judging

Little dd had a bit of a mental error on floor and started her routine by doing bounce bounce split jump, split jump instead of straight jump split jump. The first split jump was not as much split as the second one, but definitely not a straight jump - what would you judges do with this?! Just...

I was looking out our girls' level 5 state meet results. I don't have any kids I currently coach at the meet but some of my former students were there. I looked at the team all around score. As coaches, how many times in the past have you seen a team place first on every single event? In 10...

My daughter does High School cheer and they had a local conference meet. One of the high schools had a large percentage of girls that attend a specific cheer gym in our area and their team always takes first place. I've coached quite a few of those girls so I know they are really good. Having...

That was fast. I passed the judging test for tumbling levels 1-7 about a month ago, & I'm already slated to judge a meet this weekend. EEEeeeeeeek.

I just got my test results and I passed! Wow, does that really mean I'm a judge??? :p Now I have figure out what I can do with it (I'm not really looking to do anything in DDs gym). I guess the Level 7/8 exam is next ... My goal is to one day judge at a meet that Dunno's attending, so he...

The compulsory season is, for the most part, over. And with it, I have a few entertaining stories to share with the CB community from a judge’s perspective. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Story 1: A six year old is...

Hello, I am a 13 year old gymnast from the UK. I have a persistant leg injury (I've had it for almost 6 months o.O) and we haven't even got a diagnosis in this time, making me a little down as I can't run or do any stretches involving my leg (splits, pike fold, etc). Today I was at a local...

She qualified! The meet started very rough. They were first on beam and the warm up lasted all of 1 min. She was able to do her series (cartwheel/cartwheel) once before competing. She fell on her series and her full turn. She was in tears which in turn made me cry too. Soo hard to watch...

GOOD LUCK to all the girls competing this weekend. No matter the judges score, YOU ARE ALL 10s!!

Hello all, I just started studying for the level 9 women's judging test, so I wanted to see if any of you wonderful people had videos of you/your daughter's level 9 routines. If they have the score, that's great, but even if they don't, it's good practice for me. If you have videos you want to...

Has anyone ever been to this meet? Right now our gym is deciding on 3 different states to do a big meet in. This one is scheduled for January 6th - 8th and wondering if anyone has ever done it and if so what are your opinions?

:confused: Not sure if this is the right place to post this and I'm sure the moderators will move it if needed but in our region they just posted a workshop called Judging Gymnastics 101. It happens in about a months time and cost $50. its goes from 9am - 5:30 pm. i have been told by coaches...

Hey all, I'm interested in becoming a judge for multiple reasons, however after doing extensive research, I noticed that region 1 currently has no scheduled accreditation for California. I would like to get accredited before or very shortly after the next accredidation year starts. My questions...

Hi everyone, I have a few questions regarding the process involved in becoming a judge. 1) On the USAG website, there are no listed locations for the Judge's Accreditation test, all sites listed are on the east side of the nation. Does the testing, like the Regional Congresses, sweep through...

I am a beginner judge, with my first competition next weekend. I would just like some advice about judging glide swings. In steps 1 to 4 (like levels 1 to 4), the bar routine contains two or three glide swings on the low bar. Can other judges, or coaches, tell me what a good glide swing...

I've heard this often enough. Our coaches say it all the time. But I often wondered the validity. More often than not, I see the best gymnasts in a team be the last to compete. And I have heard that judges typically hold back giving high scores at the beginning of the meet. Is there truth...

This question/issue is multi-facetted. First... can someone evaluate the start value of this routine for Level 8 Floor routine. Execution in leaps was passable for 180* on both leaps, deduction for amplitude I'm sure. -Front Tuck r/o Back Tuck (A, A; two salto SR) (also two of three...

I attended a WAG level 1 judging course today. I now feel overloaded, overwhelmed and totally inadequate. I really sucked at all the examples on the course. It all went too quickly and I missed half of the deductions. Everyone else seemed to know what they were doing. I'm feeling like I may...

As a Judge I often wonder about chalk lines on the runway as they are not really capable of being fully removed without a vaccume or water. Then this weekend with my parents hat on I experienced my child having issues with unremoved chalk marks. The rule states that the marks must be removed...

At my DD's out of state meet this weekend she presented to the judges the way she always has: on vault track, on floor, on springboard for bars and on side of beam for beam. When we went to watch another level and saw that they made the girls on floor get off the floor and present then go to...