Banned gymnastics skills

Banned gymnastic skills are gymnastics moves which gymnasts are prohibited to perform, mostly due to safety concerns for the performing athletes.

Artistic gymnastics

Women

Official regulation from the International Gymnastics Federation states in its Code of Points for Women, Section 14 Table of elements:

The following elements are prohibited:

• Vault – vaults with sideward take-off or landing.
• Vault – vaults with double saltos (forward and backward)
• Uneven bars – salto & dismount with take-off from two feet.
• Balance beam – dance elements with cross sit landing on balance beam.
• Floor exercise – acrobatic elements with sideward take off and/or landing into roll.

Specific gymnastics skills that are no longer allowed include:

• Korbut flip – this element requires standing on the bars, which is no longer allowed
• Thomas salto – as with other saltos that end in a roll on the floor, this is no longer allowed after injuries, particularly the paralysis of Elena Mukhina

The following gymnastics skills have a reduced score due to safety concerns:

• the Biles (balance beam dismount)

Men

The Code of Points for Men's Artistic Gymnastics states that the following are not allowed:

• Vault – salto in the first flight phase
• Vault – straddled legs in the second flight phase
• Saltos landing into roll or a jump to a prone position
• One and a half salto elements ending with landing and springing from the hands
• Strength hold elements with straddled legs, except where listed as approved elements
• Roundoff skills with a quarter turn to land facing forward

A series of skills are also prohibited for junior athletes.

Tumbling

Quadruple tumbling, for youth athletes

See also

• Code of Points (artistic gymnastics)