A Development of grips for Gymnastics parallel bars

Abstract

In gymnastics parallel bars, friction between hands and parallel bars is very important for the gymnasts. The authors inspired by the grips for the horizontal bar and the rings and develop a new grip for the parallel bars which can support athletes improve their friction between hands and parallel bars. The forces acting on a parallel bars was estimated from the filming of actual performances. The results showed that the force acting on the parallel bars was about four times that of the body weight. It was also suggested that the hand slips vertically where the maximum joint force is reached and where the frictional force is zero. A grip was developed based on the experimental results.