GYMANSTICS

GYMANSTICS

Participants can include children as young as two years old and sometimes younger doing kindergym and children's gymnastics, recreational gymnasts of all ages, competitive gymnasts at varying levels of skill, as well as world class athletes

Gymnastics is an nvolving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, balance, and grace. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the (FIG) with each country having its own national governing body affiliated to FIG. Competitive is the best known of the gymnastic sports. It typically involves the women's events of and Men's events include, and Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills.

Other gymnastic sports include, the various sports, and aerobic and acrobatic gymnastics.

To the Ancient Greeks, physical fitness was paramount, and all Greek cities had a a courtyard for jumping, running, and wrestling. As the ascended, Greek gymnastics gave way to military training. The Romans, for example, introduced the wooden horse. In 393 AD the abolished the Olympic Games, which by then had become corrupt, and gymnastics, along with other sports, declined. For centuries, gymnastics was all but forgotten.