Puck shapes.

[tom]

Does anyone know if it's true that puck shapes are not gonna be allowed anymore for multiple twisting double somersaults?

Somebody told me this yesterday, that all your somersaults have to show the tuck pike or straight shape from now on.

I don't know if I believe them.

Tom.

[peter edge]

Hi Tom, A puck shape wasn`t a defined shape in the first place it was a open tuck. What you will find is that it is not that you won`t be allowed to do them its just that judges will mark more heavily as the shape hasn`t been properly defined as tuck/pike or straight.

[Lucy]

I thought that a pucked shape would have been marked down all along but having never judged at a level I couldn't say for sure.

[tom]

What confuses me is that the current code of points from the fig website,

(http://bios.fig-gymnastics.com/doc/code-tra-0305-e.zip)

and also the previous code of points that I recieved when I did the first judging course, illustrates what the puck shape should look like to recieve a zero deduction. (Yes, Peter, under the heading of tuck shapes)

Therefore my understanding from this is that you could put a tucked twisting double somersault (say a full in full out) on your tariff sheet, and it should be possible to score zero when performing it pucked, providing you don't lose height and line out etc...

[Lucy]

Just saw the latest diagrams and the puck is still there but it's (like everything else) a bit stricter than before.

[Elliot]

What confuses me is that the current code of points from the fig website,

(http://bios.fig-gymnastics.com/doc/code-tra-0305-e.zip)

and also the previous code of points that I recieved when I did the first judging course, illustrates what the puck shape should look like to recieve a zero deduction. (Yes, Peter, under the heading of tuck shapes)

Therefore my understanding from this is that you could put a tucked twisting double somersault (say a full in full out) on your tariff sheet, and it should be possible to score zero when performing it pucked, providing you don't lose height and line out etc...

no...the chair and the tariff/form judges would decide between them whether to call the element as tucked or piked, and whatever they called it the deduction would be pretty big anyway

[tom]

I haven't checked this forum for ages, but by the way Elliot, you are wrong. Puck shapes are valid. Claire wright is this years british champion with a full full pucked and a full in half pucked in her routine and Yasuhiro Ueyama is currently number one in the world with puck shapes in his routine. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for everyone else.



no...the chair and the tariff/form judges would decide between them whether to call the element as tucked or piked, and whatever they called it the deduction would be pretty big anyway