USAG:
… Jair Lynch was the first gymnast to compete the skill at an official FIG competition, having performed what is now known as the “Lynch” as far back as the 1992 season, and the skill is (now) included in the FIG’s 2013-16 Code of Points for Men’s Artistic Gymnastics.
… valued as a D skill …
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Under the last Code it was called Moznik after Marijo Moznik from Croatia.
_____ clarification by USA FIG Judge:
“Under the last Code it was called Moznik after Marijo Moznik from Croatia.”
That’s not quite right. A stretched Tkatchev half to mixed grip (E value) was called a Moznik.
A straddled Tkatchev half to mixed grip (D value) did not have a name (although it was colloquially known as a “straddled Moznik,” just like a hop 3/2 turn to mixed grip is referred to as a “Rybalko to mixed grip” or a ). See 2009-2012 Code v.6, p.123, #17. Consistent with the MTC’s naming conventions elsewhere in the Code, a notation for a differently valued variation of a skill that appears in the “same box” as that skill does not take the name of the skill in that box. (Side note: I say “same box” in quotes because skills in the same phyiscal box in the Code with different values occupy different boxes for the purposes of the D score.) No name appeared next to the asterisked notation for “Straddled D value,” and it was therefore unnamed. (Otherwise, if both were named after Moznik, one would, consistent with MTC naming conventions, be the Moznik 1 and the other the Moznik 2. See, for example, Balandin 1 and Balandin 2 on Rings.) This past weekend, the FIG judges at the NCAA Championships just had this same conversation about the Moznik being stretched after one judge mistakenly thought that the Moznik was straddled.
In v.2 of the 2013 Code (released this month), the MTC deleted the “Straddled D value” notation from the Moznik box and moved the straddled Tkatchev half to mixed grip into its own physical box in the Code with its own diagram and named that after Jair Lynch. See 2013 Code v.2, EG II, #22. So this is not an example of correcting a naming error; it is nothing more than just naming an existing unnamed skill. (That said, there is plenty to say on the FIG’s errors in naming skills.)
No doubt they considered moving that skill to the same box as Tkachev. Catching in a different grip does not make it all that much more difficult. It’s clearly overvalued. And therefore will be overused for the next 4 years.
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