Yes and likewise

Enjoy your commentary! Thanks. And yes, gymnastics is great!

And thank you for the support!

:) Yup, we do everything. There's big money in running competitions, especially at the Dev/age group level. Cram as many gymnasts into the meet as possible, maximize the income, keep the judges judging nonstop for efficiency's sake. I'm not commenting on NCAA as it's against the rules.

I’d love to see technology used more like this (and for replays the judges could request).

Absolutely this should be resolved. Happened once at an NCAA regional meet where I was meet ref. We delayed the meet an hour til the sun set.

and the middle scores were in range, I couldn't call a conference.

Finally, we as judges are well aware that athletes, parents, coaches, fans all want high scores and think we are idiots. We're not. We're human.

It's hard to be perfect. I wish we could use video review when we give feedback. I'd like to have been able to call a conference and reviewed a routine for example where the athlete hit her feet on the low bar (0.2 flat deduction). 2 judges caught it, 2 didn't. But since it was execution,

But most of my mistakes are shorthand failures. I'm keeping my head up, I'm writing down the skill plus any deduction plus trying so hard to notate why I took a deduction--coaches are demanding this when they ask for feedback. But when my shorthand and handwriting are sloppy--

"One hand washes the other." You cannot wash a hand with one hand, just like it takes a team to judge a gymnastics performance--if one of us misses something, the others should catch it.

Plus, despite decades of judging, my shorthand is still sloppy just like my handwriting is. I keep trying!

And I LOVE judging on 4-judge panels: it is so much more "fair" to the athletes as long as there are well-prepared judges.

And I always make some mistakes when I'm judging as do other judges. We beat ourselves up when we do that--we are such perfectionists. But as an old professor said,