piibunina traveled to China – once again – to video Chinese Nationals in Shandong province.
The Chinese WAG program is really pushing twisting. They are testing Juniors on-bed. (Off-bed would have been easier and safer. So they must like training the control needed to land on the same spot.)
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
For basic D-score 5.0, a gymnast needed to perform a triple twist back and a 1.5 twist forward. Each extra half turn is 0.3 bonus, each half turn less is minus 0.5. There was a heavy deduction for insufficient difficulty as well.
Trampoline scores counted for all phases of competition. The final score was 80% of gymnastics plus 20% of trampoline score, also for teams and AA.
via Grace Chiu
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