Brian Li Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Here's a video of Aleksandr Balandin's new element and his new routine. The new element is at 0:27. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Long Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Butterfly pull to Maltese to planche? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Slocum Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 To be honest I'm surprised that no one has done this before. It seems like low hanging fruit. "Oh, there's a butterfly pull to cross, inverted cross, and maltese. I wonder what else you could do with that..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Shevchenko Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 how do u call this move ( at 12 sec ), from hang to ic? ty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilian Schmahl Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 That move is called Balandin 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Li Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 To be honest I'm surprised that no one has done this before. It seems like low hanging fruit. "Oh, there's a butterfly pull to cross, inverted cross, and maltese. I wonder what else you could do with that..."I heard of this being done before by another gymnast, but I guess he didn't register it at Worlds or Olympics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gssj3 Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Chen yibing did something similar in this old competition. The only difference is that he holds a little more the maltese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seiyafan Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Chen did that back in 08, but it is interesting to see that very few gymnasts do butterfly pull in the last 3-4 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Slocum Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Chen did that back in 08, but it is interesting to see that very few gymnasts do butterfly pull in the last 3-4 years. They are commonly considered to be very hard for their difficulty categories. Why do a butterfly to cross when there are other skills worth the same amount of points? There's also the issue that butterfly skills are harder to do in the middle of a routine, since it starts from a dead hang, and very few movements end that way. Whereas for example a Nakayama (bounce from back-lever to cross) follows quite naturally from a planche or maltese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaudius Petrulis Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 My shoulders popped out of their sockets just by watching these videos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irongymnast Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Balandin has the best butterfly pull I've seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alec_ar Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Thank you for sharing the vid :-) I've always wanted to see Yibing's butterfly. That was the cleanest, strongest one ive seen.Dude's strong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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