Gymnastics is a competitive sport that tests strength, rhythm, balance, flexibility and agility. There are three major forms: rhythmic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, and trampoline. Rhythmic gymnastics is only for females while artistic and trampoline are for both males and females. Gymnastics originated from ancient civilizations and has evolved over time with contributions from many individuals around the world, including the development of apparatuses and the introduction of gymnastics into school curriculums and competitions.
5. GYMNASTICS
RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS IS OPEN
ONLY TO FEMALES.
ARTISTIC AND TRAMPOLINE
GYMNASTICS ARE PART OF MALE
AND FEMALE COMPETITIONS.
6. BRIEF HISTORY OF
GYMNASTICS
THE EARLIEST RECORDED
ACTIVITIES IN GYMNASTICS WERE
SOME EXERCISES, STUNTS AND
TUMBLING RESEMBLING
GYMNASTICS.
7. BRIEF HISTORY OF
GYMNASTICS
THE EARLY CIVILIZATION, HANGING,
CLIMBING WITH ROPE, SWINGING,
BALANCING ON STONE AND LOG
FLIPPING AND TURNING WERE AMONG
OF THEIR COMMON ACTIVITIES.
8. 1. KUNG FU OR MEDICAL GYMNASTICS
-CHINESE EXERCISE
2. YOGA-INDIA
3. NAKED ART-GREEKS
4. BALANANG-EGYPTIANS
5. MONSTIG AND DIMONSTIG
-ROMANS
9. IN ANCIENT GREECE, THREE
DISTINCT PROGRAMS OF
GYMNASTIC EXERCISE WERE
DEVELOPED
maintenance of good
physical condition
for military training
part of the conditioning
regimen for athletes
10. JOHANN BASEDOW
HE WAS THE FIRST TO
CONDUCT GYMNASTICS AS
PART OF EDUCATION IN
SCHOOL CURRICULUM.
11. JOHANN BASEDOW
• HE WAS THE FIRST
MODERN WRITER AND
TEACHER OF ORGANIZED
GYMNASTICS FOR WHOM
RECORDS SURVIVE.
12. JOHANN GUTS MUTH
THE GREAT GRANDFATHER OF
GYMNASTICS
HE WROTE MANY INFLUENTIAL
BOOKS INCLUDING CAREFULLY
CHOSEN GYMNASTICS EXERCISES FOR
GIRLS IN 1818.
HE WROTE GYMNASTICS FOR YOUTH,
THE FIRST BOOK ON MODERN
GYMNASTICS IN 1793.
13. JOHANN GUTS MUTH
THE GREAT GRANDFATHER OF
GYMNASTICS
HE DESCRIBES THE USE OF
SLOPING BEAMS, CLIMBING POLE,
LADDERS AND ROPES ALONG
WITH THE BALANCING AND THE
SWINGING BEAM.
14. FRANZ NACHTEGALL
HE FORMED A GYMNASTICS CLUB,
OPENED A PRIVATE GYMNASIUM
AND THROUGH HIS SUCCESS
ENCOURAGES THE GOVERNMENT
TO INCORPORATE TRAINING INTO
ITS CURRICULUM.
15. FRANZ NACHTEGALL
HIS GYMNASTICS PROGRAM
IN DENMARK EMPHASIZED
MASS CALISTHENICS, MASS
VAULTING AND DRILLS USING
DUMBBELLS AND BALLS.
16. FRANZ NACHTEGALL
FOUNDED THE DANISH SYSTEM OF
GYMNASTICS, WHICH WAS
CONSIDERED USEFUL FOR MILITARY
TRAINING, AND IN 1804 HE WAS
APPOINTED THE FIRST DIRECTOR OF
DENMARK’S INFLUENTIAL MILITARY
GYMNASTIC INSTITUTE.
17. GERHARD VIETH
PUBLISHED A BOOK OF EXERCISES. HE
ALSO DESCRIBE THE BALANCE BEAM,
JUMPING ROPES, CLIMBING ROPES
AND POLES, THE HORSE, THE TABLE
AND THE BUCK. HE WROTE OF
VAULTING OVER HORIZONTAL POLES
AT DIFFERENT HEIGHTS.
18. PER HENRIK LING
FATHER OF SWEDISH
GYMNASTICS
HE INVENTED THE STALL
BARS AND VAULTING BOX.
20. ADOLPH SPIESS
THE FATHER OF SCHOOL GYMNASTICS
HE TAUGHT GYMNASTICS TO
HIS CLASSES IN SWITZERLAND
AND ADDED MARCHING AND
INTRODUCED THE FREE HAND
EXERCISES WITH THE MUSIC.
21. FRIEDRICH LUDWIG JAHN
THE FATHER OF GYMNASTICS
HE WAS A GERMAN EDUCATOR
KNOWN TO HAVE STARTED
GYMNASTICS CLUBS AND
GYMNASTICS MOVEMENTS FOR
COMPETITIVE PURPOSE.
22. FRIEDRICH LUDWIG JAHN
THE FATHER OF GYMNASTICS
HE DESIGNED EXERCISES TO BE
PERFORMED ON STATIONARY
PIECES OF EQUIPMENT, AND EVEN
INVENTED MUCH OF THE
APPARATUS USED IN HIS
TRAINING.
23. DR. DUDLEY SARGENT
HE WAS THE FIRST AMERICAN
CONTRIBUTOR TO
GYMNASTICS BECAUSE HE
WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN
INCLUDING GYMNASTICS IN
THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM.
25. OBJECTIVES OF GYMNASTICS
1. TO DEVELOP COORDINATION AND VIGOR
2. TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH ACTIVITIES
THAT WILL ASSIST TO CORRECT MINOR
POSTURAL DEFECT.
3. TO MAINTAIN NORMAL FUNCTIONING OF
THE ORGANIC SYSTEM OF THE BODY.
26. OBJECTIVES OF GYMNASTICS
4. TO IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN AGILITY
AND SUPPLENESS.
5. TO INCREASE MUSCULAR STRENGTH.
6. TO LEARN EXERCISES THAT WILL BE
USEFUL THROUGHOUT LIFE AS
CONDITIONING OR “KEEPING FIT”
EXERCISE.
27. SYSTEMATIC FORM OF
PHYSICAL EXERCISE
1. EDUCATIONAL GYMNASTICS
2. THERAPEUTIC OR REMEDIAL
GYMNASTICS
3. COMPETETIVE GYMNASTICS
28. TYPES OF GYMNASTICS
1. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
Exercises that was perform on
heavy apparatus.
Examples:
Balance Beam
Horizontal Bars
Parallel Bars
Vaulting
Side Horse
39. TERMS INGYMNASTICS
ARCH – is a position
where the body is curved
like an arc of a circle,
with the hip forward and
the head and truck bent
backward.
53. TYPES OF GYMNASTICS
ROUTINE/EXERCISE –
planned series of dance
skills, locomotors skills,
gymnastics skills and
tumbling skills performed
with or without music.