Gymnastics

Target, WalMart, Kmart all sell them. Target has a nice kit including a mat.

the dictionary definition for these words are: stunts-- a performance displaying a person's skill or dexterity, as in athletics; feat: an acrobatic stunt.tumbling-- the act, practice, or art of performing acrobatic tumbles, usually on a mat or the ground. stunts are like in cheerleading when you see a girl getting thrown up in the air or people holding a girl in the air, that's a stunt. tumbling is considered things like cartwheel, front roll, round-off, back-handspring, back tuck, full, x-out, front tuck, front-handspring, etc.

Some of the events include:
Vault, in which you would naturally use the vault and you might use mats or springboards for practicing. (Used in Girls and Boys gymnastics.)
Floor, in which you might use mats or springboards for practice. (Used in Girls and Boys gymnastics.)
Bars, in which you use the bars. You also might use grips for your hands, tape, or chalk. (Used in Girls and Boys gymnastics. Girls use uneven bars and boys use parallel bars as well as the high bar.)
Beam, in which you use the beam, and a mat for practice. (Used in Girls gymnastics.)
Rings, in which you used the rings and you might use mats, a foam pit, or chalk. (Used in Boys gymnastics.)
Pommel Horse, in which you use a pommel horse and maybe some chalk. (Used in Boys gymnastics.)

Gymnastics is wonderful! It builds up muscle tone, It keeps you fit and healthy, It's a wonderful sport to be involved in and to be proud of, you get to learn how to tumble (which is so much fun), your team and other athletes in your gym become some of your best friends :)

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The best way to prepare for a meet is to ask a coach or check out some websites. Try punching "How to prepare for a gymnastics meet" into google, it worked for me and after that I won 2nd place on everything! It really works!

Hope this helps, do good and score well!

Nire Ginimelf age 10 level 6 gymnast at Arlington Aerials

Nadia Comaneci, A Romanian Gymnast, winner of 3 olympic gold medals was the first ever to achieve a perfect 10 in Gymnastics.

You usually buy it from your gymnastics club. You get magnesium and carbon and combine it together and compress it in to a block and then wrap it up in some plastic.

Gymnastics is unique because it is one of those sports like basketball where it isn't called something different whether a boy or a girl plays it. It can be fun, challenging, scary, and one of the best times of your life. Also because it is scored unlike most sports, and the competitions consist of team work and yourself. Gymnastics is an amazing sport and don't judge it by its cover as a bunch of kids dancing around because it is alot harder then it seems.

Of course! If you really want to, you should do it and not worry about your age. Just have fun and work hard to improve. Many people have done this and they have turned out to be really successful!

It depends. If you are really strong, coordinated, and flexible then you can probably get away with little balance. If you have really good balance, you do not have to be as strong, coordinated, or flexible to do certain skills. It also depends on what type of gymnastics you are doing. A cartwheel of the beam takes more balance than a cartwheel on the floor.

Generally, there'd be very little advantage to doing so because most of a gymnast's speed, rotation, and power do not come from a lack of air friction, but rather from technique, fast-twitch muscle development, and repetition of skills in practice. But if it makes you more comfortable during the meet to be hair-free, then I'd say do whatever makes you perform better at competition (short of anything illegal).

Shawn Johnson was not inspired,her parents put her in gymnastics because she had to much energy.

Olympic Gold medalist Mary Lou Retton has four daughters. She and her husband Shannon Kelley live in the city of Houston, Texas.

Modern gymnastics was originally developed by the two main founding fathers Johann Guts Muth (Swedish, rythmic) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (German, apparatus), as an exercise regime for men and boys. It was fundamental in the preparation of combatants for the German Army of Liberation against the Napoleonic Army of Occupation. Jahn also created the horizontal bar, parallel bars and the vault, though they were much different than they are known for today. Modern Gymnastics appeared for the first time at the 1896 Olympics in Athens. Although women demonstrated the sport at the 1908 Olympics, women did not compete in the Olympics until 1928. Some of the first events seen in the Olympics from gymnastics included: running, synchronized team floor calisthenics, rope climbing, high jumping etc. Now female gymnasts compete on the floor exercise, vault, uneven bars, and balance beam. Male gymnasts compete on the floor exercise, vault, parallel bars, horizontal bar, pommel horse and rings. Nadia Comaneci was the first gymnast to receive a perfect score in the 1976 Olympics. In 2006, gymnastics saw it first change in the point system. Originally gymnasts were scored on a basis of 1 -10. 10 being the highest. But now gymnasts have a start value. This means that the gymnast performing the routines can choose the difficulty level of his/her skills. The higher the difficulty level of the skills in the routine, the higher the starting value will be.

I learned my splits in a week so i know it is possible!

First check how far you are SAFETLY! fallow these safety tips:

let your self down easy and keep your chest up and MOST IMPORTANTLY NEVER COME BACK UP FROM YOUR SPLITS FAST YOU CAN BREAK YOUR KNEE CAP!!!!!

So after you figure out how far you can go down go from there. for a day focus on getting down farther. you can push your self farther down on a wall.

then another thing you can do is get a gymnastics mat fold it up and put one foot on it and the other on the floor and try to do the splits on that.

or you can lay against a wall and put your legs out on the wall. then do pulsing crunches while holding on to your inner thighs your legs lower after a minute or 2 alot! all these things help esspecially streatching!

YOU ONLY WANT TO SPEND DEPEnDING oN THE DAYS OF YOUR WEEK IT IS 5 DAYS YOU ONLY WANNA SPEND ABOUT 3 DAYS ON DOING THESE. IF IT IS 7 DAYS THEN SPEND 4 DAYS ON THESE. AFTER THAT JUST PRACTICE ALOT AND AS WARM UPS YOU SHOULD STILL DO THOSE STREATCHES BUT YOUR MAIN FOCUS FOR THE LAST DAY SHOULD BE ON GETTING FARTHER DOWN AND PRACTICING.!

hope this helped and GOOD LUCK

love always

Miss.Cheerleader

Gymnastics is done all over the world. Because of this, it is an Olympic sport.

For anyone still wondering what happened to Nadia Comaneci's best friend, Teodora -- go to this website for info & an update.

http://www.romanian-gymnastics.com/profiles/1976olympics/teodora_ungureanu.htm

For information on Nadia, she & her husband have a website:

http://www.nadiacomaneci.com

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I personally think that gymnastics is much harder than cheerleading. I did gymnastics since i was small. I made it on team when i was 7, but decied not to join, cause it seemed time consuming. But gymnastics, you have to be very strong, flexible, not scared to try new stuff, and balanced. In gymnastics you have vaut, beam, bars,and floor. In cheer you have cheers, dance, tumbling and stunting. Plus you don't wear shoes in gymnastics. They are the same because they both have tumbling, and they both learn routines, and that's about it.

Balance may mean many things, the most common is balance as in balance beam. A balance beam is a sick like figure about three feet off the ground. It is used for many gymnastics competitions.

A back tuck is a tumbling move. In a back tuck, the body is curled up tightly into a ball. The knees are as close to the chest as possible, with the hands clutching the knees. By "tucking" together tightly in this manner, the body is able to reach maximum angular velocity, thus minimizing the time required for the body to complete its revolution.

Gymnastics involves flips like cartwheels,splits and balance the point of it is to be flexible and keep balance. If u wanna do a sport for a girl always start with gymnastics because it makes u flexible for a boy Marshall arts

Gymanstics, as an activity sport, has been around for over 2000 years but as an competitive sport it is a little more than 100 years old. Mass and individual exhibitions were conducted by various clubs and ethnic groups such as the Turvereins and Sok ols. While it was slow-growing in the club area, it was fast-growing sport in the Turvereins and Sokols. In 1830s, the sport of gymnastics was introduced to United States and its school systems by such immigrants as Charles Beck, Charles Follen and Franci s Lieber. In 1881 the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) was formed, later was renamed to Bureau of the European Gymnastics Federation. This organization pioneered the international competition. The Amature Athletic Union (AAU) was formed in United Sta tes in 1883. Along with other amature spotts in United States, this organization took over the control of the gymnastics in U.S. Various "championships" started to develop by various clubs and organizations at about the same time during 1880s. Source: http://www.straipsniai.lt/en/Sport Gymnastics is a very fun sport . Shane one of the best gymnest was the winner in dancing with the stars. go shane. Vlader22