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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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Gymnastics
Thomas
Sports; Gymnastics
(1) A floor exercise tumbling skill named after Kurt Thomas. It consists of a 1 ½ salto backward in a tucked or piked position with 1 ½ twists rated as a “D.” (2) A floor exercise tumbling skill ...
Thomas Flairs
Sports; Gymnastics
A pommel horse skill named after Kurt Thomas. It is a circling skill with alternating straddled lifted legs rated as a “B” level difficulty skill.
Tkatchev
Sports; Gymnastics
A release move named after Russian gymnast Alexander Tkatchev performed on uneven or high bar from a handstand to a giant swing down releasing to a backward straddle release over the bar to regrasp.
Tour jeté
Sports; Gymnastics
A ballet and gymnastics jump with a half-turn and switch split action of the legs taking off one foot and landing on the other the other.
Tsukahara
Sports; Gymnastics
A men’s or women’s vault named after Japanese gymnast, Mitsuo Tzukahara. It consists of a ¼ or ½ on to a back salto off the vault table.
Head in
Sports; Gymnastics
This is a body position in gymnastics, usually in a handstand, during tumbling or during a giant, where the gymnast’s head is down, with their chin tucked in on their chest or close to it. This is ...
Head out
Sports; Gymnastics
A gymnast’s head is up and their chin is tilted back. This automatically causes an arch in the back, which is a weak body position. There are very few skills in gymnastics and virtually none on bars ...
