Scovone Star Magazine 2014-2015 | Page 68

GYMNASTICS GAVIN J. OLYMPIC EVENTS Gymnastics is a good sport it just like ballet. Tiey both have pointed toes you wan’t strong legs in both you wear leotards in both. And the Olympics is probably the hardest thing to do in gymnastics like can you imagine in front of judges. And in front of millions of people your stomach would probably be turning. VAULT There is a variety of tricks on Vault each Vault is evaluated  to standards of difficulty some of the moves on vault are. A hand stand flat back is where you spring off the spring board into a hand stand then fall flat on your back another move is called a dive roll. A dive roll is where you dive off the spring board then when your hands touch the mat do a roll. Vault has been in the Olympics since 1952 in the Olympics you would always want a fast pace when you are getting ready for the spring board. You also wan’t strong arms you also want to be a high level otherwise you wont do good trick’s that will give you points like if you’re  level 3 I would see hand stand flat backs , forward rolls , and fail flips . The Vault was originally a pommel horse with handles then the handles got 63 THIS IS A PICTURE OF A GYMNASTICS VAULT removed. The womens and the mens vault was the same a spring board infront of a pommel horse but then, it changed the fig changed.The womens vault in 2001 from a pommel horse to a widened with a curved front side. For the gymnasts safty, the womens vault is placed sideways instead of length ways .                                 BARS I would always do the parallel bars because they help your upper body strength and the uneven parallel bars help your arm muscles the high bar / horizontal bar also helps your arm muscles to do bars you always want strong hand muscles and strong arm SPORTS