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    flying? 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

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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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    Billiards And Cue Sports

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    Billiards is also called as Cue sports. It is a game. In older days, the balls are made in clay or wood. Billiard balls, Tables, Cloth, Rack, Cues, Mechanical bridge and Chalk are the equipment s of the billiards. Pocket and carom are the different types of Billiards. In 15th century, the billiards was started. In the year 1340,billiards was played in outdoors. The King Louis XI of France was first introduce the indoor billiard table in the year 1461–1483. This game was developed and including the

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    “Gymnastics taught me everything- life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect,” says Shawn Johnson, 2008 Beijing Olympics All Around Gold Medalist. A hotly debated issue is whether or not competitive sports are beneficial for children and teens. (This, though, will focus solely on gymnastics.) However, research shows gymnastics is a perfectly healthy sport which teaches life skills such as time management, sportsmanship, and healthy habits. First, gymnastics teaches time management.

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    Gymnastics Research Paper

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    In gymnastics math plays a crucial role in tricks and stunts. If a gymnast does not have enough power to complete a trick at the right angle the trick will not be safely completed. There is also math in how gymnastics are judged and how skills are rated. There are five different values of grading a skill, the skills are A, B, C, D, E and F. For each skill level the difficulty point increases by one tenth. The goal of a gymnast is to get a perfect score of ten (Isport, rules and regulations). In

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    Essay On Billiards

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    badminton in the year 1863. In England, Badminton was played in the year 1887. " Collecting of coins is called as Coin collecting. Coin collecting was differentiated from numismatics. Numismatist may be a coin collector. The collection of coins for their artistic value was a later

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    Gymnast College Essay

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    A gymnast requires being an athlete that pursues such elegancy as a butterfly, but also has the strength of a lion. It requires strength in both the body and mind. Gymnastics is considered the most dangerous sport in the world. For instance, the gymnast’s injuries vary from a broken finger to a fracture in the spine. Behind every routine that a gymnast performs is hours of training. To be a successful gymnast he or she needs to focus on having the right body, building up physical and mental strength

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    Gymnastics is an intensive sport that puts an enormous amount of pressure onto girls from the age of 5 to perform to high standards. Gymnastics has been around since the opening of the Olympics which was in 1896. This sport contains the elements of strength, flexibility and a high level of coordination. Girls tend to excel in these elements of personal fitness but it can also cause excruciating pain in the nearby future. Structures of the body are strong while they are used, but overtime the bone

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    Gymnast Research Paper

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    Why is training as a professional gymnast so demanding on gymnast’s bodies? To partake in gymnastics it takes a vast amount of upper body strength. This strength alone is hard to build and maintain. ‘Trainings are extreme with any hours, lots of physical demands as well as mentally challenging’ . Great bursts of energy and power are needed to use this strength. Also a great amount of advanced physics come into executing skills perfectly. All of these aspects effect gymnasts can be positive and or

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    Gymnastics Springboard

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    The topic of this experiment is to determine which type of gymnastics springboard will give the highest elevation. There are two types of springboards used in vaulting the traditional springboard and the air board. Based on research the hypothesis states that if a gymnast jumps on an air board then the height off the board will be higher than if jumping on a traditional springboard. To begin with, the vault has been in the Olympics for men since 1896 and for women since 1952. The vault requires

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