The idea is that you have to pass the range and conditioning bit to pass the grade. It should ensure that only gymnasts with good basics get to the top. After all you can 'chuck' skills but it is difficult to 'chuck' handstand work with blind changes on a bench and get away with it. LOL. Does it work? I think it helps. With the new insistence on 180 splits in jumps it can only be good. I think some of the powerful fast twitch tumblers find it very difficult. Conversely it can be possible to be really really good at the range routines and not really shine on anything else. We have range routines for most of our grades from aged 7 through to espoirs aged 12-14. Only the higher club grade set don't do them (12-9) and I think they should.
There are no range sets competed with the voluntary competitions only the grades which are held once a year. There are lots of things Im not sure about with our complicated system but the range and conditioning I like.
I think it is a great idea from what I know about it and what I have seen. It looks like a really positive thing for gymnast and coaches alike in order to be able to compete at a high level you must have to strength and flexibility to insure that as a gymnast you are physically able to compete the skills you are competing. I wish the US did the same; I have seen tons of girls in level 10 that cant do a 180 leap or split jump and don't have any flexibility in the shoulders as well. And from personal experience about 3 people from my old gym can actually do a press to handstand without it being luck. So I think that it would be a great thing to implement into the american system. I think it would have the progression of levels greatly.
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