Still Rings

Still Rings, my favorite apparatus, was introduced to the Olympics in 1896 and was won by Ioannis Mitropoulos.

One of the main reasons rings are my favorite is because it is where I feel most comfortable. Another reason is that one of my favorite skills is the dislocate and it is performed on the rings. A dislocate is when you are in an inverted hang, hanging upside down, and you bring your shins to your face, then shoot your feet out at a 70-degree angle away from the ground so that you can swing through the bottom to do it again.

In the 2020 Olympics Nikita Nagornyy, a famous gymnast who competes for the ROC, performed a maltese. A maltese is a skill in which you are face down parallel to the ground with your arms to your side so that it resembles something like
this:

 

One of the hardest tricks in rings is a victorian. A victorian is a maltese
but with your back to the ground. This might not seem that much more difficult than a maltese, but, for most people, your abdomen is stronger than your back. Many people were outraged when the FIG Code of Points ranked the victorian only two tenths above a maltese.

The most recent skill that I have learned on rings is a front-up rise. The front-up rise skill is a skill in which I do a dislocate into a front swing where I then launch my chest up and bring my hands to my hips so that I am now holding myself above the rings.

Nikita Nagornyy Maltese Picture: Here

Rings Picture: Here