2+0.6 in that alone...who said you need leaps...that actually comes out to 3.0 (!) in just that, assuming she fills up all the requirements she has a 5.5, NOW comes the time for 2 'C' leaps and she has a 6.1 SV. Geez.
Li Shanshan BB: Not too many E's and zero F's, but she has good connections.
Anyways, what do you think?
And what's the current deal with Pavs?
Friday, June 5, 2009
What do you think?
First off, congrats to Shawn Johnson for winning DWTS! I'm so proud of you, except for the Lindy Hop.
I think Shawn will return to gymnastics. We haven't seen what she's ready to unveil at worlds! I think it will be big!
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Head Cases!
Including Krasnianska, Lyssenko, Pavs, Ferrari, sometimes Nistor, Nemov, Dragulescu, Cassina, A-Sac (in a good way, of course. How could there be anything bad about Sac!?), Cheng Fei, etc.
What do you think? Any biggies I left out?
What do you think? Any biggies I left out?
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Gymnasts I Just. Don't. Like.
Enough junk. Onto the opinions.
Gymnasts I Just Don't Like: and there's a reason WHY.
(no offence to anyone)
Elizabeth 'Betty' Okino - ugly, inconsistent, boring gymnastics.
Maria Olaru - notoriously bad form.
Annia Hatch - stole a medal from poor Pavs.
Kerri Strug (wacky, isn't it? Aside from that one vault, she. is. nothing.) - bad. form. overrated. Sorry, she did NOT win a gold medal. I hate it when people say, 'oh, yeah, Kerri toe-dally won the USA's team gold medal,'. NO SHE DID NOT! It was a team of 7 MAGNIFICENT girls (more like 6 cause I dislike Kerri) that worked as a team, and won a well-deserved gold medal.
Li ShanShan - Inconsistent. Her beam combos are so unenjoyable because everything looks so forced.
Yang Yilin - everything looks so forced! Not even a simple thing such as a BFF or BHS seems natural, everything looks forced!!!!!
Ksenia Afanasyeva - head case. Big time.
So if I put down any of these girls in the future, know I'm just being mean. Don't take it personally. If you will, I will shake you up like a Pina Colada.
Gymnasts I Just Don't Like: and there's a reason WHY.
(no offence to anyone)
Elizabeth 'Betty' Okino - ugly, inconsistent, boring gymnastics.
Maria Olaru - notoriously bad form.
Annia Hatch - stole a medal from poor Pavs.
Kerri Strug (wacky, isn't it? Aside from that one vault, she. is. nothing.) - bad. form. overrated. Sorry, she did NOT win a gold medal. I hate it when people say, 'oh, yeah, Kerri toe-dally won the USA's team gold medal,'. NO SHE DID NOT! It was a team of 7 MAGNIFICENT girls (more like 6 cause I dislike Kerri) that worked as a team, and won a well-deserved gold medal.
Li ShanShan - Inconsistent. Her beam combos are so unenjoyable because everything looks so forced.
Yang Yilin - everything looks so forced! Not even a simple thing such as a BFF or BHS seems natural, everything looks forced!!!!!
Ksenia Afanasyeva - head case. Big time.
So if I put down any of these girls in the future, know I'm just being mean. Don't take it personally. If you will, I will shake you up like a Pina Colada.
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