GYMNASTICS HOPE

• Gymnastics is a sport basic to all sports.
• Gymnastics plays a role in the development of the total fitness of a person.
• Gymnastics is referred as artistic expression of ideas, graceful yet demanding.
• Gymnastics aims either for fitness or competition, or both.
• Chinese and Egyptians were the first to practice gymnastics.
• Greeks were the first one to develop the competitive aspect of gymnastics.
• Gymnastics was defined as "naked art" by the historians.
• Gymnastics was first practiced in the ancient Olympic Games at Mt. Olympus in Greece.
• Gymnastics came from the Greek word "Gymnos" meaning naked, while Gymnazien means practice naked.
• Gymnastics was used for military traininf by the Romans.
• Modern Gymnastics were developed by German educators.
• Modern Gymnastics use pieces of stationary apparatus to develop physical strength and discipline.
• Swedish system promotes rhythm and coordination through body movement.
• Educational Gymnastics helps in mastering tactics involving strength, rhythm, balance, flexibility, and agility.
• There are 6 Phases of Educational Gymnastics: 1. Conditioning Program 2. Rhythmic Gymnastics 3. Stunts 4. Tumbling 5. Heavy Apparatus Work 6. Pyramid Building
• Johann Bernard Basedow introduced gymnastics in the school curriculum.
• Johann Guts Muths is the Great Grandfather of Gymnastics.
• Friedrich Ludwig Jahnn is the Father of Modern Gymnastics
• Per Henrik Ling introduced gymnastics in European schools, and invented stall bars and vaulting box or Swedish box.
• Adolf Spies created fancy marching and freehand exercises accompanied with music.
• Director Candido Bartolome and Francisca Reyes-Aquino introduced gymnastics in Philippine Educational System, and defined gymnastics as the systematic bodily exercises based of scientific principles.