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Floor Exercise - Artistic Gymnastics
The floor is an event for both, male and
female gymnasts.
One of the differences between male and femal floor
events is, that women are allowed
to perform their skills with background
music and men have to do their floor exercise
without music. The floor is a square of 12 x 12 meters whichconsits
of several layers of
foam, plywood and / or sometimes springs.
This allows the gymnast to
jump higher and reduces the impact when he lands.
Find tutorials for floor techniques at gymnastics main.
Technical description: Floor Exercise - Artistic Gymnastics
- Dimesions & technical info:
The floor is a 12 x 12 meter square plus a safety border, in case a tumbling sequence goes too far.
The floor is made of following layers ( starting from the bottom ) :
- Foam blocks or springs
- Plywood
- Carpeted hard foam or hard foam plus a carpet.
- This provides a firm surface which responds with force when it is compressed and allows the gymnasts to jump higher.
Additional these layers reduce the impact ( protect joints ) when you land.
- Rules & Skills:
The gymnast has to touch each corner once. Usually a floor exercise consists of 3 to 4 tumbling passes, circles, scales
and presses. Women also include dance elements.
Mens floor exercises: 60 to 70 seconds without music
Womens floor exercises: 70 to 90 seonds with music
( only instrumental - no voices allowed )
- Deductions:
Points are taken away from your total score if you step outside the 12 x 12 m floor into the safety area,
if a tumbling sequence doesn't end in a stuck landing ( stuck landing = landing on both feet without an extra step )
if you fall or make a mistakes,for bad form, if your exercise is too
long or too short, etc.
Trainer advice: Floor Exercise - Artistic Gymnastics
- When you practice tumbling sequences, you can put landing mats on the floor to make the landings even softer.
- To learn new stuff you don't need the entire 12 x 12 m floor. 12 to 15 x 2 m are totally enough to practice all your sequences.
Tumbling skills can also be practiced on an tumbl trak ( tumbl trak = long trampoline made for tumbling sequences
- like a street )
- Tumbling = a sequence of acrobatic flips in one line. Example: Run + Roundoff + Back Handspring + Back Fip.
- Alternatives to the gymnastics floor.
- Tumbling Mats: Special bouncy mats made for tumbling. ( bouncy & protective but quite expensive )
- Judo mats - Swallow the impact which leads to lower jumps. But the protect quite well.
- Grass: Only practice on dry grass with shoes on.
- Beach or Beach Volleyball Sand: Only practice without shoes. A bit worse than judo mats,
The landing impact is reduced quite well.
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