Alias of parallel bars

Double bars (parallel bars) are one of the men's competitive gymnastics disciplines. A metal frame supports two parallel bars made of wood, plastic, or synthetic metal. A typical parallel bars routine consists of transitions in the supported position, the inverted position, and the arm-hanging position.

Athletes are expected to perform swings in these positions, swinging over, flexion and extension, arcing swings, loops, cartwheels and static movements. Finally, the downward motion of the set requires that one must stand on one side of the bar. The double bar was included as an Olympic event in 1896.

Chinese name

Double bar

Foreign name

Parallel bars

Type

Sports equipment

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Introduction

Men's competitive gymnastics program. the early 19th century, the double bar has become more popular in Europe a fitness program. Later on, the German gymnast F.L. Yang modeled it as a gymnastic apparatus, and it was included in the Olympic Games in 1896. Modern competition with double bar by four columns set up two parallel wooden bar made of bar length 350 cm, height 175 cm, can be lifted. The sets of movements of the double bar competition are composed of swinging, swinging, flexion and extension, arc swinging, looping, flipping and static exertion, etc. The sets of movements require the use of swinging and flexion. In the early 20th century, there were more static movements of double bar, and in the 30s, there were front swing 180° turn to support and back flip to support. 50s~60s double bar technology had new progress, and the movement amplitude was increased, and in the mid-70s, two weeks of turnover was commonly used, and in the 80s, there were backward big loop and turnover plus turnover, which promoted the development of double bar technology. The development of double bar technique was promoted. From 1980 to 1992, Chinese athletes achieved 6 times of double bar world champion. So the double bar is an essential sport in China. I hope that every Chinese will never forget the honor that double bar brings to our country, and here I hope that every Chinese will support double bar as a sport.

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Double bar origin

Double bar originated in Germany. 1811 German gymnast Jan in the Berlin suburb of Hassenheide gymnasium for the first time to install this gymnastics equipment. It was initially used as a training tool for gymnastics and became an independent competition event in the 1840s. The double bar consists of four columns with two parallel wooden horizontal bars. The bars are 3.50 meters long, with adjustable spacing and height. Each team has a maximum of two athletes in the final, and only the top eight or six in the team competition are eligible to compete. Competition of Optional Moves Only. One-half of the total score of the required and optional movements in the team competition, plus the score of the optional movement in the final of the Bars competition, will be used as the final score to rank the team, and the one with the highest score will be ranked first. The score is 20 points. Since the 1992 Olympic Games, the team score is not carried over to the individual events, and only the score of the optional event is used to determine the ranking. 1896 was listed as an Olympic event. Since the new rules for gymnastics were used in 2006, there is no upper limit to the number of points scored. The score consists of two parts: A and B. A is the difficulty score, with no upper limit, and B is the completion score, out of 10 points. The top eight teams in the team preliminaries qualify for the finals. Each team has a maximum of two participants.

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History of the double bar

One of the men's competitive gymnastics events, the double bar became a popular fitness equipment in Europe at the beginning of the 19th century, and was later stereotyped as a gymnastic apparatus by the German gymnast F.L. Young, and it became the traditional workout program of the German Gymnastics School after 1812. In the middle of the 19th century, the Swedish gymnastic school's doctrines came into Germany, and H. Rotstein, the principal of the Berlin Royal Central Gymnastics School, who had studied gymnastics in Sweden, thought that the single bar and double bar were harmful to the physiology of young people, and excluded the German traditional single bar and double bar from the teaching of gymnastics. 1860 around 1860, a controversy occurred, and three people from the Berlin Gymnastics Union wrote a protest letter against the abolition of the single bar and double bar, and the Medical Councillor and other 19 doctors made a special study and considered that the double bar exercise was in line with the physiological characteristics of human beings. human physiology. The highest medical authority in Germany accepted the latter's argument, and from then on, the double bar stood firm in gymnastics. Since the 1st Olympic Games, the bars have been included in the gymnastics program.

Double Bar Champion

The sets of movements of the double bar should have swing, swing over, flexion and extension, arc swing, loop, cartwheel and static exertion, etc. according to the rules. Athletes do complete sets of movements, must be swing and aerial movements, there can also be appropriate static and forceful movements.In the early 20th century, the double bar movements in the static movements more, later, the proportion of swinging movements gradually increased, in the 30's, there has been a front swing 180 ° into the support, the back of the backflip into the support and other actions. In the 1936 Olympic Games, the German athlete K. Fry's self-selected action includes a backflip split-legged swing into the support. 50's and 60's, the double bar technical action and there are new improvements, such as amplitude increase, the front pendulum body 180 ° into a handstand, the backflip into a handstand, such as the increase in the action of the pendulum to the static position; the front pendulum body 360 ° into a handstand appeared; the type of the aerial turn under the law increase In the mid-70's, flip two weeks under the commonly used, flip two weeks plus turn body type under the law has also appeared, the bar under the bar action linkage amplitude has increased.

After the 50s, some excellent gymnasts from Japan, Italy, USSR, USA and China had a lot of innovations in the technical movements of double bar. Chinese athletes also excelled in the support swing movements of the double bar, and also improved on the hanging type movements. In 1980 Hartford International Gymnastics Invitational, Chinese athletes Cai Huanzong after the pendulum by inverted turn 360 ° front flip into a support for the core of the set of movements, scored 19.75 points, won the double bar championship; in the same year in the World Cup Gymnastics Championships, the Chinese athletes Li Yuejiu performed a front flip split-legged backward swing over into the hanging arm brace of the original action, won the double bar championship.