Female gymnasts who perform Switch Ring Leap on balance beam nicely

[Iminhanoi]

It isn’t similar at all. This is the poorest example you’ve posted so far. Look at the head to feet distance

Gabby Douglas did awful Switch Ring Leaps in London 2012; but these awful leaps seemed full credited . Her back foot was far below her head, and she even wasn’t arching the back

Gabby Douglas’s switch ring leap was very similar to Nastia’s
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[KristyJ]

And yet back in 2012 many people talked about Gabby's ring leap being better than most, because the requirements on it were very different that code. Foot height in relation to head and back arch vs. head release are two of the biggest changes the code has made over the years.
Also, as Mary Clare notes, there's a difference between head/shoulder release (upper back flexibility) and lower back arch that is very much not differentiated in the code, but does result in or from very different techniques. The more traditional ring position used the former, thus the ring name, it makes a much more rounded and less flattened shape.

 

[Iminhanoi]

Sunisa Lee

 

[makam]

And yet back in 2012 many people talked about Gabby's ring leap being better than most, because the requirements on it were very different that code. Foot height in relation to head and back arch vs. head release are two of the biggest changes the code has made over the years.
Also, as Mary Clare notes, there's a difference between head/shoulder release (upper back flexibility) and lower back arch that is very much not differentiated in the code, but does result in or from very different techniques. The more traditional ring position used the former, thus the ring name, it makes a much more rounded and less flattened shape.

New skill: switch oval leap! (Switch ovoid leap? Switch elipse leap? )

 

[KristyJ]

New skill: switch oval leap! (Switch ovoid leap? Switch elipse leap? )

Switch squish?
Switch Bo?

Edit- random note but I honestly don't mind one shape or the other. Just noting that "round" is not wrong, it's what it originally was.

 

[Doug1233]

Nastia Liukin has the most technically accurate ring position. Anna Pavlova is throwing her head further back in an attempt to pull her fore leg up, which she struggles with

Aesthetically, I prefer Pavlova.

 

[Denn]

I feel like a range of shapes should be acceptable. Many of them look spectacular.

(Maggie Nichols, for example, had a position I thought looked great, but which was a 0.3 deduction under one of the codes)

 

[rlayt]

I thought Kara Eaker’s leaps were pretty but this video helped some with figuring out why she didn’t always get what I thought she would.