COMPOSITION OF ROUTINES

Special Requirements

A. Artistic

To meet the artistic requirements, a routine and its choreography must demonstrate creativity and sports specific content. It should also show a variety of movements and a high degree of correlation between the music, movements and the competitors expression.

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For Mixed Pairs, Trios and Groups, three lifts are required in the routine. This may include the opening and ending.

B. Execution

All movements must be performed with perfect execution.

A.      Difficulty

For Individuals, Mixed Pairs,Trios and Groups:

The routine must show a balance between airborne, standing and floor-work difficulty elements.

An element which does not meet a minimum requirement is also counted in the 12 difficulty elements, will receive  0.0 pt value and will not count for the group.

A maximum of 12 difficulty elements must be performed by each competitor. Using only the 12 choosen elements, 2 elements can be combined from the same or different groups, but from different families.

To receive a diificulty value for each group, all the competitors must perform one element from each group without combination.

The difficulty score is the total value of the 12 performed difficulty elements plus the value of all combinations.

All difficulty elements performed must be from different families.

A maximum of 6 difficulty elements on the floor is allowed including landing on the floor in split and in push up position.

A maximum of 2 difficulty elements from Group C are allowed landing in push up position and a maximum of 2 difficulty elements from group C are allowed  landing in split position.

For Mixed Pairs and Trios:

To receive a difficulty value, all competitors must perform the same element at the same time or consecutively, in the same or different directions (except in a lift).

For Groups:

At least one element from each group of the element pool must be included.

In order to receive a difficulty value for these four difficulty elements, all competitors of the group must perform the same element at the same time or consecutively, in the same or different directions (except in a lift).

In order to receive a difficulty value for the remaining difficulty elements, the competitors may perform up to two different difficulty elements at the same time or consecutively. Any combination of competitors may perform these two different difficulty elements. (e.g. 1-5, 2-4, 3-3)

Composition contents

The routine must show a balance between aerobic movement patterns (combinations of high and low movements), and difficulty elements.

Arm and leg patterns must be strong and with a definite shape.

It is essential to show a balanced use of all space, the floor surface, and airborne movements.

Length

The length of the routine is 1 minute and 45 seconds with a tolerance of plus or minus 5 seconds.

Music

The routine must be performed, in its entirety, to music.

Any style of music adapted for Aerobic Gymnastics can be used.

See Appendix I, Guide to judging Artistic pp 8 - 10 (8.2)

Difficulty elements

The routine must include a minimum of one element from each of the following groups of the element pool:

GROUP A Dynamic strength

GROUP B Static strength

GROUP C Jumps and Leaps

GROUP D Balance and Flexibility

A maximum of 12 difficulty elements are allowed.

The difficulty elements of difficulty are optional; however, at International events (Seniors) difficulty elements with the value of 0.1 and 0.2 will not be considered as difficulty elements.

Element pool & values (SEE APPENDIX III)

A. STRUCTURE

The element pool (see Appendix III) is divided into 4 groups. The difficulty level is ranked from 0.1 to 1.0 point.

B. DIFFICULTY ELEMENTS NOT LISTED IN APPENDIX III, ELEMENT POOL & VALUES

The Difficulty Judges are allowed to evaluate difficulty elements not listed in Appendix III, Element Pool & Values judged on sight are limited to  "0.3" value.

C. NEW DIFFICULTY ELEMENTS

Classification of new difficulty elements can ONLY be made by the Aerobic Gymnastics Committee who will evaluate them once per year. Applications must be sent to the FIG Secretariat. They must be received in writing and accompanied by a video before 30th November.

Difficulty elements submitted for evaluation must be filmed from two camera angles - from the front and the side. The difficulty elements must meet the minimum requirements and must be performed on a competition surface or a landing mat no higher than 15 cm. If the above requirements are not met, the Aerobic Gymnastics Committee will refuse to classify the difficulty elements.

Notification of the classification will be given to the applying member federation before 30th March.

The FIG Secretariat will publish the updated Element Pool once per year only.