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In acrobatic gymnastics, there are different levels based on the difficulty and skills involved. The levels typically include beginners being level 2-4, intermediates being level 5-10, and Elites being level 11-19. Levels 2-4 focuses on basic skills and routines. It includes foundational elements like balances, dynamic skills, and choreography.
If she does not return to the beam within this time limit, she cannot continue. [5] Under FIG rules, the maximum allowed time for a balance beam routine is 1:30 minutes. [5] The routine is timed on the scoreboard timer, visible to gymnasts and judges. In addition, a warning tone or bell is sounded at 1:20 into the exercise. [5]
In USAG levels 1–5, everyone in the same level performs the same compulsory routine. In levels 1-3, the gymnasts stay only on the low bar. Once the gymnast reaches level 4, she uses both the low and high bars. In levels 6 through elite, gymnasts and coaches make up their own routines within specific requirements using both bars.
Simone Biles submitted a new skill on the uneven bars for evaluation at the Paris Olympics. She currently has five skills named after her in the Code of Points.
Gymnasts perform routines ranging from 70 to 90 seconds long, consisting of leaps, acrobatic skills, turns, and dance elements on a padded spring beam. Apparatus norms set by the FIG specify that the beam must be 125 cm (4 ft) high, 500 cm (16 ft) long, and 10 cm (3.9 in) wide. [26] The event requires balance, flexibility, and strength.
Alexandra Georgiana Eremia (born 19 February 1987) is a Romanian former artistic gymnast. [1] Her best apparatus was the balance beam on which she had an interesting routine starting with her trademark split mount.
Her routine, typically a 6.500 difficulty, had been stripped down to a 6.100. With a 7.9 in execution, she couldn’t overcome the easier routine on the scoreboard.
At the 1995 World Championships in Sabae, she showed an increased level of difficulty on all events, including a double-twisting Yurchenko vault, a double layout on floor exercise and beam routine highlighted by a dynamic two-foot layout and blind double stag leaps. Her team won the silver medal for China in the team competition, their highest ...