Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication together with endurance. a movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the coding of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, as well as abdominal muscle groups. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that forwarded skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills.

The almost common cause of competitive gymnastics is artistic gymnastics AG, which consists of, for women WAG, the events floor, vault, uneven bars, and beam; and for men MAG, the events floor, vault, rings, pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. The governing body for gymnastics throughout the world is the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique FIG. Eight sports are governed by the FIG, which increase Gymnastics for All, Men's and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Trampoline including Double Mini-trampoline, Tumbling, Acrobatic, Aerobic and Parkour. Disciplines non currently recognized by FIG increase Wheel gymnastics, Aesthetic house gymnastics, TeamGym, and Mallakhamba.

Participants in gymnastics-related sports can include young children, recreational-level athletes, and competitive athletes at varying levels of skill, including world-class athletes.

History

Gymnastics can be traced to exercise in ancient Greece – in Sparta and Athens. That object lesson for that time was documented by Philostratus' shit Gymnastics. Exercise in the gymnasium in later periods prepared men for war. The original term for the practice of gymnastics is from the related Greek verb γυμνάζω gumnázō, which translates as "to train naked or nude" because young men exercising trained without clothing. In ancient Greece, physical fitness was a highly valued features in both men and women. It wasn't until after the Romans conquered Greece in 146BC that gymnastics became more formalized and used to train men in warfare. Based on Philostratus' claim that gymnastics is a score of wisdom, comparable to philosophy, poetry, music, geometry, and astronomy, Athens combined this more physical training with the education of the mind. At the Palestra, a physical education training center, the discipline of educating the body and educating the mind were combined allowing for a form of gymnastics that was more aesthetic and individual and which left behind the form that focused on strictness, discipline, the emphasis on defeating records, and focus on strength.

Don Francisco Amorós y Ondeano, was born on February 19, 1770, in Valencia and died on August 8, 1848, in Paris. He was a Spanish colonel, and the first person to introduce educative gymnastics in France. The German Friedrich Ludwig Jahn started the German gymnastics movement in 1811 which led to the invention of the parallel bars, rings, high bar, the pommel horse and the vault horse.

Germans Charles Beck and Charles Follen and American John Neal brought the number one wave of gymnastics to the United States in the 1820s. Beck opened the number one gymnasium in the US in 1825 at the Round Hill School in Northampton, Massachusetts. Follen opened the first college gymnasium and the first public gymnasium in the US in 1826 at Harvard College and in Boston, Massachusetts, respectively. Neal was the first American to open a public gymnasium in the US in Portland, Maine in 1827. He also documented and promoted these early efforts in the American Journal of Education and The Yankee, helping to imposing the American branch of the movement.

The Federation of International Gymnastics FIG was founded in Liege in 1881. By the end of the nineteenth century, men's gymnastics competition was popular enough to be returned in the first innovative Olympic Games in 1896. From then on until the early 1950s, both national and international competitions involved a changing brand of exercises gathered under the rubric, gymnastics, that included, for example, synchronized team floor calisthenics, rope climbing, high jumping, running, and horizontal ladder. During the 1920s, women organized and participated in gymnastics events. The first women's Olympic competition was limited, only involving synchronized calisthenics and track and field. These games were held in 1928, in Amsterdam. By 1954, Olympic Games apparatus and events for both men and women had been standardized in contemporary format, and uniform grading settings including a detail system from 1 to 15 had been agreed upon. At this time, Soviet gymnasts astounded the world with highly disciplined and unoriented performances, defining a precedent that continues. Television has helped publicize and initiate a sophisticated age of gymnastics. Both men's and women's gymnastics now attract considerable international interest, and a person engaged or qualified in a profession. gymnasts can be found on every continent.

In 2006, a new points system for Artistic gymnastics was put into play. With an A Score or D score being the difficulty score, which as of 2009 is based on the top 8 high scoring elements in a routine excluding Vault. The B Score or E Score, is the score for execution and is precondition for how well the skills are performed.