Parents L7 falls and deductions

[Natasha]

Ahhh, L7 beam.

Basic routine for many is BWO-BWO, and isolated BHS elsewhere in the routine. Up side is that the BWO-BWO is easier. Down side is that many judges are stingy with awarding the connection. Some judges will disallow credit for the BHS (which counts as the required acro flight, whether done in the series or in isolation) if at least one foot don't hit the beam.

Most common upgrade is to put the BHS in the series. It's almost always BWO-BHS rather than the other way around. If the kid does the BWO and connects to BHS, I think even if she falls on the BHS, she still gets credit for the series.

Here's the fun thing! With BWO-BHS, she can repeat the series if she misses the connection and falls. With BWO-BWO, if the gymnast misses the connection and falls on the second BWO, she should NOT repeat because that will make for too many BWOs in the routine and incur another deduction for that.

This is where it gets tricky. There actually is not a deduction for doing a 3rd BWO, it is simply that the third time a skill is competed it does not count for credit, so the gymnast would not fulfill the SR of a series. So the problem with BWO-BWO, is that even if you just wobble in between, you can't get the series credit. Some gymnasts will train a back up of a handstand-BWO as a back up if they do not have a BHS in the series.

 

[profmom]

Thanks for the clarification -- yes, that's it exactly. A BWO followed by a fall and then an attempt to repeat the series results in three BWOs. The third does not get credit, thereby invalidating the series and tanking the SV.