Understanding The Fundamentals Of Ozark Gymnastics

By Andrea Davidson


In Ozark gymnastics is a type of sport that entails performance of exercises that require physical strength, balance, agility, power, flexibility, and coordination. At the international level, the sport is regulated by (FIG), an international federation. The federation ensures that the required standards of the game are upheld at all worldwide competitions. Each nation on the globe has a national authority that has some connection with the FIG.

The sport is divided into many disciplines including team gym, tumbling, aerobic, acrobatic, trampolining, rhythmic, and artistic gymnastics. Participants can be of any age, starting with kids of less than two years to adults of both genders. People who endeavor to be international gymnasts start practicing at a very tender age and specialize in one or more disciplines. This sport can also be exercised for recreational purposes besides being a competitive game.

Of all the other specialties in this field, the most recognized discipline is artistic gymnastic. It involves both women and men events and is integrated in most Olympic activities. Events in which ladies participate include floor exercises, balance beams, uneven bars, and vaults. Event for men comprise of high bars, vaults, still ring, parallel bar, floor exercises, and pommel horses.

Points in this sport are awarded depending to how elegantly an individual executes different events. The score utilized is known as an execution score and is usually out of ten points. The judge subtracts points from the 10 points from the start up to the end of the session. However, there is a new technique of awarding marks presently in use in USA in elite level competitions.

The new score is called a difficulty score, and it brings the number of scores used to two. On the difficulty score, points are not deducted like in the execution score, rather they are awarded. The difficulty score bases on the element a gymnast performs and can change depending on whether one does not perform of finish all the skills. It also depends on whether one connects a skill to the other as required or not.

The most common gains on the difficulty score are connection bonuses. Connection of elements is the awarding factor here because it is considered very skillful to connect two or more flight elements. Besides, it is very hard to connect a skill to another if the first skill is not performed correctly in the first place. The difficulty score allows performers to gain more points basing on how difficult the events they do are and how they execute them. There is no limit in the score one can gain here.

Most events are executed singly by one person while others involve pairs or groups. Pair and group events require a lot of synchronism and focus among all participants since the failure of a single person affects the whole crew. There are also several equipment used in many skills of each event.

Ozark gymnastics is all based on perfecting skills. Gymnasts go through training for many years before they appear on international platforms to perform. Many gymnasts also warm up before participating in an event in order to prepare emotionally and physically.




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