| （Department of Physical Education，Chengdu Sport University，Chengdu 610041，China) Abstract: By means of literature and video analysis, the author sorted out the trend of selection and the pattern of change of movements performed by world excellent horse vaulting male athletes, studied the characteristics of the combinations of two horse vaulting movements performed by excellent horse vaulting male athletes, and revealed the following findings: 1) in the 2013 edition of FIG International Gymnastics Scoring Rules, big adjustments were made to the vaulting horse event, movement values were depreciated by 1.0 point universally, on such a basis, movements in the Arabic spring board cate-gory were appreciated in order to promote the development of such movements; 2) foreign athletes are good at using the movement of “forward handspring” followed by “double somersault”, while Chinese athletes tend to use movements in the “multi-degree turn” category, rarely use movements in the Arabic spring board category; 3) the combination of a move-ment in the “forward handspring” category with a movement in the “sideward handspring” category is still the first choice of world excellent athletes today; 3 movement combinations were used by athletes in two World Gymnastics Champion-ships; the percentage of movements in the somersault category used is still high; totally 8 combinations of two vaulting dif-ficulty value movements appeared in 3 major games; having an absolute difficulty value combination is still the foundation for becoming a champion; 4) developing new difficulty movements according to athlete characteristics, especially move-ments with a difficulty value of 6.0 or higher, and using the optimal “combination of two vaulting movements”, while con-stantly improving landing stability, are the keys to increase the horse vaulting competition power of Chinese athletes.
Key words: competition and training；men’s vaulting horse；world excellent horse vaulting male athlete；combination of two vaulting movements |
