1st INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS ORGANIZED BY SLOVENIAN GYMNASTICS FEDERATION
SLOVENE SCIENCE OF GYMNASTICS Čuk, I. University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Science is an activity that seeks to methodically get to systematically derived and demonstrable knowledge. Science is usually divided into the following scientific areas: natural sciences and mathematics, technical sciences, medical sciences, biotech, social sciences and the humanities. Since the Južni Sokol establishment in 1863 gym also had an impact on the scientific fields. The first written text Nekaj besed o telovadstvu (1864) from Dr. H.E. Costa can not be considered scientific work (although it may be possible to categorize it in a philosophical discussion and humanism), but certainly Nauk o telovadbi from 1867 is the first Slovenian scientific work in the field of physical culture. Authors Coloreto and especially Levstik (book design by Tomsic) were the first to prepare Slovenian gymnastics terminology and didactics of physical exercise. Vojteh Valenta in 1888 on the 25th anniversary of Južni Sokol wrote the biography of Štefan Mandic, the first gym teacher (which falls within the scope of history and humanities). Dr. Viktor Murnik since 1893, when he entered the Ljubljana Falcon until his death (1964) published a lot of scientific work and first drew attention to the need for exercise and physical exercises scientifically justified by the objective of human health. Wrote the first discussions on the impact of exercise on the human organism, which are in the field of humanities (terminology history, philosophy), science (metrology), social sciences (Exercise and culture, System of free gymnastics exercises, System and method of work in gymnastics, Rhythm, Biological value of exercises, Exercise in fantasy). In 1933, Božo Škerlj performed the first quantitative study at the 70th anniversary of Južni Sokol and measured anthropometric characteristics of gymnasts (medical field). After World War II were very creative pair Boris Gregorka and Jelica Vazzaz , which carried out the first serious study of training load in preparation for the big competition , but are also carried out a remarkable work in the field of history. Mag. Toni Bolković is the first to use multivariate analysis (regression analyze) in predicting the performance of gymnasts. The first Ph.D. in the field of gymnastics has become dr. Stane Proje while the first woman was dr. Doljana Novak. Dr. Doljana Novak and dr. Ivan Čuk in the eighties have set models of targeting and selection of children in gymnastics, including models of artificial intelligence. Since the nineties, the research is aimed at motor learning, analysis of competitive performance, analysis of the biomechanical characteristics of movements in gymnastics, gymnastics implementation in the school environment and of course history. The last two doctoral candidates with gymnastic contents tasks were dr. Maja Bučar and dr. Miha Marinšek, with rhythmics content dr. Branka Vajngerl. Slovenian scientists are respected abroad; since 2009 Department of Gymnastics at the Faculty of Sport publish international scientific journal Science of Gymnastics Journal.
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