| （School of Physical Education，Luoyang Normal University，Luoyang 471022，China） Abstract: Basing his research contents mainly on flying moves and their connections made by the players in the horizontal bar final in the 42nd World Gymnastics Championships, the author probed into the development of world men’s horizontal bar techniques in the London Olympic games period, and revealed the following findings: the number of flying moves in routines increased, up to 4 times per player; the types and connection forms of flying moves were diversified, among which Markelov and Tkachev connections in Group D almost became “required moves”, and new “reversed” connection forms appeared; highly difficult Kovacs move and twist and its connection move were also developed quite rapidly, the connection between Kovacs move and 360° Kovacs twist was created; only one Gienger move and straight Yegor somersault were made respectively, while Gaylord move and twist were totally out of sight; the quality of moves made by the players was generally low, so there are still a lot of things to do to improve E scores; it is the key to outstanding scores to continue to improve flying moves and increase the dif-ficulty and number of their connections.
Key words: competition and training；flying moves and their connections；horizontal bar；London Olympic games period |
