With the development of modern gymnastics, the importance of the artistic gymnastics athlete selection has become more and more prominent. The investigation and analysis have been carried out on sports schools around the city of gymnastics coaches athletes on the conventional selection criteria of content selection through literature, expert interviews, questionnaire survey, data statistics. This paper studies shows that the standard of coaches in the selection process is not the same around the city of Anhui Province，the way of material movement is still a routine method to follow the old material, although the experience method has a certain effect on the movement of material, but with the rapid development of gymnastics, the old experience of law cannot be fully effective in moving material standards, must be appropriate reference standards for the selection of scientific development ,which will be more effective in competitive gymnastics