WAG compulsory music

[raenndrops]

Is it that one? Or this?

This one!

 

[raenndrops]

lol this?

No, the one before that. That was the "new" choice introduced half way thru the last cycle.

 

[azara]

I didn't think the compulsory music could be worse than ours, but upon reflection, Australia has made some pretty decent choices.

Here's the one I hear all the time in the gym...pretty sure I know this routine and music well enough by now that I could do it with my eyes closed!

 

[3rd_time_around]

No, the one before that. That was the "new" choice introduced half way thru the last cycle.

Oh. My. Gosh. I remember hearing this and thinking how happy I was that our gym kept the 1st one, as bad as it was. All the new choices at the 4 year mark were so dreary, I actually felt annoyed and depressed listening to it at meets. Level 4 was terrible and so dreary. The funniest thing was parents defending their gym's choice in using this "scary movie basement" music when I would ask them how they could stand it. Oh, the reasons they gave! It was always a relief when my dd's level 4 team would get up and use the original happy music.

 

[3rd_time_around]

I didn't think the compulsory music could be worse than ours, but upon reflection, Australia has made some pretty decent choices.

Here's the one I hear all the time in the gym...pretty sure I know this routine and music well enough by now that I could do it with my eyes closed!

The music is really cool, but the routine is a little boring. It reminds me of the elite compulsory routines. Our routines were made much "dancier" this cycle.

 

[raenndrops]

Oh. My. Gosh. I remember hearing this and thinking how happy I was that our gym kept the 1st one, as bad as it was. All the new choices at the 4 year mark were so dreary, I actually felt annoyed and depressed listening to it at meets. Level 4 was terrible and so dreary. The funniest thing was parents defending their gym's choice in using this "scary movie basement" music when I would ask them how they could stand it. Oh, the reasons they gave! It was always a relief when my dd's level 4 team would get up and use the original happy music.

I agree. We kept the old music too. I was so happy. Eventually, we did make the switch though

 

[Jard.the.gymnast]

Here are our compulsory Floor routines:




And we are just like the boys, we have bonusses so not every routine with the same music is absolutely the same. (We have 16 levels who use music)

 

[profmom]

As bad as the stripper music was -- and this is coming from someone whose daughter did two years of old L5 -- at least it was musically coherent. The current iteration of L4 sounds like it was written by a fractious committee.

Jard, most of yours seems perfectly inoffensive, but I gotta say that listening to Doe a Deer 45-50 times over the course of three hours might give me brain damage.

 

[Vivianflips]

I started gymnastics right when the new levels came out in 2013. I have the level 4 floor routine and music permenantely stuck in my head because I practiced at the same time as the level 4s for 3 years! If I ever forget it it, it will be a miracle.

 

[Deleted member 18037]

Heck, I would even be willing to go back to the old L6 stripper music, lol.

There was stripper music

 

[Deleted member 18037]

. Pretty much me at meets

I love that very bad movie lol

 

[raenndrops]

There was stripper music

The Level 5 music from 2010.

 

[mariposa]

There was stripper music

Well, there was this part where they rolled around on the floor and the music kinda sounded like stripper music. Lol.

 

[sce]

Okay, yes I hear it in that music. Also, can't imagine hearing that one over and over. Wow on that kid's performance though!

 

[azara]

I can kinda hear it as well.

I remember in Year 9 my school had a dance unit. They got a local dance teacher to choreograph a routine. The problem was that what she had choreographed was seriously...racy. Very stripper-esque music as well. People christened the moves some saucy (but accurate!) names, which I won't repeat here in case some of your children are reading Needless to say, I think I got a D in that unit. A wooden statue could have done better than me.

What's interesting about that Level 5 routine is that although the music is quite loose and swing-y, the choreography is very rigid. The Dutch are known for their artistic expression, and I would say that @Jard.the.gymnast 's examples reflect that better at lower levels, as well.

 

[Deleted member 18037]

Very glad not to have sat through that. Yep sounds like there should be clothes flying.

Although the coregraphy seems easier to hit.

 

[mommyof1]

At my kid's first gym preteam practiced at the same time as team. I remember the old L6 routine having stripper music with kicks choreographed to the boom-CHICK! boom-CHICK! But maybe I am mistaken and that was L5?

We just finished wish the renaissance faire music, which according to my estimate we heard approximately 1,632 times at meets, and are now looking forward to hearing the taco truck music at least 714 times this season. My daughter jokes about trying to skip L5 so we only have to hear the clown horror movie music once.

 

[mommyof1]

stripper music with kicks choreographed to the boom-CHICK! boom-CHICK! But maybe I am mistaken and that was L5?

Nope, definitely L5. One kick, near the end.

 

[UnoMas]

Ah, the stripper music...good times. I am starting all over in compulsories this year with my youngest in level 4. Sigh. It's just not fair!

 

[3rd_time_around]

I can kinda hear it as well.

I remember in Year 9 my school had a dance unit. They got a local dance teacher to choreograph a routine. The problem was that what she had choreographed was seriously...racy. Very stripper-esque music as well. People christened the moves some saucy (but accurate!) names, which I won't repeat here in case some of your children are reading Needless to say, I think I got a D in that unit. A wooden statue could have done better than me.

What's interesting about that Level 5 routine is that although the music is quite loose and swing-y, the choreography is very rigid. The Dutch are known for their artistic expression, and I would say that @Jard.the.gymnast 's examples reflect that better at lower levels, as well.

The problem in American compulsories is that even though the routine starts out flowing and dance-y when it is new and taught to the coaches, it morphs into almost a soldier-like quality. This old routine was not supposed to be rigid, but by year 8 is was like March of the Wooden Soldiers. The new routines were made to incorporate more dance and be more graceful, and there is supposed to be a deduction for performing it rigidly. But, alas, even these very dance-y compulsory routines have again evolved into rigid, unexpressive routines.