Uneven Bars Mounts and Casts to Hanstands

There are various ways of mounting the uneven bars. This skill is the first in the routine and is usually a very easy skill, rated A or B. Mounts to front support (which are very common) are usually followed by a swing backwards, or cast, to a handstand. Casts are catagorized with free hip circles in the Code of Points.

Nonacrobatic Mounts

(Acrobatic and non-actrobatic mounts are not a distinction made in the Code of Points but might make the list clearer here, particularly since acrobatic mounts are very rare.)

• Glide kip on low bar to front support: A. The gymnast glides forward with hips bent, legs together or straddled, until her body is extended forward, hands on the bottom of the bar, then pulls her hips to the bar and shifts to front support. On the high bar, the gymnast swings forward (long hang kip). The kip is considered a difficult skill to learn but is indisputably necessary for an uneven bars routine. This skill is repeated many times throughout a routine.
• Jump 1/2 twist, kip to front support or stoop through to rear support: A. A stoop through is when the gymnast bends her hips and holds her legs between her arms, legs not touching the bar.
• Jump full twist, kip to front support: B
• Kip on low bar or high bar, stoop through, straddle cut or straddle cut backwards to hang: A
• Glide forward on low bar or swing forward on high bar, stoop through, back pike circle to rear support: B
• Jump to hang on high bar, kip to support: A
• Jump 1/2 turn to kip on high bar: B
• Jump 1/2 turn over low bar to hang on high bar: B
• Jump 1/2 turn over low bar to kip on high bar: B
• Jump full turn to hang on high bar: A
• Straddle vault over low bar to catch high bar: A
• Straddle jump over low bar or hecht vault over low bar to catch high bar: B
• Jump with hips bent to handstand on low bar, with or without 1/2 turn: B
• Jump with hips bent or straight to handstand on low bar with full turn: C
• Jump with body straight to handstand on low bar with full turn while in handstand: D
• Jump to support on high bar, hip circle backwards to handstand, with or without 1/2 turn: D

Acrobatic Mounts

• Salto tucked, piked, or straddled over low bar to hang on low bar: B
• Facing high bar, salto forward to hang on high bar: C
• Roll forward over low bar to high bar: C
• Salto tucked over low bar to high bar without touching low bar: C
• Round-off in front of low bar, straddled flight backwards over low bar to straddle support: B
• Round-off in front of low bar, flight backwards over low bar to hang on high bar: C
• Round-off in front of low bar, flight backwards with full twist over low bar to hang on high bar: D
• Round-off in front of low bar, tucked salto backwards over low bar to hang on low bar: D
• Round-off in front of low bar, flic-flac through handstand on low bar: D
• Round-off in front of low bar, flic-flac with full twist to handstand or support on low bar: E
• Round-off in front of low bar, Arabian salto tucked or piked to hang on high bar: E

Casts

• Cast to handstand with hips bent or legs straddled: A
• Cast to handstand with straight body, with or without 1/2 turn or hop grip change (changing direction of hands): B
• Cast with full turn to handstand: C
• Cast with 1 1/2 turn to handstand: D