Posted by Lussac fan on 3/7/2007, 11:52 am, in reply to "Re: Just to share something."
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I went to the Bris comp last night. After not following Aust gymn for about 2 years it was hard to keep up with who was who, plus I was suffering from a bit of jet-lag. Anyhoo, my thoughts: Most impressive was of course Dasha, she is great on all events. Her first Yurchenko double twist was so high and fantastic, pretty much stuck. Tho like CJ said, she took a nasty fall off bars on a release and slammed the matte hard. There were audible gasps and she took a while to get up - I honestly didn’t think she would re-mount. Not sure if she was winded, or it was her bad back but she did remount and finished nicely. Beam was solid and floor was good. I think she had a third tumble run, then did another pass of RO ff double twist, then a fifth pass! Chloe Sims imo is a very special gymnast. She has great skills, and looks really fit and healthy. Her vault Tsuk layout 1.5 was good, one step to the side. Bars was going great with good form and nice pirouettes until she fell off on a Jaeger. Stuck perfectly a nice full-in or full-out dismount. Beam was awesome until she fell off after a leap-back tuck combo, dismount of double front nearly stuck. On floor she overrotated her Arabian double and ran out, and stepped out after her double front. She made a 2 ˝ twist dismount after repeatedly missing it in warm up. Her dance and music is very cool. Although she was hit and miss at this meet, there is a lot about her gymnastics that I really like. Ashleigh Brennan missed a pirouette on bars (not familiar with her routine but it looked like she improvised the first few sequences), and fell on beam after a layout. The first part of her fx routine is from the tv show “Cold Case”. All the other girls I cannot much comment on. Though Olivia Vivian tried hard, but her form was a bit messy, and her skills looked a bit unstable on beam. I think the other two girls who impressed me was Lauren Mitchell and Shona Morgan, good form and stability iirc. There was a gymnast who looked like a little Trudy McIntosh body-type wise! If my eyes didn’t deceive me, another Aussie did a standing layout step-out to layout to two feet on beam, and another a double layout on fx, not sure who though. Two girls tried Rulfova’s on beam, one was successful. Where was Monette – is she injured? Any news on Hollie’s injury? The Japanese ladies, all I can say is wow, they really surprised me. Good form, mostly stable skills but their choreo and dance could be a bit better, they look a little stiff in the ballet moves? I saw Dasha giving an interview after she had finished competing (while her back was being worked on), but I cant find it online and don’t have the Courier Mail. Highlight of the night for me was not the gymn, but it was seeing (well I think it was him, correct me if I am wrong!)………..Victor Razumovsky, coach of the legendary Yelena Gurova!