Therefore, in the 2016 Code of Points FIG TCs opted to make it even more difficult for the general public to know who won.
FINALS score = (DV 1+DV2)/2 + 10.0 -(E1+E2)
AllTheTimeGymnastics on YouTube:
… In my opinion, this will not go over well because the coaches, the gymnasts, and the fans like to see big scores, and with this scoring system the scores are much lower. My example vaulter is the reigning World Champion of vaulting, the one and only McKayla Maroney …
Kathryn Geddert, coach of World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist Jordyn Wieber from Twistars Gymnastics. Kathryn shares a drill that helps gymnasts with the ballistic splitting of leaps on beam and floor. Kathryn talks about what should be focused on during the drill and the numbers she uses with this drill in her workouts.
… When FIG President Professor Bruno Grandi and Secretary General André Gueisbuhler visited our International Headquarters in Montreal, we seized the opportunity to take them behind the scenes of our new show Amaluna …
Famed Vladimir School of Gymnastics celebrated their 50th anniversary on October 12th. That the gym that produced Nikolai Andrianov, Yuri Korolev, Yuri Ryazanov and many others.
Rewriting Russian Gymnastics has a very interesting post on what’s happening at that gym:
… (coach) Yuri Korolev intends to leave Vladimir. He is convinced that Vladimir doesn’t need him.
– I was working with a gymnast – Yuri Barkalov, but he’s gone, – said Yuri Korolev. – Currently, I’m unemployed although I earn 20,000 roubles a month. I have prospects. I’ll have to leave my home town.
Yuri Korolev was very harsh on current gymnasts.
– They lack ideals. Now everything valuable is measured in money, and not with your country’s prestige, – he said. – By the way, the situation is natural, since we have a group of six rich athletes and the rest works as hard as them but earns much less. …
It’s interesting and sometimes amusing to watch gymnastics coaches, especially in competition.
In preparation for his role in Stick It, Jeff Bridges studied American coaches at Junior Olympic competitions. And asked gymnasts, including Isabelle Severino, how he should act in certain situations.
Scientific research contends that “power posing” actually works. That you can “fake it until you BECOME it“.
Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident — can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.
Brain child of Atelier Zündel Cristea for a Paris bridge design competition:
… It may result in some broken necks and legs but screw it, that’s the price you pay for having a way to cross the river Seine jumping like Spider-Man. …
It’s made with “inflatable modules, like giant life-preservers, 30 meters in diameter” and filled with “3700 cubic meters of air.” Each of them have a trampoline mesh In the central part of each ring, a trampoline mesh is stretched. Oh, and they got stairs and slides on both sides. …
