What's the deduction for

[cbone]

not doing the tippy-toe straight-arm robot walk at meets? I ask that sort of tongue-in-cheek (with all of the deduction threads lately), but I do have a real question. Have any of your daughters abandoned that goofy walk? My daughter used to do it but in the middle of one meet as her team was walking away from presenting themselves at the judges' table I saw her body language change. It was almost a "Forget this!" posture and she just started walking normally and continues to do so now. She has very straight posture, but gone are the silly walks that used to be such a crack-up to see.

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[gymtigermom]

Our team in general doesn't do the walk. Some teams around here do and some girls on our team will but usually it is younger girls that have seen another team do it. Our optional coach actually tells the girls she wants them to run off the floor after their routine because she wants them to show that they still have energy left after their final tumbling pass.

[sglemon]

We had a judge deduct .2 points once for the girls who did not walk out with their feet turned out, and stand in first position to start.. My ballerina scored .2 higher then all the other floor routines at that meet.

[cbone]

I didn't even know that was required. LOL!

[Danica76]

I don't think it's required, but there is a general artistry deduction. Not exactly sure what the "up to x tenths" is. I suppose.a judge could take it for that if they wanted to. Our team does not do the robot walk, but they are encouraged to stand like gymnasts and present with purpose. And all our compulsory kids start floor in first position.

[krisnkids]

Actually from what I have heard from team coaches is that they are not supposed to tippy toe walk, but walk with pointy toes, straightening the knee when all the way out. Not on tippy or the balls of their feet. Start in first position.

[gymkat]

Just get to your starting position, and sooner rather than later...

[Quadqueen]

our team does not do any kind of fancy walk My DD always points out the girls on other teams who do though, thinking it's odd. As long as it's not over the top, I think it looks kind of nice, but DD's team isn't instructed to walk any particular way (except for neatly and quickly).

[Quadqueen]

We had a judge deduct .2 points once for the girls who did not walk out with their feet turned out, and stand in first position to start.. My ballerina scored .2 higher then all the other floor routines at that meet.

They took a deduction before the routine even started?

[gymkat]

No judge would deduct for how a gymnast walks to get into her starting pose. (Although you could take a t for not starting in first position, but that certainly would not be .2.)