The sky is the limit

[yuyu9432]

[margolia-deactivated20180302]

Kohei Uchimura’s beautiful piked kovacs + slow motion replays       - 2016 - Olympic Games - All Around final       - 2016 - All Japan Championships - All Around final       - 2011 - World Championships - All Around final

[xian]

kohei’s gonna be at the doha world cup??? interesting…

[illyria-and-her-pet]

Omg what??? Wouldn’t that be his first time competing there?

[twoflips-threetwists]

[illyria-and-her-pet]

This is really exciting! Hopefully he wants to compete there to test the arena/equipment since Worlds will be held there or he wants to get a skill named and not because he’s giving up the all around and becoming a specialist…

[sunisalee2020]

Happy 29th Birthday Kohei Uchimura

[twoflips-threetwists]

I don’t know what this means but it sounds cool!

[yuyu9432]

At Montreal

[twoflips-threetwists]

I love this!! Kohei looks so tiny next to Nikita hahaha

[illyria-and-her-pet]

Throwback to when King Kohei stuck every single landing on floor in the 2014 World All Around Final

[gymfanconfessions]

[illyria-and-her-pet]

Gymnastics Legends (Part 1/∞): Kohei Uchimura, the greatest male gymnast of all time

the first gymnast, male or female, to sweep the major all around titles (Worlds & Olympics) in a quad (he has completed this feat twice)

7 Olympic medals and 19 World medals

6x All Around World Champion (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015) and 2x All Around Olympic Champion (2012, 2016)

3x Olympic Champion and 10x World Champion

has been a world champion in the high bar, floor exercise, and parallel bars

competed a total of 23 routines at the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo (AA in TQ, TF, and AA final + 5 event finals)

3x recipient of the Longines Prize for Elegance

10x Japanese National All Around Champion (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)

[illyria-and-her-pet]

Crazy Skills & Combos Gymnasts Have Only Shown in Training (so far) Part 2/∞: Kohei Uchimura

(L-R): Quadruple Twisting Double Tuck (TumblTrak), Double Front ½ (PB), Cassina + Kolman + Kovacs (HB), Bretschneider (HB), 1.5 Twisting Kovacs (HB), Kovacs + Kolman + Kolman (HB), Quadruple Twisting Double Layout (HB), Quadruple Twist, Half-In Back Out (PB)

[grandma-aly-blog]

Rio Gif Series (5/?) MAG AA Final ▪ Kohei Uchimura wins the title once again

[labflapper]

KOHEI UCHIMURA OFFICIAL WEB SITE

[papaliukin-deactivated20161230]

Gymnastics: Uchimura eyes becoming Japan's 1st professional gymnast - The Mainichi

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Olympic and world champion Kohei Uchimura is set to become Japan's first professional gymnast, sources with knowledge of the Rio Games gold medalist's decision told Kyodo News on Monday.

Here’s an English version of the previous article I posted about Kohei turning pro and leaving Konami.  From what I’ve researched, Japan seems to have different standards between ‘amateur’ and ‘pro’ sports (and often a bit cloudy). So Kohei going pro is a big deal.

[illyria-and-her-pet]

The last day of camp, both teams have really kind of started to relax, and I look over and there is this 16-year-old kid jumping on trampoline doing some pretty awesome stuff. Me being me, I had to go join ‘cause I used to be pretty crazy on tramp. Anyways, this kid starts doing like perfect form quintuple twisting doubles into a resi pit. So I try it, and can’t do it like him, but he still gives me a huge thumbs-up and a smile like he couldn’t believe anyone else would try what he was doing. Of course all my team starts watching me and this kid just doing the hardest and might I add dumbest stuff ever, but they keep giving me a hard time about how his form is perfect and I just look like a sloppy American. So this goes on for like 30 minutes. Just back and forth and constantly one-upping each other. Finally I did a trick that he wouldn’t try. I did a skill called a full twisting triple kaboom. He looks at me, laughs, waves his finger, and we all started laughing. After we finished, him and I walked onto the floor and our translator, who is also the chairman of USA Gymnastics, Yoichi Tomita, came up to him and I so we could speak. Long story short, he told me I was crazy. I told him he was crazy. Then he said my name is Kohei. I told him mine and he said to me I will never forget you.

Jonathan Horton on his first time meeting Kohei Uchimura at a camp in 2004 http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/kohei-uchimura-legend-everyones-mind-his-own (via illyria-and-her-pet)

[iguana012]

People call him the greatest ever because of his unbelievable technique. If you look at gymnasts in slow-motion, it’s usually not a good thing because you can see all their flaws and mistakes. But if you see Uchimura in slow-motion, everything is perfect.

Nadia Comăneci 

[illyria-and-her-pet]

The last day of camp, both teams have really kind of started to relax, and I look over and there is this 16-year-old kid jumping on trampoline doing some pretty awesome stuff. Me being me, I had to go join ‘cause I used to be pretty crazy on tramp. Anyways, this kid starts doing like perfect form quintuple twisting doubles into a resi pit. So I try it, and can’t do it like him, but he still gives me a huge thumbs-up and a smile like he couldn’t believe anyone else would try what he was doing. Of course all my team starts watching me and this kid just doing the hardest and might I add dumbest stuff ever, but they keep giving me a hard time about how his form is perfect and I just look like a sloppy American. So this goes on for like 30 minutes. Just back and forth and constantly one-upping each other. Finally I did a trick that he wouldn’t try. I did a skill called a full twisting triple kaboom. He looks at me, laughs, waves his finger, and we all started laughing. After we finished, him and I walked onto the floor and our translator, who is also the chairman of USA Gymnastics, Yoichi Tomita, came up to him and I so we could speak. Long story short, he told me I was crazy. I told him he was crazy. Then he said my name is Kohei. I told him mine and he said to me I will never forget you.

Jonathan Horton on his first time meeting Kohei Uchimura at a camp in 2004 http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/kohei-uchimura-legend-everyones-mind-his-own (via illyria-and-her-pet)