#routine construction

“ valeri needs to take whatever sorcery he used to manipulate the code to nastia’s strengths/weaknesses and pass it on to al fong “

So, like, if she’s just a little short on her switch side 1/2, she could literally lose .6 off of her D score. Damn it, GAGE, every time I want to give y’all some benefit of the doubt, y’all pull some mess like this. FIX IT.

“ It seems like Florida and UCLA don’t know how to construct a beam routine. Suni and Jade do literally 30 sec beam routines, meanwhile Leanne and Jordan are doing all these extra skills. “

“ Russia PLEASE get rid of those hideous half giants before dismount i'm begging you. have no idea why they still do it “

“ did al & armine build the leaning tower of pisa? cuz i've never seen such poor beam construction “

“ I really think Sunisa Lee should take the same path as Melnikova on beam: a slightly lower D-score to improve her consistency. “

“ i can invent a 6.0+ DV bars routine with my eyes closed, but getting close to that on beam requires so much extra nonsense it’s not funny / worth theoretically competing “

“ are 4 tumbling passes not allowed in ncaa gymnastics or is it just that nobody does it “