Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Studio: Evans House
• VHS Release Date: June 1, 1998
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0965286819
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #343,470 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Congratulations! You've created a wonderful teaching tool for back-handsprings that has 'all the right stuff.' The video-displays, backgrounds, uplifting score, positive attitude and realistic demonstrations set your work above many of the state-of-the-are videos currently found in the market." -- Dr. Johannah Doeke, Indiana University, Dep't. of Physical Education.

"Effective and inspiring, the lessons in this tape enhance safety, strength, and coordination. My students who use this video have clear, measurable and significant skill acceleration. With this proven winner Coach Wayne! sets a new standard in youth How-to videos." -- Jon McCollum, Artitistic Gymnastics Coach, Ft. Smith Arkansas .

"One of the most professional productions of this genre, I've ever seen. It encourages fitness AND self-esteem." -- Valerie Morris, Children's Librarian, PeachTreeCity, Georgia.

Product Description

From the Ancient Greek Olympics to current day athletics, few children can resist the chance to explore the sport & performing art of gymnastics tumbling. This exciting instructional/exercise program is for young gymnasts, cheerleaders, martial artist, acrobat-dancers & kids who just like to tumble. Boys & Girls participate AT HOME with "Coach Wayne" in dozens of new exercises for building strength, enhancing coordination, working-out safely, improving kinesthetic awareness and understanding progressive tumbling technique.

From first-time fundamentals to advanced conditioning, young tumblers learn to "Have fun, be safe, Push-hard!" Focuses of lessons are directed toward the achievement of a most popular tumbling skill, the Back-Handspring. Sucessfully "field-tested" with students ages 5-17 in private gymnastics schools and exclusive teacher-training clinics, this dynamic, entertaining & effective 7-videos-in-1 gymnastics tumbling valu-pak edition is now available to the general public.

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Customer Reviews

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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exercises are Excellent!, February 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Gymnastics: Tumbling: How to do a Better Back-Handspring [VHS] (VHS Tape)

We are two girls from Holland, Warda and Marloes. We used to do gymnastics ourselves an we both teach this sport for a few years now. We think the video is very inspiring an witty for the children it is mend for. It was very nice to see that the children you used were not all oncoming miss and Mr. USA. This is an important factor in keep doing it every day and not dropping out after the first couple of days. The lesson here is made clear: slim is not the perfect image. Normally in this kind of video's you see the perfect woman with the perfect body who makes the perfect back-handspring. By the way: we call this a "flick-flack". We think that before you are going to teach a flick-flack the child has to be strong enough. Otherwise there will first be a lot of training. In this case your excersises are excellent. And of course you are right on when you improve your body strength you can do the flick-flack better but more important, it will improve all the other gymnastics elements in your tumbling. We hope your video will be a success in the US and other countries. END

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Video, Coach Wayne Really Break It Down, April 13, 2002

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Leetech "leetech" (New England, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gymnastics: Tumbling: How to do a Better Back-Handspring [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Coach Wayne takes the back handspring and simply breaks it down into progressions. The exercises are simple to follow and there are closeups so you can really get the technique. This is a great video to break through any fear you may have of performing the skill. Coach Wayne also leads you through some fun conditioning, too. The quality of the video and the music are quite cheesy, but if you can get past it you'll be on your way to effectively learning the back handspring.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coach Wayne, February 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Gymnastics: Tumbling: How to do a Better Back-Handspring [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video is very good. Coach wayne can be a little scary though. THe conditioning is really important and will help you. If you want to have someone spot you, do what i did, find someone you trust, like a parent. I would recommend this to anybody who is a cheerleader or gymnast.(I am a cheerleader myself). Some of the workouts are difficult and are hard to do. Just take it slowly and try your best. The best time to do this is in the summer, when you have lots of free time. You need to workout everday. Oh and one more thing, Be safe, have fun, and push it hard!