Abstract
Abstract The purpose of research was to determine whether Code of Point (COP) in Men Artistic Gymnastics (MAG) and Women Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) favor asymmetric elements in order to build gymnast’s competition exercise. All elements which are described in MAG (N = 993) and WAG (N = 713) COP were included and defined if they are symmetric at start position, during movement and at final position. Element is symmetric by arms and trunk with legs activity when all left and right body side performs simultaneously same activity. Results show in MAG COP as a whole is significantly more asymmetric elements with asymmetric trunk and legs activity. In WAG COP as a whole is significantly more asymmetric elements with asymmetric activity of arms, trunk and legs. Hypothetical most difficulty exercises on each apparatus revealed that in general for all around gymnast proportion between asymmetric and symmetric elements is close to 70% to 30%, what suggests that difficulty relates to increased asymmetry. COP in MAG and WAG enforces asymmetric movements for achieving high results, however, coaches’ task is to be aware of COP influence on gymnasts’ health and minimize asymmetries in load and to work on symmetric conditioning.
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In old booklet from 1919 titled Sokol Principles[1], under chapter VI
Nor any other sport is compulsory for Sokol members
For all Sokol members are compulsory exercises in row and column and calisthenics
Summary
In old booklet from 1919 titled Sokol Principles[1], under chapter VI. Sokol and Sport write: Sokol movement thinks that for nation education are not suitable sports, which have aim to entertain and expose more than to support physical education. Sokol understand important in uence of some sports, plays and activities in nature for harmonic development of healthy body and mind mostly for young and accepts them into program with modern views about youngsters’ hygiene into work plan. Such sports are bathing, swimming, rowing, and ice skating, skiing, hiking without climbing, forest games, and excursion and similar. In the past we were reading many such titles, Correspondence with Dwight Normile (editor of International Gymnast Magazine) revealed we know (perhaps there are more, but not recorded publicly) four cases of simultaneous both limbs injury with elite gymnasts in last 25 years. Aim is to determine proportion between symmetric and asymmetric elements on each MAG and WAG apparatus according to element group membership
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