Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Competitive artistic gymnastic is the best known of the gymnastic sports. It typically involves the women's events of uneven bars, balance beams, floor exercise, and vault. Men's events are floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bar, and high bar. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks, that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills.
Participants can include children as young as two years old doing kindergym and children's gymnastics, recreational gymnasts of ages 5 and up, competitive gymnasts at varying levels of skill, and world class athletes.
Gymnastics requires a lot of practice of not only techniques but stamina and muscles to sustain yourself in the air or doing a few flips in one jump. All this movements requires strong leg and abdomen muscles. Training this muscles takes a period of time to attain and after that, comes balancing. People that learn gymnastics need to be able to stablilise their center of gravity to maintain your balance. Losing one balance can result fatal injury. For example, when you balance yourself on a pair of uneven bars and lose your balance, if you injured your head, you might actually die.
Gymnastics is fun and challenging but at the same time it is also dangerous depending on what happens when an accident happens. I recommend this sport to those who like to suspend in the air as there are a lot of techniques that will require you to be off the ground. Gymnastics is also good for those who wants to lose weight as this sport really use up a lot of energy and at the same time build up your muscle. To end this, i would like to share with you a video about gymnastics
