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Rings movements in gymnastics are graded on a scale of A-F (A being the easiest and F being the hardest). Many of you don't know that I actually used to compete in gymnastics all the way up until my sophomore year in high school (not quite at a national level, but not too far off), so in hopes to give you both a visual of the difficulty of movements and motivation to work through the progressions, I dug up some footage from my old training videos and ordered them in order of grade; some are from meets and some are from my workouts in my basement or parks. I might look a little different back then but it's me. My mom used to cut my hair. Let me know if anyone wants some tips on the D or E skills.

Okay for real though, once I started CrossFit I really developed an appreciation for the rings event at the Olympics. Once you just hold yourself up all wobbly and everything and work hard just to do a dip or swing into a skin the cat it really gives you perspective on just how uncommonly strong gymnasts are; it's no wonder why Coach Glassman put such an emphasis on gymnastics strength in the core of CrossFit. Here's another video with rings elements named after people, and the grade the goes with it.