Tuesday 3 November 2009

Event Final Time - Vault and Bars

As promised to everyone reading this. Which is a grand total of me right this second. Oh well.

Vault:


Kayla Williams - great DTY, rudi needs improvement, on a bad day judges would credit it piked and her form isn't fab, but the best gymnast definately won.
Ariella Kaeslin - Go Kaeslin! Silver at worlds, after her European title on this event that's great. Her rudi has improved since Euros, but her one and a half yurchenko still isn't great. Girl's got power, she should upgrade! But for serious, what is with her butterfly obssession?
Youna Dufournet - so she's totally improved. Her European vault was a not very good full twisting yurchenko, and here she is winning a vault medal. That's great for her, she's one of my favourite new gymnasts, I hope she continues to get better and better.
Hong Un Jong - oh Hong *weeps*

Brittany Rogers - pulled a DTY out of nowhere. It wasn't amazing but it certainly wasn't bad. Go her.
Elsa Garcia - first world final, pity it didn't go quite to plan, but she laughed it off and went into pretty much everybody's good books as consequence. Better luck next time.

Anna Myzdrikova - bit of a fugly DTY, unfortunately, I love this girl but I fear, like many Russians, she may be a head case.
Ekaterina Kurbatova - the mat tried to eat her knees on her second vault. Interesting technique on her DTY.


Uneven Bars:


He Kexin - any surprise? Totally destroyed the rest of the field, and she was first up. Her combinations are even scarier in real life. Fab routine from a great bars gymnast.

Koko Tsurumi - two medals for Koko :) She didn't perform as well as she can but it was still good enough for silver, she's so groovey.

Ana Porgras - wow, a Romanian medal on bars. I'm kind of blaming the weak field for this, her turn into her Jaeger was amazingly late, but go her.

Rebecca Bross - felt so sorry when the announcer forgot about her in the medal ceremony for all I dislike her bars work. I blame the field for this again.

Cha Yong Hwa - if only she'd hit this. She caught her Def and that's usually the problem area, and then she screws up her jam - full and doesn't connect the Jaeger. If she's hit it would've been silver for sure. One for the future methinks.

Bridget Sloan - was her normal self. She doesn't connect much does she. Bit Shawnesque - it's all the dismount. Only she has actually got skills on the bars.

Larrissa Miller - I didn't like her that much if we're honest. She had good form and good lines and considerably better transitions than the other Australians (seriously, everyone moaned at China but they were just as bad). But she was so slooooooow.

Serena Lichetta - pity she totally screwed up, I had no idea what she was like and would liked to have seen her properly. Potential great combo in the Tkatchev - Comaneci though.

2 comments:

  1. Nice to see that you have a blog - I love your YouTube account! : ) Re Ariella Kaeslin - someone needs to teach this young woman a Tsukahara! Her Rudi is much better than her Yurchenko, so I think another handspring-style vault would work for her. Hey, it worked for the Chuso. ;-) And I'm not a big fan of her butterfly leotards, either, but I think it's cool that she has a signature style. I mean, whenever I think of butterflies, I think of Ariella, so it must be working, right? Anyway, looking forward to reading more...

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  2. You watch He Kexin in London?

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