Men Kenzo Shirai

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Had anybody suggested to me five years ago that a routine like this was even physically possible, I would have laughed out loud at them.

 

[ZJsMom]

Have you seen this?

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Yes. It's similarly jaw-dropping

 

[profmom]

You know, I think we all told ourselves a few years ago that with a little more time and training, he would mature and get cleaner, start upgrading and sticking things, but given what he was doing then, it was impossible to imagine bigger stuff.

What he does SHOULD not be physically possible!

 

[skschlag]

I love that. His twisting is insane..

 

[mariposa]

Can someone explain what he was doing? I can never count twists. He's amazing.

 

[skschlag]

Sure..he did a really lot of twists with a flippy thing connected to another flip with more twists. Then he twisted a lot more...

sorry...I have a hard time with that too....so really lot, more than one, and twisty thing are about all I got I am sure one of the coaches can tell us the technical terms! LOL!

 

[Empowered]

Last pass a quad? And second a triple twisting double? Maybe, possibly... Spins like a top that man.

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Passes are:

-Back 7/2 to front 2/1 (I've never seen this pass done by anybody else)
-Triple-twisting double back
-Cartwheel (used as a spacer, not for skill value), pike through to handstand
-Front 1/1 to front 3/1 (I've never seen anybody else do a front 3/1 at all, much less in connection)
-Back 5/2 to front 5/2 (That's D + E)
-Side 1/1 (which is an oddly-easy side pass for routine otherwise packed with pyrotechnics)
-Back 4/1 (which I've seen done by one other gymnast -- Kent Caldwell, I think)

 

[Deleted member D3987]

Have you seen this?

this is the same pass he does above in the 2nd pass. triple double.

 

[ZJsMom]

this is the same pass he does above in the 2nd pass. triple double.

It's laid out in that one, but tucked in the Cottbus routine though.

 

[Deleted member D3987]

they're about the same. they both have slight knee bend.

 

[Deleted member D3987]

his teammate did straight/straight or perfectly laid out.

 

[ZJsMom]

If Skinner gets credit, which she does, for her laid out double double, he better get credit, if he does one like in that training video at Worlds.

 

[ZJsMom]

His hips look pretty open in the lay out attempt.

 

[Deleted member D3987]

i'm sure he gets credit.