Banned gymnastics skills

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 :

The following gymnastics skills have reduced score due to safety concerns :

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:

  • salto in the first flight phase[6]: 103 
  • straddled legs in the second flight phase[6]: 103 

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

  1. ^ International Gymnastics Federation. "2022–2024 Code of Points: Women's Artistic Gymnastics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-05-12.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b c "10 Gymnastics Skills From The Past That Aren't Performed Anymore - FloGymnastics". www.flogymnastics.com. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
  4. ^ Armour, Nancy. "Opinion: Simone Biles penalized for having skills other gymnasts can't pull off". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Grandi, Bruno; Gueisbuhler, André F.; Kunze, Horst (2017-11-01). "Tumbling". FIG Code of Points - Trampoline Gymnastics (PDF). Vol. 2017–2020. p. 19.