Here’s a newly installed floor plate for a set of women’s bars. A standard installation.
That’s a single point of failure. If something goes wrong, the bars fall. As they did on Ludmilla Tourischeva in 1975.
Almost every coach has seen this happen. It’s not all that rare.
Why don’t we double floor plate gymnastics apparatus?
Kelly Manjak and I did that at Altadore in 2004, but I’ve never heard of any other instance.
Leave a comment if you know of a gym that has doubled floor plates. Or of equipment installed such that one chain failure won’t allow the apparatus to fall.
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