Complete Gymnastics Handbook

by John Rogers Puckett

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131608045
• ISBN13: 9780131608047
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Nice Book, but a Little Weird

I checked this out-of-print book out of the library, and I found it too be mostly a coaching guide, but it was pretty cool. There are detailed instructions for many gymnastics moves on all the apparatus. I especially liked in the directions how there were various errors and ways to fix them. I have a better backward roll to handstand, more powerful round-off, and a fantastic front handspring, thanks to this book. My only complaint is the pictures showing the moves are really just 3D stick figures doing gymnastics. (I'm not kidding!) For example, they have no faces, they have sticks for arms and legs, and the apparatus was weirdly drawn too. I mean, a slanted line for a springboard, a little line for bars, two circles for rings, and three lines for a balance beam. Aside from the simple diagrams, it was a great book.