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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hand guards

Sports; Gymnastics

Also called Grips Designed to help gymnasts on the bars, P-bars and rings. They are usually made up of a strip of leather and a wrist strap and held on with either a Velcro strap or a buckle. The ...

handspring

Sports; Gymnastics

Springing off the hands by putting the weight on the arms and using a strong push from the shoulders; can be done either forward or backward; usually a linking movement.

handspring front

Sports; Gymnastics

A term used to indicate either a tumbling pass or vault involving a handspring and front salto. The handspring front vault is a double front vault with a handspring on the front side and a front ...

port de bras

Sports; Gymnastics

This term literally means carriage of the arms. It refers to the set positions of the arms as well as the manner in which the arms are moved from position to position during gymnastics dance and ...

puck

Sports; Gymnastics

A puck is a slang gymnastics term used to refer to a gymnastics salto body position that is a cross between a pike and a tuck. It can range from a very open tuck position to a pike with bent knees. ...

punch

Sports; Gymnastics

A gymnastics term that refers to bouncing off of the floor, vault board or beam as opposed to jumping. “Punching" refers to an almost perfectly straight leg quick plyometric movement. Punching ...