Gymnastics has always been one of my favorite sports. I like the way the athletes bodies move. They are all so flexible and interesting to look at. I wanted to be just like those athletes, or at least let my children be like them. This was my dream. Growing up in the city of Washington, DC in 1976, I used to sit on my parents’ bedroom floor, watching TV. I decided to turn the channel one day to the Olympics. I noticed that there were these girls, who were doing some amazing flips. I’d never seen
skills people only dream of doing. Gymnastics is a sport that taught me many things including how to preserve through difficult situations and how to overcome my fears. I did gymnastics for ten years before I decided that the sport was too stressful and time consuming. A week before I decided to quit gymnastics I was discussing with my family and friends that I wanted to join cross country. It was the beginning of ninth grade and I was not enjoying gymnastics as much as I used too. I didn’t want
Gymnastics is a sport that requires strength, flexibility, dedication, and determination. However, gymnastics also requires the ability to be graceful and delicate. For many years people have been dedicating themselves to this sport, training for either artistic or rhythmic gymnastics. The sport of gymnastics has been around for many years. Originating around 2,500 years ago makes it one of the oldest sports. People believe that the first "apparatus" used was actually a bull. Men would grab
What is Gymnastics? Have you ever watched the Olympics and been in awe by the males and females that do flips on the floor, or watch people tumble on sliver of wood. That awesome sport is called gymnastics. Let’s first take it back to when gymnastics really started. Gymnastics is the world's oldest sport. It was developed in Australia. The first national competition was in the 1950’s for the Olympics. It has been a competitive sport for more than 100 years. Gymnastics is an active sport in which
Ever since I was 5 years old I have been enrolled in the sport of gymnastics. Gymnastics turned into my life, I would practice every day after school for 4 hours Monday-Friday. I began to really enjoy the sport as I grew up. I encountered some injuries along the way but that never stopped me from finishing my senior year. I got to become very close with my teammates and especially my coaches. My gyms head coach got me to state every year in the sport and I never would have made it so far and achieved
popular assumptions, the way of the gymnastics world is just about the farthest thing from glamorous or trivial. For olympic gymnasts, a majority of them end up retiring at young ages due to the intensity of this sport. Granted, there are a number of benefits of this practice, but in the long run they are far outweighed by the drawbacks. Behind the glitter, a hot debate brews regarding the malicious effects on a young female in this seemingly impossible sport. Gymnastics is undoubtedly one of the most
“The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.” -Dominique Dawes. Gymnastics is a sport not many recognize as a true sport. However this sport is beneficial to creating a better mind and body for athletes. Athletes in gymnastics become stronger in their mind through teamwork and individuality, and stronger, healthier and more enduring in their body. Conditioning;
Cheerleading and Gymnastics are different sports that are capable of multiple things. Cheerleading was an all boy sport, became popular after sometime, and it also became a competitive sport that still takes place today. Gymnastics is another sport that came from ancient Greek, was brought to the United States, and to this day became one of the most attractive sports. These two different sports are different and comparable, but have come a long way. Cheerleading first started in the 1800s.
worked so hard to figure out and the decisions I spent so long forming. Now, no one ever said it would be easy to leave gymnastics after 12 glorious years, but nobody warned me it could be this hard. Gymnastics had been my heart and soul since I was two years old. I lived, loved, and breathed gym all through preschool, grade school, and well into junior high. However, gymnastics did not come naturally to me. I was never the best in my class and learned very quickly that the Olympics were not in
Having started gymnastics at four years old, I grew up intrigued about how my body was able to perform the strenuous tasks I asked of it. As I continued participating in the sport, I became increasingly more flexible and was able to put my body under conditions which one might find stressful, such as being able to do the splits. I have always been interested in sports but it was the science of how our bodies allowed us to do such things that compelled me. Combining this appreciation of sport’s ability
Eating Disorders And Gymnastics Eating disorders are especially common among athletes because the pressure of the sport environment frequently precipitates the onset of these problems. In this population, certain compulsive behaviors such as excessive exercise and restricted eating patterns are seen as acceptable, and pathogenic methods of weight control are often introduced. In addition, concern about body size and shape is increased because of the "social influence for thinness [from coaches
is a well-known gymnastics movement. Gymnastics comes from the Greek origin and is better described as a disciplinary exercise (Strauss, 2016). This sport combines self-control, balance, coordination, and acrobatic skills (Strauss, 2016). This sport is performed by both men and women and it is enjoyable to all. During the ancient Greek time, being physically fit was a necessity. The Greeks referred to it as “gymnazein”, meaning “to exercise naked” (Strauss, 2016). Although gymnastics was founded in
First of all, Rhythmic Gymnastics is a women-only event, and it is requires high levels of flexibility, agility, and coordination. The athletes will perform the combination which is integrating the amazing gymnastic and dancing movement to coordinating the background music. Also, the athletes will use the props to make the movement more powerful and stunning. Therefore, in this essay, i would like to compare the changes of the pass and modern rhythmic gymnastic in the Olympic Game. 1.1 The history
Gymnastics Canada was first established in 1969. It is Canada’s governing body for gymnastics. There are currently over 280,000 registered participants across Canada (“About GYMN”). Gymnastics is considered one of the oldest sports. It had originated in ancient Greece. The gymnastics we know today is said to have been developed in Germany around the 1800s. In 1843, the first Olympic Gymnasium opened in Montreal by an Englishman named F. Barnjum. Inspiration for Canadian gymnastics is derived from
“Ouch, Mom!” I exclaimed as my mother pulled the strands of hair she was holding even tighter. She criss-crossed the strands to make two, neat French braids on the top of my head for my first gymnastics meet. The thought of this special event filled me with familiar nervousness and excitement. The butterflies were raging war inside my stomach and my knees felt as if they were about to crumble into a million pieces from the weight of my own body. Excitement kept the nervousness from taking over the
Gymnastics is considered by most to be one of the top 3 hardest sports in existence. There are aspects of the sport of gymnastics that exceed all other sports. The strength, flexibility, speed, power, and the intense training and competition all play factors in what make gymnastics so difficult. This sport requires as much or more than most other collegiate athletes while the teams receive much less money than that of a football team. The first point will introduce the massive benefits of gymnastics
Cheerleading vs Gymnastics While cheerleading and gymnastics have similar moves and tumbling passes, the differences in the sports can vary. Varying from if they are a team or not, cheerleading and gymnastics are two totally different sports but also similar in ways. Even though gymnastics and cheerleading include tumbling and the difference in the level of difficulty in the tumbling passes. Cheerleading lifts people while gymnastics is all about how graceful you can be. A big bow, a part of a cheerleader’s
can go from low bar to high bar, from high bar to low bar, or from releasing one bar. Gymnastics has many events that are not
One interest that I believe has made a huge impact on my life is my love for the sport of gymnastics. While I was enrolled in gymnastics classes and such as a child, it wasn’t until my seventh grade in middle school that I was truly drawn into the sport. My older cousin had done a school project and used a gymnast as an example in it. When she started watching some gymnastics videos for her project, I sat and watched with her. It was from that moment on that I started becoming more and more engrossed
Gymnastics Gymnastics is a sport. You can compete it. When you see gymnastics on TV, you might think wow, that’s so cool. But life of a gymnast can not always be easy. You have to do conditioning (if you don’t know what that is, it’s what makes you stronger, push ups, sit ups and other stuff) and go through the pain of getting rips. Rips are when you go on a bar and get peeling skin on your hands. Speaking of bars, this brings me to the events. Bars, beam, floor