The evaluation of junior (10-12 years) artistic and rhythmic gymnastics atheletes’ balance, coordination and flexibility skills ratings

Goal of research – to determine and to compare balance, coordination and flexibility indexes of rhythmic and artistic gymnastics female athletes. Methods used in the research – sample of the research consists of 20 participants (n=20): 10 female representatives of rhythmic gymnastics and 10 female representatives of artistic gymnastics. Participants’ are 10-12 years old. 4 different tests have been done: Flamingo balance test; flexibility have been estimated using gymnastics bridge test (part 1 and part 2) and head together with breast lifting up while lying; Teping test (to determine coordination). Results of research – After the test conduction of 10-12 years old rhythmic and artistic gymnastics, it was found that artistic gymnastics athletes (4,6 attempts) mean was way better than rhythmic gymnastics athletes (6,3 attempts). The test results are statistically significantly different, since t = 0.01 (p 0.05)*. After the analysis of flexibility (the most lifted body part) it was found that representative of artistic gymnastics (28,4cm) showed better results than rhythmic gymnastics representative (27,1cm). The test results are statistically significantly different, since t = 0.00 (p <0.05)*. In addition to that, after the measurement of the distance between legs and hands, it was concluded that representatives of artistic gymnastics (20,0cm) showed better results than rhythmic gymnastics representatives (25,1cm). The test results are statistically significantly different, since t = 0.00 (p