Devlopment

The phrase "artistic gymnast" did not start to be used until the 1800s. It started to be used to distinguish the type of gymnastics known to you and me from the type of gymnastic techniques that the military used to train  soldiers. The ruling body of gymnastics around the world, The  Federation of International Gymnastics, also known as the FIG, was formed in 1881 to create governing body to write up a set of internationally recognized rules. The gymnastics that we would be able identify without any problems was formed over the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries and by 1954 apparatus and uniform grading (a point system of 1 to 15) had been modernized and standardized.