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GYMNASTICS
The sport of gymnastics is exciting, aesthetic and demanding
Women’s Artistic Gymnastics
Women's Artistic gymnastics is probably the best-known branch of the sport and is one of the biggest crowd pleasers at the Olympic Games. It is an exciting, aesthetic, yet extremely demanding discipline incorporating vault, asymmetric bars, beam and floor.
Vault
This is a dynamic exercise from a springboard over a vaulting table 125cm high. It demonstrates power and accuracy, combining height and length, sometimes with multiple rotations or twists, to finish with a controlled landing.
Bars
This exercise is performed on two bars, one high, one low, over and between which gymnasts perform swinging movements and breathtaking skills where the bar is released and re-caught.
Beam
This awe-inspiring piece of apparatus is 5m in length, 125cm high and only 10cm wide. Requiring tremendous nerve and balance, the exercise combines artistry, acrobatic elements, balances, leaps, jumps and turns and finishes with a dismount demonstrating flight and precision landing.
Floor
The floor exercise is performed on a 12m x 12m sprung floor. A sequence of dance movements, tumbling, acrobatic elements, jumps, spins and leaps is choreographed to music, expressing the gymnast’s personality, style and flair.
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Men’s Artistic Gymnastics
Men's Artistic Gymnastics
is an Olympic discipline in which gymnastics moves are performed on a variety of specialist apparatus: floor; pommel horse; rings; vault; parallel bars; high bar. Each of the six pieces of apparatus require incredible agility, strength, balance and co-ordination and it is regarded by many as the most technically demanding of all sports.
Mens’ specific pieces are:
Pommel Horse
A routine on pommels is composed of smooth, continuous, pendulum-type swings and circling movements of the legs. All parts of the horse should be used with a combination of double leg circle, scissor movements and handstands. This is regarded by many as the most difficult apparatus to master.
Rings
A gymnast on the rings displays a variety of movements demonstrating strength, support and balance. They perform swings and holds requiring considerable strength with both forward and backward elements, finishing with an acrobatic dismount.
Parallel Bars
A combination of swinging elements and balances are performed between and across the bars. The gymnast must travel the full length of the apparatus and work on top of the bars as well as below them. The gymnast swings in and out of handstand with giant swings and somersaults between the bars.
High Bar
The high bar incorporates swinging and flight movements including changes of grip and the gymnast releasing and re-catching the bar, which is set 2.60m high in the air. This piece of apparatus is considered one of the most spectacular of all gymnastic events.
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The sport of gymnastics also incorporates Acro, Disability, Rhythmic, TeamGym, Schools, Trampoline/Double Mini Trampette (DMT) and Tumbling.
