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#1 shergymrag on 07.08.10 at 6:57 am

What’s up with the comments being off on the Emily Zeng post?

#2 coach Rick on 07.08.10 at 7:10 am

Weird.

I did nothing different. When I check the edit page it says “comments on”.

Just a fluke, I guess. Leave comments here.

#3 Troy on 07.08.10 at 5:27 pm

Since I can’t comment on the Emily Zeng post on there, I will comment on here.

Beautiful routine! But it drives me crazy that the judges didn’t take a deduction for him coaching her into her dismount.

Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine.

#4 shergymrag on 07.08.10 at 7:07 pm

Coaching her? Just looked like a spot to me.

#5 Gem on 07.08.10 at 10:42 pm

I Didn’t realize you could spot with a pointed finger.

#6 shergymrag on 07.09.10 at 9:38 am

I didn’t realize pointing your finger meant you were coaching. He keeps that finger pointed after she is past being able to see it and even after she has let go of the bar. More likely he’s simply not paying attention to his hand position.

This girl is 11 years old (or close to it) and training at WOGA. She doesn’t need meet coaching on her layout this year any more than she needed it last year.

#7 Troy on 07.09.10 at 5:58 pm

If you say so. I think we all know that when a kid has a tendency to change her swing when doing a layout, it helps to remind her to push back over the low bar. Pointing a finger would help remind her of this.

Still, all of that is beside the point. The impression given by his action is that he is coaching, and more than likely if any of us “merely human” coaches were to do that, we would at least get a warning from the judges, if not the outright deduction.

Lastly, can we please stop giving these guys sooo much credit? I know they are good coaches, but there are plenty of coaches in this country who could do very well coaching the types of athletes that just skip through their doors on a monthly basis. They are not “gods”, and just because they have great gymnasts does not mean that they couldn’t have a gymnast that is talented but still has issues that need extra help. I know specifically of at least two girls they have coached who have had just that. They are no different than most gyms in this country in that regard. They are just dealing with the cream of the crop when it comes to talent.

And the only way that you could know that she doesn’t need more training on her layout this year than she did last year is if you were her coach and got to see her on a daily basis, or more specifically, the week of this meet. You don’t know what kind of problems she had during training (maybe she closed her shoulders and caught her shins on the bar) and neither do the judges. I’m pretty sure that there is not an exception to the rule that says if you are a gymnast at WOGA, then no deduction will be taken if your coach gestures in a suggestive manner.

#8 shergymrag on 07.09.10 at 8:42 pm

I didn’t say he was a god.

If I can’t know he’s not coaching her then how can you know he is?

I said she doesn’t need meet coaching. I didn’t say she doesn’t need training. Good skills are improved by training and prevented from regressing. We’re talking about meet coaching here. Cueing the athlete during the routine.

This is her last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXWSPNXf74o&feature=related

Her layout looked that good last year yet somehow she needs meet coaching this year? I just don’t buy it.

How does the coaching deduction work anyway? I thought you got a warning the first time and then you got a .2 deduction the second time. If it works like that and the judges did think he was coaching her, maybe it was the first offense and he only got warned. Actually, it would have to be the first offense. He’s not even in frame except for the dismount.

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