The project Dive into Gymnastics’ main objective is to encourage the practice of sport and physical activity through a combination of two complementary sports; gymnastics and diving. The project will address youth and sports’ common needs and priorities by improving physical activity and reducing athlete dropout. The project contributes to the sport-specific priority of Erasmus+ by encouraging participation in sports and physical activity.
The lack of physical activity increases the possibility of being overweight, obese and having other chronic conditions such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, which reduce the quality of life. The Commission’s White Paper underlines the importance of taking proactive steps to increase physical activity among citizens.
To address the need to foster physical activity and prevent a sedentary lifestyle, we first need to prevent early dropouts from specific sports, such as gymnastics and introduce activities of a new sport that can be practised for all age groups, such as diving.
The partners of this project share the same interest and ideas of developing a program that will use the power of non-formal learning in and through sports to address topics of public concern. The program will implement sports activities of two sports (diving and gymnastics) to exchange knowledge and skills in the field of training.
It will target people whose daily activities are related to the development of children’s skills and practice of two sports, diving and gymnastics. This will contribute to the expansion of knowledge, good practices and the possibility of better training conditions in partner countries.
The project activities are aimed at providing solutions that can be implemented to complement and enhance the quality of physical programs in diving and gymnastics. Children as final beneficiaries who are involved in gymnastics and belong to early dropout statistics and children in diving that lack adequate dry land training conditions can be involved under this project to participate in sports activities and to develop skills for staying in the sport and developing a healthy lifestyle.
Physical activities will be improved by setting up a transnational network of sports clubs which will enable the sharing of theoretical knowledge and practice of their coaches and managers as well as other experts, ex-professional athletes and partners. This project should provide a future collaboration of these two sports (diving and gymnastics) by promoting creativity and innovation at the organisational level.
Engaging participation in sports and physical activity using the synergic effect of these two sports:
– Gymnastics – enables developing strength, flexibility, and endurance. It allows early entry into the sport and represents one of the basic sports. As one of the basic sports, it provides a good
foundation for all other sports. Gymnastics is a world-famous sport and is highly developed and popular. It is an extremely difficult sport, so a large number of children give up before they can get into the habit of playing sports.
– Diving – allows overcoming fear factors, being also an aesthetic sport, takes into account all the elements needed in gymnastics but, through a different medium, allows children and the elderly to engage in this sport. Precisely because of the jumps, somersaults, and various other elements of diving into the water, they make this sport safer and more fun for all ages. The divers’ strength, flexibility and courage can be seen in any diving competition.
Project 101089407 (Dive – in – Gym)
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