Gymnastics from the Stands

Wai (pronounced why). Gym fan. New Zealand.

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European Games 2015 Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Highlights

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Samantha Peszek (USA)

Podium Training for the 2007 World Championships

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Nastia Liukin (USA)

Podium Training for the 2007 World Championships

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Is she even holding the bars????

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She’s using momentum to keep her hands on/close to the bars - this photo caught her shifting her hands, which has to happen in every circling element. The hands don’t actually rotate around the bar at the same time as or speed as the rest of the body - the gymnast has to shift/rotate her hands herself during the element. Watch a gymnast’s hands really closely during circling elements and you’ll notice that the hands are not constantly moving around the bar like the body does - they stay in the same place for about the first half of the element, then the gymnasts shifts them to the other side of the bar. Usually that doesn’t result in as obvious of a space between the hands and the bar like in this photo, but Nastia is in el grip here, and you have a much less secure grip on the bar with not as much hand/palm surface available, so that’s why her hands are coming off a bit. She’s about to regrab with more force.

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Ivana Hong (Stanford)

2015 NCAA Super Six

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São Paulo 2015 | Flávia Saraiva wins Silver on Balance Beam with 15.100 x

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2013 Japanese WAG World Championships Team: 

Mai Murakami, Yu Minobe, Asuka Teramoto, Natsumi Sasada

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Favorite skills: Kyla Ross (requested by kylarossappreciation)

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Carley Sims (Alabama)

2015 NCAA Super Six

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its the little things like these that make me happy in gymnastics 

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