Kvehmane posted this link on the IG Forum – it’s a link to a French website which has diagrams and videos of almost all of the moves in the Code of Points. I’m amazed at how much effort someone (or some people) have put into doing this.

It’s pretty straight forward despite being in French. Click into the piece you want to look at – Bars, Floor, Beam and Vault. If there is a video for the move, there will be a small but noticeable Film Strip to the side of the diagram.

Click through to explore here.

After the conclusion of the World Championships on Sunday, we posted about the fact that both Aliya Mustafina and Tatiana Nabieva’s Vaults in the Vault Event Finals were devalued and also both girls incurred a 0.1 penalty. Gymnastics Coaching kindly linked to our post and this began a discussion in the comments on his website.

The numerous comments concluded that the vaults were downgraded as they were in a piked position as opposed to gaining full marks for proper layout position:

Jason:

In terms of the devalue of the 2 russians 2nd vault there is a piked version of this vault in the elite code of points #5.23 for a 5.7 start value. If you watch both vaults you can see that it is a pike position more then 50% of the vault.

Stephanie:

The vaults were piked down. In order to get full credit they should stay in a layout position. Also, Nabieva’s 2.5, didn’t make it all the way around, thus it was devalued to a DTY. In order to get credit for a 2.5, the whole body (feet to chest) must be facing forward, and she’s not.

You can review this for yourself in the video of the 2 girls vaults here.

Secondly, the comments explained that the girls received a 0.1 penalty for landing close to the corridor markings. You can see in the below  from the Code of Points and Ricks Screen shots why this was applied.

or from the revised May edition of the WAG CoP Helpdesk…

Nabieva’s second vault

Mustafina’s landing on her second vault

Rick also poses the question – should Alicia Sacramone also be penalised?

Thanks to all for your time and effort explaining to those who were confused.

In March this year FIG created the WAG Help Desk, a PDF document to help clarify & give examples of different rules in the FIG WAG Code of Points. A new revised May 2010 edition has just been released. Visit the FIG website to download it and to view it follow these instructions.

• Go to the FIG Website
• Click on Women’s Artistic Gymnastics on the left
• Click on “Judges”

FIG have created a “Help Desk” to help clarify & give examples of different rules in the FIG WAG Code of Points.

This document called Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Help Desk has the intention to clarify and give examples of the different rules of the FIG WAG Code of Points.

The goal of WTC is to reduce different interpretations of the rules, therefore provide a more objective work of the judges.

To have a look at the document,

• Go to the FIG Website
• Click on Women’s Artistic Gymnastics on the left
• Click on the “Judges Help Desk”

Or Download the document here. I think it’s very good, take a look and see what you think.