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Gymnasts (23)

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Can't resist another update of the best sport...  

Gymnasts (22) with Videos

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Videos 'top and tail' this latest bundle featuring our favourite sport! We start with a complex vault from Jake J, the Yonekura: Jake is a twisting whizz (and was travelling reserve at the Olympics for the UK)...  ...here he is maxing out in twists in a floor tumble... To Russia now, and a quick trick on the high bar, going through Manna to end in elgrip... Fourth video todays shows Alexander Z's travels on the pommel horse (here, a floor horse): forwards is Magyar and backwards is Sivado (Sivado is an eminent Hungarian coach now whom I am proud to have met at two competitions in Europe)... There is one more video at the end - a bit of a 'fun' one... but first: addressing the pommel horse, and then close to the dismount... Some youngsters these days achieve very hard moves very young... ...and he obviously enjoys being in the fresh air to show it to us! Start young, and enjoy the training... Friends made in the gym are often friends for life! Swing to handstand on t

Gymnasts (21)

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Onwards and upwards with pictures of guys training in our favourite sport! We begin with a handspring vault into double somersault from Korben Fellows (UK):  We can't identify any other gymnasts in this set for certain, except for another UK rising star Jake Jarman in #3 and #4 below. He was the travelling reserve for the Tokyo Olymic squad.   Sorry, you can't see much of the gymnast there, but we do rather like the composition of the image