The Difference in the Gymnasts’ Points of View of the Difficulty Score for Jumps in Competitive Aerobic Gymnastics

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to reveal the underlying inconsistency of the difficulty element of jump performance in competative aerobic gymnastics. Aerobic gymnastics have diverted a lot of jump elements from men & women’s artistic gymnastics but athletes are going competitions having different sense of the rules. Especially, there are many differences in jump elements difficulty scores and if athletes want to score higher marks, their jumps would be same. Not only judge but also the International Gymnastics Federation(FIG) do not desire this situation and it is not appropriate difficulty limitation for juniors. It would be possible to develop short and long term in scoring competitive sports by having interviews with FIG technical committee. Rule suitability and training methods are very important for performance enhancement and this study would help these subjects.