Yorkshire Gymnastics
Association Ltd
All The Yorkshire sections
Below you will get a glance of each section in Yorkshire and how they came about and what is happening to this day.
Men's Atistic
Men's Artistic info
General Gymnastics
General gymnastics offer low level competitions for gymnasts that aren't able to follow an artistic pathway. The GG competitions levels are based on how many hours the gymnast spends in the gym weekly-
Introductory: up to 1hr a week
Intermediate: up to 2hrs a week
Advanced: up to 4hrs a week
Advanced+: train 4 hrs+ a week
Champions: this level is for gymnasts that are winning the Adv+ category and want another challenge.
The competitions we offer are Girls Floor & Vault, Boys Floor & Vault, Girls 3pc/4pc apparatus, Girls apparatus Xmas team, Girls 4pc (Novice, Novice+, Crystal & Diamond).
Girls compete 8 skills on floor which coaches will pick for the gymnasts from various skills on the criteria list. There's 5 compulsory components forward/backward/sideways/leap or jump/ strength or flexibility, then any 3 extra to make it up to 8 skills.
Boys competitions are very similar but they compete 10 skills on floor which coaches will pick for the gymnasts from a skills criteria list.
There's 5 compulsory components forward/backward/sideways/leap or jump/ strength or flexibility, then coaches can choose any 5 extra to make it up to the 10 skills.
Gymnasts will also compete vault with various choices to pick from to suit the gymnasts ability. They will perform 2 vaults (same or different) and the highest score will be picked from the two performed.
Girls on bars do a 4 skills routine picked from skills on the criteria list. On them beam the gymnasts do a 6 skill routine from skills on the criteria list, 4 of the skills need to come from 4 different categories.
Extra information on these competition can be found on the general gymnastics website and gymnast eligibility to enter the competitions can be found in the General gymnastics handbook.
Rhythmic
Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which gymnasts perform on a floor with an apparatus: hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon and rope. The sport combines elements of gymnastics, dance and ballet; gymnasts must be strong, flexible, agile, dexterous and coordinated. Rhythmic gymnastics is governed by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), which first recognized it as a sport in 1963. It became an Olympic sport in 1984, with an individual all-around event. The group all-around competition was added to the Olympics in 1996. At the international level, rhythmic gymnastics is a women-only sport but within the UK there is a small growing community of boys joining the sport at a local level which Yorkshire is proud to support and advocate. Gymnasts are judged on their artistry, execution of skills, and difficulty of skills, for which they gain points. They perform leaps, balances, and rotations along with handling the apparatus
Team Gym
Teamgym began in Scandinavia then came to Great Britain in the 1990’s.
Full teams of between 6 to 12 members, perform on floor, tumble track and trampette. More recently, micro teams of 3, 4 or 5 gymnasts perform on tumble and trampette only. Teams can be women, men or mixed. If mixed, teams should have equal numbers of each gender in full teams and on each run on tumble and trampette. In micro teams, there can be odd numbers, but each gender should be represented in each run.
On floor, full teams perform different shapes, show balances, acrobatic moves, sequences of moves showing synchronisation in a routine lasting no more than 2 min 45 secs. On tumble there are three runs by six gymnasts, one forwards, one backwards and one which can be mixed. A different six can perform in each run. On trampette, one run must be on trampette, one has to be over a vault with the third being optional. A different six can perform in each run. All this to music.
Currently our competitions are from level 6 to level 2, with level 1 being international level. Yorkshire Teamgym are planning a low level (6, 5 and 4) in early 2024. At low levels, coaches from other disciples can coach and enter teams. The rules for these competitions can be downloaded from BG and the moves which coaches may teach with qualifications in other disciples are explained.
There is a British modified code (downloadable) to make some levels easier than UEG rules and also a disability code. There are disability and integrated teams.
Sports Acrobatic & Tumbling
Sport’s Acrobatics consist of
Women’s pair - 2 girls
Mixed pair - 1 boy 1 girl
Men’s pair - 2 boys
Trio - 3 girls
Men’s 4 - 4 boys
They perform either a 2 minute routine or 2.30 minutes depends on the level.
Tumbling is either 2 runs or 3 runs made up of a different about of elements again this depends on the level.
Trampoline & DMT
Everyone dreams of flying. Trampoline Gymnastics takes you about as close to flying, without the need for a motor. Seen as a reflection of man's desire to defy gravity, early civilisations devised various methods of sending a person into the air, such as using outstretched animal skins to throw them up and safely catch them on their descent. Circuses have used a number of methods to propel performers into the air for a variety of somersaults, but it was not until George Nissen invented the trampoline, that the sport took off.
Trampoline Gymnastics is a relative newcomer to the gymnastic family but has a very rich and proud tradition in the UK. It is a spectacular sport that can see a world-class trampolinist reach heights of 10 metres whilst performing multiple somersaults and twists.
As well as being a sport in its own right, Trampoline Gymnastics is widely recognised as a training tool for many other gymnastic disciplines and sports such as diving and freestyle skiing. Trampoline Gymnastics embodies courage and elegance. The sport requires precise technique and perfect body control, leaving with very little margin for error.
Trampoline Gymnastics in the UK encompasses two very distinct categories of competition; Trampoline (individual or synchronised) and Double Mini Trampoline (DMT).
Trampoline:
A typical competition routine on the trampoline is characterised by high, continuous rhythmic feet to feet, to back, front or seat rotational jumping elements, without hesitation or intermediate straight bounces between two elements.
In a synchronised competition, a pair of gymnasts can consist of two women or two men. Pairs must do the same element at the same time and must start facing the same direction.
A typical trampoline competition is made up of three routines/rounds: compulsory (a combination of free and compulsory elements), voluntary (free elements of the gymnast’s own choosing) and the final voluntary round. Each routine is made up of 10 skills and must start and finish on the feet.
Double Mini Trampoline:
The DMT is like two mini tramps that have been joined in the middle. The first section of the apparatus is set at a slight angle and called the mount. From the mount, skills are performed onto the second section of the apparatus. This second section is called the spotter and is where skills can be performed back onto the tramp bed or as a dismount onto the landing mat.
Double Mini Trampoline can be likened to a combination of Athletics, Trampolining and Gymnastics. Competitors sprint down a carpeted track and hurdle onto the apparatus before performing double and triple somersaults with the same precision required on a trampoline. The only difference is that gymnasts have to land on a trampoline bed less than a quarter the size of a trampoline, before performing a dismount on to a landing mat.
In DMT competitions there are four passes, two in the preliminary round and then two in the final round. Each pass consists of one skill performed as either a mount or a spotter, followed by a dismount skill making two skills per pass.