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)

6 comments:

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

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  4. 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. Hello,

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    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.

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

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  6. Hi David:

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

    Kind regards,

    Meiying

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