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	Ball (rhythmic gymnastics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ball (rhythmic gymnastics) is made of either rubber or synthetic material (pliable plastic) provided it possesses the same elastivity as rubber.It is from 18 to 20cm in diameter and must have a minimum weight of 400g.
		The ball can be of any colour.The ball should rest in the gymnast's hand and not rest against the wrist or be able to be grasped.
		Fundamental elements of a ball routine include throwing, bouncing or rolling, The gymnast must use both hands and work on the whole floor area whilst showing continuous flowing movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ball_(rhythmic_gymnastics) (135 words)

	Rhythmic gymnastics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which single competitors or groups of two or more manipulate five types of apparatus: Ball, Clubs, Hoop, Ribbon, and Rope.
		Rhythmic gymnastics grew out of the 19th-century Swedish system of free exercise developed by Peter Henry Ling, who promoted "aesthetic gymnastics," in which students expressed their feelings and emotions through bodily movement.
		Rhythmic gymnastics as a sport began in the 1940s in the former Soviet Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhythmic_gymnastics (679 words)

	Rhythmic gymnastics: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinaesthetic awareness, such as handsprings...
		Mens rhythmic gymnastics is a variation of the sport of womens rhythmic gymnastics that emerged in the 1990s....
		Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which competitors perform short routines (ranging from approximately 10 to 90 seconds) on different apparatus...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/rh/rhythmic_gymnastics.htm (662 words)

	Format of Olympic Rhythmic Gymnastics
		The ball apparatus is made of rubber or soft plastic, with a diameter of 18–20cm.
		Waves, circles, throws and catches, movement with the ball balanced on the hand, bouncing and rolling the ball on the floor and along parts of the body are all key movements.
		The gymnasts are expected to use the entire floor area in their routines and their work with the apparatus should be balanced between each hand equally.
	www.usgyms.net /format_olym_rhy.htm (547 words)

	Rhythmicgymnastics.ca - Ottawa Rhythmic Gymnastics Club
		It is a combination of the dynamics and flexibility of gymnastics, the technical knowledge of ballet, and the self-expression and rhythm of modern dance.
		The benefits of Rhythmic Gymnastics to girls in their formative years include physical fitness, self-discipline, positive self-esteem, lasting friendships, team skills, fun and a healthy lifestyle that the gymnast will sustain for life.
		In the absence of extremely difficult acrobatic elements used in Artistic Gymnastics, the movements in Rhythmic Gymnastics are elegant, expressive, precise and graceful.
	www.goldenbridge.ca /rhythmic/gym.htm (414 words)

	Elite Sports Complex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rhythmic Gymnastics is an Olympic sport that eloquently combines the beauty and grace of dance with the agility and dexterity of gymnastics.
		Rhythmic gymnasts use hand apparatus such as ribbon, rope, hoop, ball and clubs that are constantly in motion, synchronized with their body movements.
		Rhythmic gymnastics not only establishes lifelong patterns of physical activity which promote health and fitness, but also requires discipline, develop courage, poise, and grace, and builds self-confidence – all transferable to other areas of life.
	www.elitesportscomplex.com /Classes/Rhythmic_Gymnastics.html (334 words)

	Rhythmic Gymnastic Center Russe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rhythmic gymnastics combines the athletic grace of gymnastics, an interpretive performance to fine music, and the visual excitement of vibrantly colored apparatus.
		Rhythmic gymnastic is floor exercise that combines creative body movements to portray the participant's interpretation of their selected music with variety of hand apparatus to enhance visual display.
		Unlike artistic gymnastics, the aim of rhythmic gymnastics is not to do gravity-defying stunts, but to project grace, beauty, and the coordination of the moving body and the moving apparatus.
	www.orgsites.com /mn/rhythmicrusse (418 words)

	About Rhythmic Gymnastics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rhythmic gymnastics is a beautiful and very challenging sport that combines elements of artistic (regular) gymnastics, and many styles of dance with the handling of small apparatus.
		Instead of performing on the apparatus, rhythmic gymnasts perform with their apparatus--either a ball, hoop, rope, ribbon, or clubs.
		Rhythmic gymnasts must be incredibly flexible and very strong, plus have great endurance, hand-eye coordination, agility, grace, confidence, and poise.
	www.angelfire.com /ok2/jennyrhythm/info.html (163 words)

	ATGA - What is Rhythmic Gymnastics
		hythmic gymnastics is a beautiful blend of ballet and gymnastic movements combined with the manipulation of special apparatus, all set to music.
		In the United States, the main governing body is U.S.A. Gymnastics; and in Canada, it is the Canadian Rhythmic Gymnastics Association.
		Rhythmic gymnasts can use five different hand apparatus in their routines: ball, clubs, hoop, ribbon, and rope.
	www.geocities.com /aerialtumblers/rhythmicdesc.htm (498 words)

	Rhythmic Gymnastics Associations, Contacts, Tournaments
		Rhythmic Gymnastics is another type of competitive gymnastics for women, in which acrobatic skills are not used.
		Gymnastic competitions are judged and scored on both an individual and a team basis.
		Gymnasts try to perform the most difficult routines in the most graceful way, thus impressing the judges with their mastery of the sport.
	www.sportsourcedirectory.com /sportassociations/rhythmic_gymnastics.html (264 words)

	Serebrianska is golden in rhythmic gymnastics; Vitrychenko takes bronze (08/11/96) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport that is far more popular in Eastern Europe and the countries once within the Soviet Union than in the West.
		It is a competition which, unlike artistic gymnastics, uses four apparatus in four separate rotations: a ball, a rope, a ribbon and a club.
		Rhythmic gymnastics is similar to other gymnastics only in that it is done like a floor exercise.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1996/329623.shtml (471 words)

	Olympic Preview: Rhythmic Gymnastics
		Rhythmic gymnastics routines should last between 75 and 90 seconds and the gymnasts are penalized for every second they finish over or under the time allotment.
		While mainstream or artistic gymnastics is performed on an apparatus like the vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor, rhythmic gymnastics, a strictly female event, is performed with an apparatus.
		The five disciplines in rhythmic gymnastics, once called modern gymnastics, are rope, hoop, ball, ribbon, and clubs.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/ol-rhythmicgym.html (316 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS
		When rhythmic gymnastics first caught the attention of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) in the middle of the 20th century, its devotees were calling it "modern gymnastics".
		Rhythmic gymnastics (performed with an apparatus) is strictly a women's competition.
		The gymnasts, accompanied by music, perform on a 13-metre-square floor area with rope, hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon.
	www.olympic.org /uk/sports/programme/disciplines_uk.asp?DiscCode=GR (155 words)

	rgym (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In Rhythmic Gymnastics, you use either a ball, a ribbon, a rope, a hoop, or clubs.
		Rhythmic Gymnastics takes place on a square carepeted area with the measuresment of 12 meters.
		Rythmic gymnastics is a type of gymnastics that uses ropes, hoops, balls, clubs, and ribbons.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /schools/forestknollses/Olympics/rythgym.htm (141 words)

	USA Gymnastics Online: Technique: Small Hand Apparatus For 3-5 Year Olds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rhythmic gymnastics at the preschool level can also be offered as its own program without ever getting into higher levels and older age groups.
		A rhythmic gymnastics ball is made of plastic or rubber and generally for the preschooler, the ball is about 16cm.
		The ball can now be caught without the intermediate bounce, using the learned catching skills (watching the ball, meeting the ball high in the air, letting fingertips be the first thing to touch the ball, keeping arms straight, plié while catching and lowering arms).
	usa-gymnastics.org /publications/technique/1998/3/small-hand-rsg.html (1575 words)

	Rhythmic Gymnastics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rhythmic Gymnastics is one of the most captivating sports to watch and so much fun to do.
		The apparatus must be incorporated into the gymnasts' routine and must be used as if it were an extension of her limbs.
		In rhythmic gymnastics, the apparatus is a small rope, hoop, ball, ribbon, or pair of clubs.
	www.pitt.edu /~mvp46/rhythmicgymnastics.html (114 words)

	Rhythmic Gymnastics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport which combines dance and gymnastics, while working with balls, hoops, ribbons, ropes, and clubs.
		The main difference between artistic gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics is that acrobatic skills are not allowed in rhythmic gymnastics.
		Individuals compete using four apparatus, rope, hoop, ball, and ribbon, and must perform a routine for each.
	tiger.towson.edu /~mwineb2/Rhythmic.html (122 words)

	Sport - Gymnastics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gymnasts in Levels I and II compete on a beam that is 4 inches wide and 12 inches high.
		Gymnasts in Levels III and IV compete using a regulation balance beam.
		The skills that must be performed and the duration of Special Olympics gymnastics routines are specified in the SOI gymnastics rules, found on the SOI web page at http://www.specialolympics.org.
	edweb6.educ.msu.edu /kin866/spgymnastics.htm (654 words)

	Rhythmic gymnastics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rhythmics combines the athletic grace of gymnastics and dance through the use of colourful apparatus such as ball, hoop, ribbon, rope, and clubs.
		Rhythmic Gymnastics (RG) an internationally recognized sport since the 1950's has been influenced in its evolution by many individuals and schools of thought.
		Rhythmic Sportive Gymnastics was introduced as an Olympic discipline at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games and the first ever Gold Medal in the sport was won by Canada's Lori Fung.
	www.interlog.com /~ritmika/ritgym.htm (244 words)

	USATODAY.com - Sanders chases a different sort of hoop dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rhythmic gymnastics is a demanding sport in which athletes twist themselves into poses the ordinary human would find impossible, all while keeping control of the ribbon, ball, hoop and clubs.
		So a lot of the time if a girl is tall and kind of lean, someone might suggest rhythmic gymnastics because it's perfect for their body type.
		When you hear "rhythmic gymnastics," you think, "Oh, they dance around with ribbons." But when you actually watch it at the Olympics, it'll be different.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/summer/2004-02-17-sanders-10_x.htm (1057 words)

	kiat.net: Olympic Games Gymnastics (Rhythmic & Trampoline)
		Although it's quite new as a competitive sport, rhythmic gymnastics is rooted in the very beginning of modern gymnastics.
		Although rhythmic gymnastics was introduced to North America in 1906 by a Finnish-Canadian athletic club in Toronto, the sport didn't gain much popularity.
		The CMGF was renamed the Canadian Modern Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation in 1971 and the word "modern" was dropped from the group's name in 1981.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/sports/gymnastics-rt.html (596 words)

	About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		They are sacrificing not only their leisure time, but also their time away from high school and university and from family. Through this intensive training the three young women in high school will continue with their school lessons and assignments on a daily basis through the use of flexible class times and lap top computers.
		Rhythmic Gymnastics is a discipline executed exclusively by women, who compete in both individual and team events.
		Rhythmic Gymnastics was introduced as an Olympic event in 1984 in Los Angeles with the first gold medal won by Canadian Laurie Fung.
	www.virtualprez.pair.com /nationalgroup/about.htm (573 words)

	WEST MIDLANDS AGA RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This graceful form of gymnastics began as a means of movement and expression in the end of 19th and early 20th century.
		Today's Rhythmic Gymnasts are highly trained and show the remarkable combination of flexibility, dexterity, co-ordination and imaginative dance.
		The gymnast uses the clubs to execute mills, rolls, twists, throws and as many asymmetric figures as possible, combining them with the many figures featured in non- apparatus gymnastics.
	www.wmgymnastics.org.uk /Disciplines/rhythmic.htm (978 words)

	Sport Seneca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Unmatched for grace and beauty, each individual rhythmic composition is choreographed to music and demonstrates dance along with the required elements: turns, balances, leaps, jumps, flexibility, waves and acrobatics accompanied by colourful apparatus.
		The group is an exciting event consisting of 3 to 5 gymnasts on the carpet working in unison with five of the same apparatus or a mixture of two.
		Whatever the level of practice, Rhythmic Gymnastics provides fine schooling in mastery of gesture and sensory development, and a form of exercise that allows full realization of physical and mental potential.
	www.senecac.on.ca /elite/rhythmic/r-programinfo.htm (546 words)

	home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rhythmic Gymnastics was a demonstration event at the 1980 Olympics and was introduced as an official
		Rhythmic Gymnastics Group was introduced as an Olympic Discipline in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic
		Rhythmic Gymnastics is popular in Japan and some other Asian countries.
	www.bigapplegym.com /RG.html (449 words)

	Sanders of U.S. fails to get out of qualifying - Rhythmic gymnastics - MSNBC.com
		Rhythmic gymnastics is a lot like ice dancing in figure skating — right down to the garish eye makeup, mystifying technical requirements and costumes in colors not even seen in Crayola’s box of 64.
		In her second routine, she was flipping her clubs in her hands, a move easier for rhythmic gymnasts than picking out their eye shadow.
		All that dancing and twirling with ropes, hoops, balls, ribbons and clubs is a little confusing to people used to seeing gymnasts flipping and tumbling.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5840238 (773 words)

	Teaching Rhythmic Gymnastics - Human Kinetics
		The opportunities for movement are endless as children use their natural creativity and imagination to manipulate ribbons, balls, hoops, ropes, and scarves in fun and spectacular ways.
		Rhythmic gymnastics is an enjoyable sport that develops fitness, inspires creativity, and enables every child to work at his or her own level.
		She discovered rhythmic gymnastics at the age of 19 (the time of her retirement from competitive artistic gymnastics), and she has been actively promoting the sport ever since.
	www.humankinetics.com /products/showproduct.cfm?isbn=0736042423 (839 words)

	Gymnastics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Artistic gymnastics is one of the most popular spectator sports at the Summer Olympic Games, although it is not a particularly popular participant sport, as performing at even a basic level requires very high levels of fitness and skill which take more training than many people are prepared to commit.
		However, the discipline of general gymnastics is geared more towards participation for fun and fitness, rather than competition, and attracts a respectable number of participants including retired gymnasts.
		In the past, female gymnastics was dominated by girls in their early teenage years, as their small size and light weight made landings softer and many movements easier.
	www.artzia.com /gymnastics (663 words)

	RSG on the CHP
		The rhythmic gymnast must have excellent hand-eye-coordination to perform complex movements with the apparatus.
		Rhythmic gymnasts are without question among the most highly trained athletes, and deserve every bit of the respect and admiration that we pay them here at the CHP.
		The flexibility training techniques that are used in rhythmic gymnastics have taken the principles of contortion, dance, and acrobatics...
	www.contortionhomepage.com /rsg.html (400 words)

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