Knowra Artistic gymnastics Artistic gymnastics Artistic gymnastics is a competitive discipline in which athletes perform acrobatic and choreographed routines on apparatus. Men and women compete on different apparatus, with floor exercise and vault shared.
Code of Points (artistic gymnastics) : The rulebook that defines difficulty values, execution deductions, and competition procedures in artistic gymnastics. It determines how each routine’s difficulty and execution become a score.
Floor exercise : A gymnastics event in which athletes perform tumbling, leaps, turns, and choreography on a spring floor. It combines acrobatics with choreographed movement and musical interpretation.
Gymnastics all-around : A gymnastics competition that combines an athlete’s scores across multiple apparatus. Artistic gymnasts can win individual titles through combined apparatus scores.
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn : A German educator who promoted organized physical training and helped popularize gymnastics in the early nineteenth century. His movement influenced the development of organized apparatus gymnastics.
Rhythmic gymnastics : A gymnastics discipline combining dance, flexibility, and apparatus manipulation, traditionally performed with hand apparatus. It emphasizes continuous dance and apparatus handling rather than artistic gymnastics’ fixed apparatus events.
Gymnastics apparatus : Specialized equipment used for competitive gymnastics exercises. Each apparatus sets the routine’s physical demands and permitted skills.
Vault (gymnastics) : A gymnastics event in which an athlete runs, springs from a board, and performs an aerial skill over a vaulting table. A brief approach and flight make speed, height, and landing central.
Gymnastics team competition : A competition in which gymnasts’ apparatus scores contribute to a national or club team total. Individual routines also determine collective results at major meets.
International Gymnastics Federation : The international governing body for gymnastics, founded in 1881 as the European Gymnastics Federation. It standardizes rules and organizes major international artistic competitions.
Trampoline gymnastics : A gymnastics discipline in which athletes perform aerial skills on a trampoline. It centers on repeated vertical rebounds rather than routines on artistic apparatus.
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