# Rhythmic Gymnastics: Clubs and... Batons?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 2, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhythmic-gymnastics-clubs-and-batons/267254 "2004-10-02T23:48:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhythmic-gymnastics-clubs-and-batons/267254/1 "2004-10-02T23:48:24Z")

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Why isn’t baton twirling a rhytmic gymnastic apparatus? You’d think with its popularity (at least in the U.S., don’t know about the rest of the world) it’d be a natural.

And maybe even light them on fire, like at Hawaiian luaus.

Also, why aren’t the clubs actually juggled? Is that disallowed?

Peace.