Twisting Dismounts from Rings

M.R. (Fred) Yeadon is Emeritus Professor of Computer Simulation in Sport at Loughborough University.

Though never a gymnast, Fred came right into the Gym when he taught in my city and worked with gymnasts on twisting dismounts.

Here’s one of his early research papers.

At the 1992 Olympic Games six full twisting double somersault dismounts were recorded with two video cameras during the rings individual apparatus finals in the men’s Artistic Gymnastics competition.

Angles describing body configuration were determined from video data and were input, together with initial orientation angle values and angular momentum components, into a computer simulation model of aerial movement.