Jeff Savage

This book is about 25 gymnastics tips, skills, and tricks that you can use or learn to get better at gymnastics. First you need to have good body shape. When performing tricks you should keep your body and arms straight. Gymnasts perform passes to show balance, grace, and agility. Also when you are doing tricks you want to keep your body center. Some basic rolls are forward and backward rolls. Most acrobatic skills come from a cartwheel and a handspring. When you are vaulting you need to have contact with the table and make sure you keep everything straight. When you get ready to land you separate your legs a little and bend your knees slightly to soften the impact. You try not to take any extra steps and if you don't this is called sticking the landing. On bars you mount the bar with a spring board and a basic skill called a kip. When you are on the bars you can do challenging skills like a pirouette which is switching your hands around on the bar while swinging. Beam is a 16 feet long, 4 feet high,and 4 feet wide. You perform tricks and spins on it. There is a specific way you hold your hands when performing skills. These were facts on gymnastics that people could use to get better.



For this book I gave it a four in a half because it was very good tips and skills that could help people with gymnastics.The half that kept me from scoring a five was that some of skills could have been more advanced and split into different sections. I liked the book because it was on gymnastics and it was very interesting to learn how to shape your body and how to keep you body hollow and straight when performing skills.… (more)