Posted by Asha on 3/7/2007, 6:08 pm, in reply to "quick overview from Bris"
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Thanks heaps for your report. Monette actually retired a couple of months ago after breaking her leg just before last year's Worlds. --Previous Message-- : 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! : : : :