Our Senior Coach in charge of Falkirk Boy's is Andrew Webb

Club Times:

Wednesday 18:00 - 21:00
Friday 18:00 - 21:00

Men's Apparatus

Floor
Floor Exercises are executed on a 12 x 12m mat with a 1-metre safety border around it. It is placed on a special wooden underlay, which is necessary for the athletes’ take-offs and landings. Athletes have 70 seconds to execute an exercise that includes somersaults, strength and balance exercises.

Pommel Horse
The Pommel Horse is 1.60m long, 1.05m tall and carries two pommels (handles). The distance between the pommels is 40 to 45cm. Athletes execute a series of circular exercises with legs apart and legs together in a routine with a continuous flow and interchange of exercises and grips along the width of the horse.

Rings
The Rings are made of wood and are hung from a special metal structure with belts and wire ropes, 2.80m above the floor. Athletes perform a series of exercises with swings and holds and other static and dynamic elements, while the routine finishes with an impressive acrobatic dismount.

Vault
Since 2001, a slightly inclined level table (Vaulting Table) has replaced the vault, placed on a special metal base 1.35m high. The approach run is 25m. After gaining speed with the running start, athletes bounce off the spring board, push the Vault Table with their hands and, after performing single or multiple turns and pirouettes, try to finish with a controlled and steady landing behind the Vault Table.

Parallel Bars
Parallel Bars are two 3.5m-long parallel wooden bars, standing on a metal base 2.00m above the ground. Athletes perform routines combining an interchange of swinging movements with strength or hold elements above and below the two bars.

Horizontal Bar
It is a steel bar with a 2.8cm-diameter and 2.4m-length that rests on two metal bases 2.80m above the ground. The routine in one of the most spectacular apparatus of men’s Artistic Gymnastics includes clean swinging movements, not allowing the athlete to touch the bar with his body. The athlete demonstrates changes of grip, swinging movements both forward and backward and elevation exercises reaching up to 4m high. Dismounts are usually acrobatic and spectacular.