Rick Mc

The NAIGC (National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs) concluded their 27th annual National Championships in Philadelphia, PA on April 11, 2015. Nearly 1,100 competitors, representing 87 clubs from across the country, participated in the three-day competition.

There were two divisions this year in the men’s competition: Classic and Collegiate.

The Classic Division was dominated by the University of California, Berkeley, which claimed 1st place all-around and the team title.

Jamie Corona finished with an 82.6, while the team easily outpaced their competition with a score of 237.3.

In the men’s Collegiate division, Tommy Trompeter, a senior from the University of Texas at Dallas, won the all-around title with a score of 83.65. University of Oklahoma placed 1st in the team competition (245.0).

The women’s competition featured two levels this year: Level 8 and Level 9.

For the Level 9 competition, Maria Hayden (James Madison University) successfully defended her all-around title with a 38.15. JMU also won the team title for a second year in a row with a 147.05.

In the Level 8 competition, Lindsay Sanneman from Massachusetts Institute of Technology claimed the all-around title (37.75). Virginia Tech narrowly won the team competition by less than 0.1 with a score of 140.45.

full results

About the NAIGC:

The National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs (NAIGC) is dedicated to the promotion and support of collegiate and adult club gymnastics “for the love of the sport.” The NAIGC hosted its first annual national championships in 1989. In 2006, the NAIGC incorporated as a non-profit and elected its first Board of Directors. The NAIGC was recognized as a tax-exempt public charity in 2008.

Today, an elected Board of Directors, alongside its advisors, runs the NAIGC. Most of these dedicated volunteers are current and former college club gymnasts. The NAIGC hosts this annual national championship meet, as well as other gymnastics events throughout the year and supports its member clubs with a variety of technological and administrative services.

Club membership in the NAIGC is open to any collegiate and/or adult gymnastics club in the UnitedStates. Individual membership is open to anyone with an interest in club gymnastics. For more information, visit naigc.net.

– 4th Annual NAIGC FlipFest Camp Retreat, Tennessee, August 14-16th
– Nationals 2016 – Sacramento, California April 13-17th
– Nationals 2017 – Columbus, OH April 5-9th

WAG CODE of POINTS updates

FIG WTC Newsletter N° 37 – April 2015:

ripped grips

BARS:

d) Repeat their entire exercise (without deduction) with approval by the Superior Jury:

– if the exercise has been interrupted for reasons beyond their control or responsibility,

– if a handguard (grip) is significantly torn causing a fall, or interruption. The gymnast must immediately show the broken handguard (grip) to the D1 judge before leaving the podium in order to receive permission to repeat the exercise

Note: A gymnast may repeat the entire exercise at the end of the rotation, or if she is the last gymnast in the rotation, at a time at the discretion of the SJ.

BARS Fall Timing:

During a fall from the apparatus, an interruption of 30 seconds is allowed before the gymnast must remount the uneven bars to continue the exercise.

– If the gymnast exceeds the allowable time to resume her exercise, a – 0.30 P. neutral deduction for excessive time will be applied if the gymnast continues her exercise. …

– If the gymnast has not resumed within 60 seconds, the exercise will be terminated …

BEAM Fall Timing:

For interruption of the exercise due to a fall from the apparatus, an intermediate time period of 10 seconds is allowed.

– If the gymnast exceeds the allowable time to resume her exercise a -0.30 P. neutral deduction for excessive time will be applied if the gymnast continues her exercise …

– If the gymnast has not resumed within 60 seconds, the exercise will be terminated.

3D-Gym – animation software

There’s a very cool, very frustrating site at fb-curves.com.

Here’s why it’s cool.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Fantastic. A perfect Rybalko. The first time I’ve ever seen one. 🙂 Consider me seduced.

The site is frustrating for me because it’s so Flash based. I hate Adobe Flash. I turn off Adobe Flash every chance I get. On my laptop, fb-curves.com doesn’t work well.

Happily, developer Fabien Bougas has some of that same content on his YouTube channel.

He has a blog, as well, in French and English, with some of the content.