Mumbai Gymnastics, BJGS::
This is dedicated website for the cause of Mumbai Gymnastics. Mumbai is better known as the financial & commercial capital of the country. Gymnastics is a much favoured item of sports in Mumbai. The parents have also changed their mind set & are more aware about the Gymnastics with expressions such as Aerobics, Artistic, Acrobatics, Trampoline, Rhythmic & Parkour Gymnastics, just like, sports of Kabaddi, Football, Hockey & other games.
The Gymnastics in Mumbai started when national federation called Gymnastics Federation of India was formed at Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Worli under the leadership of the well known acrobatic expert Dr. D.M. Kalyanpurkar in the year 1950. In the earliy fifties, Pune was proud of having the leading Gymnasts in the country. It was ASPT, the Army school that had all the facilities for Gymnastics.
After formation of national federation all these sports stalwards formed Maharashtra Amateur Gymnastics Association in the year 1958 at Social Serivice league Gymnasium at Parel.
Shri. Suhas Ramnath Pathare through Shree Pavanputra Vyayam Mandir, Chembur brought the concept of sports of Gymnastics in Mumbai in the name of Bruhan Mumbai Jilha Gymnastics Sanghatana in the year 1969. Late shri. Ramnath Hariram Pathare, freedom fighter formed this oldest gymnastium in Mumbai suburban in the year 1963. There after, this part of the City of Mumbai produced many national & international medal winner Gymnasts & international judges. This is the first district association in Maharashtra.
The founder members of Bruhan Mumbai Gymnastics are Shri. Ramdas Kalyanpurkar with Mr. Bhagwant Pant, Shri. Vasudev Shanbhag, Shri. Jagannath Padwal, Shri. Suhas Pathare, Shri. Bhaskar Bhaurao Pawar, Shri. Kisan Kadam, Shri. Dipak Vaidya, Shri. Ulhas Karpe, Shri. Vishnu Desai, Shri. Suresh Jadhav, Shri. Raghunath Patil & Shri. Rajaram Shinde. This sports personalities are responsible to form Bruhanmumbai Jilha Gymnastics Sanghatana on 28th March 1971.
During the period as on the year 1999, Mumbai Gymnastics was affiliated with Shri. Pawanputra Vyayam Mandir Chembur, Shri Samartha Vyayam Mandir Dadar, Lokmanya Seva Sangh Parle, Jawahar Vidhya Bhavan Chembur, Sane Guruji Arogya Mandir Santacruz, Mulund Gymkhana, Bahartiya Krida Mandir Wadala, Gym club Walkeshwar, Narayan Rao Acharya Vidhya Niketan Mahul, HP Sports club Mahul, Om Samartha Vyayam Mandir Mahim, Veer Sawarkar Krida Sankul Parle & Balkan Ji Bari Santacruz, and presently, the affiliation to Mumbai Gymnastics is more than 50 member Institutions & clubs.
Gymnastics in Mumbai:
In the year 1992 with the help of Mumbai Municipal Corporation the district association started its own Gymnastics center at Shahaji Raje Bhosle sports complex owned by Bruhanmumbai Municipal Corporation in the name of Brihanmumbai Krida & Lalitkala Pratishthan. The center is well equipped with all the Gymnastics events & more than 300 school children are the regular Gymnasts practising Gymnastics.
The gymnasts from this center are now representing India for international competitions. The sanghatana has proudly stepped into 47th year with its activities that include district championship, seminars for judges & coaches.
About Gymnastics:
Gymnastics has been regarded as the mother of sports and games played the world over. It is the key of physical fitness and conditioning of human body. The practice of Gymnastics makes the body flexible, strong & full of quick reflexes. Gymnastics means different body movements that starts actually when a child learns to stand on his own feet.
All these factors are mostly taken into consideration in the construction of Gymnastics equipments, therefore, Gymnastics equipments are different for the different age groups.
The sport of Gymnastics is now emerging on large scale as a major sports in Mumbai. The financial capital city has the capacity to take initiative in develping Gymnastics activities.
In India during 1960 because of the sincere efforts Mallakhamb was also linked with Gymnastics competitions as Indian Gymnastics Pole. The gymnastics competiton included track & field events by ninth world championship in 1930 at Luxembourg. All these events disappeard from gymnastics by 1954 World championship.
It is interesting to see that each & every disciplines of Gymnastics has also variety of yoga positions apart from somersaults & twisting - tumbling exercises.
The main aim of Physical education is to train & develop good citizens. Therefore the activities such as Gymnastics, yogasana, drill are included in physical education. It also consists of acrobatics dancing, hand to hand acrobatics, aerial acrobatics, ballet, aerobic exercise, aerobic fitness, step aerobics, aerobic dance.
The word Gymnastics, includes, acrobats, gymnastics clubs, rings, music, grips, skills, toddler gymnastics, kids gymnastics, gymnastics leotard, gymnastics lessons, gymnastic routine & many more. In short, all gymnastics elements keep the spectators spell bound.
Coaching in Gymnastics:
The great legendary Gymnast, Tsukhara, from Japan has rightly pointed out that, the most difficult part of coaching in Gymnastics is not teaching the skills but motivating the Gymnasts from inside. It is a right time that we should have proper research on this aspect & have a gymnastics policy for proper guidance for more medals at the international levels. There is a need to build up a formula. There is no doubt that Gymnasts of Mumbai & coaches are putting lots of hard work for the best performance.
Historical Gymnastics events in Mumbai by BJGS:
- Demonstration by Russian Gymnasts at RCF grounds in 1987.
- The German Consulate donated Uneven Parallel Bars & spring boards through joint efforts of Rotary Club of Chembur & Mr. Damodar.
- Demonstration by Mumbai Gymnasts for Soviate Cultural Association, Mahalaxmi in 1980 on the occasion of Olympic Games, 1980.
- Participation in 1982 Asiad, New Delhi, Junior Gymnastics Asiad in 1992 at New Delhi, SAARC competitions held at Allahabad in 1998, International competition with Ukraine at Patiala, Rajiv Gandhi memorial competitions at Hyderabad in 2004, Senior Asian Gymnastics championship at Surat in 2005, Commonwealth Games at New Delhi in 2010 & many more events.
- Demonstration at Scout Hall, Shivaji Park, Dadar in 1967 for inclusion of Gymnastics at school level.
- Conducted Gymnastics national championship in RCF sports club, Chembur in 1979.
- Bharat Petroleum donated Gymnasium equipments in 1980.
- dedicated BJGS Gymnastics center at Shahaji Raje Bhosle sports complex at Andheri.
- Introduced invitational Gymnastics competitions in Maharashtra from 1976 through Shree Pavanputra Vyayam Mandir, Chembur.
Vision & Mission of BJGS:
- BJGS believes that Gymnastics should be practised on international standard equipments by all the school children.
- All the pre-primary & primary schools in Mumbai suburban should be equipped with kids equipments, only to learn cartweel, handstand, headstand, handspring & back hand spring without a trainer.
- To develop three centers in each Taluka of Mumbai suburban with complete training facilities,
- The aim is to have 1000 Gymnastics coaches to impart training in each pre-primary & primary school of Mumbai suburban.
- To build sustainable environment for carreers in Gymnastcs by conducting certificate/diploma courses for judges, coaches & sports teachers.
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