Artistic Gymnastics is a set of practices. organized sports activities, in which they are combined. modalities that demand strength, speed and a lot of elasticity.
The word gymnastics comes from the Greek language gymnádzein, which means “exercise without clothes”, which was the way the Greeks exercised in antiquity. Artistic gymnastics practices are organized through sequences of acrobatics and movements in various types of apparatus, which require strength, agility and precision.
There are reports of practices. of artistic gymnastics being practiced since the Egyptian antiquity, although. these reports are inaccurate. The first Western accounts of these practices. date from Greek antiquity, where it achieved prestige and social prominence, if. making it a competitive modality and a preparation for other practices. sports.
Interest in gymnastics. art declined during the Middle Ages, resurging in the early 18th century. At this time, the German schools emerged (permeated by slower and more rhythmic movements) e. Swedish (rich in the use of braces). These schools promoted the development of. sport, becoming essential for the modern practice of this sport.
Thus, in 1811, the German Friedrich Ludwig Christoph. Jahn, founded the first gymnastics school, in which German soldiers graduated. preparing to fight Napoleon Bonaparte's army. Friedrich Ludwig. Christoph Jahn also developed most of the gymnastics heels e. devices such as pommel horse, crossbar, parallel bars and bars. horizontal.
In 1881, the European Gymnastics Federation was created, and since then the. sport has become popular all over the world.
Artistic gymnastics has been an Olympic sport since the 1936 Berlin Olympics, in which the male, female, individual and team categories emerged. World Championships in Artistic Gymnastics are held every two years today.
Olympic artistic gymnastics brings together a variety of physical exercises, with different technical foundations.
In the men's modality, the events are divided into: floor, rings, fixed and parallel bars, pommel horse, table vault, rings and floor.
In the female modality, the tests are divided into: solos, table jumping, asymmetrical parallels and balance beam.
In gymnastics tests. artistic, the athlete's score depends on the technical mistakes made, the grade. the difficulty of the movements, the quality of their execution and the coherence of the. sequence.
The exercises performed by each gymnast are judged by a set of referees, Panel A and Panel B. Panel A has the function of analyzing the maximum grade of the exercise content, that is, Grade A. Grade A takes into account the
degree of difficulty of the movements performed.
Panel B has the function to analyze the errors in the execution of the movements and the quality of the artistic presentation, during the movements. The athlete's final grade is calculated by adding the A and B grades.
In team competitions e. individual tests are classified and divided according to the apparatus. used, as well as according to the gender of the gymnasts:
Male and female events, also called mixed events:
Solo, proof in which the athlete. performs a mandatory sequence of moves, limited to a square with. sides of 12 meters each, in a total time seventy seconds for male athletes. and ninety seconds for women, with only women performing. with music.
Jump on the horse, proof. in which the athlete jumps supporting himself on the apparatus, after a run over one. track 25 meters long. The purpose of this test is to perform stunts. and movements in the air.
Only male events, which feature strength maneuvers in the athletes' acrobatic sequences:
Rings, proof in which the. gymnast performs movements at a height of 2.80 meters at the same time as. only hold the rings with your hands.
Pommel horse, proof na. which the athlete performs a sequence of movements without allowing their legs to touch. on the device.
Parallel bars, proof na. in which the athlete performs a sequence of movements supporting himself on the bar with at least one of his hands.
Fixed bar, proof in which the. athlete performs a sequence of movements on a 2.80 meter bar. height.
Women's races, which feature precision of movements, rhythm and elegance of movements:
Asymmetric bars, proof no. which the athlete performs a sequence of movements between bars are placed on. unequal heights, which forces the athlete to move through the two.
Beam, a test in which the athlete performs a sequence of movements while balancing on a beam with a thickness of 10 centimeters.
In an artistic gymnastics competition, the objective of the athletes is to execute in a perfect and elegant way all the movements of the competitions. When competing, gymnasts perform various movements with predetermined sequences; performed on apparatus and on the ground. These movements take place on the apparatus and on the ground. An artistic gymnastics competition takes place in many ways, with different types of rules, although generally the quality of the exercises performed determines the athletes' grade, and consequently the gymnast's position in the ranking.
To the. perform a test, the gymnasts perform their
spins, jumps and other acrobatics without being able to exceed the determined limits. of the court, in quadrangular form. In the male category, men are 70. seconds to execute their movements and in the female category women have. 90 seconds of execution.
Diamidov, movement performed with parallel bars, in which the athlete only has to hold. with one hand the barbell and rotate around your own body;
Extended, movement in which the athlete keeps the body in a straight line, without forming an angle.
Opening, movement that works and articulates the athlete's hips and legs;
Airplane, movement in which the athlete needs to keep one leg on the ground and lift the other from behind, while keeping the arms open;
Kick, movement in which the athlete's legs must be kept extended at an angle with the gymnast's trunk.
See more:
Subscribe to our email list and receive interesting information and updates in your email inbox
Thanks for signing up.