2025 - 2028 WAG COP - A Deeper Dive

[crdubb17]

I spent some time this weekend aggregating posts that I have made on the 2025-2028 COP into a more unified location. While none of this is official FIG/WTC material, I hope that the online gymnastics community will find this to be both a useful resource for the current quadrennium, and a historical reference in the future. Any comments or questions are welcome.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NTyhgmWXD1GBpdI4on5OS0El745hTnqO

Also Brief Survey:

What content would you find to be the most helpful or interesting? (e.g. Breakdown of specific elements, Detailed walkthrough of rules like the one I did for connections on balance beam, Individual routine breakdowns both D and E score, etc.)

Thank you! I really love detailed breakdowns of routines, especially controversially scored routines.

 

[Concorde]

WTC Evaluation of Close to Beam Sequences

Under Article 12.5 - Artistry and Composition Deductions, gymnasts will receive a 0.1 deduction for ‘Missing combination of movements/elements close to the beam with a part of the torso(including thigh, knee or head) touching the beam (element not necessary)’.

As part of the Help Desk, the WTC has prepared a video containing six examples and how they would be judged. Because the video does not explain the rationale behind the evaluations, I have prepared notes on how I believe the WTC made their decisions. While these are unofficial, I hope you will find them to be helpful in understanding how close to beam sequences on balance beam are scored. Any comments, questions, or requests are welcome.

WTC Video:



My Notes: (Click on Analysis - Close to Beam tab)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/124hOBwiP_GTXBbugOI88a3ZXxZ-RafhZC9F7bgF-Irs

 

[Denn]

I feel that your analysis is quite good.

At this point, the Help Desk and the videos should not be allowed as rules. The Code itself should have all the rules. In this case, the rule does now call for a "combination", and I think they should just spell out the variations they will allow because this rule does NOT say the choreography-only option must include two different parts of the body. (I also think the rule is stupid.)

• Missing combination of movements/elements close to the beam with a part of the torso
(including thigh, knee or head) touching the beam (element not necessary)