Jani Taskanen, President of the FIG Athletes Commission, has asked for gymnasts to send him their opinions on the Code and how it can be improved, for discussion at the next FIG symposium. Visit the FIG website here for full details, including Jani's email address. I think this is a really positive thing.
I do hope the FIG will also seek the opinion of other key stakeholders, including coaches.
I'm neither a gymnast nor a coach, but I would hope to see a Code that evaluates whole routines - thus emphasising the importance of harmony, presentation and performance as well as calculating values of a disparate collection of difficulties. I would like to see more judgement of the look of the routine (its artistic value). A return to the importance of amplitude. Acknowledgement that technique is only part of the visual outcome of a move, rather than being an end in itself, and that move is only part of a routine.
I do hope the FIG will also seek the opinion of other key stakeholders, including coaches.
I'm neither a gymnast nor a coach, but I would hope to see a Code that evaluates whole routines - thus emphasising the importance of harmony, presentation and performance as well as calculating values of a disparate collection of difficulties. I would like to see more judgement of the look of the routine (its artistic value). A return to the importance of amplitude. Acknowledgement that technique is only part of the visual outcome of a move, rather than being an end in itself, and that move is only part of a routine.
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