Level scales

Level scales on the floor, performed by a Czech youth gymnast at the 24th Rhine Valley Cup

The Standwaage is a gymnastic exercise based on the balance beam or in a floor exercise is performed. With a floor scale, you stand on one leg while the other is stretched backwards at a 90 ° angle or higher. The arms are stretched out to the left and right. This posture usually has to be held for 3–5 seconds. Points are deducted in the freestyle for unstretched feet or legs and an angle between the two legs that is too small.

Level scales for vaulting

In vaulting, the scale is one of the freestyle exercises . The posture requirements differ slightly from those of gymnasts: Here the free leg (the outstretched leg), the upper body and - depending on the design - the arms almost form a straight line. If the free leg is spread backwards at a significantly wider angle than 90 ° from the standing leg, one speaks instead of a standing split (colloquially also "needle"). The position must be held for at least three bars (gallop jumps). Popular versions of the exercise are the level scales in the loop and the free level scales in the handle.

literature

• German Equestrian Association: Vaulting exercise book (2008 edition). Requirements and criteria in German tournament sports acc. LPO. FN-Verlag, Warendorf 2007.

Web links

Commons : Standing scale  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Equestrian Association: Vaulting exercise book (2008 edition). Requirements and criteria in German tournament sports acc. LPO. 2007, p. 13.