FIG MTC Committee member Steve Butcher from the USA gave us a rundown of changes — surprisingly few — at Congress.
He noted that half the committee wanted to ban roll out skills on Floor altogether (as has WAG) due to safety concerns. Concussion is the big concern. But a compromised was reached:
A maximum of 1 rollout salto may be performed in an exercise.
No rollout saltos may be executed in direct connection with any salto elements.
Most of the top guys will still include one layout Thomas, I predict. A few madmen will add an additional twist, proving the more cautious members of MTC correct. Nope. The Thomas with extra twist is already banned.
The Vault tables have been reworked. Lets wait and see if Vault scores are still disproportionately high next quad. It looks like they’ve been better brought in line.
Most disappointingly for me:
Horizontal BarNo major changes
Though the Olympic Final on Pipe was fantastic, I still feel the rules are weakest on this apparatus. Crap and repetitive crap will continue to be rewarded.
I’ll paste the 6th August 2012 Major Changes in MAG Code of Points memo in the comments of this post.
Thanks Alex.
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