GYMNASTICSTHE WORD GYMNASTIC

IS DERIVED FROM THE WORD GYMNASIUM, AT ONE AT A TIME IT INCLUDED ALL ACTIVITIES IN A GYMNASIUM.

GYMNASTICSCOMPETITIVE SPORT THAT TESTS AN ATHLETE'S STRENGTH, RHYTHM, BALANCE, FLEXIBILITY, AND AGILITY.

GYMNASTICS THERE ARE THREE MAJOR FORMS OF COMPETITIVE GYMNASTICS

RHYTHMIC ARTISTIC TRAMPOLINE.

GYMNASTICS RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS IS

OPEN ONLY TO FEMALES. ARTISTIC AND

TRAMPOLINE GYMNASTICS ARE PART OF MALE AND FEMALE COMPETITIONS.

BRIEF HISTORY OF GYMNASTICS

THE EARLIEST RECORDED ACTIVITIES IN GYMNASTICS WERE SOME EXERCISES, STUNTS AND TUMBLING RESEMBLING GYMNASTICS.

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.

1. KUNG FU OR MEDICAL GYMNASTICS -CHINESE EXERCISE

2. YOGA-INDIA

3. NAKED ART-GREEKS

4. BALANANG-EGYPTIANS

5. MONSTIG AND DIMONSTIG-ROMANS

IN ANCIENT GREECE, THREE DISTINCT PROGRAMS OF GYMNASTIC EXERCISE WERE DEVELOPEDmaintenance of good

physical conditionfor military trainingpart of the conditioning

regimen for athletes

JOHANN BASEDOW HE WAS THE FIRST TO

CONDUCT GYMNASTICS AS PART OF EDUCATION IN SCHOOL CURRICULUM.

JOHANN BASEDOW• HE WAS THE FIRST

MODERN WRITER AND TEACHER OF ORGANIZED GYMNASTICS FOR WHOM RECORDS SURVIVE.

JOHANN GUTS MUTHTHE 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.

JOHANN GUTS MUTHTHE GREAT GRANDFATHER OF GYMNASTICS

HE DESCRIBES THE USE OF SLOPING BEAMS, CLIMBING POLE, LADDERS AND ROPES ALONG WITH THE BALANCING AND THE SWINGING BEAM.

FRANZ NACHTEGALL HE FORMED A GYMNASTICS

CLUB, OPENED A PRIVATE GYMNASIUM AND THROUGH HIS SUCCESS ENCOURAGES THE GOVERNMENT TO INCORPORATE TRAINING INTO ITS CURRICULUM.

FRANZ NACHTEGALL HIS GYMNASTICS

PROGRAM IN DENMARK EMPHASIZED MASS CALISTHENICS, MASS VAULTING AND DRILLS USING DUMBBELLS AND BALLS.

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.

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.

PER HENRIK LINGFATHER OF SWEDISH

GYMNASTICS

HE INVENTED THE STALL BARS AND VAULTING BOX.

JOHANN PESTALOW

THE FOUNDER OF FREE EXERCISE AND CALISTHENICS.

ADOLPH SPIESSTHE FATHER OF SCHOOL

GYMNASTICS

HE TAUGHT GYMNASTICS TO HIS CLASSES IN SWITZERLAND AND ADDED MARCHING AND INTRODUCED THE FREE HAND EXERCISES WITH THE MUSIC.

FRIEDRICH LUDWIG JAHNTHE FATHER OF GYMNASTICS

HE WAS A GERMAN EDUCATOR KNOWN TO HAVE STARTED GYMNASTICS CLUBS AND GYMNASTICS MOVEMENTS FOR COMPETITIVE PURPOSE.

FRIEDRICH LUDWIG JAHNTHE 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.

DR. DUDLEY SARGENT HE WAS THE FIRST AMERICAN

CONTRIBUTOR TO GYMNASTICS BECAUSE HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN INCLUDING GYMNASTICS IN THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM.

DIRECTOR CANDIDATO BARTOLOME AND

FRANCISCA AQUINO

STARTED GYMNASTICS IN THE PHILIPPINES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES.

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.

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.

SYSTEMATIC FORM OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE

1.EDUCATIONAL GYMNASTICS

2.THERAPEUTIC OR REMEDIAL GYMNASTICS

3.COMPETETIVE GYMNASTICS

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

1. ARTISTIC GYMNASTICSExercises that was perform on

heavy apparatus.Examples:

Balance BeamHorizontal BarsParallel BarsVaultingSide Horse

BALANCE BEAM

HORIZONTAL BARS

PARALLEL BARS

VAULTING

SIDE HORSE

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

2. RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICSExercises perform with the

light apparatus.Examples:

RibbonBallHoopRope

RIBBON

BALL

HOOP

ROPE

TERMS INGYMNASTICSARCH – 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.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

BASE – a partner who supports the other performer above him.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

TUCK – is position where the head and the knees are in contact and the trunk is curved.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

MOUNT – are stunts performed by a performer to go up on an apparatus

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

DISMOUNT – is a stunt used by a performer to get off an apparatus.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

SPOTTER – is a person who person who helps a performer to go about a skill for the first time.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

SPOTTING – is the act of helping a person to go about a skill for the first time.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS ROUTINE/EXERCISE –

planned series of dance skills, locomotors skills, gymnastics skills and tumbling skills performed with or without music.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

STATIC POSITION – these are positions held for 2 or more seconds.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

PRONE – lying face down with the body straight.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

SUPINE – lying flat on the back, with the body straight.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

SCALE – is a support on one leg with the other leg raised at the back and the body arch.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

STRADDLE – the legs are extended sideways.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

TOP – the partner who is supported by the base

TYPES OF GYMNASTICS

SPLIT – is a position where the legs are extended forward and backward in a straight position.

TYPES OF GYMNASTICSPIKE- the upper

body is bent forward at the hips to an angle equal to or less than 90 degrees while the legs remain straight.

TUMBLING SKILLSFORWARD ROLLBACKWARD

ROLLCARTWHEELHANDSTANDFRONT

WALKOVERBACK

WALKOVER