Gymnastics

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of various exercises on several different apparatus, mainly uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise and vault for women. While men compete in floor exercises, vault, pommel horse, string rings, parallel bars and high bar.

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white

Sports; Gymnastics

An uneven bar skill named after Morgan White. It consists of a front stalder into an L-grip to handstand with ½ turn in handstand. It has been rated by the FIG as a D level skill and its FIG number ...

zero

Sports; Gymnastics

which is the score you get if you do not compete in a gymnastics event or do something which voids your score, like not touching the vault table with your hands when you vault.

10.0

Sports; Gymnastics

The highest possible and most desired routine score for gymnasts to achieve on a single routine. In the past and perhaps in the future, at least for men’s gymnastics, scores may exceed 10.0 if they ...

acro

Sports; Gymnastics

Term referring to tumbling skill on beam or floor exercise, used most commonly when describing combination dance-acro requirements.

acrobatics

Sports; Gymnastics

A gymnastics term for control skills requiring balance, strength, and/or flexibility. Sometimes called corner skills in men’s gymnastics. For women, it includes some of the slower, more controlled ...

active stretching

Sports; Gymnastics

The practice of having a relaxed limb moved beyond its normal range of motion with the assistance of a partner. Another method of active flexibility is using high kicks of the leg. This is the type ...

chow

Sports; Gymnastics

An uneven bar skill named after Amy Chow. It is a Stalder backwards to a handstand on the high bar with 1 and ½ turns in the handstand to a mixed-L grip. It has been rated by the FIG as an E level ...