This is a guide filled with easy-to-follow facts about gymnastics events, competition rules and Olympic records. It covers trampolining and tumbling as well as artistic, acrobatic and aerobic gymnastics. Find out more about the different apparatus and how they are used in competition. It features step-by-step illustrations of the techniques gymnasts use to impress the judges, from the simple dive roll to the spectacular inverted swallow. It is full of hints and tips on how moves should be executed and common errors to look out for.

 

There are 50 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Galia Bernstein was born and raised in Israel until she moved to New York to study design. She worked as a textile print artist and later as a senior designer and then art director. Based in Brooklyn, she is now a freelance illustrator.