2025 World Gymnastics Championships, Apparatus Finals Day 1, October 24

[Denn]

Watch her use backwards twisting technique off the table. I do hope she doesn't figure out how to get the second hand on the table with that technique because she is doing a quarter on, bw 1 3/4 off. It's a little bit like Kasamatsu technique but doesn't use pure fwd salto and fwd twisting because she gets on the table as if she did a Tsuk. Even if she figures out the second hand, the vault should be judged much more harshly because it is a Kas/Tsuk hybrid in disguise.

I've been calling it "Chengmatsu" because the repulsion and post-flight are exactly the same as a Kasamatsu-full. It's more like a sideways salto with twist.

My understanding is that, even if she pushes with the second hand, there's 0.4 in deductions to take.

But I don't understand why there's only a ≤45° deduction. Schoenmaier is about 90° short in her preflight turn. And 0.3 is a harsh deduction for being just a little short of preflight twist. I would love to see 0.1 for ≤ 30°, 0.3 for 31°-60°, and 0.5 for 60°–90°.

I also think that, while they're at it, they should clarify that Kasamatsu repulsion/post-flight is closer to a salto forward and therefore cannot earn 0.2 bonus when the other vault is a forward vault ... unless the vaults have different number of saltos (e.g. Kas-full and Produnova).

and Limit the staggered hand placement deduction to vaults with no preflight turn, since the preflight turn deduction can be used to penalize the same error Sorry, I take that back. Obviously, hands can be staggered with complete twist.

What do you all think?