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Flare (acrobatic move) B-boy street performer doing air chair in Washington D.C. The flare is an acrobatic move in which the performer alternates balancing the torso between either arm while swinging the legs beneath in continuous circles. It is a fundamental b-boying /bgirl power move, and in gymnastics it may be performed on a pommel horse or ...
Split (gymnastics) A side split. A front split in yoga; the pose is named Hanumanasana. A split (commonly referred to as splits or the splits) is a physical position in which the legs are in line with each other and extended in opposite directions. Splits are commonly performed in various athletic activities, including dance, figure skating ...
In 1979, while training for the 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Mukhina suffered a broken leg, which kept her out of the World Championships in Fort Worth, Texas, a competition in which the Soviet team suffered its first defeat at the hands of their arch-rivals from Romania, with only Nellie Kim and Stella Zakharova able to medal ...
Brody Malone stuck his high bar dismount, his legs practically magnetized to the mat. The sound that echoed through Dickies Arena after the first night of the U.S. Championships on Thursday was a ...
Kerri Strug. Kerri Allyson Strug (born November 19, 1977) is a retired American gymnast from Tucson, Arizona. She was a member of the Magnificent Seven, the victorious all-around women's gymnastics team that represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance. [1] The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups.
A skill in which the gymnast jump reaches for the floor and kicks over with their legs together at all times. The balance beam B-score Under the current Code of Points, this score rates the gymnast's execution, form, artistry and technique. The judges take their deductions from the 10.0 base score. Back-to-back tumbling
The term "artistic gymnastics" was introduced to distinguish freestyle performances from those used by the military. [6] The German educator Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, who was known as the father of gymnastics, [7] invented several apparatus, including the horizontal bar and parallel bars. [8] Two of the first gymnastics clubs were Turnvereins and ...