What it takes to be good at gymnastics

To be good at both rhythmic and artistic gymnastics you need to be really dedicated to practicing 6-7 days a week. To be good you need to be really flexible,really fit and most importantly enjoy it.

When practicing you will normally have a coach and a team with you. To get good and know the routine you have to practice over and over again. Sometimes it might hurt but get back up again. The apparatus is the beam,floor,vault and bar the boys also use the rings. Practice is the most important thing to do.

When competing and practicing the outfits are always the same the girls wear leotards and the boys wear a tunic top,shorts or longs. You can't wear socks or shoes. Your outfit has you country or colours of your country's flag on it.

When competing you wear chalk on your hands to help give you grip.chalk is mostly used on the bar and rings. When judging the judges give a score out of ten, they are looking for your errors,precision and generally how well you do. To get to this stage you will have to be in the best shape. The medals are given out the same as every other sport. Each grade gets a 1st 2nd and 3rd.there is normally 2 or 3 judges for each apparatus.

Gymnastics is actually a really hard sport to do. You probably need to do it for a few years before your good enough to compete. Practice really does make perfect.
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