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A high strength to weight ratio is important for athletes. It means they can accelerate faster, it's an advantage in martial arts where your divided by weight classes, and in the case of gymnastics, it allows you to preform some of those hard maneuvers. In the video I posted, he started his routine with a muscle up L-sit combination. A muscle up works the entire upper body, and is a very difficult thing to do. What your doing is a pull up into a chest dip and back again; you have to switch from one muscle group to another mid way through the muscle up. That's hard. And a muscle up is considered one of the easier exercises in a gymnast's repertoire.
If you only care about strength though, weight training can get you more brute strength than body weight exercises. But body weight exercises are useful for athletes because of they build really strength-dense muscles.
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