GYMNASTICS SKILLS, TECHNIQUES, TRAINING

• Main Author: Readhead, Lloyd
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Ramsbury, England Crowood Press 2011
• Series: Crowood sports guides
• Subjects: Gymnastics; Artistic gymnastics
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 Crowood Sports Guides provide sound, practical advice that will make you a better sportsperson, whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques or reviewing the fundamentals of your sport. • Outlines the rules and regulations that govern the sport and the roles and responsibilities of gymnasts, coaches and officials during an event • Covers the technical skills in women's gymnastics (vaulting, asymmetric bars, balance beam and floor exercises) and men's gymnastics (floor exercises, pommel horse, rings, vaulting, parallel bars and horizontal bar) • Provides detailed 'key points' for the gymnastic skills and elements covered • Discusses the content and structure of the training regimes, together with the methods and techniques used to teach and perform some important core skills and a range of more advanced skills • Examines the ways in which coaches develop the high levels of skill and physical fitness required by gymnasts • Considers psychology, nutrition, preventing under performance, and injury prevention and treatment • Well illustrated with colour photographs and drawings