Is a sport to develop fitness

and muscular condition

requiring physical strength,
flexibility, balance, endurance,
Gymnastics
gracefulness and kinesthetic
awareness such as
handsprings, hand stands,
split leaps aerials and
cartwheels. It developed from
beauty practices and fitness
used by Ancient Greeks
including mounting and
dismounting and circus
performance skills.
Skills developed:
Form and balance

Activity that manipulates different

parts of the body into varied
positions

Movement and procurement of

skills: tuck, layout, arch, split, roll
twist, rotate
How to attain the
skills Through proper body preparations especially
on strength and flexibility.

Changes of gymnastics emphasis on flowing

movements and the inclusions of dance and
locomotor skills in creation of routines.
Graceful poise and dignity of movements are
emphasized.
 • The earliest record
activities in gymnastics
History of
gymnastics were exercise stunts and
tumbling resembled as
gymnastics. During the
early civilization the
activities were: hanging,
climbing, ropes, swinging,
balancing on stone and logs,
flipping, turning and
running.
Gymnastics in
different countries
introduced:

Yoga form of exercise by

refreshing and relaxing.
Chinese – Kung Fu or medical gymnastics
extremely rare 19th century treatise on
Chinese medicine, particularly the practices
of the Kung Fu school. This has never been
reprinted and was scanned from a rare copy
in the possession of the University of
California. Although best known for a
fighting style, Kung Fu includes a whole
range of medical practices based on late
Taoist alchemy. Dudgeon
Roman Empire, love of war
– using of wooden
equipment like a back of
horse, this equipment in now
being used in practice
mounting and dismounting a
horse indoor as competitive
in gymnastics.