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The left leg begins about 10 inches behind the right (not lined up). If the breaker already has momentum, he/she quickly puts down his left hand close to the left leg facing the fingers away from the body, towards the left. Next, the left leg is swung around as hard as possible while doing a jump. The breaker is prepared to put down the right hand.
Kerri Allyson Strug (born November 19, 1977) is a retired American gymnast from Tucson, Arizona.She was a member of the Magnificent Seven, the victorious all-around women's gymnastics team that represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
There are many variations of form and performance of splits, including: Oversplit, in which the angle between the legs exceeds 180 degrees. Suspended split, in which the body is static and supported only by the feet. Split leap or split jump is a split that is executed after leaping or jumping, respectively, while still in the air.
Brody Malone stuck his high bar dismount, his legs practically magnetized to the mat. The sound that echoed through Dickies Arena after the first night of the U.S. Championships on Thursday was a ...
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In 1979, while training for the 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Mukhina suffered a broken leg, which kept her out of the World Championships in Fort Worth, Texas, a competition in which the Soviet team suffered its first defeat at the hands of their arch-rivals from Romania, with only Nellie Kim and Stella Zakharova able to medal ...
A college gymnastics star has announced her retirement from the sport after suffering a gruesome injury during the NCAA Regional Semifinal in Baton Rouge, La., on Friday.. Auburn University senior ...
In particular, emphasis is often placed on pointing the feet while airborne, especially during the split, so as to extend the leg lines. Also, proper technique (i.e., best practice) typically calls for straight legs (except in stag variations) and a full split position at the apex of the leap or jump.