What are the precautionary measures in doing stunts for gymnastics?
Almost all gymnasts use a soft landing mat and a coach’s aid while first learning a skill. The landing mats can be anything from an eight inch mat to an in-ground resilite mat or in-ground foam pits. As for the coach, a spot is normally given in the beginning and/or ending of the skill. However, the different measures taken are unique to each event. On vault, gymnasts usually use a pile of soft mats in place of the table before taking the skill to an actual vault. After this, the safest step is to use an actual vaulting table, but flip the skill into a foam pit. Next, the gymnast can flip into a soft landing mat, and then once the skill is more consistent, can flip onto a harder 8 inch mat. On bars, new skills are normally trained over or into a foam pit. It is also common to put a sting mat over the low bar when learning release moves, which are skills that transition from the high bar to the low bar. On beam, most try to land the skill on a straight line representing the beam. Then,
