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Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of exercises requiring physical strength,

flexibility, power, agility, coordination, and balance.

The Federation of International Gymnastics was founded in Liege in 1881. By the end of the

nineteenth century, men's gymnastics competition was popular enough to be included in

the first "modern" Olympic Games in 1896.Other gymnastic disciplines include:

trampolining, tumbling, rhythmic gymnastics, acrobatic gymnastics

Competitive artistic gymnastics

women's eventsuneven bars balance beam floor exerciseVault

Men's events floor exercise • pommel horse• still rings• vault• parallel bars• high bar

Vault

The vault is an event as well as the primary piece of equipment used in that event. The vault is a common to both men's and women's

Floor exercise

It occurs on a carpeted square, called a "spring floor. A series of tumbling passes is performed

Uneven bars

swinging, circling, transitional, The most common way to mount these bars is by jumping towards the lower bar first.

Balance Beam

The gymnast performs a choreographed routine from 70 to 90 seconds , acrobatic skills, turns and dance elements on a padded spring beam

Pommel horse

A typical pommel horse exercise involves both single leg and double leg work.

TumblingIn gymnastics, tumbling, also known as power tumbling is an

acrobatic sporting discipline which combines some of the skills of artistic gymnastics on the floor with those of trampolining. It is practised on a 25 metre long

spring track.

Basic tumbling moves

Back tucks Back handsprings Cartwheels Roundoffs Roundoff back handsprings Layouts Front Fulls Double Full Standing Fulls Whip Double backs Aerial

BASIC MOVES

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