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Colorado Rhythmics is a USA Gymnastics member club, we train our students based on the USA Gymnastics guidelines and levels (1-10). All of our coaches are safety certified with USA Gymnastics and have extensive experience in the sport of rhythmic gymnastics.
Colorado Rhythmics provides a veriety of different class options to allow students, no matter the age or ability, to participate in the sport of rhythmic gymnastics. Our beginner class is designed for kindergarden age kids who love to play wtih hoop, ball, ribbon and jump rope as well as dance. It is designed for young kids to learn coordination and patience skills that help them in the future whether they stick with rythmimc gymnastics or not. The intermediate class is a step above the beginner level, this class is built for kids ages 7-10(there are exceptions) who have had experience in either gymnastics or dance and have stronger coordonation skills. Our pre-team are kids with experience in rhythmic gymnastics either from our school or another USAG member club, the pre-team are kids who do not want to compete but still want to practice RG at the competitive level (ages vary). Our highest level is the competition team, gymnasts will compete levels 3 through 10 in events both in-state and out of state. The competition team members are required to take privates at least once a month for the improvement of routines and one on one time with their coach to practice skills.
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. This idea was extended by Catherine F. Beecher, who founded the Western Female Institute in Ohio, USA, in 1837. In Beecher’s gymnastic program, called grace without dancing the young women exercised to music, moving from simple calisthenics to more strenuous activities. During the 1880s, Emil Dalcroze of Switerzerland developed eurhythmics, a form of physical training for musicians and dancers. George Demeny of France created exercises to music that were designed to promote grace of movement, muscular flexibility and good posture. All of these styles were combined around 1900 into the Swedish school of rhythmic gymnastics, which would later add dance elements from Finland. Rhythmic gymnastics as a sport began in the 1940 in the former Soviet Union.
The FIG recognised this discipline in 1961, first as “modern gymnastics” then as “rhythmic sports gymnastics, and finally as rhythmic gymnastics. The first World Championships for individual gymnasts took place in 1963 in Budapest, Hungary. Groups were introduced in 1967 World Championships in Copenhagen Denmark. Rhythmic gymnastics was added to the the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Today Rhythmic gymanstics is a sport is which single competitiors or five person teams manipulate five types of apparatus: Ball, Clubs, Hoop, Ribbon and Rope. The victor is the participant who earns the most points, as awarded by a panel of judges, for leaps, balances, pivots, flexibility, apparatus handling and artistic effect.
International competitions are split between juniors, girls under 16; and seniors girls 16 and over. The largest events in the sport are the Olympic Games, World Championships and others like the Corbeil-Essonnes Tournament.
As of 2005, Rhythmic gymnastics is largely a sport for women and girls, but a growing number of men participate. The Japanese version of Men’s rhythmic gymanstics includes tumbling and is performed on a spring floor. Individuals compete with four types of apparatus: rope, stick, double rings and clubs. Groups do not use any apparatus. Japan hosted the first Men’s World Championships in 2003.