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Does anyone know why the decision to ban it? Was it a move that had a relatively higher injury rate compared to other high difficulty moves?
by dangom 3y ago
Does anyone know why the decision to ban it? Was it a move that had a relatively higher injury rate compared to other high difficulty moves?
- sailorganymede 3y agoIt would be far more dangerous to do nowadays because the bars are further apart - source: best friend is a gymnast
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoWhy would that make it more dangerous?
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoPretty much everything you'll read online says that it was because of the high risk of injury, but in my opinion that's only a small part of the story. Not denying that risk was part of it, but it was the first move where a gymnast stood on the bar. I think a lot of gymnastics folks felt that it disrupted the overall flow of the routine, and it basically just wasn't what uneven bar routines were supposed to be about. Things like this happen from time-to-time in gymnastics: someone finds something that is a bit "outside the lines", and then it gets banned. E.g. several years ago a gymnast did a floor routine wearing "cat-like" makeup (Maybe her music was from Cats? Can't remember) and then subsequently the FIG banned "theatrical makeup" in routines.