According to certified yoga instructor Matt Fields-Johnson, the most important thing to bring to your first acro-yoga class is a sense of humor. "You're going to fall. A lot," he says. The second most ...

In women's artistic gymnastics, beam is the third event in the Olympic order. This apparatus is 4 inches wide, 16 ft long and ...

Acro, or acrobatic skills, are the tumbling and flipping elements done on beam. Every routine has to have an acro series of two or more skills, one of which is a skill with flight. A flight element is ...

Want to follow the women’s gymnastics competition in Paris, but don’t understand the skills or how they’re scored? Here’s a guide. By Maggie Astor Maggie Astor, normally a political reporter, is a ...