Gymnastics is a difficult sport that challenges your emotional, mental, and physical abilities. It consists of four events: Vault, Bars, Beam, and Floor. The sport of gymnastics was first discovered on October 1,1863, in Germany. With this discovery many people began to take interest in watching and participating in the sport. Gymnastics is not just about flipping and wearing a pretty leotard because there is far more to it. Gymnastics may be a beautiful sport to watch but it incorporates multiple scientific principals and laws of physics. To begin with, the first event for the sport of gymnastics following in olympic order is vault. “Vault is an explosive event where a gymnast run with full speed, reach the apparatus and spring off…show more content… According to Newton’s Second Law of Motion, “Applied Force= Object’s Mass * Objects Acceleration” (infogr.am). The approach to the vault, the speed that you run, the amount of spring and your body position can effect the end result of a vault either negatively or positively. The faster the run the more force you will have on the spring board which will help you complete your vault. Some skills that are more effected by the process of entry are as follows: Front handspring, Tsukahara, and Yurchenko. For example, when you do a Front handspring you are hitting the spring board then rotating your body in the air so that your hands land on top of the table and finally ending when landing on your…show more content… The apparatus you use to do this event consist of two uneven bars, that you are able to move up and down or closer and wider depending on how tall you are. There are landing mats underneath the whole set of bars and extend out past the highest bar for a safe landing area. These mats can be eight inches or four inches thick depending on the level of the dismount skill that will be performed. This event, which is only for girls, is basically a “transfer between the bars and to perform gracefully as well as powerfully. During transferring, gymnasts will revolve around the bar for several times to accelerate so that they can break the centrifuge force. They will use the linear velocity to fly to the next bar and revolve to re-create centrifuge force”
