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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Turnout

Sports; Gymnastics

In gymnastics and ballet, a rotation of the leg which comes from the hips, causing the knee and foot to turn outward, away from the centre of the body. This allows for greater extension of the leg, ...

Twist

Sports; Gymnastics

Not to be confused with a salto, a twist occurs when the gymnast rotates around the body's longitudinal axis, defined by the spine.

Twisting degrees

Sports; Gymnastics

Fractions and degrees are used in order to describe twisting movements. A ½ twist is a 180-degree twist, a full (1/1) twist is a 360 degree twist. A 1& ½ twist is 540 degrees of twist. A double twist ...

Underswing

Sports; Gymnastics

A release move from the high bar to the low bar. It starts on the on high bar facing low bar. The gymnast swings up and over the low bar with a half turn to a catch of the low bar. Also called a ...

Uneven bars

Sports; Gymnastics

(1) A women’s gymnastics apparatus consisting of two fibreglass composite bars - a low bar 148 centimetres high and a high bar 228 centimetres high and set a maximum of 150 centimetres apart. (2) A ...

Vault

Sports; Gymnastics

An event performed over the vaulting horse by both men and women. The gymnast races down a runway, vaults from a springboard onto the horse, landing with the hands, and then vaults off to a standing ...

Vault table

Sports; Gymnastics

The vault table is the new vaulting apparatus for both men and women. The new vault table is designed to be safer by offering a wider and longer top surface to provide a better margin of error for ...