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In gymnastics, in the vault, why do the women jump on the spring board differently than the men?

When watching the vault in gymnastics, I see the women will back handspring into the spring board whereas the men will run up and jump on it. By doing a back handspring into the board does that enable the women to generate more power on their vaults? Is that why they do it? And are there restrictions to why men don't do it?

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1. they get on the vault different ways. running and jumping on it, hand spring, just depends on the difficulty of it. It adds more difficulty to that. I believe its cuz you have to use so much more strength to get yourself up and get alot of air. Plus, men's and women's gymnasticss are really different.
2. Because men see, don't want to get their jezz stuck in the machine yo. That would like hurt yeah.