Kohei Uchimura

[Geoffrey Taucer]

This guy is absolutely unstoppable. Yurchenko 3/1, effortless triple-double on floor, best Kovacs ever performed on high bar.

Quite possibly the greatest male gymnast who has ever lived.

 

[Deleted member D3987]

no argument from me. my jaw is still stuck on the floor from watching his Y3.

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

I can't wait to see what sort of stuff he'll be pulling out in London.

I've been trying to find a video of his highbar routine from Japanese Nationals, but no luck so far. I hear he has a new routine, even more spectacular than the old one.

 

[staceyb]

He did a handspring double on vault in qualis

YouTube - Kohei Uchimura's 2nd vault @ Japanese Nationals 2010 Qualification

and a dragalescu in finals, the guy is unreal.

 

[fuzi]

I don't even think the skills he does are humanly possible. And then he does them. Could he part transformer?

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

No

freaking

WAY

[video=youtube;4dv78x20_sM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dv78x20_sM[/video]

 

[tough gymnast]

to bad he's not for team USA

 

[Deleted member D3987]

full in triple out. amazing. i used to do those on trampoline years ago...but from 20 feet in the air!

 

[bogwoppit]

Holy cow, that was unreal!

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

So what are they going to do when he competes this? Add an H difficulty rating just for Kohei?

Heck, I would if I were in charge of writing the code. Give him an H for his Kovacs + 1 as well once he starts catching it.

EDIT: What really blows my mind about the quad double is the fact that he clearly knows exactly where he is the whole time. I mean, you can see him opening up for the landing.

How the heck do you keep track of where you are in a skill like that?