The floor is a
common apparatus for men and women. It is a 12 meters x 12 meters sprung floor
with an additional one meter border of security. Sprung floor have often spring,
like this gymnast can bounce more. They are cover by a wooden floor, a foam and
a carpet.
Women
They do
a lot of different movement which include dance movements, tumbling,
acrobatic elements, jumps, spins… Gymnast have to do their movement with a
music. For a gymnast in club they sometimes have a impose music and a impose
movement. After, professional gymnast and gymnast who make individual
competition have their own music and movement. Gymnast have to create it and
have to be in coordination with the music, professional have their own choreographer
who make their movement. The music and
the movement have to be expressed and have to show the gymnast’s personality,
style and flair. The movement last between 60 and 90 seconds. The specific
things for the music is that it can have no words in it.
Men
The floor it is quite different from the
women. It is an exercise which includes skills in tumbling, balance, strength
and flexibility. It is a sequences of different elements but in contrary of the
women they do not have music. In club they also have impose movement and for
individual competition they can do their own movement.
For both each movement contain about three or four
diagonal. In one diagonal the gymnast make one or more difficulties. The movement
have to be chain. The originality of the movement is the key of a well done
movement. Their movement can include salto forward, sideways, backwords, twist,
jump, backflip, connection between two elements…
Gymnast can lose some point if they fall on the floor, or
if they have an imbalance, if they go out of the spring floor, if they forgot
their movement…
One of the biggest name of floor gymnast can be for
example Catalina Ponor from Roumania. At the JO she was first in 2004 and
second in 2012 in floor exercise. For the men we can name Zou Kai, it was first
at the JO in 2008 and 2012.
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| Catalina Ponor |
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| Zou Kai |
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