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  • Gymnastics - Nadia Inspires A Coach  By : mario-toadstool
    Just turning 13 years old during the summer of the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, I found my hero and my inspiration. Like most spectators, I had always watched the sport of gymnastics with awe, and amazement as the gymnasts would tumble with power and strength and then in a split second show their elegance through dance. They would swing on the bars, moving from low bar to high, release and re-grasp, and dismount with their feet stuck firmly to the mat. Then they mounted the beam and tumbled like they were on the floor, (sometimes losing sight of the apparatus), flipping and landing on it. The fascination of this was that these tiny, but strong girls performed with incredible ease. At 13 I wanted to experience the victory that Nadia Comaneci and her coach Bela Karolyi acquired when Nadia scored the first ever perfect 10 in an Olympic Games. My dream was to someday meet this astonishing, inspirational woman.
  • Gymnastics Instructions  By : shervency
    The sport of gymnastics needs rigorous and disciplined training. All gymnasts have undergone many years of strict and exacting exercise and instruction to develop the right skills and techniques that can win medals and accolades in competitions. Yet, all gymnasts begin from simple instructions for simple movements and techniques that are the foundation from which more complex and difficult techniques develop. Here in this article we will discuss two of the most basic gymnastic techniques.
  • A Guide To Gymnastics  By : heylo
    Gymnastics is arguably one of the world's oldest sports. It is also very natural sport involving activities that people would normally do outsdia gym class or gymnastic competitions such as jumping, running, climbing, swinging and tumbling. Modern gymnastics as a sport involves the performance of a series of movements.
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