Lausanne (SUI), June 2018 Response to written correspondence sent to the Technical Committee The FIG Acrobatic Technical Committee will only respond to written correspondence (requests, proposals, letters, new elements, etc.) that have been sent by an affiliated Federation or Continental Union. Corrections to the Tables of Difficulty effective from 1 st January 2019 Page 71 Box 11 & 12: both base positions will receive the SAME value 15v 9 10 11 12 Page 58 please change the wording from: The difficulty of the top in these different positions depends on the value of the left column holds. The value of these holds you can find in the bubbles pg 60-63. To: 12 12 15 15 The difficulty of the top in these different positions depends on the value of the left column holds. The value of these holds can be found on pg 60-63. Page 79 Please change the box as indicated below to 1v. (This has been done as this element is one of the optional elements in the 11-16 Age Group rules and did not have a value in the TOD). Front Salto Finish Position 1 / 4 A 1 2 3 4 1 1
Page 21 Please delete box 5 on page 21 as they are already present on page 20 box 12 7 5 4 Page 70 WG Balance Category 5. Please remove the base positions from boxes D11 and D12 as they are already present in A9 and A10. 11 12 22 24 Page 23: Please add the following coordinates to the positions on page 23 as they are part of D in table 19 2
Page 24 Please add the following base position into box 3-2 6 3 6 Clarification The flag position below should be added to box D on page 12 D Clarification please add the following top positions to the point of support positions at the top of page 67. Clarification please replace in the general rules the deep Mexican position legs closed by the deep Mexican open legs page 7, box +2 Clarification In Men s pairs, when the base performs the motion as indicated below (page 22), the total value for the motion of the base is 6v plus the value of the top. It is NOT 3v + 6v + 3v for the motion of the base. Without stop 10 360 O + 6 3
Clarification In the 11-16 compulsory element table for women s group balance (see below) the pictures do not display the middle partner s position. So, this is optional and has no impact on the DV of the element. The gymnasts MUST perform what they declare on the tariff sheet so they must indicate what position the middle base will be performing. V ALUE 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 Box 1 Box 2 Box 3 Box 4 Power ROW III Clarification Please change the value of the following motion of the top on page 63 Tab. 9 When you go from E A Gp1 : 6 Gp2 : 7 Gp3 : 6 8 Gp4 : 9 The value for Gp 3 should be changed from 6 to 8 4
Tariff sheets online system TC Acro checked and analyzed the tariff sheets produced by «Acro Companion». The version of the programme available respects the rules in force and may be used in official competitions. Promotion of ACRO by social media: When something happens in the World of Acro, we absolutely want to hear about it. We'll do articles for the FIG website. We'll work with you to arrange interviews. We'll share the news on Facebook and Twitter. Sending us news of honours gymnasts receive, of cool things they're doing when they aren't in the gym, their special projects, anything unusual would be excellent. Please contact the FIG media department at: mediafig@fig-gymnastics.org Acrobatics on the FIG YouTube channel: The FIG will publish on the YouTube channel highlights from the 2018 World Championships from around 16 th July. 5
Acrobatics on the Olympic Channel Please take a look at the Olympic Channel where there is great coverage of the World Championships with more than four hours of video footage at the Championships. Use the link below to access this fantastic programme: https://goo.gl/7v1xep Calendar of Acrobatic Events 1) Extra Judges course: 6-9 June 2018, Lausanne 2) Irtyshskiye Zory International competition, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, 25-27 June 2018 3) Zolotov Cup: Veliky Novgorod, Russia, 12-17 September 4) Youth Olympic Games, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 6 18 October 2018 5) World Cup Baku, Azerbaijan, 17-18 November Rosy Taeymans President Acrobatic Gymnastics Technical Committee Karl Wharton Secretary 6