Jim Holt, men's head coach in Scotland, commented rather usefully on my post of 9 April regarding three dimensions of the nature of human movement, which I will partially summarise below. Jim has now added to this with a video exercise in judgement ... please join in the conversation by adding your comments! At root, if we think of gymnastics as ‘human motion’ and we recognize that even the various pieces of apparatus have evolved over a somewhat random development, regardless of the nature of the apparatus, if we agree that gymnastics is (and its rules evaluate or compare some measures of ) ‘human movement’, then the 3 (and only 3!) aspect of same that are measured are : 1 (THE fundamental one) … economy of line or movement 2 Complexity of movement 3 One’s ability to overcome the forces of time and/or gravity (a subset of time in this context). 1 Economy : a straight arm felge handstand is better than a bent arm, not because it is more difficu...
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