MAG El-grip credit

[ZJsMom]

I'm hoping there's someone on here with enough MAG code knowledge to resolve this for me. My DS is going to add a Higgins Roll to his routine. He does the Higgins roll swings around to handstand and does a hop grip change to reverse grip continuing to a front giant. He thinks that to get credit for an el-grip giant he needs to go around again and he's struggling with that. I don't see why after he's gone around post Higgins and hit handstand again, he hasn't completed an el-grip giant at that point. Can someone settle this debate?

 

[skschlag]

I will be interested in this too. D was working this pre-injury. D said that all he had to do was get it back to handstand and it counted, but who knows..

 

[krc]

The rules for FIG and JO are different on this one. First, the Higgins turn is in the long hang group. In JO, the "hop out" is given an A (JO exception) in the dorsal/cubital group and therefore fulfills the EG requirement. In FIG, the "hop out"is not an element and in order to get group credit the gymnast would need to do a complete el-grip/invert giant. In sort; for JO, Higgins, swing through the bottom and hop to undergrip (or hop to piro) = credit. In FIG you must complete an additional 360deg in eagle. I hope that's clear

KRC