Gimnastics

Content
Generalities
The course is divided in three parts
Part 1: Introduction to apparatus and equipment
- Common components in men's and women's gymnastics
- Floor: general gymnastic elements and preacrobatics
- Low horizontal bar; parallel bars; pommel horse; rings
- Uneven bars, low bar; beam, vault, minitrampoline, trampoline
- Elastic bands: introduction and elementary jumps
Part 2: Introduction to and basic elements for working on specific apparatus
- Specifics: male and female artistic gymnastics
- Floor gymnastics: general elements and introduction to acrobatics
- Vaulting (minitrampoline and trampoline)
- Males: horizontal bar, parallel bars, pommel horse, rings
- Females: parallel uneven bars; beam
Part 3: Development of basic elements and work on specific apparatus
- Specifics: male and female artistic gymnastics
- Floor gymnastics: development of general elements and basic acrobatics
- Vaulting (minitrampoline and trampoline)
- Males: high horizontal bar, high parallel bars; pommel horse, high rings
- Females: high parallel uneven bars; high beam
- Overview of preparation for match exercises
Content
The course is subdivided in:
Theoretical aspects specific to gymnastics
- Artistic gymnastics: sports organization; historical overview; objectives; fundamentals
- Competition equipment and facilitative equipment, protection devices
- Overview of Scoring Code: definition and composition of match exercises, jury , general evaluation of compulsory exercises; types of matches; overview of free exercises
- General and specific motor preparation
- Physical-attitudinal concepts, preparation of the gymnast, specific abilities - biotype
- Basics in introductory choreography
- Technical preparation: specific techniques and didactics, specific nomenclature and classifications
- General and specific motor abilities in artistic gymnastics, joint mobility, strength, endurance, coordination, dexterity
- General and specific physical preparation: control tests
- Spotting: basics and applications, technical apparatus
- Overview of planning and periodization of training
- Preparation of match exercises: fundamental aspects of compulsory and free exercises; overview of training methods
Theory, technique, didactics of floor exercises
- Introduction to specific motor skills
- Specific physical preparation
- Basics in preparatory choreography
- Generalities and basics in floor exercises: general preacrobatic and gymnastic elements, introductory and basic elements, connection and progression
- Theory, technique, didactics of leg movement: rotations; elements of strength and mobility, jumps and gymnastics jumps, pre-jumps, gymnastic pirouettes
- Theory, technique, didactics of specific assistance, specific physical preparation for basic elements of:
1) Rolling: forward rolling, forward and backward roll in tuck, variations and progressions: backward and forward straddle roll, punch front tuck, dive forward roll, back handspring
2) Handstands: backward roll to two- and three-point handstand; cartwheel, variations and progression, handstand rotation, rotation and cartwheel
3) Cartwheels: cartwheel, chasse cartwheel, aerial cartwheel, kip, forward and backward flic-flac
4) Acrobatic jumps: forward jump turn, backward jump turn, jumps with different rotations
- Simple connection of all elements treated
- Overview of the construction of floor exercises
Theory, technique, didactics of equipment
Theory, technique, didactics of vaults
- Generalities, theoretical elements, introduction
- Seven phases of the horse vault
- Introduction to vaults: vaults in two phases, separated from the horse, handstand rotation
- Basic linear vaults: lateral vault, vault with front tuck, separate vault with side horse
- Vaults with basic roll back: handspring, 1/4 turn in pre-flight, round-off entry
- Spotting: accident prevention and specific technique
- Study of a specific type of vault compulsory
Theory, technique, didactics of exercises on the parallel and uneven bars
- Generalities and introduction to equipment
- Front and back hip circle suspended and supported
- Forward roll, pullover
- Simple entries with front support, back circle
- Introduction to front change, basic front change with support and lateral shoot through, front change from swing
- Stride circles
- Swing on the low bar
- Stride circle, kip
- Hip circle, simple circles
- Introduction to dismounts, underswing
- Simple connection of elements
- Spotting, accident prevention, and specific technique
- Overview of the construction of exercises on the high bar and uneven bars
Theory, technique, didactics of exercises on the balance beam
- Generalities about the apparatus, introduction
- Exercises for gaining confidence on the beam
- Basic position
- Simple entries with flight phase
- Walks with jump
- Simple front changes from upright position and squat, squat turn in two phases (relevé) and full
- Scale, possé, side relevé, arabesque, straddle
- Basic jumps and leaps
- Forward roll, straddle, handstand
- Forward handstand, back walkover, cartwheel
- Basic dismounts, 1/1 turn, ½ turn, cross handstand
- Simple connection of elements
- Spotting, accident prevention, and specific technique
- Overview of the construction of exercises on the high balance beam
Overview of the use of the trampoline and the minitrampoline
- Generalities about the apparatus, introduction
- Basic elements
Theory, technique, didactics of exercises on the parallel bars
- Generalities about the apparatus, introduction
- Introduction to swing: translocations, splits, popliteal swings, plantar support
- Introduction to salto forward/salto backward dismount
- Swinging in support position
- Basic front change in support position
- Handstand in hanging position, long hang swing backward, up-rise
- Kip with arm support, kip with arm swing, short kip
- Forward headspring, moy finishing in upper arm support
- Glide kip
- Simple front and back dismounts, with front/lateral change from vertical support
- Simple connection of elements
- Spotting, accident prevention, specific technique
- Overview of construction of exercises on the parallel bars
Theory, technique, didactics of exercises on the pommel horse and mushroom (introduction, circles)
- Generalities about the apparatus, introduction
- Preparatory jumps from front, back, center
- Entries and dismounts from the three basic positions
- Basic swings and cuts
- Full turns and travel elements
- Basic front change and progressions, simple Swiss
- Cuts
- Scissors and circles on the mushroom
- Simple front and back dismounts, with front change
- Simple connection of elements
- Spotting, accident prevention, specific technique
- Overview of construction of exercises on the horse
Theory, technique, didactics of exercises on the rings
- Generalities about the apparatus, introduction
- Forward and backward baby giant
- Maintaining support and hanging, control of the rings
- Handstand, candle position, hanging tucked, hanging L-sit
- Back up-rise and muscle up
- Dislocation in dorsal suspension and rise
- Facilitated rise, inlocates, back level, and back uprise scale
- Planch
- Preparatory swings hanging with arms flexed, basic swings
- Simple dismounts with forward/backward jump, headstand with leg split, planch
- Spotting, accident prevention, and specific technique
- Simple connection of elements
- Overview of exercises on the high rings