Incentive Awards
The Gymnastics Incentive Awards Programme is a series of sequences graduated into seven levels.
These can be used to check the progress made by gymnasts in a general gymnastics teaching programme. The activities have been selected to encourage children to become more proficient in general gymnastic skills. Each level requires a broadening of gymnastic skill and continuity with a 
minimum
increase in difficulty.
The fundamentals of the programme are the movement patterns unique to gymnastics called Dominant Movement Patterns (DMP's). Each DMP has a relatively simple mechanical base which, when patterned well, allows the gymnast to extend this pattern to other skills and combinations of similar difficulty. All gymnastic skills are made up of a blend of movement pattern elements.
- Landings - on feet, hands, all parts of body – a basic safety skill. Includes safely falling forward and backwards.
- Statics - a state of rest, or equilibrium during movement – include hangs, supports and balances.
- Spring - an explosive rebounding movement, from feet or hands, requiring power and rapid use of strength.
- Rotation - turning around the body's lateral, long, or medial axis. Includes rolls, turns, spins and twists.
- Swing - Rhythmic turning of the body around an external axis. Grip, arm strength & coordin-ation must be developed to support body weight.
- Locomotion - traveling, using hands, feet and other body surfaces on the ground, in the air, or over, under, along, through and around all kinds of equipment.
When a gymnast is competent in all activities within a level (confirmed by the head coach of the session) they can be tested by a GSNZ-qualified judge. MIGS usually holds 2 testing sessions per year. A gymnast must be over 7 years old to start these Incentive Levels.
The gymnast receives a certificate and a metal badge for each level passed.