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Beginning Gymnastics for Girls: Skills and Progressions

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This is a great video for a beginning gymnast. My daughter is able to practice the moves while watching the video. I know nothing about gymnastics and being a parent of a gymnast, it showed me from the beginning what my child is learning which enables me to help my child practice at home.

My daughter is 6 years old and just recently started Gymnastics and she loves this video. She was able through the video to learn all the moves that he taught through the video. It was a great buy and we will buy more.

This video is very, very good. It's well worth the price for someone wishing to learn basic gymastics skills, learn about the various apparatus used in women's gymnastics, and learn the names of basic skills, stunts, and techniques.

Steve Nunno, a two-time Olympics coach, U of Oklahoma coach, and coach to numerous elite athletes, narrates this instructive guide. He is so pleasant, encouraging, soft-spoken -- and he knows exactly how to talk to and instruct the most inexperienced beginners in the most basic of skills -- it is difficult to imagine that he also coaches the world's finest gymnasts. The only time he seemed anything other than laid back was when he was explaining just how much fun vaulting can be if you understand how to do it. His emphasis is on keeping it fun and helping kids overcome the fear factor.

This video is no-frills and no-nonsense. It shows several young women gymnasts demonstrating skills using what Nunno refers to as "progressions" -- building on skills one step at a time to learn how to perform increasingly difficult skills. Nunno provides clear instruction on proper body position, alignment, and technique.

The focus is on beginning skills. The video covers biomechanics, stretches, and basic floor skills -- forward and backward rolls, cartwheels and roundoffs, and back walkover on floor. On the balance beam, the most challenging stunt is the roundoff dismount. The sections on vault and uneven bars are excellent in showing how to get started on the apparatus, working up to more challenging skills.

There's plenty in here that you could do at home -- and the instructions are so clear and the moves so basic that most kids could follow along on their own. Great video for parents and kids alike.

My daughter has been doing gymnastics since she was 3 years old (she is 6 now). When I bought this DVD, I hoped that I will be able to put it in and my daughter can have an additional workout at home when she does not have classes at the gym. It might be very good and valuable for a coach, but not something to practice at home. I expected a full work-out with a warm up and stretching routine, gradually transitioning to more complex flexibility exercises. The whole sections on the beam and bars we could not use, since that required going outside to use the apparatus (unless you have those in your living room).

I'm stil looking for that great DVD that I can put in and my daughter can have an additional workout at home, while she is not in the gym.

Now this is a good dvd if you want real instruction on how to do correctly. Much better than others I've used.

Agree with all the positive reviews above, it has neat and precise instruction that is crucial but easy to follow, very nice demonstration.

The video was good, just what I thought it would be. But it was expensive.