Rio 2016: Will Dipa Karmakar attempt the deadly Produnova in the final today, or will she go for something else?

I’ll repeat — I wish she could compete for the men and I’m totally serious about that. Heck, I’d put her on the men’s floor and vault team tomorrow if the rules would allow, she is a beast! I respect Nandi’s strategy and choice “for his gymnast”, but it’s not a viable strategy for building a national program which India so desperately needs. ” I suspect the answer would be No, due to the weakness in her bar exercise. But Indians must understand she is attempting to qualify against gymnasts from counties that have established gymnastics traditions dating back 100 years, and Federations which have vast resources. Dipa is one girl from Tripura, who is confronting hoardes of gymnasts from the USA, Russia, Romania, China, Europe.

Great backhands

Agartala was still a sleepy town where parents insisted children stick to studies, but Dityatin became Nandi’s distraction. “I’d wait for magazines that came weeks later from Bombay and Delhi and I learnt new things reading. I really wanted to talk to him, and on one tour to Russia I was carrying a Shivling just in case I met him. We did meet, and I presented it to him telling him it was an Indian god. But we communicated well enough and he generously told me about technique,” the 4-time national champ who also made the finals at the Bangkok Asiad (in pommel horse), recalls.

Just like 40-odd years ago when he discovered a champion Russian and chased him down to learn more. The General Awareness section is a part of almost all major Government exams and scoring marks in this section is the easiest since no calculations and solutions are required.

However, players with a modern one-handed backhand like Dominic Thiem, Stan Wawrinka, Denis Shapovalov, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Grigor Dimitrov or Richard Gasquet can hit it with an open stance and off the back foot, too. Stan Wawrinka is another example of a player who hits consistent one hand backhand drives on all types of surface with the same margin of error. The type of backhand a player uses mostly comes down to personal preference and their game style. Since the 1970s, however, the two-handed backhand has had a spike in popularity and is now more widely taught than the one-handed backhand. Because the player’s dominant hand “pulls” into the shot, the backhand generally lacks the power and consistency of the forehand, and is usually considered more difficult to master. However, the two-handed backhand provides more stability and power for the shot, and is increasingly used in the modern game.

Rio 2016: Will Dipa Karmakar attempt the deadly Produnova in the final today, or will she go for something else?

I’ve been involved at the highest international level of the sport for a quarter century and have contributed to producing numerous Olympians and one World medallist. I say it again that India could and should be a world power in gymnastics within the next 10 years. Jim Holt has coached 8 nations at a dozen World Championships over the last two decades, developing gymnastics in far-flung corners. Currently, employed by the Sports Authority of India, the former University of Washington coach has been overseeing the Indian programme. Based out of New Delhi, and frequenting the NIS in Patiala for conducting coaches courses, the American from Seattle puts into perspective Dipa Karmakar’s performances this season, but urges that much more needs to be done if gymnastics has to become a mass-sport that consistently fetches medals for India.

{
• Hence, to help fetch every single mark we have collated a list of sports terms important from exams point of view.

|}

• There are a couple thousand kids (in at least 24 or 25 of the states) right now that are India’s future pipeline.
• “Though gymnastics is for younger players, I have done well in recent years and plan to continue till the 2024 Paris Olympics. I am 27 now and recently won a bronze medal in the Asian Championships,” said Pranati.

{

• I really wanted to talk to him, and on one tour to Russia I was carrying a Shivling just in case I met him.

|}{

• Even today, there are still many players who use the flat single-handed backhand, such as Stan Wawrinka and Roger Federer, although they have added more top-spin to cope with top-spin from other players as well.

|}

• I have told her, and she has laughed at me on several of these occasions, that “I wish she were a guy.” Her grit and determination are motivating and inspiring for any coach.

{

Sports Terminology – Important Sports Terms

|}

A mistake that is often made in this execution is not bringing the racket low enough or not having a follow-through. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the flat single-handed backhand was popularised by many players, most prominently and consistently by Rod Laver, Don Budge, Lew Hoad, Frank Kovacs, Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, Ellsworth Vines. He was one of the first players to use a flat single-handed backhand with a hint of top-spin. Although flat or top-spin shots were not rare at the time, they were not common shots and were used mainly for variety only, especially on the backhand side. These shots were generally faster-paced, but were considered harder to learn and execute.

The advantages of the top-spin single-handed backhand include consistency, placement, the angles it can produce as well as its ability to cope with high balls. Single-backhand “flicks” also evolved due to the popularisation of the top-spin single-handed backhand. Unlike the flat single-handed backhand, top-spin single-handed backhands are almost always performed with the Semi-Western or even Western Grip. Richard Gasquet, who is considered to have one of the most elegant and efficient single-handed backhands, is known for his long, winding action on his backhand and his elegant follow-through. It involves the player employing a Semi-Western or Western grip, and winding the racket around his body and, most importantly, bring it lower than the ball. Then, he has to hit the ball at the middle to bottom of the ball while winding his hand upwards and front of anonymous him, in a “window-wiper” action.

He was also vaguely aware that Agartala itself was like a specky village that would fall silent and stay indoors from 6 pm, compared to Kolkata or rest of Indian metros. Sports terms form an important part of the general awareness section of competitive exams. It is one of the most common questions asked in various government exams. Players often choose their backhand type based on their hand dominance—if the player is somewhat ambidextrous, the two-handed backhand might be best. For doing well at the international level, players need to have a signature move or routine that fetches them high scores. Like the ‘Produnova vault’ perfected by Dipa Karmakar that helped her finish fourth in the 2016 Rio Olympics, said Pranati.

Share this post?