Free Essays on Gymnastics

  1. History of Artistic Gymnastics

    History of Artistic Gymnastics Gymnastics has existed for more than 2,000 years, but its development as a competitive sport began just little more than 100 years ago. During the 1800's, mass and individual exhibitions were conducted by various clubs and ethnic groups such as the Turvereins and Sok...

  2. By a Habit of Work, a Child Learns to Move His Hands and Arms O Strengthen His Muscles More Than He Does Through Ordinary Gymnastics.

    activity is very important for full development of physic growth. Gymnastics is a muscular education which aids in normal development of physiological movement to protect development of a child. Montessori believed in educational gymnastics where the activities done have coordinated movement of the fingers...

  3. Bio Poem

    teach first are gymnastics of the body and music of the mind. Even though, he is primarily concerned with keeping one’s soul virtuous, good, and consistently in a state of improvement. For there to be a balance in the soul there must be a balance of gymnastic and music. Gymnastics and music are...

  4. Sociology of Sport

    gender, and the list goes on. What sport did you choose and why? Describe it as you did in week 2. I chose gymnastics because it was a passion of mine since I was a child. I took gymnastics as a child. I learned what all the apparatus’s were and how to perform on them. The challenge of balance and...

  5. Znajanzn

    Price Sheet Classes Recreational Girls Gymnastics Recreational Boys Gymnastics Tumbling and Trampoline Tumbling for Cheer Acrobatic Gymnastics Kinder Gym Kinder Kids Parent Involvement *** Home school *** Home school classes are recreational girls and boys gymnastics (Wednesday or Fridays before 1pm ) ...

  6. Fitness Program

    in Hong Kong for this sport and wish to do well. 2. Gymnastic - A sport that predominantly uses the Lactic acid system, this activity is an extra requirement for me to excel in the sport of Jump Rope as the sport is a combination of Gymnastics and speed. This area will help improve my flexibility and...

  7. No Pain No Gain - Essay

    many of the so-called cautious students. Gymnastic is a form of exercise that is full of risks. Sprained ankles and pulled muscles are common occurrences. There were cases of broken bones and even death resulting from accidents. For most people, gymnastics is definitely out. They do not want to risk...

  8. Volunteering

    For my project, I chose to volunteer at Juergen's Gymnastics Academy, which is where I train. JGA is a gym off of 1960 that has been providing training for gymnastics, cheer, and tumbling since 1986. On December 2, 2015 I officially became a gymnastics coach when I volunteered to help a level 3 class...

  9. Jkjg

    use of these products is originated just by the idea of body perfection. Moreover, in some occupation such as modeling, dancing, and sports like gymnastics, figure skating, running, and wrestling have a lot of pressure to maintain their weight and appearance. This includes participation in an activity...

  10. Title 9

    discrimination in universities receiving federal aid. However, it now seems to be serving more as a wall around men's Olympic sports such as wrestling, gymnastics, soccer, etc. There are many problems with the structure of Title IX; the biggest of them is with trying to meet the proportionality requirements...

  11. National Governing Bodies

    it works with multi sports association such as British gymnastics, this means that all the different types of gymnastics in the United Kingdom will answer to the British gymnastics association which is the national governing bodie for gymnastics in this country. (National Governing Bodies) What do...

  12. A Girl Battling for Anorexia Nervosa

    popular, but not ostentatious; a somewhat shy, attractive young woman with an average build (5’6”, 135 lbs.) toned by her participation in sports and gymnastics. Having a strong parental influence in her life helped her to excel, but also made her constantly feel like her parents controlled her, that she...

  13. There's an "M" in Everyone

    The ad pictures a female yellow m&m M&M’s are inspiring! They are not just candies. They inspire the greatest achievements known Medal in women's gymnastics at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, becoming the first American ever to win the Olympic All Around Title. Her accomplishments are tremendous...

  14. Hidden Athletes

    people I described above I was one of them, I didn’t believe cheerleading was a sport either. Once I quit gymnastics though I joined cheerleading because it was the closest thing in relation to gymnastics. When I joined, my views on cheerleading did a complete three sixty. I first discovered that I wanted...

  15. A Time Tested Tradition Meeting It’s End?

    The core sports remaining include such bafoonaries of athletic achievement as canoeing, handball, ping-pong, badminton, sailing, golf, rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming, and volleyball. Barring a reinstatement, wrestling will be replaced with softball, climbing, karate, roller skating, squash...

  16. Scholastic Sports: Women Coaches

    1,280 Cross Country Diving 1,382 262 Diving Fencing 314 35 Fencing Football 41 860 Field Hockey Golf 265 1,192 Golf Gymnastics 774 17 Gymnastics Ice Hockey 82 148 Ice Hockey Indoor Track 86 460 Indoor Track Lacrosse 503 286 Lacrosse Rifle 334 16 Rifle Skiing 16 ...

  17. hey. i was great.

    McKenna, the 2012 Girl of the Year. McKenna Brooks is an energetic girl living in Seattle, Washington. McKenna has always excelled at school and in gymnastics, but now that she’s entering fourth grade, school suddenly feels difficult to her. When her teacher suggests she get a reading tutor, McKenna is...

  18. Faces

    tiny twin bed. We loved each other so much, that we even played the same sports and activities. When I decided to start gymnastics, Michael decided he wanted to practice gymnastics, too. And when I signed up for ballet, he too wanted to sign up for ballet. He was heartbroken when he learned that he would...

  19. Cheerleading Is Athletism

    athletes participating in competitive events. Cheerleading is no longer just a recreational activity; it’s an athletic sport. It’s a combination of gymnastics, dance, and acrobatic stunts all combined in one. Many cheerleaders and cheer programs across the U.S. are fighting for the right of being able to...

  20. Dream House

    course, some famous theme park rides, a huge movie theatre, dirt bike track, skateboard rink, roller-skate rink, ice skate rink, gym, dance room, gymnastics room, huge fireplace. They owned a massive kitchen with many cupboards and draws. The bench was huge and their fridge was big. They owned many...

  21. Britney Spears

    This” at her church when she was just four years old. She also began dancing when she was very young. She took ballet and gymnastics lessons. Britney soon decided to give up gymnastics and focus on singing and dancing. She attended Professional Performing Art School and Off- Broadway Dance Center for three...

  22. Essay

    with school teachers. ➢ Remarque gave piano lessons to young girls. ➢ he collected butterflies, stones, and stamps ➢ joined a gymnastics ➢ Performed magic tricks. ➢ A new life and citizenship awaited Remarque in America. ➢  Joseph Goebbels banned and publicly burned Remarque's...

  23. Book Review: a Midsummer Night’s Dream

    which is quite contrary to the mediocre review that his performance got in the Times Colonist. The writer seemed to think that the young actor in his gymnastic approach to the role instead of the acting. I thought that the character Puck should have had a livelier role instead of focusing on the lines. However...

  24. Plato Life

    as a boy, and the "first fruits of his youth infused with hard work and love of study".[20] Plato must have been instructed in grammar, music, and gymnastics by the most distinguished teachers of his time.[21] Dicaearchus went so far as to say that Plato wrestled at the Isthmian games.[22] Plato had also...

  25. It's All About Me

    great experience for me. I had many friends, including best friends that I am still proud to call friends to this day. I was very athletic and loved gymnastics and cheerleading. I was very successful in school, making sure that my homework and chores were. You could say that in my teens, I had the opportunities...

  26. Is Cheerleading a Sport?

    is not much different than gymnastics: teams perform before a set of judges who determine which group displayed the best performance. In most competitions, cheerleaders are judged according to seven standards. These are: complexity, rhythm, originality, enthusiasm, gymnastic aspects, interaction, and...

  27. Osggod Shlatter

    are in the beginning of their growth spurt and are active in some sort of sport such as football, volleyball, soccer, tennis, figure skating, and gymnastics. One or both knees may be affected. OSD is the inflammation of the bone, cartilage or tendon at the top of the shinbone where the tendon and the...

  28. Sport

    Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, Body Composition and Cardiovascular Endurance) Flexibilty - The abilty to stretch your muscles or joints, Gymnastics, Stretching before a football game. Muscular Strength - Defined by the ability of your body's muscle to generate force in a short period of time...

  29. Jbhl

    the standards to build an appropriate pattern. I try to make the holes age appropriate. I also leave enough space between the standards to fit a gymnastics mat. To add to the realism, I hand a spider from the web. Instructions: Personally, I run mats down the sides to try to create a tunnel or cave...

  30. Li Ning Marketing Analysis

    for Li Ning will become in the USA a symbol of quality in sporting apparel. Li Ning, the person, has no relevance in the American market. Further, gymnastics is not a top tier sport in the USA and would not serve to raise the brand. Thus the focus on the RED FLAG logo will be a key component by which we...

  31. Letter to English Teacher

    African American. Some of my hobbies are shopping, going to the movies or to the river. I’m currently jobless, but I am looking for one. I use to play gymnastics when I was younger. I really wish I could’ve still been doing it. I moved back to Henrico from chesterfield. This school year I want to be something...

  32. Disconnected

    awards in ice skating. I recall winning awards in figure skating in the Olympics as a kid. I also did so in gymnastics and volley ball. I almost lost my life on the balancing beam in gymnastics. I went back as a star athlete year after year with the memory I was a star athlete before. My delusions are...

  33. Differentiate-Between-Groupwork-And-Teamwork

    to keep the other team from scoring, but must rely on offensive players to do the scoring for their team. Sports such as competitive swimming or gymnastics rely on the team’s overall score, but each participant is active at different times. Tennis is usually a single-player sport, but in doubles matches...

  34. Existentialism

    they contributed to the development of phenomenology and, therefore, existentialism. Jaspers suggests existentialism, but it might require mental gymnastics to call him existential. I could defend such a classification, but many scholars would reject this outright and place him among the phenomenologists...

  35. Nazi Propaganda

    of all of Hitler’s propaganda schemes were the annual mass rallies held at Nuremburg’s four arenas. Displaying everything from military marches to gymnastics routines to a stadium containing 400,000 adoring German’s, this was the pinnacle point of Nazi fanaticism. Through a perfectly balanced mix of...

  36. The Phone Call

    “You have one new voice message” that’s the first thing I heard on that snowy, cold Wednesday in December. I had just gotten back from a long gymnastics practice and I was looking forward to a relaxing evening. As I press the big play/pause button on the answering machine, I figured it would just be...

  37. Plato

    father contributed all which was necessary to give to his son a good education, and, therefore, Plato must have been instructed in grammar, music, gymnastics and philosophy by some of the most distinguished teachers of his era. Birth and family The exact time and place of Plato's birth are unknown...

  38. sports

    skills. Historic artifacts suggest that the earliest sporting activities took place in China many centuries ago. At the time sports originated, gymnastics were the most popular sport among the ancient Chinese. Similarly suggestive artifacts were found in Egypt, with monuments indicating that traditional...

  39. Bfgjjgjhfgjhfgjh

    show this by the use of short lines that are shorter than iambic parameter in a style of ballad stanza. By doing this he is able to provide symbolic gymnastics with the poem. With this he’s also able to make the mother the center of the poem, by making her symbolize a natural and selfless love. The mother...

  40. Performance Enhancing

    positive for using pseudo-ephedrine, after a team doctor mistakenly prescribed her the over-the-counter drug Nurofen. Andrea was support by both the gymnastics community and romainic...

  41. amedeuos

    is to stop the object rotating 2. List three sports skill where increased angular velocity is beneficial to performance: diving tuck position, gymnastics flip and motocross flip. 3. What is meant by the term moment of inertia?: The amount of energy in is rotation Look at figure 5 A) angular velovity...

  42. Calm and Strategy vs. Adventure and Adrenaline

    pair of shoes. We have let out guard down and thrown away our traditions because they are not "cool" anymore. Who wants to play chess or take up gymnastics when there are only fifty unsuccessful football teams in our country? It's sad how we let ourselves influenced by world-wide changes. But everything...

  43. Cheerleading Is a Sport

    sideline cheerleader isn’t the only kind of cheering that there is. There’s also competition cheering, competition cheering requires dance, tumbling (gymnastics), jumps, stunting and of course cheer. Cheerleading has evolved over the years from an extra-curricular activity with the purpose of motivating...

  44. Who Am I-Draw Frame3

    then family and friends. As far as appearance is concerned, long legs were always to my advantage. In junior high and high school, I was good at gymnastics and modern dance. Music came naturally to me as a child when taught myself to play the organ by using only a music book. Unfortunately, I cannot...

  45. Unit 52 Dance

    allowing for each dancer to customize his or her routine with imagination. However, since many dancers have created moves that are borrowed from gymnastics and martial arts, upper body strength is often considered as essential. Locking: Locking means freezing from a fast movement and "locking" in a...

  46. Vision 2020

    can live together and jointly look after children, and can jointly cook and share other activities such as cleaning the clothes or sharing cars and gymnastic rooms and workshops to repair things. All these things can normally not be afforded by a single family if the decrease in income continues. b)My...

  47. Danielle Renne Michael

    softball and through out my school years I continued playing. I also played basketball up until my sophomore year. In junior high I was in track, gymnastics, cheerleading, softball, and basketball. Softball was my favorite sport ever. That is where I met my best friends at. Softball was a time...

  48. The 1964 Tokyo Games

    destined to be one of the sport’s biggest stars. Čáslavská was a secretary at home in Prague. She had started off as a figure skater, but had turned to gymnastics as a child and then blossomed as a teenager. Her international debut came at the age of 16 and she had made her Olympic debut two years later, at...

  49. Break Dancing

    street dance that originated in the South Bronx during the early 1970s. It is an improvised mix of movements influenced by dance, martial arts, and gymnastics. I believe it can be described as an abstract dance. Break dancing seems so different from all other kinds of dancing that the first question people...

  50. Personal Statement

    regularly volunteered in my local swimming club with swimming lessons for children between 4 and 12 years old. Last year, I also helped out in the gymnastics club of a local middle school once a week. For the past year, I have been assisting PE teachers in football coaching of Year 8 and 9 as well as other...

  51. yoga on mental health

    Maharaja liked Krishnamacharya and didn't want to lose his friendship and counsel, he proposed a solution; he offered Krishnamacharya the palace's gymnastics hall as his own yogashala, or yoga school. Thus began one of Krishnamacharya's most fertile periods, during which he developed what is now known...

  52. I Am Independent

    habits because you want to become them. My mom was always there for me: She drove me down to all of the piano lessons in South Denver. She drove me to gymnastics in Longmont. She bought me the clothes I wore to school and most of all she was just plain and simple, there for me, loving me. With my dad’s upbringing...

  53. Children Affected by Childhood Obesity

    physical education. Less than one-fifth of school age children have extracurricular physical activity programs, such as; little league, toy bowl, gymnastics, etc. Out of all children that spend most of their day watching television, consuming high quantities of non-nutritious foods, and not exercising...

  54. Swdcsa

    instrument, singing in a choir or listening to music. Lots of people like travelling as a hobby. Many people like to join sports clubs where they practice gymnastics, basketball, volleyball, swimming, handball or judo. The main goal of a hobby is to give youself an enjoyable break from your everyday work or school...

  55. Roro

    her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana, and was selected to perform as a solo artist at the annual recital. During her childhood, she also attended gymnastics and voice lessons, and won many state-level competitions and children's talent shows. Spears made her local stage debut at age five, singing "What...

  56. History of Human Resource Development

    elements of reason and applying those to logic; Plato developed a comprehensive education theory- (reading, writing, reciting literature, music and gymnastics training) while higher education primarily focused on philosophy. During the Roman ages, we have an interesting juxtaposition of a society that...

  57. Steroids in Sports - Dyinng to Win

    derived from natural plants to aid their endurance. In recent decades, however, sport after sport has come under the microscope. From weightlifting to gymnastics, from swimming to athletics serious illegal drug use has been proven. Cheaters get a lot of press coverage. What we obviously need to give them is...

  58. frida kahlo

    exploiting opponents’ weaknesses ♦ recognising the need to maximise strengths within chosen structure/strategy If you are writing about Dance or Gymnastics Know and understand the importance of: ♦ design form and style as compositional considerations ♦ developing motifs in performance ♦ using...

  59. Lifespan Development and Personality - Essay

    and female. In females for example, delayed sexual maturation and growth is associated with those who are physically active. Female athletes and gymnastics have a significant reduced growth rate as compared to their free living counterparts. Such females are notably shorter in height and lighter with...

  60. Studen

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