GYMNASTICS

 

Based on the notion that gymnastics is a sport for everybody, Gymnastics for All is the flagship discipline of the sport. Offering a variety of activities, programmes, events and competitions suitable for all genders, age groups and abilities, Gymnastics for All contributes to personal health, fitness and well-being.

 

The focus of Gymnastics for All activities is Fun, Fitness, Friendship and Fundamentals, involving:

 

Gymnastics with or without apparatus.

Gymnastics and Dance.

 

Girls Artistic Gymnastics consists of four pieces of apparatuses:

Vault, Bars, Beam, Floor

 

Boys Artistic Gymnastics consists of six apparatuses:

Vault, High Bar, Pommel Horse, Parallel Bars, Floor, Rings

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ARTISITIC GYMNASTICS

 

Artistic gymnastics is the best known of the gymnastic dissiplines, it involves womens events of:

 

Uneven Bars:

The gymnasts work betweenthe two bars which are at 2 different heights, they perform swings, circling, transitional, release and catch moves.

 

Beam:

Beam consists of acrobatic skills, turns, leaps, and dance all if which are taken from the floor and performed on the beam.

The beam is 5 meters long, 3.9” wide and 4” off the ground.

 

Vault:

There is little difference between the womens and mens. Both run down the run way and jump onto the springboard and place their hands on the vault performing the vault of their ability.

 

Floor:

The women and men’s  floor routines are performed on area of 12 meters square. Gymnasts perform a range of movements from dance to acrobatic skills which must show flexibility, balance and strength. Women perform to music, the men don’t.

 

 

PRE-SCHOOL

 

Pre-school gymnastics is very good for children to take part in for many different reasons in the development.

 

The class is predominantly Fun and structured helping to build confidence and concentration.

 

It also helps lay and good foundation for strength, endurance (muscular, respiratory, cardio-vascular) agility, balance, flexibility, co-ordination good posture and relaxation. Within the class there social skills are developed by mixing with the other children, sharing toys during the free time, waiting their turn when their on the apparatus, listening to instructions and carrying them out.

 

Play is essential to their learning process, it is a powerful motivator encouraging children to be creative to develop their ideas, understanding and language.

 

It will also give them a sense of achievement when they have experimented with a new set up of the apparatus and will help with their confidence to face the unknown, if they fail then they will have the courage to get up and try again.

 

Above all this class is about “FUN”.

 

 

RECREATIONAL

 

These classes are designed for children who want to take part in the sport with or without the intention of going further, the classes are fun and structured working on basic gymnastic moves such as:

 

- Forward roll- forward roll to straddle

- Backward roll- backward roll to straddle

- Cartwheels- one handed cartwheels

- Handstands- handstand forward roll

- Leaps

- Spins

- Jumps

 

And much more.

 

Gymnasts get to usethe apparatus and will work on B.A.G.A. badge work.

 

 

DEVELOPMENT

 

These classes are for children who participate in the recreational classes that are showing the ability and talent of going further with the potential of competing. THIS IS INVITE ONLY and is up to the coaches.

 

 

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