Flank (gymnastics)
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Circle flanks of a Swiss apparatus gymnast on the gymnastics mushroom
In apparatus gymnastics, the flank is the movement over a device with one side (flank) of the body facing the device. In contrast to the U-turn, where the front of the body is facing the device, and U-turn, where the back of the body faces the device.
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- Flanke at books.google.de, accessed on April 22, 2013