Irina Viner is my favorite Disney villain.

21. Spain. RG. WAG. Sometimes I make some (mediocre) gifs. Chances are that I am currently fangirling over Halkina, Vladinova and Agiurgiuculese while crying over russian artistic gymnastics at the same time. Formerly @goddesseswearhalfshoes

[ikromovas]

Daria Trubnikova - GP Moscow 2019

+ Bonus:

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[melitinastanioutas]

Lmao

[fabiochampioraro]

If she manages to be steadier she could include it in her routines!

[rhythmicgymnasticsnews]

This is so cool! 😱

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[ikromovas]

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Alina Harnasko performing the ribbon routine Marina Lobach became an olmpic champion with 😍😍😍😍.

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Update: here is the youtube video with the full routine in TV quality and Marina Lobach’s reaction 😍

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Alina Harnasko performing the ribbon routine Marina Lobach became an olmpic champion with 😍😍😍😍.

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How old is Viktoria mazurs husband???

I don’t know about most of the gymnasts’ husbands, however I did a little research and found nothing, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[ikromovas]

my gif set of agiurgiu got marked as explicit????????????? Tumblr wyd???????

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This also happened to some of my old rg gifs 🤷

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[vitamoved-deactivated20220818]

you ever just remember that vlada nikolchenko, a 15-year-old, was ranked 4th in the AA at her first ever world championships and had three scores over 19, not to mention an 11.400 D-score in hoop? she’s FIFTEEN

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Maybe I would be surprised if she actually deserved that 4h place

[fabiochampioraro]

Why i’m even trying to understand the cop guys???!!

From @iluvrhythmic ig stories

[ikromovas]

Could this??? Actually be a good thing???? Like we all knew the CoP was way too apparatus heavy maybe this is what we need?

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I don’t like 3, 4  or the dance steps value increase.

IMO the encouraging use different handlings is good for variety in composition, and avoids gymnasts only learning about three handling skills in each apparatus and repeating it ad nauseam.

Also some roations under the apparatus in DERs are already overvalued, however I would agree in having two different values for two different groups of rotations (e.g. 3 chaines in a row are much easier than 3 rolls in a row).

Not much to say about dance steps, 0,4 is an obvious overvalue for basically just dancing for eight seconds (I like dance steps, but let’s not pretend it’s more difficult to execute than a 0,4 BD.

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[ikromovas]

In which I am Spela Dragas

[czarinakanaeva]

Your 2018 World Ball Bronze Medalist!

Photo Credit: Fabrizio Carabelli

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What are deriugina legs?

Deriugina legs are a trademark of the ukrainian national team, which is coached by the Deriuginas mother(Albiuna) and daughter(Irina), and now granddaughter(Ireesha Blokhina).

The main characteristics are:

very long defined legs, narrow hips, short trunk. The gymnasts usually have very athletic and powerful legs, which allow them to reach maximal amplitude during their leaps (cf. Vika Mazur).

Also, the oversplit, no one can hit an oversplit mid air like a ukrainian (cf. Anna Bessonova, queen of legs, Anastasiia Mulmina..

Also, they usually don’t have a huge extended knee, though it depends on the gymnast.. Like they have a knee hyperextension, but not to the point where it looks the knee might snap.

to sum it up, they choose gymnasts with a certain physics (skinny, very long legs, rather short trunk) and have their own conditioning technique, the gymnasts have skinny but ripped legs, beautiful lines but still very powerful, defined form in the air, huge amplitude. Their leg flexibility is impressive but it’s not “noodly” like some gymnasts can be (for example, Sasha Soldatova, who is hyperflexible but doesn’t get much amplitude on her leaps)

here are some examples:

Anna Bessonova with an incredible fixed oversplit position in the air:

Anastasiia Mulmina, who hits incredible oversplits in the air as well:

(sigh)

Vika Mazur, who doesn’t have the hugest oversplit, but gains incredible air during her leaps and has massive amplitude:

(see how her front leg doesn’t start going down until her back leg hits its highest point)

Tamara Yerofeeva, with her typical long skinny legs:

There are others like Viktoria Shynkarenko, Olena Diachenko, Alina Maksymenko…

It’s a trademark of almost all ukrainian gymnasts, though there are some exceptions, Ganna Rizatdinova has a rather long trunk for a ukrainian and while she has a nice oversplit, she doesn’t get as much air as others. Valeria Khanina has rather flat leaps and lacks a bit of leg flexibility (in comparison to others). Eleonora Romanova had the typical long skinny legs, but she lacked power (probably due to her hyperflexibility) and had quite a massive knee hyperextension.

[jennibeultimate]

Ekaterina ♥

(From Ekaterina’s Instagram)