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- Jan 25, 2013
Hey, just wondering if anyone else watching artistic gymnastics?
I've decided to give it a go to make time pass quicker before the FS season starts. I must confess that the last time I watched was in the era of Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci (hmm it does make me old does it? Okay I was at school then, not too ancient ) I watched last night the women TQ and it was a massive shock, basically the only thing vaguely reminiscent of the old times were the apparatuses themselves and even those were hugely modernised since. Technically, what these girls do is from another universe, and yet I felt that nobody could touch Nadia Comaneci in elegance, grace & perfection of lines & movement...sigh...
And another thing I have to tell you, after last night you'll never catch me complaining about scoring in FS, never!
What a mess the gymnastics! You watch a performance, then before you get a chance to see a score they move on to the next one ,then back to the score (often in the middle of that new routine) the score then disappears from the screen with a speed of light before you could spot a D or E score (you see I've learnt a bit!), you are lucky if you manage to register the total before it all moves back to the current routine. Then it slow downs massively and the viewer left watching for ages the gymnasts changing the socks and other items and very very closely... Wow, with a nostalgia I was thinking of our wonderful sport when you watch one skater to perform then waiting with them for a score, then have time to digest it and then and only then move to the next one. A bliss, and I am ready for the season to start as never before
I've decided to give it a go to make time pass quicker before the FS season starts. I must confess that the last time I watched was in the era of Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci (hmm it does make me old does it? Okay I was at school then, not too ancient ) I watched last night the women TQ and it was a massive shock, basically the only thing vaguely reminiscent of the old times were the apparatuses themselves and even those were hugely modernised since. Technically, what these girls do is from another universe, and yet I felt that nobody could touch Nadia Comaneci in elegance, grace & perfection of lines & movement...sigh...
And another thing I have to tell you, after last night you'll never catch me complaining about scoring in FS, never!
What a mess the gymnastics! You watch a performance, then before you get a chance to see a score they move on to the next one ,then back to the score (often in the middle of that new routine) the score then disappears from the screen with a speed of light before you could spot a D or E score (you see I've learnt a bit!), you are lucky if you manage to register the total before it all moves back to the current routine. Then it slow downs massively and the viewer left watching for ages the gymnasts changing the socks and other items and very very closely... Wow, with a nostalgia I was thinking of our wonderful sport when you watch one skater to perform then waiting with them for a score, then have time to digest it and then and only then move to the next one. A bliss, and I am ready for the season to start as never before