What do you know about 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 Balance Beam Uneven Bars Floor Exercises Vault

Uneven Bars 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.

Balance Beam 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.

Floor Exercise 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.

Vault 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.

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 High Bar Pommel Horse Still Rings Parallel Bars

High Bar 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.

Pommel Horse 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).

Rings 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.

Parallel Bars . 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