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• Giants with arm bend greater than 90° will not be recognized (CWG 2022)

• Russian giant must be inlocated "over the top" for recognition (Worlds 2022)

• Connection:

  • Connecting elements must be within the 10 counting elements.

  • Can connect Adler to flight for bonus

  • D or higher Adler + D flight = +0.1

  • D or higher Adler + E or higher flight = +0.2

• Only 2 Kovacs style elements are permitted

• Only 2 Tkatchev or Piatti-style elements are permitted

• Three of the same style flight elements are only permitted if one is directly connected to another release

  • E.g. Kolman then later in routine Kovacs + Gaylord II

  • E.g. Tkatchev straight + Tkatchev then later in routine Liukin

  • E.g. Tkatchev + Gienger and later Tkatchev straight and later Piatti

• “Regrasping Tkatchev ½ or Yamawaki ½ elements without sufficient turning and continuing to handstand (or directly connecting to a release element) will receive no value.”

• Straight Tkatchev will be recognized as Piked Tkatchev if performed with body bend >45° when the feet pass over the bar (FIG examples) (Newsletter #2)

• “Flight elements always receive value if a distinct hang phase is shown before the gymnast falls.”

• Piatti style elements from the stoop circle (feet on the bar) are not permitted

  • Piattis from Stalders and free hips are still permitted

• Rybalko or Piatti from Stalder with legs together are not permitted

• All Endo, Stalder, Weiler, and Kip elements with turn are divided up in two elements except for Stalder Rybalko (e.g. Endo + 1/1 turn to El-Grip = B + C)

• Endos, Stalders, Weilers, and Adlers must pass over the bar to be recognized.

• Endo in el-grip through handstand. (Element III.93): For the recognition of this element the gymnast must start the element in el-grip handstand and must go over the top of the bar in el-grip at the end of the element.

• Removed principles regarding upgrades in values for turning elements

• Steineman (B) followed by a simple stoop exit must be followed by a Stalder (B) for no angle deduction. If not followed by a Stalder, it will be evaluated as an attempted Koste (C) with angle deductions (Worlds 2022) (FIG examples from Newsletter #3)

• Removed previous rules about breaking up elements when a grip change occurs. (Most are separated now.)

• Removed: “The element has the same value and identification number whether it crosses the bar or not, as long as the amplitude stipulations have been met.”

• FIG Shorthand symbols added or modified for: III.33, III.57, III.100

• “A cast, consisting in a maximum of three swings, is permitted in order to begin an exercise without deduction.  Additional swings will be deducted 0.3.” Each movement forward, each movement backward, and the cast are each counted as a swing. FIG video clarifying what constitutes movement (Newsletter #2)

• If a gymnast mounts with a back-uprise to support followed by a free-hip (or other movement) they will receive -0.3 deduction for reversal of direction (FIG examples) (Newsletter #3)

  • Support is defined as arms above 45°

  • No deduction if no support is shown during the swing rearward​

• For all Adler elements, it is NOT required to enter from a handstand (Newsletter #39)

• Endo may come from a hang as a mount or after release (Worlds 2022)

• Removed small and large deductions for entry angle deviations for Endos, Stalders & Weilers

  • Now -0.3 for any entry angle deviation regardless of severity

• Deduction for elements not continuing in the intended direction is now -0.3 (not -0.5)

• -0.1 deduction for additional grip change (additional or intermediate hand support) including: (Newsletter #2)

  • Zou Li Min or Adler 1/1 to mixed grip followed by immediate grip change to undergrip​

  • Endo, Kip, or Back uprise with overgrip followed by two consecutive grip changes to undergrip (deduct -0.1 for second grip change) (FIG examples video)

  • Hand slide before Adler elements (Worlds 2022)

• Clarification of Quast & Rybalko expectations:

  • Visible hop and fluid turn, not turning on the supporting arm

• One angle deduction table for elements to and through handstand including any kind of turns.

  • 0° - 15° =  No deduction

  • >15° - 30°  = 0.1

  • >30° – 60° = 0.3

  • >60° – 90° = 0.5

  • Below horizontal = 0.5 & Non recognition

• Stalders and Endos with legs together should have legs horizontal when passing under the bar for no deduction (Worlds 2022) 

  • Legs not horizontal = -0.1 deduction

  • Legs vertical/near vertical = -0.3 deduction​

• Steineman (B) followed by a simple stoop exit must be followed by a Stalder (B) for no angle deduction. If not followed by a Stalder, it will be evaluated as an attempted Koste (C) with angle deductions (Worlds 2022)

• Removed: “Elements with turns must show the turns as an integral part of the element being performed and the turn must be initiated on the way up.”

• Bent knees during swing actions

  • < 60° = 0.1​

  • > 60° = 0.3

• To my knowledge, the exact angle for the -0.1 or -0.3 deductions for arm bend on regrasping after flight elements  has never been defined.

  • Please contact me if you know where this exists.​