I know people are saying they don't do these mounts since they don't want to fall, but isn't it just like every skill in every sport if you practice and train you will get it and you can fall on the simplest of skill and I think more of these should be seen, but I also understand you might not want to be too risky, but risky also can get you out there.
Because few want the risk of falling right at the start. Not to mention, a lot of other errors are possible, like smashing into the bar or hitting it from miscalculating and getting too close to it. Most of the more difficult ones also invite deductions for bent arms and dead hang.
Wow, they really need to give these skills higher value in the next code. They are super difficult and need to be rewarded if we are going to see variety in gymnastics. I think mounts on beam and bars should have to count as one of the 8 skills in the routine, regardless if there are more difficult skills within the routine.
I am so bored with bar routines these days. At the gym where I coach, I move the bars in really close like they used to be and do simple transitions between the bars and the kids are totally awed. Bars were much better in the old days.
I can't help but think that that is a sorry state of affairs for an elite sport. Wouldn't it be a little like every gymnast choosing to mount the balance beam from the mat because that's obviously easier than the springboard?
I see it from both sides really. There are some excellent bar mounts that carry less risk, and some acrobatic ones that have a much lower margin of error than the arabian..like Aleftina Priakhina's bar mount.
So why is it that modern gymnasts at the top of this apparatus use easy mounts? Beth Tweddle, the bronze medalist- uses the A class Peszek mount. Why? Shouldn't the top performers be using the hardest mounts?
Yep, but falling on a mount destroys your confidence right off the top. The vast majority would prefer to fall on a skill halfway through than right at the start. Sacramone's beam fiasco I think has also impacted- it's a mount she had been doing perfectly for so long- and she still does it! But that one time it all went wrong, that's what people remember.
