London: As the world’s top Rhythmic Gymnasts take to the floor on 9th August, there are hopes that the sport will see a surge in popularity as it reaches a worldwide audience.
Rhythmic gymnastics combines ballet and creative movements to music, while working with ribbons, balls, hoops, ropes and clubs in a choreographed dance-and-tumble routine.
It has a lot more dance than artistic gymnastics. Everything is done on the floor with far different routines and different music.
Rhythmic gymnastics which includes ball, hoop, ribbon, rope, clubs and sometimes is a floor exercise. Gymnastics, rhythmic and artistic combined, started in Europe during the eighteenth century as one sport and over time gradually developed into two different yet similar sports.
Rhythmic gymnastics started as an independent competitive sport in the early nineteen fifties by the Russians. Then in 1963 the first rhythmic gymnastics world championship was held in Europe. Even though rhythmic gymnastics has its own world championships it did not become an Olympic medal sport until 1984.
Individual rhythmic gymnastics music for routines has a time maximum of 90 seconds and group music has a maximum of 150 seconds.
In rhythmic gymnastics there are many rules such as: after you begin performing your routine, you or your apparatus cannot go out of the marked area without points being deducted, your outfit and apparatus cannot be gold, silver, or bronze colored or you will be deducted for it and if you drop your apparatus you will be deducted.
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