FX EF INQUIRY (Jordan Chiles Stripped Of Bronze Medal/USAG launches appeal) PART 2

[crdubb17]

For the millionth time I’ll say how much I hate fx. I often leave the room. It’s too cringy to watch. The music often has too many cuts that add up to an unlistenable mess. I’d ditch the music and turn it into mag fx. I might even just turn it into tumbling. You want grace and controlled movements? That’s what beam is for.

Am I wrong for saying that I absolutely abhor what beam ‘choreography’ has become? They look ridiculous most of the time. I have also noticed that this is a common critique to casual viewers: “the flips and jumps are cool, but why are they doing all of that weird arm flailing?”

 

[makam]

Artistry in figure skating has been on a constant decline since the mid 00's - after the new scoring system of assigning points to everything was introduced.

Gymnastics faces the same problem. When routines are no longer about the overall whole, no longer about giving a complete performance as an inherent necessity to score well, then that's what you're going to get from competitors - people who don't try as much to perform and are visibly doing math in their head as they move their routines, thinking about points instead of being in the moment and trying to express themselves.

Death to the leap sequence! Or give them a box of 10 possible artistic things, including a leap sequence for the same value and let the gymnast pick what fits in their routine. A cartwheel looks more artistic than the labored leap sequences in every routine.

On beam, death to the switch half!

 

[Denn]

Death to the leap sequence! Or give them a box of 10 possible artistic things, including a leap sequence for the same value and let the gymnast pick what fits in their routine. A cartwheel looks more artistic than the labored leap sequences in every routine.

On beam, death to the switch half!

Don't even give them 10 things! Instead:

1. Delete the leap passage requirement, like you said. It's awful.
   
   
2. Institute 0.1 deductions for "not dancing either into or out of a dance element". They have to do at least one or the other.
   
   
3. Make one of the required dance "elements" a Choreography element, rated A to H (0.1 to 0.8) by the D-panel, where each tenth is for every time the gymnast actually does a passage of "creative choreography". The D-panel has almost nothing to do on floor anyway, and this would remove one more hideous leap or redundant spin. A passage could be ≈7-8 seconds; for most uptempo music, that's 16 beats.
   
   
4. Have a 0.1 deduction for "Poor dance quality in performing a dance passage".
   
   
5. Get rid of some of the other black box deductions that are for the whole routine.