Category: judging

are Arabians forward or backward tumbling?

MAG Code:

All Arabian elements are in the group of acrobatic elements backward, Example Arabian double front 1⁄2 = same as double back 1/1 (D value). The following Arabian elements (Jump bwd. with 1⁄2 t. to double salto fwd.) have the same value and Code box as the bwd. double salto element with the same amount of twisting: Arabian dbl. str. 1⁄2 (Penev), Arabian dbl. str. (Tamayo), and Arabian dbl. str. 1/1 (Hypolito).

WAG Code:

Arabian elements are considered Forward Elements

There is an argument for both. But FIG should standardize on one or the other. If only Steve Butcher had the FIG job looking at inconsistencies like this. 🙂

arabian-double-front

The takeoff is more critical than the landing position in my opinion. Arabians are much more a backwards tumbling skill than forwards.

Hattie points out that a backward layout with 1 1/2 twist lands forward like Arabian, but no-one would argue it’s a forward tumbling element.

(via Gigi)

Catlina Ponor – Floor

Cata was (after the competition) deducted for missing the forward tumbling requirement.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

She intended to compete a front layout after the 2 1/2 twist, but didn’t have enough rotation.

Watch her podium training routine (VIDEO) and her old Baku routine (VIDEO) with the same tumbling.

It is embarrassing that the judges didn’t catch it immediately. Romanian Press and fans will be disappointed. But I’ll sleep better knowing that the system worked. They got the score right in the end. Schaefer will compete the Final instead of being wrongly knocked out.

Women’s European Championships Apparatus Finalists

Official via UEG
Vault
1 E Downie (GBR) 14.433
2 Paseka (RUS) 14.412
3 Devillard (FRA) 14.267
4 Devai (HUN) 14.233
5 Belak (SLO) 14.216
6 KOVACS (HUN) 14.174
7 Melnikova (RUS) 14.166
8 Volleman (NED) 13.966

Bars (should be the best Final)
1 Seitz (GER) 14.566
1 Derwael (BEL) 14.566
3 Eremina (RUS) 14.466
4 Downie (GBR) 14.433
5 Kovacs (HUN) 14.366
6 E Downie (GBR) 14.266
7 Bui (GER) 14.133
8 de Jesus dos Santos (FRA 14.100

Click PLAY or watch Nina’s Bars on YouTube.

Beam
1 Iordache (ROU) 14.566
2 Wevers (NED) 14.300
3 Thorsdottir (NED) 14.233
4 Ponor (ROU) 14.066
5 Alt (GER) 13.700
6 Boyer (FRA) 13.700
7. E. Downie (GBR) 13.466
8. B. Downie (GBR) 13.333

Click PLAY or watch Lari’s Beam on YouTube.

Floor
1 E. Downie (GBR) 13.966
2 Fragapane GBR 13.766
3 Eremina (RUS) 13.633
4 Mori (ITA) 13.533
5 Thorsdottir (NED) 13.366
6. Melnikova (RUS) 13.233
7 Bui (GER) 13.166
8 Schaeffer (GER) 13.133

Catalina Ponor was initially 4th. But judges eventually realized she was missing the forward tumbling requirement. Revised score 13.066.

Click PLAY or watch Ellie’s Floor on YouTube.

Lauren Hopkins is here. Read her 2017 European Championships LIVE posts on thegymter.net.

Peng’s 10.0 Beam Final

Tiny foot movement on landing. But nobody is complaining. This is one of the best and most difficult Beam routines in College Gymnastics.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch to hear Christine’s reaction on YouTube.

There’s still talk of Peng applying for a 6th year at UCLA due to injury. No talk yet of her trying out for the Canadian team to Worlds 2017 Montreal (though she’d certainly have a good chance on Beam and Bars).

NCAA Bars champions …

Yep.

McMurtry/Bailey/Finnegan/Ross/Lehrmann/Nichols/Kupets/Dabritz/Ding/Liukin … I may be missing a few. 🙂

You’d think having 6 judges would reduce the number of ties.

 

Mykayla Skinner – Floor

Judging “mitigation“:

… lessening the force or intensity of something unpleasant … the act of making a condition or consequence less severe …

Like it or not, judges are influenced by difficulty. MyKayla’s routine is far, far more difficult than any other in NCAA. Many judges evaluate it less severely than the comparatively simple 10.0 routines with only 2 tumbling lines.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Personally I feel the NCAA is ready for rule changes rewarding more difficulty legally. O’Hashi on Beam, Peng on Bars, Mykayla on Floor, the double twisting Yurchenkos, etc.

Marisa Dick – the tattoo

Marisa had the judging symbols for her eponymous skill inked.

 
via Fans of Canadian Gymnastics

skills imperfectly rated in the Code of Points

There are plenty to discuss in the WAG Code.

Here are five. Click through to YouTube to read the comments.

VERY difficult Men’s Gymnastics skills

Triple front skills should ALL be banned. Too dangerous.

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Floor
3 – Triple Front – https://www.instagram.com/artem_1997_06/ & https://www.instagram.com/nikushkarus/
2 – Triple Arabian – Unkown & https://www.instagram.com/kenzoshirai/ & https://www.instagram.com/domcunn/
1 – Triple twisting double layout – Kenzo Shirai

Pommel Horse
3 – Sohn syle Busnari – https://www.instagram.com/taka_jpnxen/
2 – Flair Over Handles – SAEEDREZA KEIKHA
1 – E Flop in flair – https://www.instagram.com/t_kktn/

Still Rings
3 – Triple Pike Back – https://www.instagram.com/andreymedve…
2 – Back Planche press to top planche – Arthur Zanetti
1 – Azarian to inverted Swallow – Courtney Tulloch

Vault
3 – Handspring Front 3/1 Twist – Yang Hak Seon
2 – Dragalescu Piked – Ri Se Gwang
1 – Handspring Triple Front – Igor Radivilov

Parallel Bars
3 – Basket 5/4 – Zhou Shixiong
2 – Belle With 1/1 turn – Quintero
1 – Double Straddle Front – Ruslan pantelymov

High Bar
3 – 2/1 twisting layout kovac – Andreas Breatchneider
2 – 2/1 Stretched Jager – Jeff Crocket
1 – Full twisting triple back – Jonathon Horton.

8 new skills in the Men’s Code

Eight new elements named, added to the Men’s Gymnastics Code of Points

Click PLAY or watch the Zapata YouTube.