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There is nothing in the opening paragraph that says what gymnastics IS. It starts by saying it is "a sport that requires balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination and endurance" and goes on to say what muscles and skills are developed in gymnastics, but these requirements and effects are things that could be said of almost any sport. We get the start of an idea at the end of the para: "Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills."
There is nothing in the opening paragraph that says what gymnastics IS. It starts by saying it is "a sport that requires balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination and endurance" and goes on to say what muscles and skills are developed in gymnastics, but these requirements and effects are things that could be said of almost any sport. We get the start of an idea at the end of the para: "Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills."
There must be some more specific way of describing what gymnastics is, some taxonomy it fits into (not a ball sport, not a game-based sport...). Something about executing movements that involve balancing one's own bodyweight, often using apparatus? [[User:Faff296|Faff296]] ([[User talk:Faff296|talk]]) 22:11, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
There must be some more specific way of describing what gymnastics is, some taxonomy it fits into (not a ball sport, not a game-based sport...). Something about executing movements that involve balancing one's own bodyweight, often using apparatus? [[User:Faff296|Faff296]] ([[User talk:Faff296|talk]]) 22:11, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

== other forms ==

Are Trapeze and Aerial silk also forms of gymnastics? [[Special:Contributions/213.149.62.12|213.149.62.12]] ([[User talk:213.149.62.12|talk]]) 22:55, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

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•Nadia Comăneci received the first perfect score, at the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada. She was coached in Romania by coach, (Hungarian ethnicity), Béla Károlyi. Comaneci scored four of her perfect tens on the uneven bars, two on the balance beam and one in the floor exercise.[1] Even with Nadia's perfect scores, the Romanians lost the gold medal to the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, Comaneci became an Olympic icon.

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  1. ^ Fimrite, Ron (1996-07-25). "Practice made her perfect". sportsillustrated.cnn.com.

Possible reorganization of article

Gymnastic can be divided:

  • competitive
    • artistic, rhythmic, acrobatic, aerobic, trampolining, tumbling, parkour

and

  • FIG
  • Non FIG
  • functional - also called medical, therapeutic, remedial, corrective; aims to repair physical condition deteriorated by illness, deformity, injury or work onesidedness
  • aesthetic
  • applied - for developing special abilities needed for other sports, for example skiing 213.149.61.214 (talk) 10:39, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Basic definition lacking

There is nothing in the opening paragraph that says what gymnastics IS. It starts by saying it is "a sport that requires balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination and endurance" and goes on to say what muscles and skills are developed in gymnastics, but these requirements and effects are things that could be said of almost any sport. We get the start of an idea at the end of the para: "Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills." There must be some more specific way of describing what gymnastics is, some taxonomy it fits into (not a ball sport, not a game-based sport...). Something about executing movements that involve balancing one's own bodyweight, often using apparatus? Faff296 (talk) 22:11, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

other forms

Are Trapeze and Aerial silk also forms of gymnastics? 213.149.62.12 (talk) 22:55, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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