Section 15 · Horizontal Bar

Horizontal Bar: Turns, Grips and In-Bar Elements

Hops and turns, the Quast and Rybalko, el-grip and Russian giants, Adlers, Endos and Stalders, the Zou Li Min, and what is not permitted.

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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

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Hops and Turns

In a hop to handstand with a turn, the turn starts during the hop. The second hand regrasps only after the turn is complete. The first hand may regrasp before that.

Hop element ends
When both hands are on the bar.
Turn in one-hand support ends
When the second hand regrasps.
  • Quast and Rybalko: a visible hop and a fluid turn, not turning on the supporting arm.
  • The Rybalko (giant swing backward with hop 3/2 turn) ends with both hands in mixed el-grip or el-grip.
  • A Rybalko to a one-arm giant has the same value and box as to undergrip or mixed el-grip, I.51.
  • Giant swing backward with hop and more than 3/2 turn (2/1 or more)NRProhibited
  • Stalder with hop and more than 3/2 turnNRProhibited
  • Quast to one-arm giantNR

The Quast to one-arm giant is not recognised because the Quast does not finish with two hands on the bar.

Newsletter 3, p. 5 · in force from 1 January 2026

The Quast to one-arm giant is not recognised.

Code 15.2.2, p. 115 · Code 15.2.2, p. 116 · Code 7.6, p. 16 · NL3, p. 5

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El-Grip and Russian Giants

Rule
An el-grip giant (I.68, B) or Russian giant (I.69, C) only has to go over the top of the bar in el-grip. No particular amount of giant swing is required.
After an Adler or a turn
Directly after an Adler or a turn to el-grip, it needs a swing over the bar in el-grip to receive a value.

Russian giant:

  • An inlocation while swinging through the bottom in el-grip, staying inlocated over the top.
  • The angle is taken when the shoulders are directly above the hands. The line from the shoulders through the base of the spine is then at most 60° to the horizontal.
  • For a Russian giant, the body and shoulders extend from el-grip only at a point past 60°.
Two pictures from Newsletter 2: a Russian giant with the shoulder-to-spine line within 60° of horizontal, and an el-grip giant past it
Russian giant and el-grip giant: the 60° line — Newsletter 2, p. 2.
  • Russian giant with that line more than 60° to the horizontalEl-grip giant
  • Adler to 65° from handstand, el-grip through the bottom and over the top, through the bottom again and hop out to undergripAdler (0.5 angle) + B el-grip giant
  • Adler to handstand, el-grip over the top into el-grip Endo, through the bottom, then el-grip through the bottom and hop outC Adler + B el-grip giant + C el-grip Endo

Newsletter 2, p. 2 · in force from 19 September 2025

Defines the 60° line that separates a Russian giant from an el-grip giant.

Code 15.2.2, p. 116 · NL2, p. 2

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Adlers, Endos, Stalders and Weilers

Endo, Stalder, Weiler and Adler elements must continue over the bar in the intended direction to be recognised. Adlers do not need to be entered from handstand.

  • Not continuing in the intended directionby the E-Jury−0.3NR
  • A third Adler-type element (stoop circle rearward forward through handstand)Two highest count
  • Endo in el-grip through handstand (III.99) not started in el-grip handstand, or not over the top in el-grip at the endNR
  • Stoop circle forward to straddle cut to hang or support (III.103) entered at any angle, from a giant or swing forwardNone
  • Czech giant exit: Steineman uprise (III.80; the article prints III.30), simple stoop exit, then a Stalder (III.38)NoneNo angle deduction

The simple stoop exit from the Czech giant has no value.

Code 15.2.1, p. 115 · Code 15.2.2, p. 116 · Code 15.3, p. 117

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Zou Li Min (I.27)

A one-arm giant swing forward with 1/1 turn to el-grip and 1/1 turn to undergrip. It is a C. It cannot be combined with any other element for more value.

  • More than 90° short on the first full twistby the E-Jury−0.5NRNot devalued to a B
  • To mixed grip, then an immediate grip changeby the E-Jury−0.1Recognised

It cannot be devalued to a giant swing forward with one arm in undergrip.

Code 15.2.2, p. 116 · NL1, p. 6

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Not Permitted

  • An element with or from the feet on the barby the E-Jury−0.3NR
  • Piatti-style element from the stoop circle (feet on the bar)NRNot permitted
  • Rybalko or Piatti from a Stalder with the legs togetherNRNot permitted
  • Junior: any element with a red dot in the tables, including every triple salto dismountNR

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

Every triple salto, and so every triple salto dismount, carries a red dot for juniors.

Code 7.4.5, p. 15 · Code 7.6, p. 16 · Code 15.2.2, p. 116 · Code 15.3, p. 117 · NL3, p. 1


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