Flippingymkid just posted Tan Sixin's 15.85 beam routine from the team competition, and it's gorgeous. Tan does Li Shanshan's combination of ff-ff-whip-Korbut, and the whip just floats. It's beautiful. Her form on her other elements is exquisite as well, and she works on her toes, which is great. The dismount is a bit scary, but still, WOW.
And here, courtesy of krrustygym, is Cui Jie's 16.10 beam routine from the all-around competition. Yep, she hit the roundoff-whip combo all right!
We don't know about you, but we're very excited about this new crop of Chinese girls. They're just beautiful. China just keeps on producing these stunning gymnasts...
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Can I ask- are these routines being judged with the new code of points- if they are it makes Cui Jie's beam score even more outstanding, to have that huge difficulty even in the new code.
ReplyDeleteAnyone know Jie's A-score?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 1, two people left comments on our first AYOF post to the effect that the AYOF competitions were still being judged with the old code. We don't know why they're still using the old code, but we have no doubt they are, because you couldn't possibly get a 16 for a routine like that under the new code. These are all old-code scores.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 2, sorry, no. :)
Her A score looks like 7.0. It could have been 7.1 if her sheep jump got connected.
ReplyDeleteI agree that these girls have excellent technique, but to be critical there hasn't been a lot of variety in terms of skill selection, style and even choreography/ rhythm from the Chinese girls over the last quad. Tumbling skills hardly get harder than whips/ layouts (those are indeed superb whips; Deng Linlin's is a superb layout :P) and I can only think of the one tucked full. Those head-back leaps are beautiful though!
ReplyDeleteThese girls are like coming out of some Chinese gymnast assemblying line.:) They all have textbook techniques and exquisite forms.
ReplyDeleteWe agree the Chinese could be a bit more adventurous in terms of skill selection (they do seem to do the same skills over and over again), but frankly, we think this is less of a problem on beam than it is on bars. Also, in our opinion it is largely offset by the way they perform their sets of near-compulsory elements. When somebody like Tan Sixin works the beam, we are enchanted, even though her actual skills aren't that special. There's just something about her that says class. We're very excited about her.
ReplyDeleteWe look forward to seeing whether the new code will induce the Chinese to get a bit more creative choreographywise.