FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DE GYMNASTIQUE
Day 2: 30/ 4/ 2011
Prof. Nettum Lasse, Piano Musician from England has given a presentation about Music
and RG.
He has his own system for evaluating the gymnasts. He focuses on music and program. In his
opinion only 1 girl in 1 program has achieved harmony with music. He presented video
examples of performances of music and harmony. He emphasized the identity of RG and the
responsibility of coaches.
ˇ Terhi Tovianen (FIN): with 2-4 body groups, coaches will choose the same difficulties for all
4 apparatus. Obvious execution score will not have final faults with high difficulty
performance. The gymnast will remain at first place with too many execution mistakes.
ˇ Andre Gueisbuhler (FIG Secretary General): decrease difficulties to 8 to give more time for
music and not repeat mistakes of other disciplines.
Decision: max. 9 difficulties.
ˇ Tamara Bompa (CAN): calculation of the difficulty score is complicated with 10.00 pts and
more.
ˇ Lidia Vynogradna (UKR): Ukraine is one of the best countries in the world and if they
prepare their gymnast for 12.00pts and find their opponents achieving 15.00 pts in difficulty,
there will be no limits. Rotations are more acknowledged than other body groups which isn't
fair for gymnasts with no possibilities for rotations
ˇ Marina Piazza (ITA): Multiple difficulties should be counted as 2 separate difficulties or
eliminated completely if one component is executed badly. Limit the difficulty score to 10.00
pts only. +0.1 only for connection.
ˇ Terhi Toivanen (FIN): Put a limit for multiple difficulties to have equal opportunities for
balances and leaps. Confirms criteria of multiple difficulties.
ˇ Marie Moltubakk (NOR): Confirm criteria for multiple and mixed difficulties. In this case,
gymnasts will have time for dance, harmony and music
ˇ Dragana Terzic (SRB): Define the technical requirements for each component of difficulty to
achieve 10.00 pts.
ˇ Ekaterina Rublevskia (SWE): Correct first bias problem, equal work for body and apparatus
and not concentration only on Body. Big penalties for execution should be provided as this
is important for the public. Suggestion: 20.00 pts for difficulty and 20.00 points for
execution.
ˇ Marie Moltubakk (NOR): Open the Difficulty score
ˇ Heidi Brunder (UEG TC President): Limit the difficulty score, as the compositions consists
of body difficulty, DER, dance steps and mastery of apparatus handling and it depends on
the coach and the creativity possible with the gymnast.
ˇ Marina Lobach (BLR): Progress of RG can't be limited by limiting the difficulty score as
gymnasts can perform difficult body difficulty combined with difficult apparatus handling.
This code gives possibilities for coaches to be creative with their gymnasts to choose
among difficulties, dance steps and DER. She confirms the decrease of # of difficulty. Open
score for difficulty.
ˇ Gyozal Filippova (UZB): I'm president of AGU TC and ASIA has another level of gymnasts.
The Mongolian gymnasts are different from UZB and KAZ. This COP is open for everyone
and the difficulty value must remain open.
ˇ Yekaterina Panchenko (KAZ): COP presented is an accumulation of all good points from
the last cycle. In her country, there are different level of gymnasts and this helps gymnasts
to perform what they can do. COP must not be rigid but give possibility for all gymnasts.
ˇ Irina Viner (RUS): Coach must utilize gymnasts with what base they have. We would like to
go "back to the future" but at another level. We must try to combine Body + apparatus
handling. For Olympic Sports, we must go ahead. For Universality, we can't limit gymnasts.
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