Gymnastics Floor Regulations

Bare feet or gymnastics shoes i e beam shoes are recommended.

Gymnastics floor regulations.

The entire exercise is evaluated regardless of overtime. Levels 1 5 may use a manufactured junior vaulting board. The sport has its roots in greece during the strength and agility components of the early olympic games. The competition area is set up as a large square and gymnasts are required to execute routines that take them across the entire floor exercise mat staying within the marked boundaries while they tumble flip leap spin and dance.

Timing begins with the first movement of the gymnast and stops with the final movement of the gymnast. Gymnasts ages gymnasts ages will be the age reached in the year of competition. All levels may also use a manufactured mat shaped like a springboard mount trainer mount mat. Timing of the exercise the maximum time limit is.

Usa gymnastics is the national governing body ngb for the sport of gymnastics in the united states consistent with the ted stevens olympic amateur sports act the bylaws of the united states olympic committee and the international gymnastics federation. In the sport of elite or professional gymnastics athletes are challenged to perform routines on several unique apparatuses being scored by a panel of judges athletes can either compete as a team or an individual and the athlete with the highest score is the victor. No shoes are allowed on the gym floor. After a fall a gymnast has 30 seconds to remount the apparatus and continue her routine.

Since a perfect score is 10 and not generally achieved by any but the most spectacular of floor artists there s a lot of room for a gymnast to achieve or lose points. The floor exercise is an olympic gymnastics event that both men and women compete in. Competition year is 1st january 2013 31st december 2013 membership all gymnasts mus. Gymnastics leotard or biketards only.

The rules of gymnastics. No skirted or dance leotards buckles. Socks and tights are unsafe in the gym because they are slippery on the apparatus equipment mats and hard floors therefore they are not allowed. Technical faults like bent knees or poor body position receive deductions of 0 1 to 0 2.

Gymnastics rules are very specific about floor work elements that must be done a certain way otherwise points or a percentage of a point must be deducted. One minute 15 seconds 1 15 for level 6. One minute 30 seconds 1 30 for levels 7 8 9 and 10. The height of the board is measured from the floor to the highest point of the board including the covering.