“…Unique to the sport of artistic gymnastics, the equipment's mechanical properties affect the stability of the apparatus which also influences the difficulty of the tasks (16). For example, the handstand is a fundamental skill for male and female gymnasts which has considerably different demands to maintain stability when performed on different apparatus such as the floor, beam, parallel bars, and rings (16,40). A recent review concluded that when aiming to retain stability during a handstand, the 'wrist strategy' can be adopted to maintain the position, providing the gymnasts body remains in a vertical position (40).…”