This illustrated study is a volume in the "World of Sport" series which aims to look at all aspects of the world's major sports, offering useful coaching and training tips and recommending the correct clothing and equipment to use. This book discusses gymnastics, looking at its history and explaining how two schools of thought were combined to form the modern Olympic and artistic gymnastics. It covers the apparatus, explaining the moves performed on each piece and what skills the judges are looking for in competitive gymnastics. The study also covers two relatively new forms of gymnastics - sports acrobatics and rhythmic gymnastics and offers tips to aspiring young gymnasts.
- ISBN10 0850789923
- ISBN13 9780850789928
- Publish Date 31 January 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Hodder Wayland
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 64
- Language English