Póster Young man practicing on the horizontal bar

AssetID: 84543583 / {IMAGEMORE Co, Ltd. } / Young man practicing on the horizontal bar _x000D_ _x000D_ Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of dances requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) with each country having its own national governing body affiliated to FIG. Competitive Artistic gymnastics is the best known of the gymnastic sports. It typically involves the women's events of uneven bars , balance beam , floor exercise , and vault . Men's events are floor exercise , pommel horse , still rings , vault , parallel bars , and high bar . Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks , that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills. _x000D_ Other gymnastic sports include rhythmic gymnastics , the various trampolining sports, aerobic and acrobatic gymnastics. _x000D_ Participants can include children as young as two years old doing kindergym and children's gymnastics, recreational gymnasts of ages 5 and up, competitive gymnasts at varying levels of skill, and world class athletes. _x000D_ _x000D_ This page is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, anyone associated with the topic.