Tuck

In a tuck, the gymnast pulls the knees in to the chest with the hips and knees bent. The 2025–2028 men’s Code of Points defines a perfect tuck as one in which the hips are strongly bent and the bent knees brought to the chest, with at least a 90° bend at both hips and knees.

Because it’s the most compact shape, a tuck rotates fastest — which is why a new salto is usually learned tucked first, and why the hardest multiple saltos are often tucked. The triple-twisting double tuck (the Biles II) is the highest-valued skill on women’s floor, at J.

Tucked skills are often worth less than piked or stretched versions of the same skill — a tucked Kovacs on horizontal bar is a D, a piked one an E — but not always. Judges expect the shape to be tight and distinct: an “insufficient exactness of tuck or pike position” is an execution deduction.