Friday, August 15, 2014

FIG Rules | UB - Failure to Maintain Stretched Body Posture

The FIG has deductions for failure to maintain stretched body posture in stretched dismounts off the uneven bars. I covered this in the explanation of jumps a few posts back and referenced that the CoP would deduct three tenths for just this type of fault. The FIG repeats just that under the video by marking it (-0.3)

The gymnast in the video attempts to dismount with a simple double layout in the stretched position. On dismount she slightly pikes her form into a position that was clearly not straight. This is a very typical form break when gymnasts do double layouts and it's the risk most gymnast take.

The real funny part about the video is that they picked a Romanian gymnast to call out - they are notoriously weak on the uneven bars. Also that was a different generation and a different CoP that would have overlooked such faults and focused on the landing.

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