Gymnastics
Transcript: Competitions are judged on team and individual score. One each event they are judged from 0 to a ten scale. The most points for men is three hundred and two hundred. The most points for women is two hundred. They have six gymnasts on each team and the team with the highest number of points wins. There is also a separate competition and that is the all around title. The gymnast with the highest points win the all around title. What equipment do they use at meets? The international competition has four events for woman and six for men. The men have the rings, parallel bars, side or pommel horse and floor exercise. Those events help the upper body. The woman use the vaulting horse, balance beam, uneven bars and floor exercise. The balance beam has jumps ,leaps and running, walking steps, lying, sitting positions, turns and balancing. There also is rhythmic exercises or free movement. They use large balls, hoops, wands, skip ropes, scarves or indian clubs. Resources How They are Judged? Gymnastics Hughes, Eric. "Gymnastics." Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier online, 2012. web. 12 Sept. 2012 Strauss, Michael. "Gymnastics." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia online, 2012. web. 11 Sept. 2012