British WAG (and MAG!) talk

[Denn]

I disagree. I had that at 9.3 also.

 

[Doug1233]

I disagree. I had that at 9.3 also.

Did you ignore the leg sep or the pike down?

 

[Doug1233]

I disagree. Let me guess, you deducted 0.3 for the step on both landings right?

That first one was still in the 0.1 region, I feel.

And there’s nothing to deduct for artistry, in my opinion, btw. That’s a great exercise in terms of dance and performance.

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Flipflytumble, a Brevet, has a 7.3E. Looks like the 8,1 was way too high. I had 7.7E.

 

[Denn]

Sorry, one judge on Instagram doesn’t outweigh a panel of 7 brevet judges. This is what I feel about the deductions in that instagram

Depends on judge’s angle

• leg separation on the double layout 0.1

Reasonably debatable:

• 0.3 for the step after the first pass. I took 0.1.
• 0.1 for complex choreo. I feel like there are some passages that clearly “require practice”

Heavy-Handed:

• 0.1 for flexed feet on all four passes. Is this that judge on YouTube obsessed with deducting for flexed feet? When people judge like this, I want to scream.
• body position on the first leap
• 0.1 for an extra small step on the 3rd pass.

WTF

• 0.1 Lack of fluency… Huh?! THIS constitutes a performance of the entire exercise as a series of disconnected elements & movements???

Give back 0.8 of those and it goes from 7.3 to 8.1.

Intuitively, this exercise should not be a 7.3.

 

[MaryClare]

Has Alice Kinsella become the first female to have European, commonwealth, world and Olympic team medals

 

[Doug1233]

Has Alice Kinsella become the first female to have European, commonwealth, world and Olympic team medals

Beth.

Oh, team? Well only the four from 2020 could ever be eligible; so I think you’re right.

 

[Gymfan93]

Must be. None of the members of the 2015 world team made it to the 2020 Olympics, and nobody before that had a team world medal.

 

[Yarotska]

Is the Amanar even worth doing anymore? Literally no one is going to do one at these World Championships. The D score advantage was much bigger back when the US could have a whole rotation of them.

It’s worth doing only if you can do it really well and that’s how I feel it should be. A good Amanar with a step will go 9.4-9.5 as long as you don’t crunch it. A DTY has to be really spectacular to break 9.4.

 

[Doug1233]

What a night for the boys! Victory from the jaws of defeat!!

 

[MaryClare]

One day, you’re going to become European champion, win an Olympic bronze medal, lead your team to commonwealth gold in your hometown, finish 2nd to the US in a world team final and smash 55 in a world all around

 

[Gymfan93]

AND be a European AA silver medalist

 

[RAFIKI]

She has come such a long way.

 

[RAFIKI]

Speaking of improvements…

During my time with the sport:

How it started (1996)

How it’s going (2022)

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Amazing what lottery funding can do!

 

[MaryClare]

Torvill and Dean have often spoken of how important funding was to their success. Pre lottery funding, it was their local county council who effectively had to put them on the payroll of the sports and leisure department so they could receive a salary! After their retirement, there was no further funding for British skating and look where it is now, barely making Olympic qualification

 

[Bananna]

Mario Kart and spa days – how British gymnasts raised the bar higher

There was the poise, the daring, the glitter, the shrieks of home support and blasts of Neil Diamond, but what stood out most was the resilience.The two sets o

www.thetimes.co.uk

Interesting enough article in the Times.

There was a quote from Scott Hann that stuck out from me

“Our vaults are incredible,” he says. “If we can increase [the performances of] three gymnasts on the vault that will give the US team a run for their money over the next few years.”

Since we’ve seen footage of a Kinsella amanar, does this mean that more gymnasts will be trying for Amanars? If so, that would be an odd strategy as it’s no longer the 2012 quad and VT isn’t even GB’s worst event?

 

[Doug1233]

I feel like Ondine has a great vault that we could see some upgrades on.

 

[rlayt]

Has anyone trained towards a Cheng?

 

[J175]

Not on this team but Ellie Downie.

The team and probably their own AA scores would benefit more from the Aylesbury gymnasts getting better bars routines than Amanars though.

 

[RAFIKI]