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Beginning Gymnastics for Girls - Skills And Progressions
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Carol C.
09-08-2025This 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.
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Taupa6257
09-08-2025Our 5 year old daughter loves this video. She is glued to the DVD, absorbing the tips on posturing and shapes; she was mimics skills that improve her posturing, especially performance shapes that make gymnastics so beautiful. The DVD seems slow if you aren't the one in action, however the instruction has to be slow and steady to give time to absorb the information and to prevent injury while the kids practice. This video is a great complement to practice time beyond the gym and for something to do on rainy days. We recommend that a girl have 1 - 2 years of gymnastics and developed basics skills of core front roll, cartwheel, bridge, splits and basic kip bar experience. Our daughter has been a gymnast since she was 2 years old and seems to be learning a lot.
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B. Borten
09-08-2025I bought this for my daughter and it was completely useless for home use. That would be fine, except that I returned it and the restocking fee was 1/2 the price of the DVD - so I basically paid $12.50 for nothing!
Technical Specifications
Learn basic gymnastics skills and drills from one of the world's top coaches. Coach Steve Nunno provides a detailed overview of essential gymnastic fundamentals. This comprehensive DVD covers skill progressions and lead-ups for floor exercise, balance beam, vault, and uneven parallel bars. The unique program will help gymnasts and coaches develop the solid foundation necessary to progress to more advanced levels. About the coach: Two-time USA Olympic Coach Steve Nunno is one of the most successful gymnastics coaches in the United States. His gymnasts have won more national and international medals than any other coach in the country. He was the coach of Shannon Miller, who won five Olympic medals in 1992 and two gold medals in 1996. After almost twenty years of coaching top level elite athletes, Nunno became the Head Coach at the University of Oklahoma for six seasons. In addition, he also owned the prestigious Dynamo Gymnastics Club in Oklahoma City. Nunno moved to Tampa, Florida in 2011. He has purchased four gyms in Florida, in Lakeland, Daytona Beach, West Palm Beach and North Port.
