Olympic sports

What would one call a sport that combines martial arts, gymnastics, and breakdancing to create amazing feats of skill? 18 years ago, the double corkscrew was created when people took a one footed backflip from the martial art Capoeria and added a double twist. This was the birth of the unfathomably cool sport known as tricking. Tricking could be an Olympic sport because it requires athletes to push themselves past physical limits, has an organized competition system, and requires a quick mind. Tricking could be an Olympic sport because it requires athletes to move past most physical limits. Trickers have an amazing habit of making people question what is possible. However, they do not just walk into their backyards and perform miracles on their very first try. They practice for years, constantly evolving, training, and getting better. They gain strength that some people would give their right hand to gain. The conditioning it requires is just as bad, if not worse than gymnastics, diving, and athletes will think that they can’t get any stronger, any better, and then they suddenly do one…

favorite gymnast on the US Olympic Gymnastics team is Gabby Douglass and her fellow gymnasts Simone Biles, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman. Gabby Douglass has an interesting story about her life with the other gymnast and the history. At that point, Douglass was very strong when she was doing her routines. Gabby Douglass was the most impressive gymnast because she was mostly doing gymnastics when she was younger She learned how to do a one-handed cartwheel that she taught…

Although gymnastics isn't considered a race, young elite gymnasts themselves are definitely in one. They're in a race with their own growing bodies and with all aspects of the sport that they dream of conquering to bring home Olympic gold before they expire. The physical and mental deterioration from the pressures of winning are brought on through intense training tactics implemented by coaches, their own parents, and even the governing body of gymnastics worldwide. The International Gymnastics…

Gabby Douglas, at sixteen, won gold in the individual all-around in women’s gymnastics. Not only did she win, she was the first black woman to win and the fourth American. She captured millions of hearts becoming a strong icon for black women. Her memoir Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Fate, talks about overcoming obstacles. Its depicts the hardships she faced in order to become successful in her field. Because Gabby’s family’s shortage of money, her brother and sisters had to quit their…

The physics of gymnastics is a very complicated topic to study due to the many different factors involved in the stunts. What is gymnastics? Gymnastics is exercises developing or displaying physical agility and coordination. The modern sport of gymnastics typically involves exercises on uneven bars, balance beam, floor, and vault (for women), and horizontal bars, parallel bars, rings, floor, vault and pommel horse (for men). Vault and floor exercise are both unisex events and all of the events…

Through the many years of my swimming career, the sport has transformed me into the adult I am today. For the past twelve years, I have called the Woonsocket YMCA pool my home. I learned how to swim there at five years old, joined the swim team at seven, and finished off my high school swimming career at the age of seventeen. Over the years, I have made lifelong friendships, unforgettable memories, and achieved goals set for myself and the team. My swimming career has been primarily known for…

I’m here to tell you about gymnastics. Gymnastics three main products gymnasts use, are chalk powder, the chalk powder helps them control the grip. Next the handlebar grips, help them not to get rips on their palms. Gymnast use leotards when the practice, they use them because they are very stretchy. The also use team uniforms for when they compete. I’ll be explaining why gymnast use them, and how they use the products. Gymnast need chalk to compete, for many different usage. First gymnast…

Have you ever seen a national gymnast? I went to Orlando Florida for nationals in gymnastics it took 25 hours. It took forever but at least I had my friend Tamara so I was not that bored. But it was fun we went through Kansas,Alabama,Tennessee,Georgia,and of course Florida they were all cool. So as you know I went to nationals in Orlando Florida it was ok, I got 9th bars and 10th all around out of the nation that's good I think! There was a lot of people. And on the beam I…

today I got to swim 200 butterfly at Junior Olympics. I know what you are probably thinking, Junior Olympics is not like the actual olympics that is held every four years with the gold, silver, and bronze medals just for children. Junior Olympics is a very competitive swim meet that swimmers can go to if they have a qualifying time for a certain event. I had qualified in 200 butterfly, which is eight laps of butterfly in a pool that is twenty-five yards long. I was twelve, and a cold March…

There are many sports, but the hardest one physically, mentally, and commitment wise is gymnastics. Gymnastics is a competitive sport in which the athletes preform acrobatic feats on four different types of apparatus. The first event female gymnasts compete in is the floor exercise. The athlete preforms a routine choreographed to music of her choice, and must complete three to four tumbling passes as well as leaps, jumps, and dance moves. The second apparatus is the vault. This piece of…