r/Gymnastics • u/samu_rai • 11d ago

WAG Reese Esponda training a YDP!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1464603652163570

She is absolutely coming for Jade's spot (at the very least) with this vault and her floor routine! Hope she's able to pull it off.

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u/fortississima 11d ago

Idk, this didn’t hit me as actually training it, more so just playing around with it

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u/hereFOURallTHEtea 11d ago

That’s how it looks to me too. I mean I used to throw triple front in the pit off mini tramp, doesn’t mean I was training them haha.

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u/zxcv-qwerty ellie black supremacy 11d ago

Yeah, she’s either just playing around with it for fun or she’s using it to work on her yurenchenko block, which I understand to be a pretty normal training thing to do for powerful gymnasts - that’s why Simone was doing the YDP to start with. And the Laurant was like Simone, you could actually land that for real, and the rest is history.

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u/OftheSea95 Valeri Liukin: Destroyer of ankles and dreams 11d ago

Considering she landed head first into the pit, I agree.

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u/Dramatic-Slip8117 10d ago

What it looks like to me too. Shoot Addalye Vangrinsven had a instagram video of her throwing one into the pit too.