Friday, December 27, 2013

Part 2: Favourite Gymnastics of 2013 ~ New Skills

Kenzo Shirai
The Shirai/Kim By Kezno Shirai & Kim Hee Hoon aka the triple twisting Yurchenko: Worth 6.0 in the MAG code. All I can say is that this vault is super duper hard. I honestly thought we would never see it this year but here it is done by Korea's Kim Hee Hoon.

The Shirai I & II: Bwd 4/1 Twists (F) & Fwd 3/1 Twists (F). Kenzo the twisting machine!

Yang Hak Seon doing the 5/2 Kas vault. Doing  a 2/1 Kas is already insane but Yang is badass and is trying to get the 5/2 name after him. I hope next year he will be more successful. Really, he is amazing.

Simone Biles
The Shang by Shang Chunsong: Cleap hip Piked Tkatchev (F). This is a cool skill. I can't believe this skill hasn't been named after someone from before. I don't know if Shang was the first to ever do this skill in WAG but she definitely deserved this skill name. I'm happy she got it named after her.

The Biles by Simone Biles: DLO with 1/2 turn (G). This skill is nice because at times the 1/2 turn catches me by surprise and it's super difficult to spot the landing. She's brave for doing it.

The Moors II by Victoria Moors: She broke the code! It's worth "I", "I"! This skill is even hard for guys to do. I can't snub out Skinner who actually does it well. She was the first one who got everyone talking about the 2/1 DLO.

What were your favourite new skills from this year?

2 comments:

  1. Bobby Baker's Full Twisting Double Front! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLShNZOOu8
    Jossimar Moreno's Tsukahara dismount off the end of p-bars and he also can do a double double dismount! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeEEDIG59SI

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    1. Hi, I like those skills too. I wasn't sure if I wanted to put Baker's double front 1/1 twists in this section. I put him in my MAG section. Thanks for showing me Jossimar's dbl dbl dismount. For some reasons I didn't know about that.

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