Section 10 · Floor Exercise

Floor: Building the Exercise

The start, every corner and no diagonal three times in a row, pauses, the ending, and the balance or jump requirement.

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−0.1−0.3−0.5−1.0small · medium · large · fall — the colours the Code usesNRNot recognised by the D-Jury

D-Jury

The Start

The gymnast starts from a still stand with the legs together, inside the floor. The exercise and its judging begin with the first movement of the feet.

  • The exercise does not begin with an acrobatic tumbling pass−0.3Neutral, from the Final Score

Newsletter 1, p. 3 · in force from August 2025

The first element must be an acrobatic tumbling pass, not a non-acrobatic element.

Code 10.2.1, p. 25 · NL1, p. 3 · NL2, p. 3

D1 · from the Final Score

Every Corner, and No Diagonal Three Times in a Row

  • A diagonal may be used any number of times, but not more than twice in a row.
  • After two, the next pass goes along a side line (under 12 m) to an unused corner.
  • The gymnast must go to or from every corner. A last pass towards an unused corner counts for that corner.
  • Not to or from every corner−0.3Once
  • The same diagonal three times in a row−0.3Once

Code 10.2.1, p. 26 · Code 10.3, p. 27

E-Jury · from the E-score

Pauses and Landings Between Elements

  • No pause of two seconds or more before an acrobatic element or series. Arm movements count as pausing, so the two seconds start the moment he comes to a stand.
  • Every acrobatic element or series ends in a visibly controlled landing and a stop before anything else follows.
  • Pause of 2 sec or more before an element or series−0.1
  • Uncontrolled momentary landing, also in a transition−0.1or−0.3or−0.5

Execution errors in a multiple salto are deducted once for the element, not once per salto.

Code 10.2.1, p. 26 · Code 10.3, p. 27

D-Jury

The Ending

  • It ends with an acrobatic salto, landed with both feet together.
  • It must not be from EG I.
  • A multiple salto must be among the eight counting elements. For a senior, it must be the dismount.
  • Senior: the dismount is not a multiple salto−0.3Neutral, from the Final Score
  • Junior: no multiple salto among the counting elements−0.3Neutral, from the Final Score
  • Junior: any triple saltoNR

The Code gives no minimum value. But the lowest multiple salto on floor, the double salto backward tucked, is a C.

Code 10.2.1, p. 26 · Code 10.2.2, p. 26 · Code 10.3, p. 27 · NL3, p. 1

D-Jury

Balance or Jump

The exercise shows either a one-leg balance (I.61 or I.62) or one of the jumps and leaps below. It may be outside the eight counting elements.

Newsletter 1's list of jumps and leaps for the floor requirement, each drawn with its number: 67, 68, 73, 74, 75, 15, 16, 17, 43 and II.8
The jumps and leaps in Newsletter 1. The stag leap (73) no longer fulfils the requirement (Newsletter 3) — Newsletter 1, p. 9.
  • I.67 — Jump backward to front supportFulfils
  • I.68 — Jump backward with pike-stretch or 1/1 turn to front support (Endo)Fulfils
  • I.15 — Jump forward with 1/1 turn to front supportFulfils
  • I.16 — Jump backward with 3/2 twist to front supportFulfils
  • I.17 — Jump forward with 2/1 twist to front supportFulfils
  • I.43 — Jump forward with ½ turn to momentary handstandFulfils
  • I.74 — Butterfly with 1/1 twist, forward or backward (Tong Fei)Fulfils
  • I.75 — Butterfly with 2/1 twistFulfils
  • II.8 — Dive roll with 1/1 twistFulfils
  • Any stag leap, with or without a turnDoes not fulfil
  • Neither a balance nor a listed jump−0.3Neutral, from the Final Score
  • A jump to support without a controlled landing on the hands: small or medium errorby the E-Jury−0.1or−0.3
  • A jump to support without a controlled landing on the hands: large errorby the E-Jury−0.5NR

The jumps with 1/1, 3/2 and 2/1 turns to front support fulfil the requirement only if the take-off is from two feet. Every jump to support must land on the hands with control, and the Endo must lower to front support with control. If not, the E-Jury deducts 0.1, 0.3 or 0.5, and with 0.5 the D-Jury does not recognise the element.

Newsletter 1, p. 2 · in force from August 2025

A listed jump or leap may replace the one-leg balance.

What applied before

The Code required a one-leg balance, I.61 or I.62.

Newsletter 3, p. 3 · in force from 1 January 2026

No stag leap variation fulfils the requirement any more.

What applied before

Newsletter 1 listed the stag leap with 1/1 turn (I.73). Newsletter 2 accepted it only with the whole turn in the air.

Newsletter 4, p. 2 · in force from 1 September 2026

Jumps with turns to front support fulfil the requirement only from two feet. Every jump to support needs a controlled landing on the hands.

Code 10.2.2, p. 27 · Code 10.3, p. 27 · NL1, p. 2 · NL1, p. 3 · NL2, p. 4 · NL3, p. 3 · NL4, p. 2


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