This the only footage I’ve found from the Men’s Qualifying Meet this past weekend, but there’s some good stuff in it. It’s about a 9-minute compliation of many highlights from the meet, including some routines from the top two all-arounders, Jesse Silverstein and Danell Leyva. Thanks to Ono No Komachi, who posted the link on Gymnastics Coaching.com.
In case you don’t want to sift through the entire thing, here’s a few parts you’ll want to catch:
- Leyva’s marathon high bar routine at 0:42
- Leyva’s so-so floor routine at 2:42
- Silverstein’s clean p-bar routine at 6:25
- Leyva’s triple Yamawaki sequence at 7:00
- Silverstein’s high bar + floor routines at 7:33
2010 USA Men’s Qualifier Highlights
So apparently Leyva’s routine wasn’t truly worth a 7.5, as there were some special “bonus rules” in place at this meet (as USAG often does at national competitions). Let’s look at his true start value, which is calculated below:
Takamoto full + (D) 0.4
Yamawaki (D) 0.4
CV 0.2
Laid out Kovacs (E) 0.5
Liukin (F) 0.6
Takamoto half + (D) 0.4
Laid out Tcatchev (D) 0.4
CV 0.2
Jam hop to overgrip (D) 0.4
Full turn to elgrip (C) 0.3
Endo full to mixed grip (C) 0.3
Laid out double-double (E) 0.5
Total difficulty points 4.6
Element Groups 2.5
Total D-Score 7.1
I’m assuming he must have gotten 0.4 in bonus from this competition, which brought it up to a 7.5. Anyone calculate anything different for this routine? This is still without a doubt one of the most difficult routines in the world, and if he gets rid of a couple of those deductions (giants after a couple of the release skills, the mistake on the jam hop that I’m sure wasn’t supposed to go to overgrip, and the dismount), he could be looking at a world medal for sure
HB routines over 6.8 or over got 0.3, so the SV he was assigned at the competition would have been 7.2. I’m not enough of a code expert to figure out why your calculation was different.
The bonus rules are on the very last page of this document:
http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/PDFs/Men/Mens%20Program%20Events/10_qualifier_techpacket.pdf
This will also be used at the Visa Championship.