#qi huilan

[electricsoul-rpg]

YANG MINGNA (杨明娜) as Qi Huilan, Second Madam of Hua Family

in Blossoms in Adversity (惜花芷), 2024

[suiluwu]

Why does Chinese gymnasts hardly do double layouts on floor?

for the most part, current chinese gymnasts tend to focus on twisting passes as they struggle to generate the height to do DLOs (and coaches seem to enforce converting all the girls to twisting passes but that’s another story...), but there have been quite a few who have trained/competed them throughout chn gym history!

here’s a list of them who have competed it: yu feng (1985), yang changmin (1995), mo huilan (1995), mao yanling (1995), kui yuanyuan (1996), ji liya (1996), xu jing (1996), sang lan (1996), chen mi (1997), chen maojie (1998), bai chunyue (1999), wang tiantian (2004), kang xin (2004), zeng panpan (2011), yao jinnan (2011), wang wei (2013), liu jingxing (2016), luo huan (2017), wang yan (2017), jia fangfang (2018), liu jinru (2018), & qi qi (2018 internal test, no footage)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m1b_Q_3XY2tye9t6DdPWOU7xNuAC4pNRSYhNlUaatBI/edit

[tripletwistsandtripleaxels]

1,2,3, 9,10 and 18 for the ask thing :)) --ss-lh

1. My favourite retro gymnast from that time period is probably Olga Korbut; I won’t link a video because they are #iconic

2. I think my favourite of this time was Olesya Dudnik, especially her *incredible* beam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G98YgLE6NP8 (except for the dismount here, but it was a triple twist in 1989!!!)Do late 90s count? If so, I’d also include my favourite gymnast ever and everyone’s beloved headcase, Mo Huilan, and how perfect she was on every apparatus.

3. These are going to get really unrealistic, but a lot of skills and combos I’d love to see even if they are ridiculous:Onodi without hand support/aerial OnodiStalder Seitz (stalder shaposh 1/1)Inbar Seitz (same thing)Inbar Nabieva (now we’re getting very ridiculous)Piked Mo salto (I told you)Double front full-out Piked PodkopayevaPiked Patterson off beamFull-twisting side aerial (I don’t actually know if this is what I am envisioning but there’s a skill I have in mind which is basically a side aerial with a full turn in flight)Front aerial to two feet (then you could connect a front tuck out of it or something)Seitz + BhardwajFull twisting Ezhova (so like a Bhardwaj from a Ezhova entry)Penche turn on floorKind of like a scorpion turn but in the figure skating style layback haircutter position? Don’t know how to describe but basically where your back leg is at head level and your head is arched really far back to form basically a circleSwitch leap to Yang Bo position (so like a switch ring but it’s a Yang Bo in the middle)Kovacs on uneven bars (let me dream)

9. I really liked 2013 and 2014 worlds, as well as the 1993-1995 ones. Those are the ones I think of immediately but I don’t really know

10. Maile O’Keefe, Emma Malabuyo, Gabby Perea, Kara Eaker, Adeline Kenlin, Olivia Dunne, Ana Padurariu, Li Qi, Chen Yile, Taeja James, Angelina Simakova, Alexandra Shchekoldina, Shilese Jones are the main ones I’m keeping an eye on right now who are becoming seniors next year. Probably I’m forgetting some

18. I have no idea if I have any of these so I don’t know what I got myself into... but here, have some Anna Myzdrikova https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPiuZqpAQFE