American Cup 2016.
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Click PLAY or watch Maggie on YouTube.
Which routine should have the higher E-score?
Category: judging
judging evaluation online
Here’s an attempt to show both D-score and E-score on top of the video. A fantastic routine.
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‘Smart Rings’ at Jr Europeans
Great news. Artistic Gymnastics judging will finally include a truly objective component.
‘Smart Rings’ is a project by InnoSportLab with automatically measures the time for hold elements on Rings. As reported earlier the Smart Ring was tested at the 2015 European Championships in Montpellier. Later the system was successfully tested as an integrated part of a 4 way competition between BEL, NED, SUI and ROU.
In light of the positive tests, the UEG Men’s Technical Committee has decided to put the system in action, as an official part of the scoring at the upcoming European Championship for Juniors in Bern, SUI. The system will be managed by two appointed judges who will control the input based on agreed methodology.
The Men’s Technical Committee thanks the company InnoSportLab (NED), and the Apparatus supplier Janssen-Fritsen, for the close cooperation. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. The demo shown is not perfect, but it gives you an idea how it works.
Dwight Normile on the Code of Points
2016 marks the 10th year under the current Code of Points, which tried to repair an ineffective judging system from 2004 by creating — and adding — two separate scores: “Difficulty” and “Execution.” …
It is debatable whether this rather one-dimensional Code, which continues to get tweaked as problems arise, has actually improved the sport or its evaluation. …
Dwight much preferred the perfect 10 Codes of Points, as do I.
Rewriting Russian Gymnastics weighs in. And agrees. IG – The State of the Sport
FIG Technical Committees have not done a good job of tweaking the open ended Codes, in my opinion. They are today at least as problematic as the 2004 perfect 10 Codes.
If you are interested in this topic, you’ll need to buy Dvora Meyers’ upcoming book July 5, 2016.
Prince Albert Gymnastics SURVIVOR
For the second weekend in a row I was up in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Despite being in one of the least populated areas in North America, this town of less than 40,000 people has a terrific Gymnastics Facility.
Prince Albert Aerials did an excellent job hosting an Artistic (WAG/MAG), Trampoline & Tumbling competition. Theme: Survivor. (Like the Reality T.V. show.)
Using the American J.O. rules for the first time really speeded up the judging. 🙂
judging Handspring Vault
Gym Blog Central put together a judging summary in the U.S.A.
Scoring A Front Handspring Vault
Click PLAY or watch a GREAT ONE on YouTube.
Men’s Code – 8 or 10 skills?
At the 2015 World Championships Glasgow, word was that the Men’s Code of Points would go from 10 skills to 8 after Rio, to match WAG. The DRAFT 2020 Code had 8 skills, 4 element groups.
Much later the final decision of FIG MTC was to stay with 10 counting skills. I’ve not yet heard the rationale.
An Aussie gymnast, Luke Wiwatowski, who must plan different routines for 8 or 10 skills, weighs in.
The “We Say You Do” Model Of Code Review Is Broken
Gymnastics – safest landing positions
Dr. Dave Tilley is concerned:
… the unfortunate reality is that the typical way gymnasts were taught to land growing up (me included) may not be the safest for them and most effective to stick skills. Not to mention coaches are also unfortunately very mis-informed about what the best available science suggests for proper landing mechanics. The concerning typical landing position that we need to move away from is one of
• Knees and feet together
• Glutes engage with the “hips tucked under” into hollow
• Knee dominant landing strategy
• Stiff impact with upright torso… The reality of the situation is that we need to change the way gymnasts land, starting from a very young age. The more ideal landing we should be teaching and forcing athletes to use is
• Feet hip width apart
• toes, knees, hips, and shoulders close to inline (generally)
• core engaged in relative neutral (not excessively hollowed or arched)
• proper angular displacement of the hip and knee joints
• hip angle generally 30 degrees, and trunk / tibial lines close to parallel …
With greatly increased difficulty being competed now and into the future, obviously the “best” landing positions are the ones that bring impact forces to zero with the least risk of injury, especially major injuries like ligament ruptures.
Most of the top male gymnasts in 2016 land their difficult skills in a very typical way.
Check these successful WAG landing positions. (Some are luck, of course. But many are skillful.)
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8 new Men’s Gymnastics skills
The new skill from Japan’s Shirai has been awaited since a video of the 19-year-old training the element surfaced on the internet last year. The only other skill to be considered so difficult in the entire Men’s Code of Points is the Bretschneider, a complicated release move on Horizontal Bar introduced by Germany’s Andreas Bretschneider in 2014. …
FIG – Eight new elements named, added to Men’s Gymnastics Code of Points
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Cal goes 196.825
HEART this on Instagram.
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Sylvie Seilnacht won Vault. We can argue whether or not this should be a 10.0 start. Personally I’m happy to see anything different than Y 1/1.
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