That means if she's disastrously low or under-rotated, she could break her neck. Pena has only landed on her feet a few times in competition. That she had a kind of false start shows she knows how risky her vault is. This is worth 0. It's possible that if she squeezed into a tighter ball and held on for longer, she could have stayed on her feet. But most gymnastics bloggers agree that she has poor technique, preventing her from getting enough power off the horse.
Pena's strategy is to run up the score with difficulty points on her first vault, and then just land a relatively easy second vault, a double-twisting Yurchenko one and a half flips, two twists. Her first attempt scored Russia's Maria Paseka did not fall, but we worry for her health, too. On her Amanar, she did more like two-and-a-quarter twists, instead of two and a half, and scored See this landing?
Twisting into the mat like that is risking her ACL. Her second, easier vault was much safer, but scored a lower In the end Paeska averaged What makes McKayla Maroney special is that she is good enough to do her vaults easily and well. I successfully avoided the internet completely today so I could be surprised watching it since I couldn't watch earlier.
Click to expand Sep 4, 2, I think she was deducted for being off center on landing, both feet where completely on one side of the center stripe. Though I don't know the fig code well enough to know exact deduction number.
Though I have to say, that vault was certainly the closest thing I have seen to a "10" in a vault that difficult and I can't remember ever seeing a 9. Amazing vault, well deserved score. Reactions: 5 people.
Apr 30, Beijing. I was wondering if they'd count that landing as a stick or not. She was obviously just a tiny bit off balance, although she covered it well. Maybe they took a tenth? It was an amazing vault though, the best I've ever seen her, or anyone, do.
Mar 25, 2, region II. I haven't seen it yet, but the international judges have to leave room for a completely stuck landing. They consider body extension at the moment the feet touch the floor, the posture used to establish control, and any body wave action front to back and side to side. To avoid any deduction it petty much has to look like the stuck landings we gymnasts have in our dreams Ok, I just watched it!
Mc Air got ripped! I watched for every fault listed in my post in super slow mo, and I saw it as a So I guess I could see a judge throwing a Oh yeah!! Now I got it! Plenty of people can flip and twist, but controlling it and having air awareness is the difference between throwing your body around and having a perfect vault. Once Maroney knows she has competed two-and-a-half twists, she must "kick-out. In order to do this, Maroney brings her arms from bent in at her shoulder to straight out to her sides.
The process of opening up her arms is what makes the twisting stop. One thing that makes Maroney's vault so incredible is when she kicks out, her body is still at table height many gymnasts don't finish their twists until they are just about to land.
In the interview with Dawes on the previous page, Maroney said she has thought of competing a triple-full. She is more than capable of making three twists around and could probably, with no twisting, complete a double back. Both would be amazing, but the problem is there is no need to attempt either one of those vaults because she is still going to win the Olympic Games on vault by at least five tenths only doing a two-and-a-half. The height of her vault allows her to have much more time than her competitors to prepare for a landing, since most of them are still worried about completing the twist.
When Maroney lands, she must keep her chest up and not let her momentum bring it forward. When her chest stays up, we see balanced landings like the one in team finals, but when she lets herself fall forward, we see her have to take deductions because of a large step.
This had nothing to do with the actual vault, but was possibly the most fun part about it to watch. There's few things more exciting in gymnastics than a stuck vault, and to stick a vault of that magnitude in the Olympic Games only magnifies it exponentially.
I want to say it was the best Olympic vault ever done, but I haven't watched her in event finals yet. We may see this celebration again. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. Featured Post. Popular Posts. PopularPosts li:first-child. PopularPosts li:first-child'. PopularPosts li:not :first-child '.
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