Brown, Heather E.

How to improve at gymnastics / Heather E. Brown. - New York : Crabtree, c2009. - 48 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. - How to improve at .

Includes index.

Introduction -- Know the sport: Equipment -- What to wear & training -- Getting started: Warming up & stretching -- Skills & drills: Vault -- Handspring vault -- Floor -- Cartwheels & back handsprings -- Parallel bars -- Basket swing -- Rings, basic swing -- Rings -- Asymmetric bars -- Glide kip -- Pommel horse -- Beam -- High bar -- Backward hip circle -- Competition -- Be fit, Stay fit: Diet & mental attitude -- How the famous do it -- Glossary & index.

Specially designed to show you how to master sports and get maximum enjoyment from them. Using a combination of easy to follow text, step-by-step photography, and diagrams, difficult skills are made easy and participating in sports becomes even more fun.

ISBN: 9780778735953 (pbk.) 0778735958 (pbk.) 9780778735731 0778735737

LCCN: 2008052118

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Gymnastics.
Children's literature--2009.

LC Class. No.: GV461 / .W36 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 796.44