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- Dec 14, 2009
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I'm gonna say my final piece on this issue (at least on here) after thinking it out for a LONG time.
The USASF is smart in looking at injuries. In gymnastics, if more than 5 serious (though generally fatal) injuries occur because of a skill, the skill is illegal. There have been MANY skills taken out of the sport of gymnastics even in the past 20-30 years because of how dangerous they are and because people continuously are getting injured.
I think the tumbling rules make sense, I really do. You can still do a LOT of passes without being able to whip double or full double. If you watch some of the major teams, you see a lot of arabian to double, punch front to double, whip TO double, 1 1/2 to double, etc., which are all acceptable running passes now. Standing tumbling I'm a bit iffy on at this point, but this season especially, I have seen so many underrotated doubles by people wearing knee and ankle braces that it really makes me stop and kind of agree with these rules.
I'm sure, someday, there will be a credentialling system that is more appropriate and teaches you more. I would say you'd need more than one day just to cover one level. Someday, doubles will be added back into standing tumbling, same with standing fulls, but until coaches and athletes understand proper progressions in skills, and understand that just because you're throwing and landing a two to full doesn't mean you should start working 2 to doubles, then we need these changes. That's my standpoint on it at least.
The USASF is smart in looking at injuries. In gymnastics, if more than 5 serious (though generally fatal) injuries occur because of a skill, the skill is illegal. There have been MANY skills taken out of the sport of gymnastics even in the past 20-30 years because of how dangerous they are and because people continuously are getting injured.
I think the tumbling rules make sense, I really do. You can still do a LOT of passes without being able to whip double or full double. If you watch some of the major teams, you see a lot of arabian to double, punch front to double, whip TO double, 1 1/2 to double, etc., which are all acceptable running passes now. Standing tumbling I'm a bit iffy on at this point, but this season especially, I have seen so many underrotated doubles by people wearing knee and ankle braces that it really makes me stop and kind of agree with these rules.
I'm sure, someday, there will be a credentialling system that is more appropriate and teaches you more. I would say you'd need more than one day just to cover one level. Someday, doubles will be added back into standing tumbling, same with standing fulls, but until coaches and athletes understand proper progressions in skills, and understand that just because you're throwing and landing a two to full doesn't mean you should start working 2 to doubles, then we need these changes. That's my standpoint on it at least.