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    Artistic gymnastics is a good sport to take part in because it improves your strength, flexibility, coordination and balance, gives you the chance to build great relationships with others, and you will often experience the feeling of flying.There are five types of gymnastics, artistic, rhythmic, acrobatic, trampoline and tumbling, and aerobic, but artistic is the most popular. A gymnast will be taught a variety of skills from a kip on the uneven bars to a Yurchenko on vault. Artistic gymnastics can often

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    the formal definition of gymnastics is "Exercises developing or displaying physical agility and coordination. The modern sport of gymnastics typically involves exercises on uneven bars, balance beam, floor, and vaulting horse for women, and horizontal and parallel bars, rings, floor, and pommel horse for men." Gymnastics is a competitive sport in which gymnasts perform acrobatic feats such as leaps, flips, turns, handstands and choreographed routines. These acrobatics are performed on a piece of

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    Gymorphism In Gymnastics

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    Originating as a sporting scheme to enhance a male’s performance within warfare, gymnastics has flourished into a sporting activity enjoyed by many around the world. However, it was not until the 1800’s when the Germans and Swedish developed the modern rules. Since gymnastics entered the Olympic roster in 1896, the sport has developed into a professional sport characterised by agility, athleticism and small body size. Although this sport is enjoyed by a variety of people around the globe, only a

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    Reflection Paper

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    sticking to gymnastics which I had done forever or taking a leap of faith and trying out for cheer. I choose to tryout for cheer. I had grown up doing gymnastics, I loved the sport. I couldn’t possibly imagine myself anything other than a gymnast, but I decided to try out for my high school cheer team. I was unsure what the outcome was going to be, I was fearful of failure by not making it on the team as that was a big possibility due to my lack of experience. I felt safe in gymnastics, I was comfortable

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    mother was addicted to certain substances. Her sister was born two years after her. Her sister’s name is Adria Biles. As a child, Simone was homeschooled. Her sister was homeschooled with her. Simone did not go to gymnastics class to begin with. She went on a daycare field trip to a gymnastic arena. She then started doing a backflips off her mailbox after

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    Put down your pom-poms and prepare to learn a whole lot about the cheerleading you used to know. Throughout time, cheer has developed into an intense sport with elements of risk and danger. No longer are our squads dismissed while cheering on the sidelines for other teams to win. Today each cheer team is working their way to be the champion of their own division. Cheerleading has evolved throughout history into one of the fastest growing sports today; All Star competitive cheerleading. Competitive

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    Strength, balance, and determination are only a few things that every gymnast needs to do difficult skills while staying on a tiny four inch beam. Back walkovers on the beam is a very hard skill to do and scary to get over the fear of doing them in gymnastics. Before anyone attempts a back walkover, they should make sure they can do a backbend, handstand on the beam, and a kickover. Supplies will be needed to teach people how to do a backwalkover on the beam while having form as pretty as a flower blowing

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    large number of reasons how she got into gymnastics. Samantha’s family members were very athletic so of course that is why Samantha started sports in general. Samantha’s mom and sister were gymnasts so they thought they could give her a try at it. Samantha began gymnastics in 1993 only at the age of two. She began her gymnastics journey at DeVeau's School of Gymnastics in Indianapolis, Indiana. Later, when Samantha’s family found out she had a talent for gymnastics, they moved her to a more experienced

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    On March 3rd I went to my sister's gymnastics meet where they stretched, warmed up, and, practiced. first when they stretched they did simple things like Heel to butt, toe touch, and lots of other stretches. when they started to warm up they got on the balance beams and walked back and forth to get ready to practice. some of the other kids Suede back and forth on their hands. finally, when they started practicing they started doing some of the things they learned throughout the season. this the

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    If you think that cheerleading is not a sport, the International Olympic Committee disagrees with you, as cheerleading could be added to the Olympic games very soon. As of the year 2016, cheerleading is one of the 37 sports recognized, it has a three-year probationary period that started in 2016, and receives funding from IOC and after the three-year probation, cheerleading will be able to apply to be one of the many sports in the Olympic Games. The year that we expect cheerleading to make an appearance

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