Masters Rules

When the NAIGC was created, it only catered to collegiate clubs. As athletes graduated, they couldn’t find a venue for continuing the sport of gymnastics, so the NAIGC stepped up to fill that need. We now support both intercollegiate and adult club gymnastics, and this now includes Masters gymnastics!

Allowing cross gender competition aligns with the NAIGC’s core value of providing radical opportunity. Gymnastics is one of the few sports that offers different opportunities based on gender, and the NAIGC is working to provide equal opportunity for all participants.

Sure! Your score has two main components:

• Execution (E-Score)
  • This starts at a 10.0 and then you lose points for all of your errors. Knees a little bent when they should be straight? -0.1. Take a medium step after landing your dismount? -0.3. Fall on that tricky first tumbling skill? -1.0.
• Difficulty (D-Score)
  • This is the sum of the combined difficulty values of all the skills that you do. If you do more than the counting number, you get credit for the highest value subset matching the counting number (eg. you do 8 skills plus a dismount instead of just 5 and the dismount, so they don't count your three lowest value skills). The difficulty value for a skill can be read in this chart:
    
  • Composition Requirements (CR) are five general categories or types of skills that if you satisfy, you get 0.5 per CR (eg. on beam CR II is a turn on one leg). For the dismount CR, you need to do a dismount of a certain difficulty to get full credit.
  • If you're doing fewer skills than the minimum then you lose 1 point off this for each skill short you are
  • Because vault just has the one skill, there are no CRs or short exercise deductions, and you'll get bonus depending on your age decade.

Sure! Your score has two main components:

• Execution (E-Score)
  • This starts at a 10.0 and then you lose points for all of your errors. Knees a little bent when they should be straight? -0.1. Take a medium step after landing your dismount? -0.3. Fall on that tricky first tumbling skill? -1.0.
• Difficulty (D-Score)
  • This is the sum of the combined difficulty values of all the skills that you do. If you do more than the counting number, you get credit for the highest value subset matching the counting number (eg. you do 8 skills plus a dismount instead of just 5 and the dismount, so they don't count your three lowest value skills). The difficulty value for a skill can be read in this chart:
    
  • Element Groups (EG) are four general categories or types of skills that if you satisfy, you get 0.5 per EG (eg. on rings EG I is a kip or swinging skill). For the dismount EG, you need to do a dismount of a certain difficulty to get full credit.
  • If you're doing fewer skills than the minimum then you lose 1 point off this for each skill short you are.
  • Because vault just has the one skill, there are no CRs or short exercise deductions, and you'll get a bonus depending on your age decade.

If a gymnast is participating in both disciplines in a single session, it is the responsibility of the gymnast to be present when they are required to compete. No exceptions will be made for rotation schedules, and no judges will be delayed due to a gymnast competing in the other discipline. This can be hectic, but hey - it definitely keeps you warm and minimizes down time! In practice it's definitely possible, you can and should rely on your team/rotation-mates to grab you from across the gym if you're on deck on another event. What order you compete in on a given event is also generally flexible, so for your first MAG and WAG events, choose to go first on one and last on the other and you'll have plenty of time. If the gymnast’s rotation ends and they have not competed, they will receive a score of 0.0 for that event.

For more general information on UAG (Unified Artistic Gymnastics, or the ability to compete across both MAG and WAG), check out our page at Unified Artistic Gymnastics & Decathlon.

Any open invite NAIGC meets should allow adults (let us know if you run into an issue!), and you can find the list of upcoming meets here. A list of NAIGC clubs is here (not all of them allow anyone to join, so reach out to their contact and inquire). Outside of the NAIGC, the following are valuable Adult Gymnastics resources:

• Just like fine wine...Adult Gymnastics Group - This is a Facebook group with over ten thousand members, a great place to find a virtual community, ask any and all questions about Adult Gymnastics, share progress videos, etc.
• Adult-Gymnastics.com - A website with a lot of great info for adult gymnasts, including databases of adult gymnastics classes, adult meets, and adult camps.