The Gymnastics Book: The Young Performer's Guide to Gymnastics

A young reader's guide to the sport of artistic gymnastics, illustrated with full colour photographs and a newly revised and updated text. The Gymnastics Book is everything that I loved as a young gymnast in elementary school. Its full of colourful photos, step by step guide for basic gymnastics skills (artistic, trampoline and rhythmic too!), interviews and features of gymnastics greats from the past and present. Like Elfi, I am Canadian, so it was especially exciting to see so many Canadian athletes represented in the book, PLUS from a wide diversity of gymnastics disciplines -- from women''s, men''s, trampoline, rhythmic and Special Olympics... If you have any young aspiring gymnasts in your life that want to devour everything and anything gymnastics, I highly recommend this book. What a fabulous introduction to what our sport is all about. The Best Gymnastics Books The current layout and design are clear, well-organized and user-friendly. The chapters more than adequately cover the sport, the necessary skills, its various forms, superstars and careers, and will appeal to both amateur enthusiasts and future competitors... The inclusion of photographs of children of colour, children from various cultures, and featuring more than one male in the stars of yesterday and today section would serve to make future editions of this book accessible to a more inclusive and diverse readership... provides a good introduction to the sport in an easy to read format. Highly Recommended. [Review for previous edition] Colorful photos and pleasing layout ... very eye catching. But there is also plenty of information to go along with the clean design ... An excellent introduction to the sport. [Review for previous edition] An indispensable guide to the beginner''s world of artistic gymnastics. [Review for previous edition] An informative, visually appealing guide for any child who is interested in this popular sport. Highly recommended. [Review for previous edition] This timely book certainly provides children with a nice, positive introduction to a sport they can enjoy. [Review for previous edition] A wonderful way for those interested in the sport to get started. provides a solid beginning to this popular sport. [Review for previous edition] Getting a child started in a gymnastics program can be confusing for the parent. Terminology, exercises and safety are all concerns and so it is nice to start off with a well-written guide book to familiarize yourself... With colour photographs throughout, the book provides a step-by-step guide to getting started. Accompanying the photographs are descriptions of the warm-up exercises, basic skills, and cool down stretches. Schlegel also discusses competition training and profiles a number of important gymnasts. [Review for previous edition] [STARRED REVIEW] An excellent book in every way ... Best of all, the book is accessible to early readers. Superb coverage of a popular sport. [Review for previous edition] Goes beyond basics... proper techniques for basic moves on the balance beam, vault and uneven bars are illustrated with color photographs.

"An excellent book in every way... Best of all, the book is accessible to early readers. Superb coverage of a popular sport."
-- School Library Journal (starred review)

This indispensable guide is simply the best book for beginners to the sport of artistic gymnastics. Illustrated with full-color photographs of gymnasts balancing, tumbling and jumping, The Gymnastics Book features skilled guidance from a medal-winning Ontario Sports Hall of Fame gymnast who is now a noted instructor.

The topics covered in detail include:

• Finding a good gymnastics club
• Qualities to look for in a coach
• Warm-up and cool-down exercises
• Entering competitive gymnastics
• Managing victories and losses
• The importance of family and friends
• Nutrition and apparel
• Financial aspects
• A typical day of training for competition.

This edition is updated for 2018 with new interviews and updated profiles on the most prominent star gymnasts of today and yesterday, including Simone Biles, Ellie Black, Ragan Smith, Kyle Shewfelt, Emily Boycott and many more. Anecdotes and advice from Olympic stars take beginners behind the scenes and offer a no-holds-barred account of life as a competitive gymnast. Updated profiles on the Olympic greats and gymnasts who have become well-known coaches, gym owners, and gymnastics judges show young gymnasts career pathways beyond the competition.

The Gymnastics Book provides motivation and detailed instruction to young gymnastics students

• | Author: Claire Dunn, Elfi Schlegel
• | Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Dec 11, 2018
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780228100744
• | ISBN-10: 0228100747