Recent content by Aeris

Yet another example of judges fabricating deductions to get the E-score down into the "expected" range. But, looking at how they possibly got 8.6: Healy - .1 legs Layout Jaeger - .1 feet, .3 legs (excessive, the separation isn't that big), .3 amplitude (excessive, but technically per the rules...

Wasn't her E-score 7.766? Sadly I had it at 7.5, with all the crazy deductions that are being forced for "slow connection" and things like moving her foot before dismounting. Even that totally innocuous and good-looking step after the mount could be considered a "step without choreography"...

Yes that rule is dumb too, I meant in terms of doing the routine without further interruption with her Clear 1/2 swing, her score was always going to get hammered, unfairly.

She would receive 0.2 CV if the Clear Hip 1/2 was credited, but since we have dumb rules that say swing skills need to finish within 10 degrees of perfect handstand to be credited, it got downgraded to a B and she lost 0.5 total on the D score.

Side aerial + Side aerial is more difficult than Side aerial + BHS and looks satisfying enough to me, assuming the gymnast gets their back completely upright, like Sanne did at the Olympics. It has a nice pendulum effect. The problem is trying to have good posture is actually a huge risk now...

The competition structure should definitely be changed, but probably won't.

What makes it worse is how low the side aerial lands and then she never gets her back straight, probably on purpose, because that would "break" the connection. So it's just totally lethargic.

Nice to see Aiko Sugihara continue glowing here. She didn't do enough for the turn to be credited (not that it matters anymore for difficulty value, sigh), but considering all the other fake 1/2 turn tkatchevs that got recently named before the rule was tightened, it's unfortunate the Inbar...

What is France doing this time that would make her want to switch?

I really hope they teach Yume Minamino a shaposh, she's too good to be stuck scoring sub-14 on UB.

Being chosen for a couple teams doesn't preclude discriminatory behavior or poor management. Aside from the general mismanagement and feeling of being treated worse that he feels was happening, there were 2 examples that definitely look outright vindictive towards him - someone else being...

It's the same lyrics I assume, but sounds like two different songs. The female in the duet version really blew him out of the water, maybe also because he isn't as experienced with live singing. Would be funny if it became common for gymnasts to shift into music careers. Flipping on stage is...

I'm happy Qiu Qiyuan seems to have gotten through her growth spurt, hopefully she'll be able to keep making teams in the coming years.

The letter grade needs to be lowered, it's simply a boring floor skill and not as difficult as others. The joke has gone on far too long.

Count mounts as a required 9th skill on UB, make the basic kip mount worth 0, and lower the amount of deductions taken. For vault I think the bonus should just be for doing any two different families. That way people can do something like DTY + Y1.5 if they want, but it won't be especially...