What a career!
Jade Carey is one of the great Elites of all time.
And has hit every routine, so far, for Oregon State.
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What a career!
Jade Carey is one of the great Elites of all time.
And has hit every routine, so far, for Oregon State.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Obviously, video and analysis by computer is better than humans at calling balls and strikes in Baseball.
Video analysis is better than a human line judge in Tennis.
And I’d argue that FIG Trampoline competitions are more fair for the electronic analysis used supplementing human judges.
BUT progress has been too slow.
There might always be a role for human judges in Artistic sports.
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Yeesh.
Six and a half spins in the air. That’s what constitutes a 2340, a dizzying track landed by both a snowboard and skier for the first time on record. At the X Games in Aspen, snowboarder Hiroto Ogiwara of Japan stomped it on Friday while Italian skier Miro Tabanelli achieved it on Saturday.
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Week 4.
Contests: Flexibility, Strength, Skills
Shai Ross (born September 17, 1993) is a Canadian former professional football wide receiver.
In this entertaining video, he challenges a top gymnast. Level 9 in 2024.
… You should probably put your money on Pacey-rae.
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This season, for the first time, judges are being evaluated on their scores compared with a panel reviewing routines.
I ASSuME the judges over-scoring routines Florida v Georgia, Jan. 24th, 2025 will be evaluated severely.
For 2025 there may be no consequences for being off target score. But hopefully that happens sooner rather than later. Some are deliberately giving impossible scores because there is so little accountability.
To learn more, listen to an interesting interview with panelists on the All Things Gymnastics Podcast.
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Personally, I’m not a big fan of using a belt for same Bar releases.
It works — but can make it difficult for some gymnasts to get OUT of the belt.
That said, IF you use a belt, do as few repetitions in it as possible.
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