WAG What is a salto?

[ECMama]

I hear this term all the time and have always wondered what it is. After looking it up online, I'm more confused than before. Is the salto a specific skill, or can more than one skill be considered a salto? If it is more than one skill, can someone please give me examples of some skills that would be considered a salto? My DD has completed level 8 and has never mentioned this as one of her moves, but the article I read stated that gymnasts usually start doing this around level 6/7.

 

[MILgymFAM]

It is my understanding that a salto is any flipping skill where a gymnast doesn't put their hands on the floor- so a front or back tuck, or layouts, or whips.

 

[htimcj]

I believe a salto is any "flip".

 

[MeetDirector]

Whoa - getting technical are we? In our 14 years in this sport we just preferred to call these "flippy things".

Seriously though, it is simply a flip. It can be a front flip (front salto), back flip, double flip, etc.

I still prefer the "flippy thing" though.

 

[ladybird]

I find the older I get as a gym mom, the more I say "flippy thing."

 

[skschlag]

I find the older I get as a gym mom, the more I say "flippy thing."

I say flippy twisty thing A LOT. Or Swingy thing. Or "that thing on Pbars/hbar"

 

[suebee]

Whoa - getting technical are we? In our 14 years in this sport we just preferred to call these "flippy things".

Seriously though, it is simply a flip. It can be a front flip (front salto), back flip, double flip, etc.

I still prefer the "flippy thing" though.

My dh knows nothing about gymnastics even though he usually takes dd to practice. For him, any thing in gymnastics in which you start on your feet and turn upside down and end up on your feet again is a "flippy thing." Which is pretty much every move. Cartwheel, roundoff, back walkover, BHS, handstand (because you end up back on your feet again after being upside down), back tuck - all flippy things. And he truly can't distinguish them.

 

[Dr Maleficent]

In France salto is used for somersault. A flip is a back handspring. A front handspring however is called a 'saut de mains' (jump of the hands). So we can't say (the equivalent of) flippy thing as it just makes things more confusing!

 

[Redford]

In German it's the same as in french. A "salto" is any kind of summersault.
Originally the word is spanish and stands for any "jump". Funny enough, a "salto" in our definition (as in summersault) is called "mortal" in spanish. In spanish gymnastics the word "salto" is used for the entire event of "vault".

 

[Aussie_coach]

Usually the term is used to describe a tuck. Either a back tuck or a front tuck. We use the term salto and not the term tuck or flip.

A salto refers to a flip that does not use hands like a tuck, like, layout, whip or twist. But generally the term is mostly used for a tuck.

 

[Iwannabemargo]

yep, somersault is the equivalent here, although most people just say somi

 

[GymRays]

Somedays I use "salto" and "flic flac" all practice with a non specific accent......just because. My gymnasts think I'm nuts

 

[Aussie_coach]

We use the term flic here too, we don't say back handspring.

 

[COz]

We use the term flic here too, we don't say back handspring.

Must be a state based thing, I've never heard anyone here say flic - we all wondered why it said flic in the new routines descriptions...

 

[Iwannabemargo]

we say flic too

 

[coachalexia]

In dutch we call a flip, (like a back tuck, front tuck,..) a salto, this probably doesn't answer your question but i thought it was a fun thing to mention haha

 

[needcoffee]

Yep we use flic and salto too.

 

[wrzos]

We are on vacation in Poland now, and my dd has been training here. They seem to call a front tuck a salto... threw me for a loop too!