Category: falling & landing

CAMARAH WILLIAMS – Floor

Those landings.

Jordan Chiles keeps sticking YDT

Amazing.

She went 39.875 in the AA this weekend against Michigan State.

FIG MAG News 18 December 2025

Read the entire document for yourself.

Some notes:

  • benefits being realized in the reduction to 8 elements
  • FIG Executive Committee has approved placing a maximum cap of 0.5 for the dismount element group on Pommel Horse, Rings, Parallel Bars and Horizontal Bar.
  • triple salto elements are prohibited for Juniors
  • on Floor, corner transitions must be conspicuously different from one another. Otherwise a 0.3 neutral deduction is taken.
  • all variations of the Stag Leap with 1/1 or 1/2 turn will no longer fulfill the Jump/Leap requirement 
  • Certainly, current Floor rules have resulted in much more artistic routines. It’s working.
  • hold positions with open hands may be deducted for false grip if the wrists are on top of the Rings

I noticed many more appeals at the two 2025 World Championships. MANY were for STICK BONUS.

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Click PLAY or watch Clarification on Low Landings on YouTube.

Ouch. During Bhavsar and Moy type elements if the gymnast hits the floor the element will not be recognized. 

Very slight brushes could be controversial.

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A Winkler or Pogorelov (Element II.42) must be performed with a straight body up to the point where the feet pass nearest to the bar.

If the body is bent more than 45° prior to the feet passing the bar, the element will receive D value and a 0.3 deduction for nondistinct position. 

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how to STICK Double Back

Be more like Raena. 😀

Beam crash

Rarely do I post wipeouts, not wanting to make light of them.

But I’ll make an exception here.

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mistakes happen – Tang Chia-Hung – H Bar

One of the very best to NOT make the apparatus Final in Jakarta.

In fact, none of the 4 medalists from the Paris Olympics qualified to the H Bar Final at Worlds 2025, a year later.

Anyone can miss. Kohei Uchimura fell. Simone Biles fell.

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Emma Fioravanti – Vault

Everyone loves a Handspring Layout Forward.

Well done Emma.

falling backward SAFELY

It’s typical for people to reach backward with straight arms when they fall backward.

GYMNASTICS can teach kids to bring the arms together in front — landing flat back or, even, better, into a partial backward safety roll.

DO NOT DO THIS! YOU COULD BREAK A WRIST OR DISLOCATE AN ELBOW.

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