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2. Mat (gymnastics) - Wikipedia

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   Mats are used for safety in gymnastics, and in training new skills. They are usually a piece of foam (covered in leather) ranging from 1.5 to 28 inches thick, covered in a vinyl or plastic lining. They are usually a piece of foam (covered in leather) ranging from 1.5 to 28 inches thick, covered in a vinyl or plastic lining.

3. Floor (gymnastics) - Wikipedia

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   The floor exercise (English abbreviation FX) is the event performed on the floor, in both women's and men's artistic gymnastics (WAG and MAG). The same floor is used for WAG FX and MAG FX, but rules and scoring differ; most obviously, a WAG FX routine is synchronised to a piece of recorded dance music , whereas MAG FX has no musical accompaniment .

4. Donald Wallace Gordon - Wikipedia

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   Donald Wallace (Wally) Gordon (4 February 1932 – 11 April 2016) was an American gymnast and inventor who is notable for inventing the first landing mats, incline mats, octagons and all the other foam shapes that currently fill gymnastic schools. [1]

5. Mat - Wikipedia

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   Mats are manufactured in standard lengths or factory-made to custom sizes. Modular mats, also well known as interlocking tiles or interlocking floor mats, are manufactured using the “jigsaw puzzle” structure. Unlike one-piece mats, modular mats consist of numerous elements that are easily and seamlessly assembled.

6. Talk:Floor (gymnastics) - Wikipedia

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   Professional gymnasts have long before that used mats and spring floors as standard. When the mens gymnastics was introduced in the 1936 Olympics they had a lightly sprung floor. It is just simply dangerous to do gymnastics on a hard floor, even if somebody doesn't get killed it ruins ankles and knees.

7. Gymnastics - Wikipedia

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   The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is FX. In the past, the floor exercise event was executed on the bare floor or mats such as wrestling mats. The floor event now occurs on a carpeted 12m × 12m square, usually consisting of hard foam over a layer of plywood, which is supported by springs generally called a spring ...