Do you wear socks when you do gymnastics?

[gymgymgymnast08]

Do you wear socks when you do gymnastics? I guess maybe its a college thing because one of my teammates starting doing it after she went to do gymnastics in college & I saw a picture of Allison Taylor (UCLA) on bars wearing socks. Nobody at my gym does it. But I'm just wondering. lol.

 

[gymnaSTICKs]

sometimes i'll wear socks on bars during the winter if its our first event or if we go to bars right after snack break (if i put socks on during break, i'll just leave them on then) but i never wear them on floor/vault/beam.... just bars.

 

[I-Heart-Beam]

We got made to when we were baby gymmies.... our old floor had a great habit of leaving grey wool stuck to your feet. You would come out looking like a Yeti if you didn't wear socks lol.

 

[Billy]

I don't let my daughter. I'm afraid she'll slip in socks.

 

[KBT]

If it's very cold out I'll wear socks, but only on bars and floor warmups. I don't feel safe wearing them on beam.

 

[gracefulone]

I don't even like doing roundoffs in socks! I'm bare feet all the way.

 

[Drowning123gone]

We require the recreational kids to wear socks and the team does not wear socks. There is a chance the team could slip while tumbling or something and I would hate to risk someone getting hurt over something stupid.

 

[NYgymfan]

No socks for me! I think I'd probably slip in them if I wore them.

 

[gymbratsmommy]

Naked Feet at DD's gym.

 

[KBT]

We require the recreational kids to wear socks and the team does not wear socks. There is a chance the team could slip while tumbling or something and I would hate to risk someone getting hurt over something stupid.

Why do you require the rec kids to wear socks?

I solved the problem of what to do when it's cold but I want to do beam by wearing legwarmers. (Note that our beams are right by a drafty door with concrete around the edges of the gym, and it gets very cold by the beams when it's -20F outside.) The legwarmers keep me nice and warm!

 

[Aussie_coach]

We don't allow any of our gymnasts to wear socks, because of the risk of slipping.

 

[all-aroundgirl]

I wear socks for bars when it's cold out.