I’ve taken to looking to Getty Images for photos of big meets like last weekend’s American Cup. On the rather fuzzy Youtube videos I’d seen, I thought everyone looked like they were making an effort to clean things up.
The Getty Images show differently. In a word: Yikes!
The form on Kristina Goryunova's Pak salto could be worse, but only if her legs were bent.
David Sender lets his feet come apart on pommel horse.
Canada's Brittany Rogers lets her legs come apart on a handstand.
Kim Bui's feet are badly flexed on her Tkatchev, and her legs could be straighter.
Fabian Hambuchen could do a better job of pointing his feet during his twists.
Bui on vault. Enough said.
We need a pretty picture to round out this post. Thanks, Youna Dufornet!
France's Youna Dufonet performs at last weekend's American Cup.
Amy Van Deusen at About.com has a really impressive photo gallery of nice/not nice form.
February 27, 2009 at 4:42 pm |
That picture of Youna doesn’t count. I’m sure all the other gymnasts can do pretty poses too.
February 27, 2009 at 6:44 pm |
Youna has the worst fomr out of all of them. I really don’t like her gymnastics. Not to mention the fact that she falls all over the place at every meet.
February 27, 2009 at 7:16 pm |
Hard to dispute that, coach. Nonetheless, it was a pretty pose.