Rick Mc

Merry Christmas – Elf on the Shelf

Elves want in on all the gymnastics fun, too 🎄
📷: elfontheshelf_learyelves/instagram pic.twitter.com/josq0hd1nP

— FloGymnastics (@FloGymnastics) December 6, 2018

GymCastic, theGymter.net to Olympics 2020

Both the GymCastic podcast and theGymter.net blog were granted a U.S. media accreditation to cover the Tokyo Olympics.

Congratulations. 🙂 🎅

It’s surprising to see the USOC recognize the importance of new media.

I’m looking forward to their perspective from inside the arena.

excited for Christmas holidays?

How excited?

On a scale of McKayla Maroney to Yin Alverez? 😀

understanding College Bars scoring

Less science. More a magic black art.

Spencer:

Handstands are THE THING on bars.

When gymnasts cast to handstand in NCAA, we’re told the judges are expecting them to be within 10 degrees of vertical to receive no deduction. This “degree” stuff is super ambiguous (the human eye cannot tell the difference between 9 degrees and 11 degrees on a handstand), so the rule basically ends up as “y’all better be vertical.” …

WTF IS NCAA SCORING – BARS EDITION

Nina Derwael DREAM Bars

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Andrea Li finds Jaeger easy

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NCAA Vault judging is stupid

NCAA judging is stupid. But some of the craziest injustices occur on Vault.

Spencer tells us the REAL rules:

NCAA pretends that it follows the JO code of points, except it obviously doesn’t. Not even a little.

There’s a tremendous amount of subjectivity remaining in NCAA scoring, including an unwritten understanding regarding which deductions from the JO code actually count and which ones magically don’t for the purpose of scoring NCAA routines. …