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Ma JIuH YsM stitches together a routine for our Olympic Champion with a 17.2 start value.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Blanton’s Gymnastics Consultancy on Facebook linked to this age group Parallel Bar routine.

2 Group I’s, 0 Group II’s, 4 Group III’s, 1 Group IV, 1 Group V…A,A,B,D,D,C,D,C

That’s how they do it! Where is the front uprise?!

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A difficult element from underarm (group 2) is required for Senior. But that doesn’t mean we need to require it of narrow shouldered growing boys.

Hey. That’s a HIGH catch position on Tippelt. This kid might fly to handstand.

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As of Sept 1, 2013 Gymnastics Ontario will be begin the new Women’s Artistic Competitive Program by offering new levels 1 – 9 program with skills, concepts and code of points (compulsory and optional) modeled after the USA Junior Olympic program. …

GO WAG New Rules

Excellent. The American J.O. / NCAA competitive structure is the most successful in the world in my opinion.

Orlando National Compulsory Workshop

USAG is rolling out the changes for the next quadrennial right now.

The best thing that could happen to Canada would be to fall in line with the American Junior Olympic program. If this works for our largest Province, other Canadian Provinces might adopt it too.

It would be far easier to cross borders for competition.

The new Ontario rules are not exactly J.O. — but they are close. (PDF)

JO level 10 is equivalent to the Canadian National Open category.

TIMELINE (PDF):

April 15 – Release of the level 1 – 4 compulsory element charts & level 5 proposed optional routine requirements

May 30 – Release of the level 5 – 9 optional routine summary charts

June 30 – Release of the level 1 – 4 routine requirement manual complete with pictures, deductions,technique requirements and
competition expectations.

June 30 – Release of the level 5 – 9 routine requirement manual complete with pictures, deductions and competition
requirements

Aug 23 / 24 –GO Coaching Congress –GO JO technical event specific workshops and judging perspective information sessions.

Sept/Oct – Final GO JO technical event specific workshop

TBC – Level 1 – 4 GO JO Compulsory skill videos available – for a head start please refer to the USA JO videos as they become
available.

sporteverywhere:

Published Jun 4, 2013

I’m back! I’ve been out for a little while, because I had other priorities, but I’m doing D-Score videos again

So, I’ll start by correcting all the videos using the February Version of the Code and maybe doing some new videos in the middle.

Click PLAY or watch Mustafina’s 2012 Bars on YouTube.

2009-2012 CoP – 7.0
2013-2016 CoP – 6.7

Execution judges are not doing their job.

For example …

Watch the new Chinese Champion Shang Chunsong.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

6.2 + 8.467 = 14.667 – 1st

Where are the 1.5+ in deductions?

Now watch Liu Tingting in the same Beam final. Same judges.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

5.2 + 7.5 = 12.7 – 8th

Difference between those routines is less than a point.

Yet it’s obvious to anyone. Any 8 year old gymnast — that Shang’s routine was HIT near perfect. That Liu’s routines had many major wobbles and balance checks. Both had a landing deduction.

There should be a far greater difference in E Score than 1.0.

The new Code doesn’t work because FIG allows judges to box the scores. The cleanest gymnasts in each competition suffer. It’s not fair.

Bruno Grandi so often talks about justice.

Why doesn’t he mandate the FIG Technical Committees to start applying the rules as written?

(via Brigid Couch Gymnast McCarthy on Facebook)

UTRS (Uncle Tim Ranking System)

Highest Start Scores so far this quadrennial.

Unofficial.

Floor
1. Shirai Kenzo Japan 7.3 Japanese Nationals
2. Denis Ablyazin Russia 7.0 European Championships
2. Flavius Koczi Romania 7.0 European Championships

Pommel
1. Prashanth Sellathurai Australia 6.9 Doha
2. Oleg Verniaiev Ukraine 6.7 American Cup
2. Oleg Stepko Ukraine 6.7 European Championships
2. Max Whitlock Great Britain 6.7 European Championships
2. Matvei Petrov Russia 6.7 European Championships
2. Kristzian Berki Hungary 6.7 European Championships
2. Daniel Keatings Great Britain 6.7 European Championships
2. Alexander Naddour USA 6.7 Ljubljana
2. Alberto Busnari Italy 6.7 European Championships

Rings
1. Eleftherios Petrounias Greece 7.0 European Championships
2. Brandon Wynn USA 6.9 Cottbus
2. Aleksandr Balandin Russia 6.9 French International
2. Lambertus van Gelder Netherlands 6.9 Cottbus

Vault
1. Ri Se Gwang North Korea 6.4 6.4 6.4 Doha
2. Denis Ablyazin Russia 6.0 6.2 6.1 Europeans
3. Liao Quiuhua China 6.0 6.0 6.0 Doha
3. Theo Seager Great Britain 6.0 6.0 6.0 Europeans
3. Yang Hak Seon* South Korea 6.0 6.0 6.0 French International
3. Igor Radivilov Ukraine 6.0 6.0 6.0 Europeans
3. Oleg Verniaiev Ukraine 6.0 6.0 6.0 Europeans

P Bars UPDATED
1. Zhou Shixiong, China, 7.0, Chinese Nationals
2. Jossimar Calvo Moreno, Colombia, 6.9, Ljubljana
2. You Hao, China, 6.9, Chinese Nationals

Horizontal Bar
1. Danell Leyva USA 7.2 Winter Cup
2. Koji Uematsu Japan 7.1 Cottbus
2. Emin Garibov Russia 7.1 French International

AA
1. Kohei Uchimura Japan 91.850 Japanese Nationals
2. Max Whitlock Great Britain 90.650 British Championships
3. Oleg Verniaiev Ukraine 90.375 Tokyo World Cup

Find those posts and more on Uncle Tim.

Click PLAY or watch one of Prashanth’s Pommel routines from Doha on YouTube. Spindle between the Pommels.

FIG is looking at reforming the 2020 Olympic qualification system.

Bruno Grandi:

Targeting 2017

… The new calendar should maximise opportunities for Olympic qualification via World Championships, continental championships and World Cup events. …

… FIG will host a Symposium to which all of the member federations will be invited and offered the chance to share their views. …

All of the measures adopted, including the new calendar and the new formats, will then be tested out in practice, in order to verify the validity and effectiveness of the reforms. The new calendar and formats are then scheduled to come into force permanently from January 1, 2017.

All in all, the reforms should provide gymnasts with a clear path towards qualification for the 2020 Olympic Games.

Fundamental principles …

• prioritising of team competitions …

• focus on individual All Around competitions …

• allow athletes participating in continental competitions to qualify directly for the World Championships or the Olympic Games, the same as athletes competing at World Cup events, thus raising the status of these competitions.

read more on FIG – Letter from the President, Jun 3rd, 2013

Blythe has some commentary – Changes coming for Olympic gymnastics qualification system

I’m worried.

At first glance it seems we’ll end up with a more complex system. More chances for athletes to qualify via some World Cup or Continental Games — without having to compete directly against others not selected.

The current system seems fairer.

Qualify at Worlds. Or the Olympic Test Meet.

ALL of the contenders will be there. Same venue. Same judges.

The Canadian Men did not qualify a team for 2012. And it was fair. They had a fair shot.

Any more complicated system will almost certainly be less fair.

I’ve been cheering for Istanbul, by the way. Their odds of being selected are almost non-existent now, however.

UTRS (Uncle Tim Ranking System)

Highest Start Scores so far this quadrennial.

Absolutely unofficial. Leave a comment if you know different.

Vault
1. Fadwa Mohamed Egypt 6.1 Ljubljana
1. Ri Un Ha North Korea 6.1 Doha
3. Phan Thi Ha Thanh Vietnam 6.0 Doha
4. Simone Biles USA 5.95 Jesolo
4. Maria Paseka Russia 5.95 Europeans

Bars
1. He Kexin China 6.8 Chinese Nationals
2. Shang Chungsong China 6.7 Chinese Nationals
3. Tan Jiaxin China 6.6 Doha
3. Huang Huidan China 6.6 Chinese Nationals

Beam
1. Katelyn Ohashi USA 6.8 American Cup
2. Larisa Iordache Romania 6.7 Doha
3. Zeng Siqi China 6.6 Doha

Floor
1. Ksenia Afanasyeva Russia 6.4 European Championships
2. Simone Biles USA 6.2 Jesolo
3. Larisa Iordache Romania 6.1 European Championships
3. Vanessa Ferrari Italy 6.1 American Cup

AA
1. Simone Biles USA 60.400 Jesolo
2. Aliya Mustafina Russia 59.850 Russian Nationals
3. Kyla Ross USA 59.300 GER-ROU-USA Friendly Meet

Find those posts and more on Uncle Tim.

Here’s how a Floor routine can score 6.4.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Ksenia Afanasyeva Floor Europeans 2013 D-score Guide

UPDATED Fri May 31st

Canadian Championships 2013.

Grace Chiu GraceClick:

Ariel Crawford, SK, National Open – performing her original mount (Canadian “D”) Press to 1-arm handstand full pirouette hip circle — at Carleton University.

Day 2 we waited to watch Ariel’s cool routine including this very cool mount.

… She left out the backward hip circle.

She’d been told after Day 1 it was a big deduction.

Some sort of nonsense about her “elbows being bent on backward hip circle“.

I’d ask the Judges to show us a video of a gymnast doing that skill with straight elbows. It’s impossible.

Check the elbows on some similar skills including backward hip circle.

Click PLAY or watch the Yurchenko Loop on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch the Teza on YouTube.

Here’s Aerials FINALS routine, with the back hip circle taken out. (VIDEO)

Thank TrishaG for links to those videos.

Men’s judges are far stronger at evaluating new elements during competition. They understand advanced skills better.

Nathan Gafuik was competing H Bar.

On a Stalder Rybalko one hand slipped. He fell, landing hard on the red safety edge matting.

Mats of this width were only introduced at Canadian Championships two years ago.

Formerly they were only as wide as the support standards.

Thank Gymnova for bringing such wide landing mats.

Curse FIG MTC for not devaluing Rybalko this Code. It’s obvious that those elements are overused, poorly executed and very dangerous.

Vladimir Zaglada posted a thoughtful, comprehensive analysis of the current state of Russian Artistic gymnastics.

It’s a must read.

Rewriting Russian Gymnastics – Is gymnastics still Russian? A post-Europeans, early Olympiad perspective

When will again see Russian routines so shockingly excellent both acrobatically and artistically as this?

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Hambüchen, who won his seventh German all-around title on Sunday, took second on floor exercise behind Matthias Fahrig in Tuesday’s apparatus finals. Hambüchen filed an inquiry into his 6.2 Difficulty score, and the score was corrected to 6.3, putting him ahead of Fahrig. After Hambüchen was announced as the gold medalist, however, the D-score was once again changed back to 6.2, and he was told he waited too long to file the inquiry.

The reversal outraged Hambüchen, 25. …

read more on IG – German Championships Erupt Into Scandal

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