Was Ou Yushan's AA Floor Exercise Underscored? 

It’s still early in the season. The head coach said that her routines were downgraded to prevent injury, and they still have 2 more internal tests after this. It was a bad meet for her, that’s true, but if they work on consistency during this months she will absolutely make it to Tokyo. It’s a shame she won’t be able to go to any international competitions before the olympics to gain experience, but we’ll see. Praying for her.

Who knows maybe it will last. Sui Lu won beam and floor at 2008 chinese nationals (even tying Cheng Fei on floor), didn't make the team and came back later in 2012 and made it. Surely Ou can hold out for 3 more years?

@Russell Hayman Why are you so goddamn negative? Jesus...

@Russell Hayman I’m guessing you haven’t seen this. twitter.com/gayfetus/status/1329281587725398018?s=21 again, she downgraded her for injury prevention, but she’s perfectly capable of harder tumbling. Not even sure if she even should go for it though, a 14.3 is a great score either way

@Russell Hayman she really dont need to do that much harder tumbling. this rourine can get a silver in 2019 world.why do you think that she must have that harder tumbling? for what? if she want to upgrade, that is great. if she dont, that is ok. maybe a little upgrade is necessary.

I would kill to see a chinese in ncaa but they get a lot of money which ruins her ncaa chances

Language differences would be too much. It’s like plopping an American in a Chinese uni.

@@bagelized You'd be surprised. There are plenty of Chinese students in American Universities with some schools having a massive percentage of their student body from China. We don't see Chinese gymnasts in NCAA because of sponsorships but there are Chinese athletes in other NCAA sports!

@@kristiankowalski2854 I don’t have to be surprised. I’m an East Asian (Korean) going to an American university & I know how many of my friends suffer from language issues and eventually return to Korea because of the alienation they feel. I myself feel too much cultural differences sometimes.

@@bagelized Chinese are tougher and more resourceful… plus we have no choice my dear

Stiffness on landing is not a real deduction. And while the double tuck step is borderline on the meter metric, the step on the layout 1/2 is definitely a .3 step.

@@marythiccmas Stiffness on landing is a real deduction. It can also be described as "Hesitation during performance of element" or "Body posture fault". Her landing of the Double Tuck thuds a bit, there's a slight break at the waist and minor whiplash up through the neck, and she doesn't immediately present the landing. Compare her landing/step here to the landing/step on the Layout 1/2, where she is fully upright and fluidly goes into choreography with the arms and head. BTW, her legs aren't even a meter long. The length between her feet on that Layout 1/2 landing isn't longer than her legs. That landing actually very nearly looks like a planned, controlled step back - the kind that are allowable in NCAA and might be allowed in Olympic competition next quad too.

@@Zuranthium Bro NEITHER of those deductions means stiffness on landing. Body posture fault is with regards to chest being down on landing and hesitation means LITERAL HESITATION. What you described does not equate to any actual deduction in the code of points, and you are making shit up. Also, you seem to genuinely not understand what the length of a meter is, but I can tell you right now her legs are definitely more than a meter long. Just because it would be allowed in the NCAA deduction free does not mean that it's not a .3 step in the current code. It definitely is, and you're completely full of shit arguing otherwise. Please, read the code of points. I'm begging you. You very clearly do not understand how the deduction system works, and it shows in you misappropriating deductions to non deductible things.

@@marythiccmas The semantics you're attempting to argue are incorrect. The fact of the matter is that body form and control and finishing of elements is looked at in every aspect, whichever word you want to use, and there is an applicable deduction to take for the flaws I described. I've analyzed jumps for ages, and done them myself, I know how it feels and looks to land ideally, and can spot very quickly when there's an issue. Her landing had too much of a thud/hesitation for me and her body is factually much less upright than an example I even provided. RE: a meter - you seem confused about how long it is and how long a non-tall person's leg typically is. You can look up the typical measurements, and could also measure the space between her feet on video as compared to her body. Math doesn't lie.

@@Zuranthium I'm not arguing semantics. You're just full of shit and don't actually understand the code. NONE of what you're describing is a landing deduction, and at this point you're just throwing around fancy language to make it look like you know what you're talking about. You don't. Also, I'm well aware of what a meter step looks like in gymnastics. I've been watching it for long enough.

yea these are ridiculous... she didn't take that much time

she barely took any time at all, there was no excessive preparation

Me too. Another thing that i dont agree is deduction for cross feet and ring leap.

I did debate taking for the second pause, but I think maybe because it came after dance instead of just squatting in a wolf position? Also I think her triple is fine she just pikes down a tiny bit at the end but not much at all.

Yeah, but with perfect execution. It's better doing a perfect C element than a D/E with deductions.

China and their double fulls. lol

For someone like her, she doesn’t need a difficult dismount. It’s changing in the next Code - but she’s right to do this here.

@@mattj5391 There have only been proposed changes for next quad; nothing is guaranteed. Also I'd rather see a clean C-skill or a 3-pass programme to close an FX than another flexed-footed double pike with leg separations which indicate that anything more difficult than that would only mean worse execution.

@@MD-722 the FIG released the final version of the 2022-24 code last week. It is guaranteed. The dismount rules are changing such that D+ dismounts performed without a fall will get a 0.2 bonus.