Women’s Artistic Gymnastics – WAG
Team 5 (Level 3)
Team 4 (Level 3-4)
Team 3 (Level 4-5)
Team 2 (Level 4-6)
Team 1 (Level 6-10)
Artistic Gymnastics is one of the most popular, celebrated and thoroughly modern sports for women, having undergone more transformation than perhaps any other Olympic sport. With a thrilling combination of daring and grace, gymnasts perform challenging elements on four apparatus – Vault, Uneven Bars, Balance Beam and Floor Exercise – with emphasis on agility, artistry, flexibility, power and style.
Though it has much in common with Men’s Gymnastics, Women’s Artistic Gymnastics is distinctly unique and is a showcase for excellence in women’s sport. The apparatus have evolved and the sport transformed by successive generations of gymnasts pushing the limits of physics further, forever following the Olympic creed of Citius, Altius, Fortius (“Faster, Higher, Stronger”) and competing with each other to create new and exciting moves.
Vault is the fastest event and features a gymnast propelling themselves over a vaulting table at full sprint, flipping or twisting back onto the mat. Uneven bars involves gymnasts performing swinging elements around two asymmetric bars, frequently releasing the bar and recatching it, while Balance Beam involves tumbling, acrobatics, choreography and dance elements on a narrow beam only 10 cm wide. Floor Exercises is the only event set to music and features tumbling, leaps, turns and choreography on a spring-loaded mat.
On all events, gymnasts are judged on difficulty of the exercise, execution, along with dynamics, including height and distance from apparatus, and must show strength, flexibility, balance and rhythmic.
Our passionate WAG coaches guide our gymnasts through the Australian National Levels Program. Through this program, our club has produced both State and National Champions. Gymnasts in our competitive program have the opportunity to compete at Local, Regional, State and National events.