Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a fun and exciting sport that provides children with the opportunity to explore how their bodies move, work independently and collaboratively, and develop creativity through performance. It’s a great way to develop physical literacy by improving fundamental movement skills and fitness.

Gymnastic events offer children the opportunity to develop confidence, showcase their learned abilities and increase their teamwork skills, overall contributing to their physical and personal development and creating happier and healthier lifestyles.

Primary formats

Rise: Explore Festival

Get a taste of Rise Gymnastics through the Explore Festival. With eight activity cards covering the fundamental movement patterns, this is a fun and exciting way for children to get an introduction to gymnastics in a low-pressure and supportive environment. Each activity is a fun-filled challenge for children to show off their skills, work collaboratively, and support each other whilst developing their physical literacy. You can include every challenge or pick and choose which ones suit your cohort best; it is a fully inclusive and exhilarating way to explore gymnastics.

Rise Competitions

British Gymnastics believes competitions should be safe, full of fun and positivity, providing the opportunity for every child to amaze themselves. The Rise Gymnastics Competition format replaces Key Steps, which now centres around the positive experience of a participant. Rise Gymnastics Competitions demonstrate a holistic approach which rewards all participants no matter their experience or ability.

The new competition format provides a wide range of competition strands to choose from and offers the choice of four different ability levels within each strand:

• Core skills: floor routine
• Small apparatus choice of: ball, hoop, rope or ribbon routines
• Large apparatus choice of: bench, vault or bar routine
• Working together: pairs or small group routine

Gymnasts are rewarded points for each skill they perform. The positive scoring system allows gymnasts to celebrate their individual performance. The score given to the routine correlates to a bronze, silver, or gold award band, allowing the gymnast to receive an award based on their performance alone, rather than against fellow competitors.

Secondary format

For assistance with our secondary format, please contact [email protected].

Equipment needed

• Matted area, sprung or non-sprung (maximum 12mx12m)
• Balls
• Hoops
• Ribbons
• Ropes
• Cones or coloured spots
• Bench (maximum 2.67m)
• Vault/raised area (60cm, 80cm or 100cm)
• Landing mats