Banned gymnastics skills
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Banned gymnastic skills are gymnastics moves which are prohibited to perform, mostly due to safety concerns for the performing athletes.
Artistic gymnastics[edit]
Women[edit]
Official regulation from the International Gymnastics Federation states in its Code of Points for Women, Section 14 Table of elements:[1]: 182
Following elements are prohibited for performance:
- VT – vaults with sideward take-off or landing.
- UB – salto & DMT with take-off from two feet.
- BB – dance elements with cross sit landing on BB.
- FX – acro elements with sideward take off and/or landing into roll.
The following gymnastics skills are banned by at least some gymnastics associations :
- Korbut flip[2][3]
- Thomas salto[3]
- Roll-out[3]
The following gymnastics skills have reduced score due to safety concerns :
- the Biles[4][clarification needed]
- Yurchenko double pike[5]
Men[edit]
For males, the 2022-24 Code of Points Men's Artistic Gymnastics[6] states the vault is invalid if the following moves are done:
Juniors[edit]
A series of skills are also prohibited for juniors athletes.[6]
Tumbling[edit]
Quadruple tumbling, for youth athletes[7]: 23
See also[edit]
Sources[edit]
- "2022–2024 Code of Points: Women's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). Retrieved 2021-08-26.
- "2022–2024 Code of Points: Men's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). Retrieved 2021-08-26.
References[edit]
- ^ International Gymnastics Federation. "2022–2024 Code of Points: Women's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-05-12.
- ^ Walsh, Michael. "The Korbut Flip: The dangerous move today's Olympic gymnasts aren't even allowed to attempt it". nydailynews.com. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
- ^ a b c "10 Gymnastics Skills From The Past That Aren't Performed Anymore - FloGymnastics". www.flogymnastics.com. 4 December 2018. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
- ^ Armour, Nancy. "Opinion: Simone Biles penalized for having skills other gymnasts can't pull off". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
- ^ Macur, Juliet (2021-05-24). "Simone Biles Dials Up the Difficulty, 'Because I Can'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
- ^ a b c d International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). "2022–2024 Code of Points: Men's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-05-12.
- ^ Grandi, Bruno; Gueisbuhler, André F.; Kunze, Horst (2017-11-01). "Tumbling". FIG Code of Points - Trampoline Gymnastics (PDF). Vol. 2017–2020. p. 19.