GROUP 1

FUNDAMENTALS
OF
GYMNASTICS
 GYMNASTICS
- is used as competitive sports or
to improve
fitness,
- flexibility, coordination
and physical fitness.
TYPES OF GYMNASTICS
Women’s Artistic Gymnastics
. Men’s Artistic Gymnastics
3. Rhythmic Gymnastics
4. Trampoline
5. Tumbling
6. Acrobatic Gymnastics
7. Group Gymnastics
EQUIPMENT USED IN
GYMNASTICS
 Bars
 Rings
 Ribbon
 Chalk
 Ball
 Ropes
 Trampoline

 HISTORY
 Gymnastics was introduced in
early Greek civilization to
facilitate bodily movement
about 2500 years ago.
 Many basic gymnastics events
were practiced literally “to
exercise naked”.
 Both men and women
participated in vigorous
 Gymnasium as the hub of gymnastics.
 They found that Gymnastics was
very valuable in their military
training.
 Gymnastics as a combination of
sport and art.
 “Artistic Gymnastics” emerged in
1800’s
 Olympic program began to settle
in 1942.
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
started Gymnastics.
 Modern Gymnastic
Gymnastics is a sport in which exercises
requiring strength, flexibility, balance, and
control are performed. All events are
governed by the "Federation Internationale
de Gymnastique" on a global scale (FIG).
Each country has a national governing
body (BIW) that is affiliated with FIG.
Artistic gymnastics includes the events that
most people associate with gymnastics as a
whole. Athletes in artistic gymnastics
perform feats of strength, agility, and grace
in events such as floor exercise, balance
beam, uneven bars, parallel bars, vault,
rings, and pommel horse.
In modern gymnastics competitions, there are six
men's events and four women's events scored.
Modern competition 1896-1924-
Men’s gymnastics was on the
schedule of the first Olympic.
1936-Women competition began.
1952-Competition for the separate
event was added.
•Germany
•Sweden
•Italy
•Switzerlnad
RINGS
MEN’S
EVENT
Side or pommel
horse
Horizontal
bar

Parallel
 Floor

Long of vaulting
horse
PHASES
OF
 AS CLASSROOM SUBJECT:
 GYMNASTIN IN FANCY
MARCHING
 FREEHAND EXERCISE OR
CALISTHENICS
 STUNT/TUMBLING AND
 AS CLASSROOM SUBJECT:
 GYMNASTIN IN FANCY
MARCHING
 FREEHAND EXERCISE OR
CALISTHENICS
 STUNT/TUMBLING AND
 AS CLASSROOM SUBJECT:
 GYMNASTIN IN FANCY
MARCHING
 FREEHAND EXERCISE OR
CALISTHENICS
 STUNT/TUMBLING AND
 AS CLASSROOM SUBJECT:
 GYMNASTIN IN FANCY
MARCHING
 FREEHAND EXERCISE OR
CALISTHENICS
 STUNT/TUMBLING AND
 Gymnastics as sport
Women’s artistic gymnastic
has the most participants and is
generally the most well-known of the
types of gymnastics.
It is a discipline of gymnastics in
which athletes perform short routines
 Events and
Apparatus
Balance
beam Uneven parallel
bars

Vaulting
Floor Horse
exercise
 WOMEN’S
EVENT

Uneven
bars
Floo
Balance r
beam
Men’s Artistic
Gymnastics
Events and
Apparatus
Rhythmic
gymnastics is a sport
in which individuals
or groups of five
manipulate one or
two pieces of
apparatus: rope, hoop,
ball, clubs and ribbon,
 Rhythmic gymnastics
*An Olympic sport
since 1984.
*Acrobatics are not
used.
BALLS ARE MADE
OF RUBBER OR
SYNTHETIC
PLASTIC MATERIAL
AND ARE OFTEN
IMPLEMENTED IN
ROUTINES IN AN
ATTEMPT TO
DEMONSTRATE
 Clubs are another
common piece of
rhythmic gymnastics
equipment. Clubs are
built by wrapping a thin
layer of plastic or
another similar material
around an insulated thin
rod. These usually
HOOP Made of
wood or plastic, the
hoop is 0.7 to 0.8
meters in diameter.
Gymnasts execute
moves with the
The ribbon, made of
cloth or a similar fabric,
is usually about 4 – 6
meters in length. While
the stick attached to the
ribbon is usually about 1
meter long. It is
important to carefully
pick which gymnastics
movements are useful to
subordinate with a
 Rope is used frequently
in concurrence with
rapidly paced gymnastics
routine consisting of
running and jumping.
Especially, the gymnast
usually twirls or jumps
over the rope while
doing this routine in
order to add an extra
layer of difficulty, while
RINGS
MEN’S
EVENT
Side or pommel
horse
Horizontal
bar

Parallel
 Floor

Long of vaulting
horse