Gymnastics News! | Aly Raisman

After reading little things here and there and seeing pictures of a supposed comeback attempt by the three time olympic medalist, nothing is more convincing then seeing her tumbling. Aly Raisman posted a video of her tumbling on her instagram page - hopefully shot recently. There had been videos of her 'training' but nothing ever really showed her working out except for her trying to fix her poor toe-point. The video tells me that she is back and is definitely working on a comeback for a shot at Rio 2016.

The video shows her working on an arabian double piked. I will summarize what an arabian is now but will talk about that term extensively in a later post. An arabian is a half turn, the gymnast starts from a back entry and then takes the half turn and proceeds to forward twice. The most typical arabian being performed on the floor is an arabian double tuck, valued at an E. Gymnasts that are currently performing that particular skill are Aliya Mustafina and Maria Kharenkova.

The piked arabian is slightly more difficult, valued an F, and not that many gymnasts on the women's field are performing it. Part of the reason that there aren't that many people training it is because front moving saltos have difficult landings. If you see the video you will notice that she takes a very big step forward which would probably incur a three tenths, .3, in deductions.

Enjoy.

 Via GymnasticsCoaching