Gymnastics Explained
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New to artistic gymnastics? These pages give you the essential orientation before you dig into individual apparatus, skills or scoring detail.
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Artistic Gymnastics Explained: A Beginner's Guide
Artistic gymnastics is a judged sport in which gymnasts perform routines on different apparatus, scored on both difficulty and execution.
Gymnastics Myths: Ten Common Misunderstandings Explained
From 'there's still a perfect 10' to 'a fall means zero', these are ten of the most common misunderstandings about how artistic gymnastics actually works.
Men's vs Women's Artistic Gymnastics: Apparatus and Format Compared
WAG and MAG share vault and floor exercise but are otherwise different disciplines: WAG adds uneven bars and balance beam, MAG adds pommel horse, still rings, parallel bars and horizontal bar.
Women's Artistic Gymnastics
Vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise.
Men's Artistic Gymnastics
Floor, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars and horizontal bar.
How gymnastics scoring works
Difficulty, execution and neutral deductions, explained without jargon.