History of Gymnastics

Sound mind, body are. There are thousands of years, men Greeks botavam into practice what today is theory. The women stayed at home, cooking, making rendados in gifts from home, that was it. They met in gyms, in cultural centres, they considered fine art, good music heard, discussed philosophy and deep, to recreate themselves, practiced gymnastics. Nudes. Plato and Aristotle cultuavam this routine, which ressaltava the beauty through the movements of the body.

The Christians were benziam before this ritual satânico. The Roman emperor Theodosius, attached to the cause of the Virgin, ended with the cult body: in 393 AD, decreed the end of the ancient Olympic Games, in the name of God and morality. But the people, mass orgiástica and festive, continued flexing is stealthy, as it always does in the face of tyranny.

The gymnastics returns to public in the years 1500. With all the rope. As street theatre. Imagine the algazarra promoted by trainers from then. Up, down recommended the pioneers to the audience, institucionalizando the malhação that modern times transported as a novelty for television. Humanity returns to study the issue. And the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau concludes: "The exercise makes a man healthy so as wise and fair". In the century 17, moved up the teaching of gymnastics, with the English sociologist Sir John Locke and Jean-Henri Swiss educator Pestalozzi. Separate, then, the expression of body exercises, training of the ancient warriors and it becomes called the "Olympic gymnastics." In 1861, in its public debut in Berlin, meets 6 thousand people.

The nationalist German Friedrich Ludwig Jahn does not lose time. Aperfeiçoa and spreading the sport in Europe. It shows where he spends gymnasts of the new equipment: the horse with handles, the horizontal and parallel bars, balance beams, and for climbing rope. Other Germans do the same. In Rio Grande do Sul, immigrants founded the first society of gymnastics in South America, in Joinville, in 1858 but the fashion not handle, and still our tradition in the sport is a solitary ring, a zero. Na, Europe, but in the decade of 1880, the evidence proliferate school, in clubs and associations. The gym is stated. And vai to the Athens Games as born-1896: only for men. In 1903, Ambères, France, hosting the first world, and Amsterdam-28, the prejudice against Greek helenas vai the ground.

The rhythmic gymnastics sports, mode of the last century that incorporates elements of classical ballet, is from Los Angeles Olympic-84. His first disputes encouraged the creation of muscle-building exercises in eastern Europe, and development of dance in Sweden. In 1963, Budapest is boquiaberta with the performance of Soviet Ludmila Savinkova, a tournament that one year later would be recognized as the world's first category. Until today is something only women.

In Sydney, the springboard Acrobatic will be a new Olympic venue. Creation of the American Indians Comanche, is practised in picadeiros circus 200 years ago as elastic bed. It is thought that the circus acrobata Du Springboard had the idea to use it to take momentum. With it, at the end of the last century, good rodopiavam two or three times on rows of elephants and horses. In the years 1930, a joint American, George Nissen, driblou the greatest economic crisis of capitalism to create a prototype of bed elastic used today. With it, built a profitable business, opening it for the fun of povão in exchange for a few cents. The Yankee certainly not imagined that his invention would be worth gold. And further the Olympic.