Lowest Score ever?!

[gymgymgymnast08]

haha thats funny!!!!

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Wow, girls are spoiled.

Here in NC, we have one boys' judge by the name of Robert Burdreaux, who is known for his ability to see a bent knee through a pommel horse. He's the Chuck Norris of judging; there is no chin under Robert Burdreaux's beard, there is only another eye.

Anyway I've seen state meets where kids would take first on pommel horse or p-bars (the events Rob usually judges) with less than a 4.0.

The boys' JO rules do not allow the judges to give any score lower than a 1.0. I've gotten a 1.0 on several occasions from Rob.

[Juni]

How on earth do you get a 1.9 (or 1.4)?

Lowest score I got was a 5.0 on bars in lvl 5-I missed both kips and fell on the squat on.

Lowest score I have ever seen someone get was a 3.0

[gracefulone]

^^ The toughest judge was on bars, first of all. The girls struggles with kips( but is fantastic on all other events). She missed each of the three kips, and casted below horizontal, and fell on her squaton.

[I-Heart-Beam]

4.8 on vault . Balked the first attempt, and on the second had no heel drive off the springboard and underrotated horribly.... bad day lol.

I did get a 4.5 for a vault but that totally wasn't my fault- fire alarm went off when I was about a metre from the springboard . Luckily they let me have a second attempt!

[cocosmom]

I'm the Mom of a level 6. All I can say is that after looking at the rule book and the lists of deductions, I don't know how anybody actually ends up with ant points at all on bars! And for all of you with low scores, just remember - no matter how horribe or how great your score is on a given day - there is ALWAYS someone worse and always someone better! Its all about if you can look your coach in the eye on Monday 'cause you did your best. DD's lowest btw was 6.1 on bars.

[GymMom68]

1's and 4's? Seriously if kids are getting scores like that, they obviously have no business doing that level. What is the point of that? Other than embarrassing the kids I have no idea why the coaches would put the kids through that. I can't imagine it's all that fun to go to a meet and get a 1 or a 4. If my kid was getting a 1 or a 4, I'd change gyms, the coaches clearly don't have a clue.

[gymgymgymnast08]

well when you are in level 4 and little you don't really know what good scores are and bad scores are. I don't remember being upset when I got a 4.7 on beam. I was like 8 years old and It was my first year competing so I had no idea. If the coaches don't make a big deal of it the kids won't either. No one in optional levels scores like that. The coaches would flip out at us. But when you are little and just glad you are competing... who cares what you score as long as you did your best? even now when im a level 8. I don't care what I score as long as I know that I pushed myself the hardest I could and did what I no how to do

[Flippin_Gymnast]

my lowest score was a 6.85 on bars and level 4

[GymMom68]

I'm not talking about the kids, I'm tallking about the coaches. It's wrong to send kids out there to get those kinds of scores and I see too much of that kind of stuff at meets. A '1' at level 6 bars? Come on, that's just plain ridiculous, she obviously had no business doing level 6 if she's getting a 1 on bars. I'd take a stab that she probably had no business doing level 5 bars, much less level 6.

And I'm sure it wan't any fun sitting there during awards watching all the kids get medals and knowing darn well you're not even in the hunt.