WAG BWO-BWO on Floor, Do you step-in?

[procmadz]

My daughter competed at regionals yesterday and her coach told her for the first time ever that she was supposed to “step-in” in her BWO-BWO pass for it to count as a connection. Is this good advice, or not?

 

[LucyRobinson]

Is this floor or beam? What level?

 

[procmadz]

Floor, xcel Silver

 

[LucyRobinson]

I'm not sure what you mean by "step in to the back walkover" but I can tell you how a connection is broken.
A) the body stops moving
B) the feet move/adjust between skills.
If she has a slow or inconsistent connection, she may not always get credit. It's a fine line.
However whatever her coach says is likely good advice.

 

[procmadz]

“Step in” is pretty much landing one foot and landing the next foot right next to it. So when you start the second one both feet are together

 

[Em09]

Does s/he mean at the end?

 

[procmadz]

I don’t think so, the coach told her to do it between the first and second BWO

 

[JPC13]

My daughter competed at regionals yesterday and her coach told her for the first time ever that she was supposed to “step-in” in her BWO-BWO pass for it to count as a connection. Is this good advice, or not?

The bigger question is why this never came up prior to regionals. Was it the very first time she ever made that mistake? Seems unlikely to me.

 

[procmadz]

not sure, but I don’t think so. the coach who gave her the correction is head coach, but hasn’t attended most practices for her training squad all year, so it might be something she caught that someone else didn’t?

 

[LucyRobinson]

Did she get credit all season? That's a bit odd.

 

[procmadz]

I believe so? She was usually between a 9.1 and 9.3, and went up to a 9.65 twice