Thursday, November 6, 2014

Team Focus: Team USA

So in this segment, I will be writing about specific teams as mentioned in the title section above. Anyway, this is about team USA, where I will be doing a combonation of "Their Events" which is basically "Her Events", but talking about how the event goes for the whole team, and I will also be grading their performances in competitions I saw them in. Ok, right now I am pretty much confusing myself as I write this, and I am probably confusing you as well, so I"ll just write it now


 USA's Events

Vault: 
This is where the USA shines. Team USA has the hardest vaults, including a couple perfect Amanars, A Rudi, A Cheng, and a couple of Yurchenko Doubles. USA is great on this event, we have the hardest vaults in the World, and often, some of the best executed.

Bars: 
   This, is definitely our weakest events, we often have issues with hitting handstands, and nailing those transitions, although we have had a few greats on this event, such as Nastia Liukin, Rebecca Bross, Kyla Ross,, Gabrielle Douglas, Ashton Locklear, and Madison Kocian......... our uneven bars, as a team, is not perfect.

Beam:

USA's beam is pretty great! We can hit sequences, and we have difficult tumbling skills on beam, which can give us the edge in case of tiebreakers. But, we do have difficulties on our dance sometimes, as we see with the more powerful athletes. But as we saw with Jordyn Wieber, who had a one handed backhandspring layout, and Shawn Johnson, who had a GORGEOUS layout on beam, we can bring power to the table. And lets not forget Carly Patterson, who got one of the hardest dismounts ever named after her, the Double Arabian


Floor: 

Much like vault, team USA has the hardest tumbling passes, and while US athletes struggle with teh artistry, we make it up with the legendary tumbling passes such as Asac's Double Arabian, or Aly's 1 1/2 twist to double arabian punch layout. This is a great event for Team USA, and in my opinion, it will continue to be.

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