preview

Gymnast Persuasive Essay

Decent Essays
Open Document

Gymnastics is a extremely complex sport involving horrendous amounts of strength, power, flexibility, balance, grace, coordination, and control; if you have none of these qualities, you are not a gymnast because if you were, you would probably be dead. When you think of gymnastics, you may picture a girl, no taller than five feet, whipping her body across the floor in a series of tumbling, dance, leaps, turns, and ending with a double flipping summersault; or you might see a young girl flipping numerous of times across a four-inch beam. People also picture strong boys showcasing horrendous amounts of strength on the rings without looking like they might collapse. Gymnastics is the most memorizing sport to watch all over the world, in which people usually only think of maybe the bars, beam, parallel bars, floor, vault rings and …show more content…

However, trampoline is more than just a place to display your most prestigious flips to your friends or audience. Trampoline is the most recent type of gymnastics that was added and recognized as an Olympic event beginning at the 2000 games. It is a man and woman sport that is either performed using a double mini trampoline or/and in a synchronized event on two different trampolines. Gymnast soar as high as thirty feet in the air performing such tricks similar to diver, but have to continue on into another trick. One thing trampoline gymnast have to have is a strong jump because in order to gain the height needed for your jumps, you have to have strong legs to push through the springs and to stop you when you are done flying. This sport also requires you to be elegant in the air and flexible to endure certain body positions; it is a sport that has becoming loved more and more after being watched at the

Get Access