Designed to display agility, coordination, and strength, the general sport of gymnastics involves the performance of exercises which require physical strength, balance, coordination, gracefulness, and flexibility. Rhythmic gymnastics is a type of gymnastics which combines ballet, apparatus manipulation, and gymnastics and where gymnasts manipulate clubs, balls, ribbon, rope, or hoops, which are known as apparatus. Individuals manipulates only one apparatus at a time, while teams may manipulate two different apparatus at a time. During their routines, items may be passed from team member to team member. Artistic gymnastics is the Olympic sport in which individual men and women perform short routines on various apparatus. Men's Olympic events are horizontal bar, parallel bars, still rings, pommel horse, vault, and floor exercise, while the women's events are uneven parallel bars, balance beam, vault, and floor exercise.
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Led by a guide who is an expert in gymnastics, this section has such articles "The 9 Most Controversial Moments," and articles about the Olympics, major meets, and training advice.
http://gymnastics.about.com/
Foams4Sports offer crash mats for use in schools, leisure centres etc.
https://www.foams4sports.co.uk/product-category/crash-mats/
The Drills and Skills Page offers gymnastic techniques and training. The website also has a large section dedicated to gymnastics conditioning: injury prevention and more. You can also learn how to do body awareness drills and stretchings as well.
http://www.drillsandskills.com
Online version of the sports magazine includes stories about gymnasts, upcoming as well as historic events, and previews of the next issue.
http://www.insidegymnastics.com/
Organization with over 1,200 professional members and 7,000 athlete members throughout Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia ranging from small recreational gymnastic programs to those that produce Olympic athletes.
http://www.region7gymnastics.com/
Contains topics which have to do with gymnastics, including articles about leotards and other attire, the balance beam, floor exercises and music for accompaniment, and the vault table.
http://theworldofgymnastics.com/
