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Gymnastics

Gymnastics Gymnastics is a sport involving performance

of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, balance and grace. Artistic Gymnastics, typically involves the women’s events of Uneven Bars, Balance Beam, Floor Exercise and Vault. Men’s events include Floor Exercise, Pommel Horse , Still

Rings, Parallel Bars and High Bar. Gymnastics involved from exercises used by accident

Greeks, that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus

performance skills. Other forms of gymnastics are rhythmic gymnastics, tramp lining sports,

aerobic and acrobatic gymnastics.

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY

Women’s Events Artistic expression

is as important as acrobatics skill in the women’s event.

Balance Beam Uneven Bars

Floor Exercises Vault

Women’s Events

The gymnast navigates two horizontal bars set a different heights. Gymnasts perform swinging, circling, transitional and release moves that may pass over,

under and between the two bars.

UNEVEN BARS

•It is a very narrow barely wider than your foot. Performing on this surface requires precision, control and a good

sense of balance.

The gymnast performs a choreographed routine from 60 to 80 seconds in length consisting of leaps,

acrobatic skills, somersaults, turns and dance elements on a padded

sprung beam.

Balance Beam

The routines of female gymnasts consist of tumbling passes, series of

jumps, dance elements, acrobatic skills and turns. A gymnast usually

performs three or four tumbling passes that include three or more skills. Male gymnasts also perform

series of tumbling passes are performed to demonstrate

flexibility, strength, and balance. Performed without music , unlike

the women's event.

Floor Exercise

• On vault gymnasts sprint down a runway, which is a maximum of 25

meters in length, before jumping into a sprint-board. The body position is maintained while “punching” the

vaulting platform. Successful vaults depend on the speed of the run, the

length of the complication, the power the gymnast gets from the legs and shoulder, the sensation of the body

awareness in the air and the speed of rotation.

Vault

Men’s Events

The events for male gymnasts require: power, coordination and flexibility.

Athletes compete in the following events….

High Bar Pommel Horse

Still Rings Parallel Bars

MEN’S EVENTS

A stick steel bar above the landing are is all the gymnast has to hold into as he performs giants, release skills and change of direction. By using

all of the momentum from giants and then releasing at the proper point, enough height can be achieved for spectacular dismounts.

High Bar

A typical pommel horse exercise involves both singles leg and double

leg work. Single leg skills are generally found in the form of

scissors, an element often done on the pommels, Double leg work

however, is the main staple of this event where the gymnast swings both legs in a circular motion (clockwise).

Pommel Horse

Rings is the most physically demanding event. The gymnast

must perform a routine demonstrating balance,

strength, power and dynamic emotion while

preventing the rings themselves from

swinging. A routine should have a dismount equal in difficulty of the routine difficulty of the

as a whole.

Rings

. Men perform on two bars slightly further than a shoulder’s width

apart and usually 1.75m high while executing a series of swings

balances and releases that require great strength and coordination

Parallel Bars