Gymnastics is the ninth most dangerous sport for kids in 2016, according to infogr.am. In athletes 19 and under, there are 28,300 injuries in gymnastics alone. Most of these injuries come from performing dangerous flips.

“I am not surprised that so many people are injured from doing gymnastics. It looks like a dangerous sport,” said Amanda Korn, 9.

In fact, several gymnastics flips are banned. One of the most famous banned flips is the Korbut Flip. Olga Korbut was the first gymnast to ever execute this flip and it is named after her.

Korbut represented the Soviet Union during the Munich Olympics in 1972. Korbut did this flip on the uneven bars. She stood on the highest bar then back flipped off of it before catching herself with her hands.

No one had attempted it before and no one else ever attempted the Korbut Flip. The officials declared the move the 17 had done banned. Standing on the high bar was illegal thus banning the move.

“It is crazy that a flip had to be banned because it was so dangerous. I have never heard of that happening before,” said Molly Hayes, 10.

Another flip, equally as dangerous, was not banned. The Tkachev Salto was first performed by Aleksandr Tkachyov, a professional male gymnasts.

This flip is also done on the high bar. To execute this move, a gymnast would do a back flip off the high bar in order to dismount.

The banning of gymnastics moves is to protect the gymnasts as much as possible from serious or fatal injuries.

“I never knew gymnastics was so dangerous. To me it just looked really hard,” Hayes said.