Gymnasts Excel Gold Requirements

[Gold-Gymnast-Girl]

Can somebody please give me an example of a tumbling pass for exel gold with no back tucks or front tucks, because I generally don't know if I can make it without a tuck. And can somebody also give me an example of a excel bar routine without a high bar kip ( idk if I spelt excel wrong but whatevers )

 

[Mthegymqueen]

Tumbling passes without tucks are (reminder: you will need elements forwards/sideways and backwards)

rbh
roundoff roundoff
fhs step to roundoff
fhs step to fhs
side aerial
front aerial

For bars, you can replace a high bar kip with a long hang pullover (or do two connected back hip circles on low bar, without the need to do circling elements on high bar)

While these can still fufill the USAG requirements for gold, each gym may have seperate requirements for what they want in xcel gold.

 

[superNova08]

Not super sure about floor, as I competed a front pike actually. And then a fhs stepout ro.
Bars:
kip cast 2xbhs cast squat on jump to hb tap swings half-turn or flyaway.

 

[Coach Kate]

You can actually do round off back handspring and round off back handspring back handspring as your two passes in gold. From hand spring round off and aerial are other options as mentioned above.

 

[raenndrops]

Tumbling passes without tucks are (reminder: you will need elements forwards/sideways and backwards)

rbh
roundoff roundoff
fhs step to roundoff
fhs step to fhs
side aerial
front aerial

For bars, you can replace a high bar kip with a long hang pullover (or do two connected back hip circles on low bar, without the need to do circling elements on high bar)

While these can still fufill the USAG requirements for gold, each gym may have seperate requirements for what they want in xcel gold.

You do NOT "need elements forwards/sideways and backwards" in Xcel Gold (or even Platinum).
We have had several girls who did not do back tumbling at all in Xcel.

For bars, on low bar, you could do a front hip circle or a middle circle in addition to a single back hip circle for the second circling element if you don't have a kip, long hang pullover, or uprise to get on top of the high bar. You could also do a jump to front support on the high bar (on a narrower bar setting) ... that's how some of our girls do it.

 

[gymnast17]

For floor, you can do rbhs, front handspring step out round off, front hangsprimg step out front handspring step out, aerials, and some girls did dive cartwheels into a round off.

On bars, you could do a double bhc, front hip circle, or mill circle. You could also do a long hang pullover or squat on circle to fulfill the double circling elements. If you want to get up on the high bar, I would suggest a uprise or long hang pullover.

 

[3rd_time_around]

To keep floor simple, you can do RO+BHS and then RO+BHS+BHS. It gets full credit and takes the pressure off of you so you can work on the skills you need. As you get better at other tumbling, you can change up your passes during the season. One pass can be an isolated aerial or salto (front or back tuck, front or back pike, back layout). The coach should have a Code of Points, and on page "Floor Exercise-6" there are examples of routines and the skills used to fulfill the requirements.
Bars has been pretty much covered in the other responses.