While this was a great routine, she received quite a high execution score. I want to see if the score I get on this routine matches up with what she received. The score she received was:
Score: 14.400 (D-Score 6.2, E-Score 8.200)
D-Score: 6.2
My Execution Score:
-0.1 Flexed Feet on Stalder
-0.1 Flexed Feet on Inbar
-0.3 Bent Arms on Komova 1
-0.1 Leg Separation on Komova 1
-0.1 Knee Bend on Komova 1
-0.1 Back Arch on Pak Salto
-0.1 Slight Grip Adjustment
-0.1 Flexed Feet on Inbar
-0.1 Leg Sep. on Van Leeuween
-0.3 Bent Arms on Van Leeuween
-0.1 Flexed Feet on Inbar
-0.1 Elbow Bend on Jaeger
-0.3 Leg Separation on Full Twisting Double
-0.2 Steps back
E-Score: 7.9
Score: 14.1
Analysis:
This was among the biggest deductions I saw in the routine. She was coming out of the Komova 1, and you can see here that her arms are bent on the catch. They are closer to an L-Shaped than a locked-out position, so I took a 0.3 deduction off here. Deductions for elbow bend can range from 0.1-0.3, and as this is more severely bent, I took 0.3.
Here you can see that her legs are further than shoulder width apart, so that will incur a 0.3 deduction instead of the 0.1. In addition, you can see a slight knee bend on the swing back here, and so that will also incur a 0.1 deduction. Here you can see how locked out her arms are, which is exactly how you want to catch every release move. That is in comparison to the elbow bend from above.
Here you can see a slight arch in the back on the Pak Salto. When performing a pak Salto, you want to have a pencil-straight body like you can see with the red line on the left. You can see she has a slight curve in the body shape, which will incur a 0.1 deduction. However, you can notice how her legs are glued together here, which is something that is very difficult to do and done very well. Compare that to the leg separation in the picture above. This is the perfect position for legs together we want to see on every single skill.
You can see here there is a less severe, but still present bend in the elbows. This will only incur a 0.1 deduction, as it is less severe than the previous picture with more of an elbow bend.
Something she does very nicely on her pirouettes is getting them to handstand. This image is directly after a pirouette, and her toes are up to the ceiling with no room for deduction. This is a very hard thing to do, as it requires a lot of core strength and discipline. Very nice work here.
This is a 0.3 deduction for leg separation because her feet are wider apart than her shoulders. If the feet are not as wide apart as the shoulders, the deduction is only a 0.1.
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Here you can see she takes two steps backwards instead of just one. They are both small steps, so they are both only 0.1 off. If the step was wider than shoulder length apart, it is 0.3 off per step. However, since they are smaller than that, they are only 0.1. To avoid an extra deduction for stepping back to salute, the gymnast can move their back foot to meet their front foot to avoid it looking like another step. However, it appeared as though she needed to take another step back as she had too much backwards momentum going.
This routine was absolutely beautiful and has a lot of wonderful work in it. She had such a wonderful senior debut and I can't wait to see where her career goes. This routine was still overscored by about 0.3 but was lovely and very well deserving of a good score.