Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a set of physically impressive routines with an element of artistry. There are set tasks a gymnast needs to do but they can be done in any order with a degree of interpretation thrown in. It is entertaining. Some of it is almost circus like in the way it is performed.
Most of it is exhausting to watch.
The main elements of the gymnastics are these...
Floor - floor exercise where the athlete does all sorts of amazing leaps, bounds and tumbles.
Balance beam - a long piece of wood suspended. For balancing and tumbling. A nasty piece of equipment in my opinion.
Horse - not actually a real horse. Doesn't even look like a horse. For jumping on and over at high speed.
Parallel Bars - two low bars which require a whole lot of strength to move around on without touching the floor.
Pommel Horse - even less like a horse. The box thing with rings embedded into it. A routine that looks really hard to do.
Uneven Parallel Bars - two bars at different heights. The gymnast swings between them.
High bar - one single bar to swing round.
Gymnastic Rings - two suspended rings for more swinging and stretching.
Most of it is exhausting to watch.
The main elements of the gymnastics are these...
Floor - floor exercise where the athlete does all sorts of amazing leaps, bounds and tumbles.
Balance beam - a long piece of wood suspended. For balancing and tumbling. A nasty piece of equipment in my opinion.
Horse - not actually a real horse. Doesn't even look like a horse. For jumping on and over at high speed.
Parallel Bars - two low bars which require a whole lot of strength to move around on without touching the floor.
Pommel Horse - even less like a horse. The box thing with rings embedded into it. A routine that looks really hard to do.
Uneven Parallel Bars - two bars at different heights. The gymnast swings between them.
High bar - one single bar to swing round.
Gymnastic Rings - two suspended rings for more swinging and stretching.
Balance Beam
Here is an artistic gymnast on the balance beam.
For such an apparently static and simple piece of equipment the beam is quite frightening in terms of its unyielding nature.
A knock on the beam is not quickly forgotten if you are an amateur gymnast.
For such an apparently static and simple piece of equipment the beam is quite frightening in terms of its unyielding nature.
A knock on the beam is not quickly forgotten if you are an amateur gymnast.
Gymnastic Rings
The rings are a strength piece of apparatus.
Your body weight suspended and held in a variety of positions.
The idea is to make the impossible look effortless.
Your body weight suspended and held in a variety of positions.
The idea is to make the impossible look effortless.
Pommel Horse
The pommel horse is another strength apparatus.
Exhausting to watch, impossible to do.
Exhausting to watch, impossible to do.