I'm a mom of two kids, my oldest being almost four and in rec gym. I was reading something the other day that was saying McKayla Maroney's amanar vault (the current hardest) will not be enough to get her to the next Olympics, as girls are already creeping up on passing the difficulty of that skill. This is the pattern in all of the other apparatuses, that the skills keep getting tougher and tougher every year.
I'm wondering, where will the skill difficulty necessarily have to plateau, having reached the limits of physics? Where do you think that limit is? If my kids stay in gym and ended up elite one day, what on earth will they be doing by then? It can't just be about how dangerous a skill can be, because FIG already "bans" skills that are too dangerous, like the Korbut flip.
Do you think, instead, that they will begin to change the other rules of the sport (like age limits, time limits, etc) to keep the entertainment factor fresh, or do you think we will simply reach that physical limitation and just try to make each execution as perfect as possible?
I'm wondering, where will the skill difficulty necessarily have to plateau, having reached the limits of physics? Where do you think that limit is? If my kids stay in gym and ended up elite one day, what on earth will they be doing by then? It can't just be about how dangerous a skill can be, because FIG already "bans" skills that are too dangerous, like the Korbut flip.
Do you think, instead, that they will begin to change the other rules of the sport (like age limits, time limits, etc) to keep the entertainment factor fresh, or do you think we will simply reach that physical limitation and just try to make each execution as perfect as possible?