Aomori University won the 2009 All Japan Team Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships.
But don’t expect to see a male version of the Women’s sport.
This is must see video. Great artistry, precision, synchronicity. Difficult tumbling. Sections that could be called Acrobatic Gymnastics.
In fact, this team could go to work for Cirque du Soleil tomorrow. A riveting performance.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Japan has been doing male team performances like this for over 50yrs.
For the first time I found this Men’s Rhythmic Gymnastics website. It’s not kept updated, however.
Rhythmic Gymnastics is a competitive sport under the authority of F.I.G. (International Gymnastics Federation). Currently, only the women’s portion of rhythmic gymnastics is recognized by FIG – men’s rhythmic gymnastics is yet to get FIG approval. The possibilities and opportunities men’s rhythmic gymnastics presents are endless. It is up to each and everyone of us to work hard to make the dream a reality.
Thanks Chris Houston for sending us the link.
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A similar group from Japan performed a demo in BC around the time of the 2002 Pacific Alliance I think. They too were amazing to watch. Check (Canadian) Mario Lam’s site for more info re Men’s Rhythmics.
http://www.eliterg.com/eliterg/menrg/
I love the tumbling part about 1 minute and 45 seconds in! I wonder how many times they crashed doing that before they finally got it right. Very impressive.
That has to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
FANTASTIC!!
Ah, I did not know about Mario Lam, Stu. Thanks.
Wow Rick!!!
I think I have a few favorite discipline!!!
They are very good, very well synchronised. I had seen the Japanese version of rhytmic gymnastics before, it is more like what is called “aesthetic gymnastics”, but in Spain there are several guys doing actual men’s rhytmic gymnastics, that is, the “male” version of the girls’ sport under girls’ rules. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnmO0D32jB0 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IcSZeiG06A
Cool tumbling but the dance and music is too fruity for my tastes and is pretty much why it ever won’t hit it big in the States.
In the rhythmic gymnastics game of Japan, acting has been done to an alternate man and woman for 60 years or more.
http://www.excite-webtl.jp/world/english/web/?wb_url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.goo.ne.jp%2Frsg95%2F&wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2&wb_submit=+%96%7C+%96%F3+
There was an Ann club game of the Inn day from of old, too.
‘The boy rhythmic gymnastics are immortal through all eternity. ‘
Here is a page for the wisher as for the spread and the development of the boy rhythmic gymnastics. The boy item starts as sports of the Japan cradle after the war, and a national constitution, a inter-high school competition, intercollegiates, and all-Japan championship, etc. are done in parallel with the girl. The leader was sent to foreign countries in full scale in 2000, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Canada participated in the international game in 2003, the United States, Australia, and Russia, etc. did additional participation in 2005, and the internationalization started.
The boy rhythmic gymnastics are sports with power very much. The group empty hand physical exercise doesn’t fall into disorder like the acrobat on the floor of the floor exercise of gymnastics ..six people 1.., and it somersaults being said physical exercise and the tumbling. There is the continuousness of the tumbling that is especially called intersection (series) again by the following person after the somersault of the person, and [tabikimo] is pulled out also from the person who sees one after another by the technique of jumping over and is power of raising an instinctive ..”.. ..”.. voice. Place narrowness [shito] moves about by somersaulting, and doing the somersault and the forward somersault while it throws out in the air and it is raising it and receiving it as individual sports have [shugu]. Because the accompaniment music is attached, parentheses good [ku] is very seen.
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/rsg95
Hi Mario Lam
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