Over and over again Zou Jingyuan has the highest difficulty and execution on P Bars.
On this set he was awarded 9.4 execution.
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Category: judging
College Beam Judging
The sheep jump is also typically a disaster in NCAA. A sheep jump is technically expected to show closure of feet to head and an open angle in the hips.
No one in NCAA does this—deductions on sheep form tend to be pretty charitable …
College sticks. The college stick occurs when a gymnast hasn’t actually stuck a landing but has enough control to pretend she stuck the landing, trying to cover up the step by sliding into a salute at the same time. This tends to get .05 off, even if the step itself ends up being pretty large …
The new favorite talking point for judging in the 2019 season is the rule about pause deductions on beam, which has been revised …
WTF IS NCAA SCORING – BEAM EDITION
Code of Points in your pocket
For US $1.39 you can carry the 2020 WAG or MAG Code of Points with you on your phone.
Apparatus are searchable. You’d most often use it to quickly look up a skill.
FIG illustrations included. It was developed by former Ohio State gymnast Seth Delbridge.
Available for both IOS and Android.
Via Peter Daggett
College Gym News – Airing of Grievances
If you’re a fan of Seinfeld, you likely know of a little holiday called Festivus and one of its annual traditions called the Airing of Grievances.
We’re taking the opportunity to air some grievances about college gymnastics and start 2019 with a clean slate of frustrations:
Judges Not Judging
Constant Complaining
Biased Fans
Athletic Departments Not Seeing the Value of Gymnastics
Inconvenient Meet Times
We Need to Talk About BTN (and the Big 12)
Nonexistent Scores
Lack of Transparency
Same Bar Release Discourse
Themed Meets
Words On Leotards
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The Second Annual Airing of Grievances
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
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. …
WTF IS NCAA SCORING – VAULT EDITION
Bonus
Alicia agrees.
Yusuke Saito sings the Code
One way to learn the named skills in the Men’s Code of Points. 😀
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Yusuke competes for Tokushu Gymnastics Club in Japan.
Fujitsu video analysis
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the mathematics of dance
Creative director: Masahiko Sato
Dancer: Kurimu Urabe
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My first thought was that maybe, possibly, sometime in the distant future we MIGHT have computers judging artistry.
new J.O. Level 6 & 7 Vault evaluation
Every coach I’ve spoken with likes the new Vault rules.
But how are judges going to evaluate?
Jason MacDonald put together a video from a presentation at Illinois State Congress.
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