Thanks to Jessica Price of the Gymternet and the fans of the Gymanstics Wiki for their invaluable resources! Amanar Read on for some of the most interestingly-named common gymnastics moves, helpfully illustrated with gifs. If you want to watch gymnastics with a truly critical eye, it helps to study up-you’ve got to know the point tiers, and be able to spot flaws in routines that are basically imperceptible to a mere mortal.īut if you just want to be able to toss off a worldly “woah, did you see that sick Produnova,” you can just use this guide. Essentially, she flips twice with her body fully extended, then twists around and lands without looking at the ground (a “blind landing”). Thus, American champ Simone Biles has given us the “Biles”-a double layout with a half-twist. In gymnastics, the first person to pull off a new move during a World Championships gets to christen it with their own name, and it is forever known as such in the International Gymnastics Federation’s Code of Points. Brutal. (When I asked fans on Twitter to tell me their favorites, they seemed more excited to spontaneously invent new ones.)īut some of that slang refers to straight-up moves. Gabby Douglas doesn’t get to compete in the individual all-arounds, despite scoring higher than most of the people who did? She got 2-per-country’d. Spend time with them, even just on Twitter, and you get the sense that anything that happens out in the stadium can be summed up using some arcane series of hyphenated words. Like most fans, gymnastics-heads speak in a dense tangle of slang. (Photo: Agência Brasil Fotografias/CC BY 2.0) Simone Biles, mid-move, during the August 9th team competition.
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