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Artistic Gymnastics - Men
Artistic Gymnastics are the acrobatics that you see most often on television. Artistic Gymnastics, as an event, is the sport that made athletes like Mary Lou Retton and Kerry Strug famous. This sport has captured the imagination of the American audience for a number of reasons. First, it is a sport that features gymnasts with a unique combination of strength, flexibility, and style that is possessed by only a very few of the world's athletes. Successful artistic gymnasts combine speed, power, and balance to make high leaps and unique acrobatic feats that dazzle audiences. Both men and women participate in this sport. There are several different events that challenge the athletes and impress the audiences. Men's Artistic Gymnastics involve events such as the rings, parallel bars, floor exercises, pommel horse, and horizontal bar. Many of the men's exercises require tremendous upper body strength, confidence, and smooth transitions from one stunt to the next. The must be tremendously conditioned and maintain excellent strength in their arms and shoulders.
Artistic Gymnastics events, like track and field events, have its origins in ancient Greece, who were strong proponents of the arts and athletics. This is a sport that is a unique fusion of the arts, dancing, and athletics. In events like the freestyle floor exercises, the men choose their own routine, and perform as many flawless stunts as they can within a timeframe of 70 to 90 seconds. The gymnast's score is made based on the level of difficulty of the moves attempted, and execution of the cumulative stunts. While the men's floor exercise is a freestyle event, the judges are given a list of the elements of the program. The scoring of the events is done by 6 judges. The first two judges give the performer the top score, which could add up to a perfect score if they finish all their moves cleanly. The score the first two judges is the starting score, and for every mistake the gymnast makes during their routine, the other 4 judges deduct points from the starting score. On all of these events, the highest possible starting score is set at 10 points, with points scored in the thousandths of a point. This means that an artistic gymnastics men's score for the pommel horse could be 9.898 or 9.125. In any event, the FIG Code of Ethics recommends that a routine consist of a minimum of 10 elements. Gymnasts can perform more than 10 elements, but this is not required in any of the routines.
Men's Floor Exercises: The men's floor exercises are designed to display the gymnast's fitness, agility, balance, and artistry. In a well-performed routine, the athlete will use the entire mat to perform his runs, flips, and somersaults. One difficult routine often performed is the reverse double salt in the tuck position. This move involves a gymnast running up to a point, launching himself in the air, and performing two flips in the air before landing cleaning on both feet.
The Vault: The men's vault is another event that involves tremendous speed and power. In this event, the gymnast runs down an approach at full speed up to the point where he reaches the springboard. The athlete then launches himself off the springboard with both feet, vaulting over the apparatus.
Artistic Gymnastics and paintball are two sports where athletes must possess tremendous lower body strength.
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