Skills & Levels

Choose a program and understand your next step.

• Start hereArtistic Gymnastics Moves: A Beginner’s Guide by Event
• Is a Backflip or Frontflip Easier? A Complete Breakdown
• Reading Gymnastics Skill Names: What “Salto” Tells You
• Which is Best for Beginners: Frontflip, Backflip, or Sideflip?
• What Is a Belly Beat in Gymnastics?
• What is the Biles II Move?
• Gymnastics Dismounts: Perfecting the Last Step of Your Routine
• What is a Straddle in Gymnastics?
• The Hardest Apparatus in Gymnastics: Which One Challenges Athletes the Most?
• What Are the 3 Main Types of Splits in Gymnastics?

Explore whole-level guides and grouped apparatus requirements.

Understand the six divisions and how routines are built.

Recognize body shapes, rotations and tumbling combinations.

• Start hereFrom Rolls to Roundoffs: A Beginner’s Guide to Tumbling Skills
• Cartwheel vs. Roundoff: Why the Landing and Next Movement Differ
• Walkover, Handspring or Aerial? How to Tell Gymnastics Skills Apart
• Tuck, Pike and Layout: How to Recognize Gymnastics Body Shapes
• Flip or Twist? How to Tell Gymnastics Rotations Apart
• The Hardest Women’s Floor Skills: Biles II, Moors and the H-Rated Contenders
• How Gymnastics Floor Music Works: Compulsory, Optional and Elite
• Women’s Floor Exercise Explained: Tumbling, Dance and How the Routine Fits Together
• 10 Best Upbeat & Sassy Gymnastics Floor Music Ideas for 2026
• How to Make Your Own Gymnastics Floor Music from Scratch
• Planning a Floor-Music Timeline: Match the Cues to the Routine
• Gymnastics Floor Music Showdown: Best Websites Ranked (2026)
• Compulsory Floor Music for USAG Levels 1–5: Finding and Using the Official Tracks
• Choosing Floor Music for Optional Gymnastics: From Shortlist to Meet Day
• The Pike Position in Gymnastics: Recognizing the Shape Beyond Straight Legs
• What Makes a Gymnastics Skill a Layout? Reading the Stretched Shape
• What Is a Full-Twisting Back Layout? Shape, Rotation and Skill Credit
• Half, Full and Double: How to Read Gymnastics Twist Names
• What Music Adds to Women’s Floor Exercise
• PlannedHow Gymnasts Put a Tumbling Pass Together

  See how gymnasts combine entries, connecting skills and finishes into one tumbling pass.

• PlannedWhy Do Gymnasts Add a Whip Between Flips?

  Recognize a whip salto and understand its place between other tumbling skills.

• PlannedHow to Spot a Double Back and Count Its Twists

  Learn what to watch when a double somersault also includes twists.

Follow the balances, dance, acrobatics and dismounts.

• Start hereBalance Beam Skills: What to Watch from Mount to Dismount
• Dance Skills in Gymnastics: Leaps, Turns and the Movements Between Them
• The Wolf Turn in Gymnastics: What Makes It So Special?
• Beam Mounts Explained: Entry Types, Difficulty and Routine Choices
• Seven Difficult Beam Skills Compared: Mounts, Acrobatics and Dismounts
• PlannedHow to Tell Gymnastics Turns Apart

  Use body position and rotation to recognize turns on beam and floor.

• PlannedWhen Do Two Beam Skills Become a Series?

  Understand what connects two beam skills into a series.

• PlannedFront Aerial, Side Aerial or Side Somersault? Spot the Difference

  Compare direction, body position and hand support to distinguish these beam skills.

Get to know swings, circles, releases and transitions.

• Start hereHow to Follow an Uneven Bars Routine
• How to Recognize Uneven-Bars Transitions
• Tkatchev, Jaeger and Gienger: A Guide to Recognizing Bar Releases
• 7 Basic Uneven Bars Skills for Beginners
• A Comprehensive Guide to Bar Circles in Gymnastics
• Uneven Bars Release Moves: Names, Types and Examples
• The 8 Most Difficult Uneven Bars Skills (2025–2028 Code of Points)
• PlannedWhat Does a Cast Do in a Bars Routine?

  Understand why a gymnast pushes away from the bar before the next skill.

• PlannedHow Gymnasts Swing All the Way Around the Bar

  Recognize giant swings and how they fit into a bars routine.

• PlannedWhat Changes When a Gymnast Changes Grip?

  See how changing hand position changes the movement around a bar.

• PlannedFrom Flyaways to Double Flips: Uneven Bars Dismounts

  Recognize the shapes and rotations used to finish an uneven bars routine.

Start with the entry and compare vault families.

• Start hereGymnastics Vaults: How to Recognize the Names and Families
• The Basics of Gymnastics Vault: How Beginners Get Started
• Tsukahara vs. Yurchenko: How to Recognize the Entry and the Complete Vault
• The Hardest Vaults Ever Performed in Men’s and Women’s Gymnastics
• Yurchenko Double Pike: Simone Biles’ Record-Breaking Vault
• What Makes Biles’ Yurchenko Double Pike Vault So Hard?
• Gymnastics Vault Families: The Five FIG Groups Explained
• PlannedYurchenko Full, Double or Amanar? Watch the Twists

  Count the twists to tell these related Yurchenko vaults apart.

• PlannedCheng vs. Amanar: How to Tell Them Apart

  Compare the entry and flight of the Cheng and Amanar.

Explore men’s levels and learn what to watch on each event.

• Start herePommel Horse for New Fans: Circles, Scissors and Travels
• Start hereStill Rings Skills: Holds, Swings and Dismounts to Recognize
• Start hereHow to Follow a High Bar Routine
• Start hereWhat to Watch in a Parallel Bars Routine
• Learning Circles and Flairs: How Coaches Build Pommel-Horse Progress
• Mushroom vs. Pommel Trainer vs. Full Horse: When to Progress
• Men’s Floor Exercise Explained: Tumbling, Transitions and the 2025–2028 Rules
• Four Core Turning Skills on the Mushroom (Pommel Horse Basics)
• Why Still Rings Demand So Much Strength—and More Than Strength Alone
• Which Gymnastics Event Is the Hardest? (WAG vs. MAG Breakdown)
• Watching Pommel Horse: Circles, Flairs and the Details That Change a Skill
• Reading Difficult Men’s Floor Skills: Five Examples Beyond the Twist Count
• Men’s vs. Women’s Floor Exercise: Key Differences Explained
• Classic Still Rings Positions Explained (Beginner to Advanced)
• Magyar and Sivado Explained: How Pommel-Horse Travels Work
• Uneven Bars vs. High Bar: Equipment, Skills and Routines Compared
• Men’s and Women’s Vault Compared: Height, Skills and Scoring
• Men’s and Women’s Gymnastics Events: What They Share and Why They Differ
• Pommel Horse vs. Rings: How These Men’s Gymnastics Events Differ
• Iron Cross vs. Maltese: Body Position, Difficulty and Training Demands
• PlannedThe High Bar Release Moves Worth Knowing

  Recognize the main high bar release families and what sets them apart.

Follow useful connections across Gymnast Gem.

• Balance Beam Basics: 5 Essential Exercises for New Gymnasts
• The Most Difficult Gymnastics Moves in MAG and WAG (2025–2028 Code)
• The Hardest Gymnastics Routines: Women’s vs. Men’s Events
• Banned Gymnastics Moves: What’s Really Banned, and What Just Disappeared
• Learning to Walk on a Balance Beam: Foot Placement, Pace and Control
• Learning a Kip on Bars: Timing, Drill Purpose and Signs of Progress
• 5 Essential Bar Exercises for Gymnastics Beginners
• How Do Gymnasts Get a Move Named After Them?
• Simone Biles’ Signature Moves and Other Famous Skills Named After Gymnasts
• How Gymnastics Judges Decide Whether a Skill Gets Credit
• Gymnastics and Dance: Which Skills Transfer—and Which Need New Coaching?
• What Is the Thomas Salto, and Why Is It Banned?
• What Is The Dead Loop In Gymnastics And Why Is It Banned?