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Floor Exercise

Floor exercise is the floor apparatus in artistic gymnastics. On a sprung floor area, tumbling lines, jumps, strength/hold elements and, for women, choreographic passages are judged by difficulty and execution.

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Classification

Category Gymnastics sport

Family Gymnastics Family

Level Variant

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Floor apparatus in artistic gymnastics with tumbling, body tension and judging.

Geeignet für Suitable for people who like strength, mobility, acrobatics and clear technique progression.

Cost Medium: club/coach and mat access matter more than own equipment. Club fee, training, competition attire and possible event/travel costs. Gymnastics club, artistic gymnastics group, university sport or adult gymnastics with coach. Build acrobatics progressively; no flips without coach and mats.

First progress Basics in weeks; competition-like routines take long practice.

Fitness level medium to high

Was du brauchst

sprung floor
mats
coach
gymnastics clothes
warm-up
progressions

First steps

find gymnastics club
learn rolls and handstand
practise landings
train body tension
build first short sequence

Gymnastics club, artistic gymnastics hall, university sport or FIG/national federation material.

Train only with mats, coaching/spotting, warm-up and progressive elements.

Weitere Angaben

Aliases Floor Gymnastics, Bodenturnen

Tags individual, einzeln, floor-exercise, artistic-gymnastics, apparatus, judging, gymnastics-sport, floor-exercise-artistic-gymnastics

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Perform a legal floor routine with high difficulty and clean execution.

Teilnehmer

Individual gymnasts; team scoring may aggregate individual routines.

Teamgröße

Individual.

Spielfeld

Sprung floor area in artistic gymnastics.

Dauer

Routine duration by MAG/WAG code and competition.

Wertung

Difficulty/execution scoring with deductions under Code of Points.

Gewinnbedingung

Highest score after routine/rounds.

Ausrüstung

floor area
mats
gymnastics clothing
chalk as needed

Wichtige Regelpunkte

fall
out of bounds
time violation
form/landing deduction

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

World Gymnastics (FIG)
World Gymnastics (FIG)

Mens Artistic - Apparatus World Gymnastics · official · high
Womens Artistic - Presentation World Gymnastics · official · high
MAG Code of Points 2025-2028 World Gymnastics · rulebook · high