La funcionalidad de la indumentaria de las gimnastas rítmicas en el desempeño deportivo

Abstract

Nowadays the rhythmic gymnasts who are part of ¨Federación Deportiva de Tungurahua¨ (F.D.T), do not have the possibility of using an expert who has the necessary information to design and develop functional clothing. The fact of not performing a previous analysis on the gymnast, its anatomical structure, high quality materials, and textiles that help to improve the presentation, comfort of the athlete, has resulted that the performance of the Ecuadorian rhythmic gymnasts has been below other countries . Spain, Russia, Italy, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Japan, Belarus, are some of the countries where gymnastics clothing is considered a key piece, on the road to achieve high sporting results. One of the projects that was analyzed within the research was the work of degree of Laura Sierra and David Mosquera, titled ¨ El cuerpo como fundamento para el diseño de vestuario” It has included analysis about how the morphology, biomechanics and ergonomics of the body integrate an important part in the design process.

Through the research, it was possible to determine that clothing, apart from the physical training of the athlete, should contribute to facilitate movements and maintain choreographic harmony. Such us a response to this result, the present project has been created, which is based on a static and dynamic anthropometric study of the rhythmic gymnasts of the FDT, with the aim that clothing needs to be adapted to the morphology of the body of the athletes, and in addition it should allow to execute freely the movements, everything concerning an adequate sporting performance.

One of the important phases of the project, is to establish a system of patterns that will allow to generate an anatomical pattern, structured with the information of the anthropometric study. The results respond to practical functionality (ergonomics), connected with aesthetic functionality, in which part textile bases are analyzed, that complement the artistic presentation of the athlete, and go according to the established parameters of the Code of points women´s rhythmic gymnastics.