Category: judging

FIG elections

WAG Technical Committee:

  • Kim Dowdell AUS
  • Johanna Gratt AUT
  • Elena Davydova CAN
  • Liubov Andrianova RUS
  • Helena Lario ARG
  • Nehad Zayed EGY
  • Donatella Sacchi ITA – President

MAG Technical Committee:

  • Jeff Thomson CAN
  • Julio Marcos SPN
  • Andrew Tombs GBR
  • Han Yoon Soo KOR
  • Dmitrii Andreev RUS
  • Butch Zunich USA
  • Arturs Mickevics LAT – President

evolution of Men’s Vault

Everyone agrees that what’s happened in the past few Codes is dangerous and stupid. FIG provides every incentive for men to chuck the hardest stunts they might possible land — and somehow land on their feet.

Also, the landing mats are insufficient for this level of skill. We need something much more like the FIG Doublemini landing mats.

YES a few of the most talented can land consistently and relatively safely, but not many.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Maria Minaeva – Bars

Click PLAY or watch the cute post-meet interview on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch that Bar routine on Twitter.

Fujitsu “Judging Support System”

Fujitsu will be working Worlds 2021, of course. Analyzing more routines for their database.

A webinar has been posted online:

FIG and Fujitsu to discuss AI “Judging Support System”

Watanabe speaks in English in the video. He’s really improved over the past few years.

He points out that other sports are using video analysis. Tennis and baseball, for example.

But judging support is only one goal of the project.

Steve Butcher details other uses.

Fujitsu expects all 10 Artistic apparatus to be ready for 2024. (Progress seems slow, to me.)

By end of 2022 the “Training Support System” should be ready. I’d love to have a chance to test that in the gym.

The very first use of computer video analysis should have been to display height and distance of a skill relative to the height of the athlete. Vault post flight, for example.

Fujitsu is doing a good job analyzing Ring strength holds, however. The system can do better than most FIG judges.

Personally, I’m disappointed in the graphics rendered by the software. It’s embarrassing that every representation has feet apart, for example.

I WISH Fujitsu could output something 1/10th as good as FB CURVES 3D GYM.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

new FIG WAG skills

See the list with videos HERE.

I’ve had kids compete forward aerial with 1/1 twist since the 1970s. It’s very easy.

Is the same thing from Aerial Cartwheel much different?

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Nagorny Russian GQ Athlete of the Year

Second year in a row for this title.

related – NAGORNY: I WAS ABLE TO LEAVE MY MARK ON THE HISTORY OF ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

new MAG skills in the Code

Click PLAY or watch the Nagornii on YouTube.

MAG Code changes to 2022

Coach Shun Tomizawa reacts to proposed changes.

Routine composition on Floor will be MUCH more challenging. Also, no connection bonus for single saltos with twist.

Shun is very disappointed that straddle Planche on Rings will now be an A-part. What will young Juniors use for strength?

Finally. Maximum 2 Kovacs skills and 2 Tkachev skills on H Bar. Unless directly connected.

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Thanks Vaughn.