Essay 1-02a: An English Website Review

I searched rhythmic sportive gymnastics. How I found the sites; search for rules, history, Olympic and famous player. There are some reasons why I chose it. First of all, I belonged to rhythmic sportive gymnastics club when I was junior high school student. I got to like to dance very much, but the rule is a little complicated, so I thought I wanted to search it. Second, there is a former player who I liked and I was deeply impressed. Her name is Alina Kabaeva. I didn't know the details about her, so I want to know about her.

At first, I searched world rhythmic sportive gymnastics federation. I'll introduce to you about history and rules.

• About rhythmic sportive gymnastics


• basic rule

Rhythmic gymnastics became an Olympic sport in the 1984. Rhythmic gymnastics joined what is now known as “artistic gymnastics”. Historically, gymnastic training has been tied to military training. Several important figures helped change gymnastics from a military exercise into a more modern form of physical training. What we know today as rhythmic gymnastics was most influenced by the work of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in the 1890s. Dalcroze was a composer and music educator. He wanted to teach his students to understand music by understanding movement. By trying to understand music through movement, they were able to work. Also around 1900, Ernest Idla of Estonia created a scoring system for rhythmic gymnastics. In this way, rhythmic gymnastics became a competitive sport.

Rhythmic gymnastics can be performed as an individual event or as a team event. The rules for each event are slightly different. For all events, a gymnast performs on 13-metre-square floor area. A gymnast must use the entire area. Rhythmic gymnastics scoring is done by two panels of judges. One panel scores is on execution and the other panel is scores on composition. The execution score begins at 10.0 and points are deducted for technical faults. The composition score has a maximum of 20.0 points. 10.0 points is for artistic quality and 10.0 is for difficulty. Flexibility, choreography, control, uniqueness, proper technique and effective are all elements that judges score. There are many tools, for example, ribbon, hoop, ball and rope. It is decided that what tool rhythmic gymnast use once in several years.


Next, I'll introduce you about Alina Kabaeva.Alina Kabaeva is the former player of Russia. Her performance is so wonderful.

• About Alina Kabaeva
  
• the 2004 Athens Olympics

Kabayeva possesses high inborn flexibility. She is Russia's most successful rhythmic gymnast to date. She is also one of the most decorated gymnasts in the history of rhythmic gymnastics with 18 World Championship medals, 2 Olympic medals and 25 European Championship medals. Kabayeva, the daughter of Tatar father and Russian mother, was born in Tashkent, Uzbek. In her young teens she moved to Russia. She made her international debut in 1996. In 1998, the 15 year old Kabayeva won the European Championships in Portugal. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Kabayeva was expected to claim gold in all around. But she won a bronze medal due to an error. Also in the 2004 Athens Olympics, she finally won the gold medal.

I really like rhythmic sportive gymnastics but there is not so many people who knows about it. So, I want many people to know about rhythmic sportive gymnastics. This is a good chance! I hope everyone to find it is interesting.

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