Artistic gymnastics has been included in the Modern Olympics since the first Games, held in Athens in 1896. The rules have been revised on a number of occasions over the course of time, equipment standards have changed, and the apparatus have improved. Many techniques have thus been generated due to the development of artistic gymnastics. The progress and development of these techniques has served as a foundation for the development of artistic gymnastics, and the development of sports technology (“Sportliche Technik” Fetz,1972,p.287) has had a major impact on the process whereby these techniques have been generated.
On the basis of historical source materials, this study aims to elucidate trends in the technical development of the turning and flipping skills group on the balance beam by examining factors such as the impact of changes in equipment standards, scoring rules, and technical skills.
Since 1960, the following points have become evident in regard to the flipping skills group.
・After the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the balance beam changed into a rhythmic and dynamic event due to the development of techniques, improvements in equipment, and scoring rules that discouraged static performances, and the balance beam became a rhythmic and dynamic event, and the techniques of the flipping skills group changed. There is a strong trend toward speeding up technology.
・After 1976, the techniques in the flipping skills began to be performed as a series of techniques rather than as single techniques. Particularly in 1979, as the scoring rules required a series of techniques that directly combined techniques, and with the development of the technique for “backflip”, the flipping skills were treated as a central element of acting. becomes.
・Since 1993, the role of the flipping skills were limited to its value as a run-up. there has been an ongoing rising trend in enhancing artistic value of performances by combining existing skills with acrobatic elements. Since 1960, this study revealed the following points in regard to the turning skills group.
・Until the 1990s, 360° turns were performed in competition.
・Since the 1990s, due to the influence of scoring rules, the upper limits of evaluation points were abolished, resulting in a marked tendency of making existing skills more structurally complex.
In this way, in order for the balance beam event to remain as an event in gymnastics in the future, it is necessary to have a fundamental understanding of the event itself. Furthermore, it will be necessary to revise the rules to encourage the generation of original shapes based on an understanding of the essential event characteristics of the balance beam mentioned above, as well as to improve the equipment and change the equipment standards.
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