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What do you call a gymnastic person?
A gymnast is a person who trains in and practices the sport of gymnastics. If you become a gymnast, you'll learn to walk and jump and even do cartwheels on a balance beam. Athletes who participate in gymnastics are gymnasts.
What is spotting in gymnastics?
Spotting is an essential part of coaching gymnastics. It is physical contact between a coach and an athlete that is reasonably intended to respond to the needs of the athlete. Spotting for guidance is used when needed to orientate or position the athlete so they can replicate movements.
Where did the word gymnastics come from?
The origin of gymnastics
The word stems from the Greek word gymnos, or “naked,”—appropriate, since the youths trained in the nude, performing floor exercises, lifting weights, and racing one another. (How ancient Greeks mixed naked sports with pagan partying.) For the Greeks, exercise and learning went hand in hand.
What is gymnastic?
a. : physical exercises designed to develop strength and coordination. b. : a competitive sport in which individuals perform optional and prescribed acrobatic feats mostly on special apparatus in order to demonstrate strength, balance, and body control.
6 days ago · Photo by Kadim Cimnastik Spor Kulübü on November 19, 2023.
Apr 4, 2023 · Smiles for miles These moments from the women at the Artistic Gymnastics World Juniors last week certainly made us grin from ear to ear!