Don’t Be a Bag(gy) Lady
Don't wear baggy shirts or sweatshirts during gymnastics instruction.  Your vision can be obstructed if your shirt goes over your head when you are upside down.  This can make it difficult and unsafe to tumble or perform on apparatus. Baggy clothing can also caught on spotters and equipment or wrap up your spotter’s hands.

Fashion Safety
Don't wear dangling earrings, necklaces or other jewelry.  They can get caught on your leotard or gym clothes, on the equipment, mats or carpet.  Earrings torn out of your ear - that's gotta hurt.  Rings can scratch the bars and pich your finger.

No Valuable Jewelry
Don’t wear any valuable jewelry in the gym, especially into a loose foam pit.  You may never find it or find only by pulling out every single piece of foam in the pit.  Take it from the girl who lost her mother’s diamond stud earring and spent three full days sifting through the pit and dust and dirt at the bottom of the pit to find it.  She never did find the back to it.

Tight is Right
If you wear socks to class, make sure they fit tightly.  You don’t want them to come off in the pit and get lost. And you don't want them to bunch up and possible create poor footing on skills or landings.

No Studs in the Gym
Don’t wear any clothes in the gym to work out with belts, metal studs or buttons during your gymnastics instruction. The uneven bars are especially likely to get scratched with these.  They can also scratch up your instructor or maybe even you.

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