Timeless
Sound Mind. Sound Body.
More than two hundred years ago, on a field outside Berlin, Germany, Frederick Ludwig Jahn established the first turnplatz for physical training, based the ancient principle of a sound mind and a sound body. Turner is simply the German word for gymnast. Jahn became known as the “Father of Modern Gymnastics” — introducing the parallel bars, vault, rings, high bar, and a precursor to the balance beam in competition. His students opened the first gymnasiums in the United States in the 1830s, while other American Turners helped to introduce physical education classes into the public schools in the late nineteenth century.
