{"id":1359,"date":"2022-10-26T11:53:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T11:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaglesgymnastics.co.uk\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2022-10-26T11:53:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T11:53:32","slug":"my-child-didnt-medal-but-had-a-lovely-routine-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaglesgymnastics.co.uk\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"<strong>My child didn\u2019t medal but had a lovely routine \u2026 why not?<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a coach this is a question I often get asked \u2026 as many parents find it hard to know why their child didn\u2019t do as well as they expected to. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gymnastics is a very subjective sport. A 2 degree bend can make the difference between a medal or no medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A simple guide (for parents) to what judges look for.<br>Please note that I\u2019ve simplified things to try and make it easier to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When scoring a routine there are 2 elements to the score:<br>The gymnasts <strong>total<\/strong> score is made up of adding the D score and E score together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How is the D score worked out?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The D score is made up of 2 parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>what skills are included (different skills can be worth more depending on how difficult the skill is)<\/li><li>the requirements as set by the competition rules (for example the rules may state the gymnast needs 2 linked jumps on floor)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each requirement is usually worth 0.5 at general\/GfA competitions and low level artistic competitions.<br>At higher levels, gymnasts can increase their D score by linking skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How is the E score worked out?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The E score is judged out of 10 \u2026 with each judge taking points off that for errors in execution.&nbsp; These are called deductions. So the final E score is how much is lost in deductions taken away from 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For example with jumps on floor \u2026&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em><\/em><em>not jumping high enough \u2026 0.1 deduction&nbsp; (or even 0.3 if they hardly get off the floor at all)<\/em><\/li><li><em><\/em><em>not pointing toes \u2026 0.1 deduction<\/em><\/li><li><em><\/em><em>bent legs \u2026 0.1 deduction (or 0.3 or 0.5 for big bends)<\/em><\/li><li><em><\/em><em>Landing with feet apart \u2026&nbsp; 0.1 or 0.3 deduction<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the lower level routines there are often shapes and balances.\u00a0<br>These can look lovely but have lots of deductions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em><\/em><em>not holding a balance long enough \u2026 0.3 deduction<\/em><\/li><li><em><\/em><em>putting hands on the floor to aid balance \u2026 0.5 deduction<\/em><\/li><li><em><\/em><em>falling \u2026 1.0 deduction<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of these deductions get added up and are taken off the 10 to give the final execution score.\u00a0 So our gymnast who did a jump with not going high enough, not pointing toes, bent legs and landing with feet apart could have lost 0.4 on that one skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>So why didn\u2019t they medal as the routine was lovely?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are lots of lovely routines \u2026 and it\u2019s the judges job to try and tell them apart.\u00a0 All the little deductions I talked about above are taken into account.\u00a0<br>Just because they didn\u2019t medal, it doesn\u2019t mean it wasn\u2019t a good routine \u2026 but that they lost more than other gymnasts on that particular time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a coach this is a question I often get asked \u2026 as many parents find it hard to know why their child didn\u2019t do as well as they expected to. &nbsp; Gymnastics is a very subjective sport. A 2 degree bend can make the difference between a medal or no medal. A simple guide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ScOq-lV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaglesgymnastics.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaglesgymnastics.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaglesgymnastics.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaglesgymnastics.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaglesgymnastics.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eaglesgymnastics.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/eaglesgymnastics.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaglesgymnastics.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaglesgymnastics.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaglesgymnastics.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}