November 3, 2008

Thank God for the 2009 Code

This video was just brought to our attention. It's Korea's Park Eun-Kyong doing a seven-pass floor exercise at the recent Arthur Gander Memorial.

Brace yourselves... It's a women's floor routine which consists almost entirely of tumbling passes.

We're so glad anything over 4 passes won't be counted under the 2009 Code. Routines like this shouldn't exist. They shouldn't even be considered. Yikes.

We beg you, FIG, to bring back three-pass routines. Pretty please with sugar on top?

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Park Eun-Kyong (Photo: Volker Minkus)
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  1. AnonymousNovember 7, 2008 at 1:22 AM

    oh. my. god. that was horrendous. i hope never to see anything like it again.

    **rinses eyes to erase awful memory**

    will the 2009 code protect us from sad excuses for floor exercises like that?

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  2. The Gym GirlsNovember 8, 2008 at 7:18 AM

    If all goes well, it will! Under the 2009 Code, only the 8 most difficult elements will be counted (down from 10), and the number of tumbling passes on floor will be limited to 4 (anything done in excess of 4 simply won't be counted). So, yes, we assume that means we'll be spared five-pass atrocities from now on. Or seven-pass atrocities. Shudder.

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  3. The Couch GymnastNovember 11, 2008 at 5:08 AM

    oh thank god that can never happen again. At least not so its rewarded.

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  4. The Gym GirlsNovember 11, 2008 at 9:32 AM

    Yeah, we're thanking the powers that be for that too. As we said, routines like that shouldn't exist. Not in this universe or any other.

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  5. DaveGymnasticsNovember 23, 2008 at 1:37 PM

    Hello,

    I’m writing to you because I run a site that links to other gymnastics sites called Links to Gymnastics (http://www.linkstogymnastics.com) The goal of my site is to make it easier for gymnastics fans to find gymnastics sites.

    I found your blog when I was searching the web for gymnastics and wanted to ask you if you’d like a link to your site from Links to Gymnastics.

    Either way I wish you all the best!

    Sorry for having to use a comment to send the message along. (Feel free to delete it) but I did not know any other way to send the message.

    If you’ve gotten a message like this I apologize for the duplication. The internet is a pretty big place and hard to keep track of sometimes.

    David F.P.
    davegymnastics at yahoo.com



    P.S. 7 passes!!!!! 0_o I like the old code.

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  6. The Gym GirlsNovember 23, 2008 at 9:00 PM

    Hi David:

    Sure, a link would be great. Thanks! We appreciate it.

    Kind regards,

    Meiying

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