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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume XVII / Number 11 / November 1975

. 5. FROM THE BUSINESS MANAGER, Dr. Raymo nd Bach

6. WHAT'S HAPPENING 8. USGF TECHNICAL BULLETIN 9. FIG TKHNICAL BULLETIN

10. VIEWPOINTS, Oi c k Cri ley 10. GUEST EDITORIAL, What Direction Should You go-Why? Ke a And e rs 11. IN MEMORY, Gordon McCollom 12. 1975 PAN-AMERICAN FINAL TRIALS Men, 17. OLYMPIAD FOR THE AMERICAS, Pan­Am History and Previ e w, rO lll Wa ke ling 22. THE CHINESE IN EQUADOR, Ro be rt Fre d sa ll 24. INTERNATIONAL REPORT, Dr. Joseph Gohle r 26. REPORT FROM PRAGUE, M il a n Med 28. 1975 USGF/ AAU GYMNASTICS TEAM TO HAOPEl GAMES, ISRAEL, Ed Kne p per 29. PRE-OLYMPICS REVISITED, C hris Wo od s 32. POSTER FOLD-OUT, Mitsuo Tsukahara and Nelli Kim, Pre-Olympics Individual Event Winners 37. ON THE MOVE WITH FRITZ, Vaulting: The Squat Flight Vault, Fr it z Re ite r 38. WATANABE COACHES CLINIC, Training Schedules, 1 0 m (j ,m ln e r 40. SEQUENCES BY SCHULZ, Die ter Schulz 42. RESEARCH: Pommel Horse Drills: Scissors Training, DI. H.J. 13i es te rf e ldt 47. . RESEARCH: Advance d Skill Attainment and Skeletal De ve lopment, Kobe rt V. Acuff 48. CLUB CORNER 50. BAllET FOR GYMNASTICS, Grace Kayw ell 51. CAMP TSUKARA, M ike Jac ki & Je rr y Fontan a 52. STROUDSBURG SPORTS CAMP, Fre d Turoff 53. USGF MASTER WORKSHOP 56. ST A TE REPORTS 59. LETTERS 62. CALENDAR

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Our editor, M r. Glenn Sundby, is in Europe as this issue goes to press and I have been asked to write copy for him.

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GYMNASTS FINALISTS IN NCAA AWARDS COMPETITIONS

Among 32 stud e nt-athl e te win ners of NCAA Postgradua te Scho larsh ips were Orlando Sixto " Landy" Fernandez, Kent R. Brown, Wayne R. Young, James C. Johns, Jr., and Joseph D. Percival.

Fernandez, who carried a 4.00 in pre-med at Indiana Uni ve rsity in the double major of chemistry and biologica l scien ce, was a 4-time finali st in the still rings in the Big Ten , winning first thi s yea r. He has bee n admitted to Yale 's medica l school.

Brown, a b usiness major at Arizona State, carried a 3.73 average. Winning the NCAA Division I Floor Exe rc ise title this year, Brown wa s al so no minated fo r ASU Man of the Year and scholar o f the yea r. He was adm itted to the law school a t William and Mary College.

johns earned a 3.8-6 in pre-med at th e U.S. Military Aca de my while m eeting a ll obligations of the Academy, his gymnastics team, and gradua ting in th e top 5'10 of the class. he was admitte d to Te mple's medical school.

Perc iva l, a Vietnam ve te ran who took fourth on the pomme l horse at the 1975 NCAA's , earned a 3.04 in Landscape Architecture at the University o f Oregon. He was se lected as oregon 's most outstand in g student-ath lete. he is acti ve in commu nity affa irs for underpriv il eged yo ungs te rs .

NEWS FROM JAPAN R eport ~ Iro m japa n have it that Kajiyama has

thrown d full within Triffis (back-fu ll-back) off the Hori zo ntdl Bar, a lso that Kumi threw .a

• Quad from th e Hi gh Bar.

GYMNASTS HAVE RIGHT MENTAL ATTITUDE

taken from HBU "The Collegian" newspaper

The ne w seaso n fo r the Houston Baptist Univers ity gymnasti cs team promises to be an ex citing one. All nin e of last year 's team me mbe rs are back, with the addition of two new individua ls, Tom Besong and Don Smith.

To m was red-shirt ed last yea r and this yea r will be a so phomo re work ing the all-around . Don is a transfe r st udent and is a pommel horse speciali st. Both individuals will add much needed d e pth to the Husky squad.

One of the teams greatest attributes this year wi ll be ex perie nce. Each individual perform e r ha s a minimum of four years of prev ious compe tition ex pe rience.

Coach Hutch Dvorak has been very optimi ~ tic about the teams first workouts. He feels that thi s yea r's group of gymnasts has the mental a ttitude it tak es to succeed. The tea m is preparing fo r it s first formal competi tion on Nov. 13 , th e Husky Classic.

HUSKY CLASSIC TO BENEFIT M·S SOCIETY

The Husky Gymnastic Classic, which was initiat e d in 1974, has taken on major proporti o ns in 1975 . It will be ca lled " The First Annua l Multipl e Sc le rosis Husky Gymnastic Cla ss ic," and will be he ld Thursday, November 13, at 7:30 p.m. in th e new Summit are na . The Cla ss ic , lor sho rt , is hosted by Houston Baptist University a nd th e proceeds will be shared with th e Houston Area Chapte r of Multiple Sclerosis Societ y.

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Besid es th e Hu sk ies, fi ve of th e nation 's top gy mna ~ ti cs ted ms have accepted invitatio ns to the hi g h powe red meet. Tea ms that w ill co mpe te fo r t he Classic Cup a re Arizona State University, Oklahoma University, University of Iowa, Louisiana State University, and Southern Illinois University, a ll o f whom have ea rned national r,lIlkings.

Th e co mpe titi o n format features two all around me n lrom each team who work all six Olympic even ts and one special ist in each evenl. 1 wo event s wi ll be he ld simultaneously.

At thi s tim e , the Class ic Co mmittee is trying to get the European Wome n 's Gymnastic Champion . N,ldia Co ma neci of Romania, to per lo rlll lor th e expected sta ndin g room on ly crowd.

LSU GYMNASTS ADD NEW RECRUITS TO ROSTER

Baton Ro uge, La. , LSU 's " Mr. Gymnast ics" , a ll-amer icd ll Mike Carter, has finish ed his collegiate Cdree r but Tiger coach Armando Vega h ,l ~ cOllie up with e ight new faces to help so ft e n t Il'~ blow of Ca rt e r's loss in 1975-76.

"It i ~ no t just qua ntity re plac in g quality," accordin g to Vega. " No way," he says, " not whe n til(' IlIdjorit y of sign ees we re high school all -a m e ri cdn ~ . ..

1 he rt'ignin g No.2 tea m in the nation will featul e d e pth as a st rong point in '75-76 according to Vega's g raduate assistant coach Bob Cunningham. rh e Tige rs should be strong at evpry stop.

Nin e recr uit s were· signed thi s year including two wllt'ge tr.:rn sfe rs who will be redshirted accord in g to NCAA rul es. The seven high school ~ i g nees include five pre p all-american gymna,b dnd one YMCA al l-ame rican . The red ~ hirt , ,Ire Michael R. Rutkin of Plantation, Fla., and Jeff Morrison from Decatur, Ga. Rutkin colli es to LSU from Memphis State a nd Morrison is from Georgia Tech.

Elig ib le to compe te this yea r, a long with the frosh , is anothe r tra nsfer - Ron Reznick who wa s ink ed las t yea r after transferring from Cal State Northridge. Paul Tellarico, lead's th e paradp of Ires hma n gymnasts. He attended John Glenn High School in Hunington, NY. Greg Goodrum, who competed for Bear Creek High School, cal ls Littleton, Colo., his hom e town . Randy Hairston, a three time a ll­state ~e l ecti on .It L.D. Bell High in Hurst, Tex., now li ve~ in Dallas. Gordon Schmidt of Arlington Heights, III. John Goodman, attended Brentwood, N. Y. High School. YMCA All Am e rican James Guidry of New Orelans, is a gradua te of Holy Cross High. Alan Graham att e nded Henderson High School in DeKalb County, Ga., Jlld ca ll s Atlanta his home.

AAU JUNIOR OLYMPICS

Russell J. Fons o f Detroit has been appoi nted as t he Chevro le t Motor Di vision 's head of sport~ activ iti es. Fon s a native of Milwaukee , Wis( . and .I fo rme r profess ion al baseball playe r, w ill ove rsee th e Amateur Athleti c Union~ junio r Olympic program.

Fom joine d Chev ro let in 1954. He will se rve as Chevro le t's li aso n with the AAU 's junior Olympic progra m which involves millions of teenage ,lIld pre -tee n at hl e tes in 16 sports at state. reg io ndl , .:rnd national levels. The junior Olym p ics h.:r ve he lped develop some of Ameri c<I·~ finest a ma te ur athletes.

US - USSR GYM MEET AT PENN STATE Penn State Bulletin

Penn State ha ~ been selec ted as th e site of an Olympi c qua lil yin g gy mnasti c meet between the men 's and wome n 's tea ms o f th e United States and th e U~~R nex t january 29-31 .

Announ ce me nt o f th e meet site and dates were made by Frank Bare, executive director of the U.S. Gym nas ti c Fe de ration, and Uri Titov, direc tor o f th e USSR Gymnastic Federation.

The Soviet ted lllS .:r lrea d y have qualified for the Montreal Olympics by virtu e of the women 's I('a m pl.l cillg fir st and the me n 's tea m placing se( o nd .It the Wo rld Garnes in Varna, Bulgaria, in 1974.

U.S. gymna ~ ti c off icia ls indi ca te that the America n t('am mu st make a strong showing against the ~ov ict squ.:rus to earn one of the 12 team bert h ~ .It Montrea l. japan, USSR, East Germany, Hungary, Romania and West Germany a lr p,ldy hdve qua lifi ed for th e me n 's competition . '1 he USSR, Japan, East Germany, Hungary, Romania and Czechoslovakia have automati( be rth , ill th e wo me n 's co mpe tition. The 1976 Olympi c co mpe titi o n will be held in the Forum in M Olltre el1 july 18-23.

The fOlmat lo r the january meet a t Penn State's Rl'< 1('.Itio ll lluildin g wi ll include Thursday altp rJ)oo ll .:r lld evening sess io ns of compul so ry (·xerciscs. Friday and Saturday nights will bp re ~l~ rved for o pti o nal exerc ise competiti o n.

The U.S. and Soviet teJ IIl S wi ll be selected by the gymna~ ti c Ipde r.ltion s o f each count ry.

Most 0 1 tlw me mbe rs of th e wo rld champion~hip, te .lnl Me expected to be on the Soviet wompn \ te .llll. Poss ible com petitors include Ludmilla Turischeva, Olga Korbut, Nelli Kim, Nina Dronova, Rusika Sikharulize, Elvira Saadi, Lidia Gorbek and Olga Koval.

The Sovi('1 n1<' Il ', teelll1 w ill feature almost the same line up ," Ih e 1974 World Ga mes team: Victor Marche nko, Victor Klimenko, Vladimir Safronov, Paata Shamugia, Vladimir Tikhanov, Alexander Detiatin ,IIlU Nikolai Andrianov.

Th e USG~ l echnicdl Co mmitt ee w ill se lect the best po~~ i b l e America n t ea llls to co mpe te against the ~ov i l't>. .

Among th e wo me n w ho curre ntl y rank high are Ann Carr .Illd Roxanne Pierce of Philadelphia ; Kathy Howard, Oklahoma City; Diane Dunbar, Pleasa nton, Calif.; Kolleen Casey, St. Paul, Minn.; Debbie Wilcox and Trish Reed, Denver; Tammy Manville, Tucson; ·and Janette Anderson, New Haven, Conn.

Current top me ll pe rforlll e rs in th e United States a re Gene Whelan, Penn State undergraduate .Illd th e top qua lifi er for the Pan-Ame ri( an G.lmes tea lll ; Wayne Young, former Na tion ,1i Co ll eg i.:r te Athl eti c Association champion Irom Brigham Young, now doing graduat e work .It Penn State; Kurt Thomas, Indiana State; Bart Conners, a high school student in Morton Grove, III.; Marshall Avener, former NCAA chdmpion fro m Penn State; Steve Hug, lormer NCAA champ ion fro m Stanford, now li vill g ill Northridge,Calif.; Brent Simmons, Moline, 111.; Jay Whelan and Peter Kormann 01 Southern Connecticut State College; Mike Carter, LSU; Glenn Tidwell, Southern Illinois; ,l lld Tom Beach and Tom Weeden 0 1 th( ' University of California.

Ticket s lor th e meet probably will go on sale during th e li"t week of la nuary .

NOTICE If a ny coaches would li ke to have their

workshops sa nction ed by the USGF do so by writing to Sa ndy Thi e lz th e USGF National Chairman. Writ e to he r a t: Sandy Thielz, Women's Gymnastic Coach, West Chester State College, West Chester, Pa. 19380.

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taken from California Newsletter, Editor, Joanne Fleming

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT ITEMS FROM USGF WC TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEETING

Apr il 24,1975 dpproved 6-14

1. 1975-76 Keg ional Elit e Program A. ~co re requ iremen ts for participants in

Region,li ~Iil e Prog ram 1. gymlldsts must have atta ined an 8.5 in a

Region,li or Ildtional Class I program or 2. an8.5 inlh e Elit e program 'to participate

in the region,l l elit e works hops B. Certili( ,ll e of achievement for Regional

Elite Program. A ll th ose participating in the regional elil (' workshops wil l be given a certificat e 01 merit. rhi s can be added to other awards she hd ' edrned.

C. Obli ga lions of eli gible participating Regional Elilt' Gymnas ts. There wi ll be no written slalement of o bligation, but all gymnasts Ihal qUdlify at the elite level are expected to part icipate in the regional elite clinics.

D. Elit e Regio n,d Boards: 1. StrU(IUre - Th e elite regional boards will

consist 01 Ihe fo ll owing persons: Regional Technical Director. Kegional Head Coach, and National Head Co,lch, and possibly two others selected by Ih t' Ihree ex istin g members. There could ,li so be recommendation from Class I coaches il Ihere Me not e lite coaches in the regi on.

2. Fun( lion - Besides running the el ite program in Ihe reg io n, the board will take into consideration ,lliowing exceptiona l gymnasts who have nOI received the 8.50 required score to parti cipate in Ihe Reg. Elite program. Criteria for "exceptional c,l ses" will be developed by the eighl region,d coaches and presented to the WTC committ ee.

E. Fee st rue lure. 1. All adull s who attend any regional

function musl be .I member of the USGFWC 2. Fee, lor clini cs wil l be as follows:

gymnast $10.00. coaches $5 .00, judges $5.00, observers $5.00. Any national rated judges or elite coae hes will not be required to pay fees to participal e in regiond l elite functions.

3. Clini( Accounts - Regional and National The money from any regiona l function

will be kepi in th e account of the Regional Chairperson who will keep an accu rate record

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of how mu( h of her acco unt came from any elite funclions.

The money w ill be used at the discretion of the Elite Region,1i Board, but it was suggested that the lunds be used

1. 1 rawl fu nd to get gymnasts to competi t ioll'>

2. 10 ,end th e Keg io nal Coaches or regional 1 D 10 meetings and/ o r competition.

FORMA T FOR All USGF COMPETITIONS -Elite, Class I, II, III

All compul,ory exercises wi ll be performed on the fir, 1 da y. with all op tional exercises on the second da y. When two sets of judges are used, vaulling dnd balance beam wil l run simultaneo usly. fo ll owed by uneven bars and floor exer( i, t'. When on o r four sets of judges are used . inlelndtiolhll order w ill be followed. During final ('v('nt competit io ns, w hen there are six p la( e,. one set o f judges wi ll be used and international order w ill be fo llowed. Wh en during final ('v('nl competitions more than six places are (ompeting, two se ts of judges will be used. Int el ndllon,d onJer w ill be followed with events altelndting so that one gymnast perform, al a lime.

The dla", lor o rd er of competit ions will follow FIG regu l,lIi o ll s. When there are six finalist s, 6. 5 & 4 wi ll drd w to determine in wh ich order t hey w i II 'ma ke the fi rst three performam e, lor Ih,lI event , similarly, places 3, 2, & 1 wil l dra w to determine the order of the la st three perlormdllces for that f inal event. When thel e Ml' more than six in the final event competition. pld('e 10-6 w ill draw for the fir st five perfolm,lfl( e, whi le places 5-1 must do th e same to delermine th e o rder of the last five performam c',.

I n the eVE-nl IWo events are run alternately and a gymna sl drdws the same or simi lar performan( (' number in both events, it will be at the di ,( I PI ion of her coac h and the meet referee 10 delermill e her event order.

SCHEDULE FOR t'l75-76 ELITE COMPETITIONS

1st Regional Qu,difi c.ltion Meet October 31-Nov. 1, 1975 1st al ion,1i QUJlifica tion Meet December 5-6, 1975 2nd Region al Qu,liifi c,ltion Meet January 16-17, 1976 2nd National Q Ydkufucatuib Neet February 6-7, 1976

USGF ELill NMIONAl S March 4-5-6, 1976

ELITE PROGRAM REGULATIONS 1975-76 1. Score requirement (ea rn ed at Regional

. leve l) for pnlry into 1st or 2nd National Qualification Meel - 8.75 ave rage or 70.00 AA.

2. Sco le It'quirement (earned at National Qualifying mec'!'» for entry into Elite Na tio nals.

AGE GROUP PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE FOR 1975-71> Class I

State Meet , Ma rch 19-20 1976 Regional M('eh Apr il 16, 17 1976 junior Natiomls May 6,7,8 1976 Senior Nalional, May 20,21 ,22 1976 AIAW Nation,li , April 1,2,3 1976 YMCA Nalion," , Apri l 9,101976

TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP REQUIREMENTS:

1. jr. and ~ r. Ndliona ls Team score will be obtained by IOI,liling th e top three scores for any given 1("lm ill edch of the eight events (comp and Opl ). No team members need be predesignalPci.

2. Girls m,lY qu,llify through State High School mePI , Ih,1I usc th e Class I compulsor ies and follow IIG rules dlld no t en ter in the USGF

meet as well (~ tal e) If she chooses to qualify through the high schoo l meet, she may not also enter the Sla l(' usef meet.

3. None 01 Ihe meets of USGF Member organization, (AAU . YMCA, AIAW, etc.) may be used as qUldifyill g meets into the USGF program.

AGE GROUP PROGRAM CHANGES: All Classes

Equipmenl : Vault: HOI , (' sel Jt 120 cm. Senior, junior,

children (as il , ldlHis now) may be lowered for children 10 l1U em.

Bars: All ow high iJ.n to be raised 1-2 notches for Senior , (I,lil gi rl s) Jild junior to lower bar as much as 2 nOI( hl's. Children high bar lowered 1-2 notche, . low iJ,lr raised 1-2 notches as needed.

Beam: )eni(m - 1·le Specs., juniors - FIG for optional ,. bUI , hOLlid all ow for lowering 1-2 notches 110m 1·le for co mpulsory (Class I mount) Childl ('11 nld Y work FIG spec or lower 1-2 notches Iloni 1·le spec for compo and opt. work. CODE OF POINTS CHANGES:

1. Use new I ul es fo r va ulting, except for vault finals rul es.

2. Cla S'> I VJ ulling Findls be conducted so as to require two dill('rent vd ults from any ca tego ry. Penalt y all poinl off highes t average if the two vaults done al (' the SJllle. Penalty of 1 point, if only one vault i, done.

3. Cla S'> II be' r('lJuired to do two different vau lts or Ihe , dn1l' vdu lt twice . Penalty of one point ofl higher .Iverdge if on ly one vau lt done. SCORE R~QU I K~MEN rs:

Class I - R('g ion,11 Qualification raised to 8.5 to nationals. b8.UU AA combined total.

Cla S'> I - )1 <11(' Qu ,Jiifying score to Regionals remain B.D. 64.UU or AA combined CTO (Ed: don ' t Undpl<,I.lIHI Ihe "CTO " Could it mean C&O? )

Class I - l ot iii or sect iona l Qualifying to State meet 7.5

Those , Iall" in d.lnger o f not having a state meet bee a LN' oll.l ck of qua lifi ers may petition their Regi on;! 1 130,II'd

Cla ss II - lot ,Ii or ~ectiona l qualifying to state meet 7.0/ 56.UU. :' Idl e ma y petition if score too high. Mandate ; ( Of"(' Illoving from Class II to Class I will be 32.0U ( OIllP (8 .0 ) and 30.00 or 7.5 opt. (62.00)

Class III Qu,liil yillg score to state meet 7.0. mandate '>l Of(' 10 move from Class III to Class II 8.0 or 32.00 AA for compulsory. CHANGING AGE LEVElS

1. When (h;!ngi ng ,lge levels, gymnasts mu'st stay in sa mp (1.1 .,., of com petition .

2. May no t drop bdck one level because of new compubori es.

3. Cia" II Compu lsory and optional competiti on <1 l1 owed dt all levels. Under this discussion al Ihi s lime, and not allowed as yet Regulation lor gY lllnasts residing in state adjacent 10 , I,lIe in which the club for which she compele,: gymllJ st Illay cO lllpete in state for which Ih(' club is located and where she trains. Club determines residency of the gymnast.

TAPES AND TEXT OF THE NEW 1975-79 COMPULSORIES

Order from: Betty Meyer. Northeastern III. State Univ., St. Louis and Bryn Mawr, Chicago, Illinois 60626. (This is the only official source of music for the f loor routin es . also Ihe Women'sComm itee keeps a small percentage to help run their program. No menlion how much money 10 send, though. Sorry.)

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~-~ CHANGES IN RULES AND POLICIES/ JUDGING

INTERPREJ A TIONS from Madame Nagy, President of the FIG

Technical Committee

THESE ARE OFFICIAL

a. Heigh t 0 1 vdu ltin g horse 1.20 m (4 inch es higher)

b. Felt covered bed m (i t is fo rbidden to use magn esia 0 1 resin )

c. The value o f th e fo ll ow ing vau lts has been changed :

simp le ( al tw hce l handspring yama shita ca rtw hee l w it h ~, turn

. \.. handspring w ith '" turn

9.00 pts. 9.20 pts. 9.40 pts. 9.40 p ts .

eli mi nated

d . On ly va ult ; w ith .I t leas t Vl turn (180) have the va lue of 10.00 p ts.

e. In f inab. th e gymnast must execute 2 d ifferent vaul l'>. w ith th e value o f 10. pts.

f. D istr ibuti on of '10 p ts: Va lue 01 (' I{'ments clnd d iffi cult ies

3 Superior .I t .60 each to tal ing 1.80 pts.) 4 M ed ium .I t .30 each, to tal ing 1.20 pts. )

Tota l o f 3.00 p t;. O riginalit y dnd va lue o f connecti o ns 1.5

pts.) Value 01 Generd l compos ition of exercise

.5 pts.) 10tal of 2. 00 p ts. Execution ,Ind amplitud e 4.00 pts. General imp ress ion 1.00 pts.

g. Standard izillio n o f penalti es fo r falls on al l apparatus

1. fall on appiHd tu s o r fl oo r 0.50 2. support w it h hands o n floo r 0.50 3. fa ll on p C' lvi; 0.50 4. to uching floor upon landing 0.30 5. to uching dpparatu s after land ing 0.30 6. fa ll o n kn ees 0.30

h. Th ese changes ,I rc in effec t as o f June 1, 1975. Th ey app ly du ring th e qua li fi ca t io n meets for the Ol ympi( Ga mes ci S w ell as the Pre-O lympic gam es in M on treal in Ju ly. For Region al and co ntinental co mpet itions, the o ld rules may be used.

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At l a ~ t yeJr's USGF Congress the association of indt'pendent gymnastic clubs began to develop their boys p rograms. Since a large majority of the privat e clubs are for the girls and sime most boys programs have evo lved throu gh th e high schoo ls and V's, the private club~ lor boys seem to face an uphill struggle.

In BritJin , w here gym nastics is truly an amateur ~ port, and where high school gymna ~ tics is IlOt as ex ten sive as in this country, the development of boys ' gymnastics is largely thlOugh the c lubs. An editorial, appearing in the ~umme r '1':175 issue of THE GYMNAST, sound ~ ,I lew notes which might be considered here:

" ~or m,IIl Y cOJc hes of boys at club level, the road to ~ u ccess is pitted with frustrati ons. To begin With. boys can be less co-opera tive than girb in lollowing instruction. As boys grow older. they ,I re subject to enticement from man y more ri v,11 spo rt s th an girls are. And by th e time t hd t boys a re starting to gain th e strength ,lIld ex perti se of gymnastic maturity, they haw to !cJve schoo l to make a living or go

on to hi g h(~r ed uca ti o n. Either way, boys ' coal he', (.I II Ime touch w ith promising yo ung gymna .. " w ith w horn th ey have wo rk ed for yeal ...

" There die o th er indignities, too. Girl gymna " t .. outllulilber boy gym nasts and the image 01 tlH' ~ P()rt to th e British public is largely a femillill(' oll e. Press photographers tend to look 101 g irl gYlilnas ts to adorn their sports page .. IdtiH'r t hJn boys. Ve ry rarely do you ng male gynlll.l',ts receive th e fu ll concentration of publi( it y. ~ m,1I1 wo nder that boys' coaches feel thattheir mOl,lI e carn es out low compared with ef loll.

" M or,II('. in IJJsic terlllS, is a state of mind emomp,,, .. ill g ui sc ipline, courage and conlid('I1( e. It sho uld dccompany any sense of pUlpO .. (' IJ(' it lIlilitJrY strat egy o r gymnastics. In briel. without good rn ora le, you cannot be wholl y .. un ('ss ful in your aims. Discipline and coul agl ' Me d edl ly part of gymnastics and help to eng(,lIder confidence. But confidence comes Irom other fdclOrs , too--factors such as SUI I {' .... ,IIHI recog nition .

"AI Ill(' lo p l'nd of t he sca le, boys ' gymnastics is \el) "Ul I 1',,; lul. Ilnlnense progress has been mad" illll ' llldtionJll y by th e up-and-coming tal enl 1I0W cOll so lidat ed in reg ional and nati o n'II " Iwols' squad s. It goes w ithou t say ing thai I hi .. pi ogres,> is Jppreciated th roughout the SpOI I. (jul w h,1I le,lding boys' coaches wou ld well ami ' IIOW .15 .I lIlorale-booster at all leve ls is tan glbll' .II kilowledge lil ent.

" 101 ('Vl'rYOll e w ho foll ows gymnastics- ­pall r<,all 01 lIot --thi s rn eans supporting local clu b d( li v rlil ~S. It rn ea ns dropping in at compl ' lllion ... going to national and intel ndllOlldl ('Velll>. It dlso means spreading the WO I d dnllJllg t he general public about achi('\('nll.'nl ... pe r~llna liti es , results.

"But .. on Ie wo rds o f advice for boys' coaches com ('I III''' wi th m ora le. Support does not flow in on (kmdll" . Winning it takes time and , what is m Ol I' , pldlillili g. On ly w ith a sustain ed effort to in vol v(' Ih e interes t o f as man y people as pos .. ibll ' ill lJoys' gYlnndstics from club level up ca n :.ecognit ion - and improved morale -co me.

WHAT DIRECTION SHOULD YOU GO - WHY?

promoting gymnJstics at all levels. It is becoming m ore preve lent that the U.S.G.F. is establishing il>el f as the most relevent organization to gymnastics to day. There can ' t be enough said about the U.S.G.F.'s efforts in bringing tht, lJc~ t gymnas ts of the world to our home audiences ,1I0ng w ith d eveloping and promoting ou r elit e all-around gymnasts; however at the "g ro und level- there is a lot left to be ~a id . " The conf lict in scheduling and poor planning has put the beginning gymnast in an "Ell HER" OR". POSITION" and I feel this is detrimentJI in a yo ung ye t growing sport.

By Rea Anders

Th is coach ca n understand th e U.S.G.F. trying to provide fo r a more appropriate competitive atmosphere by upgrading competition for elit e all-around gymnasts, but what about th e younger gymnasts? The U.S.G.F. , in pulling away from the AAU, left the young gymnast in a paradoxical-but-sad position. Since the national age-group compulsori es are somewhat identical and the AAU & U.s.G . ~ . district, state, regional, and national championships are scheduled concurrentl y, th e young gymnast is forced to choose " which directi on to go. " In a time when age-group competition and participants are scarce, to divide th eir interest is like the "Ta il Wagging th e Dog."

A quick overview of what each " direction " offers:

UNITED STATES GYMNASTIC FEDERATION (1) Competit ion (District or State, Reg ional , National) Advan ced (15-18 yrs.) Compulsory & Optional ; Int e rm ediate (12-14 yrs.) Compulsory & Optional. (2) No National Sponso r or subSidy for travel & housing for qualifying gym nasts to the national championships. (3) No national cove rage through the various medias of t he finals at th e national level.

AMERICAN ATHLETIC UNION (1) Competition (District or State, Regional , National) Advan ced (15-18 yrs .) Compulsory & Optional ; Int e rm edi ate (12-14 yrs.) Compul sory & Opti onal; Beginner (10-11 yrs.) Compul sor ies only ; Novice (9 & Under) Compulsor ies only.

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(2) National Sponsor - Chevrolet (3) Travel & Housing expenses paid for qualifying gymn,lsts & Coach to the national championships. (4) National 1 elev ised coverage of the national age-group final s.

I would imagine th e U.S.G.F., at this point, is concerned only with providing competition for those youngesters ca pable of performing optional exercises . This writer/coach believes that the U.S. G.F. has a responsibility in

The Southern Cl lifo rnia Boys Gymnastic Association h a~ moved to combine the AAU/ USGf at th e stdte qualifying level. Since the USGF & AAU utiliLe the same co mpulsories for th e advance . interm ediate, and beginning levels - we d ec ided to have one in vitat ional and let the qualili ers choose frolll that point " which direction to go."

BASIC CONFLICT IN SCHEDULING

DI STRICT OR STA TE CHAMPIONSHIPS rA:i:!. A~.~U~ . ..:::;~==;-------". Date : Late June ............ -------.-!U;!;.~S:..!.G;;!;.1:.F;.,. =,......--,

ADVANCED Winners Ad vance ADVANCED INTERMEDI ATE INTERMEDI ATE BEGINNER NOVICE

A.A.U . ADVANCED INTERMEDI ATE BEGINNER NOVICE

REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Date : Early July ... o--------,JU:!;.~S:..!. G;!; . .!:.F'_. =_--,

Winners Advance ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE

NATIONA L CHAMPIONSHIPS

~A~.A~.~U~.~~==;-------•• Date: Middle August "~I--------r~U~. S~ . .sG~.F~.=,.,,---.., ADVANCED ADVANCED INTERMEDI ATE INTERMEDIATE

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It i, ,l l w~y., Sd U to report the passing of a me mber of the Gymnast ic community, especially whe n th e circumsta nces are of a viol ent and spectacular nature, as in the case of young Gordon McCollom.

High School Gordon McCollom fi rst entered gymnastics

a t Sout he rn California 's Corona De l Mar High School in the mid 60's. Here he worked under the coaching o f Ron McNicko las and '56 Olympian Di ck Beckner (who later became hi s fat he r-in -law). Gordon compete d AA throughout his high school yea rs. With the Lon g Horse being his best eve nt, he won the '68 ClF and th e Orange Cou nty Championships. Typ ical of his sense of humor was an accident that took place in th e fa ll of his freshman year when Gordon acc id ently broke his arm: A st uden t was immed iately sent to get a magaz in e in orde r to make a splint for his arm a nd Gordon ye lled after him, " make it a Modern Gym nast!"

Summer Camp Six yea rs of summer ca mp was spent at

Gymnast ics Camp Gualala dur ing Gordon 's co mpeti ti ve yea rs, three years as a camper and three years as a cou nse lor.

College Gordon attendedSal State Univ. Long Beach

whe re he w~s coache d -by Ken Bartlett (who lat e r beca me his brother-in-law) . While a t Long Beach State he taught gymnastics to deaf children in Santa Ana for a period of two years; and from '71-'72, he was captain of the gym team at CSU LB as well as th e " Most Out sta nd ing Gym nast. " Gordon won the PCAA - All-A round Championship for '72, and the team also won the cham pionsh ip that year.

1973 int roduced Gordon 's coaching career. He was th e first Gymnastic coach at Edison H.S. in Huntington Beach, California, where he remained active until his untimely accident.

GYMNAST Nov. '75

IN MEMORY GORDON McCOLLOM

December 21, 1949 September 12, 1975

Wing Walking Because of his gymnastic ability, Gordon was

approache d by Joe Hughes _to perform as a "Wing Walker" in air shows. Gordon flew three sea sons with Joe Hughes during the summers of '73. '74 dnd '75.

As a " Wing Walker," Gordon appeared in Air Shows throu ghout the USA and Canada, and due to hi s gymnastic abilities, he added many new tricks to the act. It was considered the only true wing wa lking act in the world. Gordon was a freeagent o n the wing in the sense that during part of hi s pe rformance, he was not strapped to the plane as compared to other wing walk ing acts wh ere the rider is attached to the airplane.

On Se ptember 12, 1975, at the Reno Air Circus , Gordon McCollom was killed during his performance. Standing on the wing while the plane was in an inve rted position, Gordon would grab a ribbon stretched across the runwa y during the plane's low pass at the ground. On the fatal pass, the carburator began sputter ing o n the pull-out just enough to cause the rudder of of the plane and Gordon to hit the ground, e nding the career of a wonderful young man_

It is with regre t and sympathy that we at Gymnast send our condolances to all of Gordon 's family and friends.

In honor of Gordon's memory, Cal State Univ. Long Beach, will institute an annual " Most In spirational Gymnast" award . (Edison High School has set up a scholarshp fund in his name ... and in lieu of flowers, a donation should be sent to the McCollom Scholarship Fund c/ o Mike Po If, 1532 E. 7th St., Long Beach, CA. 90813)

Gene Whelan - 1st All-Around

Th e final high bar set of the meet was cO nipleted and the 16-best gymnasts in the nat ion marched off th e floor to await the results.

Th e an nounce r spoke into the applause of some 2600 fa ns - " In just a few moments we w ill have for yo u the 1975 United States Pan Am Tea m ."

Th e crowd sil enced as the fina ls sta tist ics were checked. Lt. Colonel Carl Schwenzfeier, Pan Amer ican Team coach and Bill Roetzheim, Pan Am Team manager, were introd uced and brought to the center of the floor in the inter im . Th e microphone clicked o n. " Ladi es and Gentlemen, he re is yo ur 1975 Pan Amer ican Games Team!"

Th e march started, the audience ca me to its feet , and o ut came the 7-man Un ited States team clothed in U.S.A. warm-up jackets and carrying United St ,lles travelling bags. Flash cameras and app lause accompa nied the gymnasts to the ce nter of th e fl oo r where they were linked w ith Schwenzfeier and Roetzheim to receive special recognition from meet sponsor Port er Equ ipment Company. A nother wave or two to the enthusiaslic crowd and th ey marched ou t of the gym. The final trials were completed.

" I just do n 't believe that's ri ght," insisted Peter Kormann, NCAA Division " A ll -Around Champion. " Please check it again , I don ' t think it 's me! ," Kormann plead ed to meet offic ials. But the results were accurale. Korma nn 's 105.55 sco re ga ined him a 7t h place fin ish needed

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to be il part of the trave lling squad with Gene Whe lan , Kurt Thomas, M arshall Avener, Bart Conner, Bren t Simmons, and Glenn Tidwell.

Wh eliln held th e top spot throughout the two-day affa ir sco rin g a 55 .80 compulsory and a 55.35 optional to build final 111 .15 mark. Ind ianil Slate junior Thomas and veteran Avener (former Penn St.) added slrong optio nal marks Saturday night to pass high schoo l senior Bart Conner, w ho finished the compulso ry in 2nd place. Thomas breez ed 10 a 110.35 finish while Avener and Conner secured close 109.65 and 109.25 points respectively.

Th e experi ence and poise of Simmons (fo rm er Iowa State) helped him exchange positions wit h Tidwe ll (Southern Illinois), scor ing 108.65 to Tid well"s 10ll .00. Kormann th en added a 53.00 optional to his 12-place 52.55 compu lsory round to secure the 7th place spot. Jim Ivicek, Southern Illi no is gymnast and fonner U.S.A. Team member was in 7th place ilfl er th e compulsory but fell to a 103.90 mark to excl ude him from the finil l ranks. Th is was Ivicek 's first meet since his arm injury last May before I he qualifying meet at Carbondale.

But injuri es plagu ed other gymnasts in th e meet besid es Ivicek. Whelan hJd no t performed o n fl oo r for six-weeks pri or to th e fi nal trial due to I n in fec ti on in h is left ach illes and Chuck Wanner, Chicago Circl e'~ onl y entry, suffered a pulled ach illes just two -w eeks before th e meet. It is also fact that Iowa State 's Mark Graham d ropped o ut of the running due to a broken arm and th at Wayne Young, Tom Weeden and

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Kurt Thomas, ISU - 2nd All-Around

Steve Hug ,lisa dropped from the competition b ecause o"f injuries sustained throughout the summer.

Aft er the compet iti o n it was learned that Simmons would be unable to tra ve l w ith th e team to Mexico City due to personal reasons. Although it was dissappointing for Simmons eight pla ce finisher Clark Johnson (Ca lifornia-Berkely) received a pleasant surprise wh en he " learned that he would be mak ing the trip. Johnson, who compiled a 105.20 score, was elected team ca ptain by his fellow gymnasts.

Conner, a senior at Ni les West High School (Morton Grove, 11. ) is the youngest member o f the squad . The Illinois State all-around champion the pas t two-yea rs , Conner's performance made him a part o f his second United States team . The first was on the team sent to th e pre­Olympi cs in Montrea l this past summer.

" This is a fine young team," says manager Roetzh eim . " Our main obstacle at M ex ico City is the Cuban team, but I think we ca n give th em a run for i t. Schwenzfe ier and I are excited about this group of men and I am sure that we will do we ll in Mexico."

Th e United States tea m flew from O 'Hare International to Dallas on Monday, September 30 to be outfitted for the trip to M ex ico . For those fin e gym nas ts w ho did not qua li fy, there is still the Olympic Tr ials to train for. At dny rate, the performances of the top sixtee n gymnasts in the nat ion were wel l appreciated by the many fans who flocked into the Chi cago Circle gymnasium.

CYMNAST Nov. '75

Marshall Avener - 3rd All-Around

Kurt Thomas and his coach Roger Couns il , Indiana State

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Bart C o nners - 4th All-Around

Gene Wheldn - " A great meet. Everyth ing ran smooth and we d idn 't have to wo rry about anythin g but our own ro utines !"

M arsh,i11 Ave ner - " It is to ugh to organi ze someth ing ,IS big as this . Wettstone always had grea t org,lIli za ti on and co lo r in h is meets. Thi s meet W,IS run ve ry w ell - I certainly enjoyed it !"

Larry GerMd - " I e njoyed th e meet and th e cit y of Ch icdgo. We we nt to th e museum o ne afternoon. There is rea ll y a lo t to do in Chicago."

Abi e Gross fe ld - " It was very cl imatic th e way the tea m WdS b ro ught i nto th e gym after the resulh and the fdns were very enthusiasti c w ith their clapp ing. "

Mi ke CMtcr - " rh e acco modatio ns were good ,lll d we co uld wa lk to th e gym fo r wo rkout; . I dlways like coming here."

Jay Whel,ln (I:lro the r to Gene Whelan) - " All the co mpet it o rs are impressed w ith th e conduct of th e lll ee t. Th ey are th e most impo rt ,lnl ~ '.1 es . I reall y liked th e opening ce remon IC,.

Fra nk Cum iskey - " Th e meet is ru nning great . W e we re in dnO o ut of th e gym in no time."

Kurt '1 hom,ls - " rhis is a good gym with a good <,c t up. Lo ts o f room to b rea th o n the fl oo l . I rc',i1l y enjoyed th e speed o f th e meet. "

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The Ul i n~is - Chicago Circle Gym during warm-ups for the las t t wo events.

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PAN-AM TRIALS '75

Brent Simmons - 5th All-Around

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Front Row L to R: Gene Whelan, Bart Conner, Kurt Thomas, Glenn Tidwell ; Top Row L to R: Bill Roetzheim , Brent Simmons, Marsha ll Ave ner, Peter Kormann, Carl Schwenzfeier.

1975 USA MENS, PAN-AM TEAM C&O Final

FX PH R V PB HB Totals Total Gene Whelan C 9.05 9.20 9.20 9.10 9.65 9.60 55.80

0 9.25 9.00 9.40 8.75 9.25 9.70 55.35 111.15 Kurt Thomas 9.00 9.40 8.65 9.25 9.30 9.50 55.10

8.90 9.30 9.10 8.95 9.55 9.45 55.25 110.35 Marshall Avene r 8.85 9.20 9.30 9.05 9.35 8.95 54.70

9.30 9.20 8.90 8.95 9.40 9.20 54.95 109.65 Bart Conner 9.20 8.80 9.25 9.10 9.65 9.30 55.30

9.15 7.85 9.05 9.00 9.55 9.35 53.95 109.25 Brent Simmons 9.20 8.10 9.35 9.10 9.15 8.95 53.85

8.80 8.65 9.35 9.10 9.30 9.60 54.80 108.65 Glenn Tidwell 8.85 8.80 9.10 9.20 9.50 9.05 54.50

8.85 8.85 8.55 8.75 9.40 9.10 53.50 108.00 Peter Kormann 9.10 8.60 8.45 8.80 9.10 8.50 52.55

9.60 7.40 9.30 8.55 9.00 9.15 53.00 105.55 Clar~ Johnson 8.45 8.65 9.25 8.80 9.25 8.70 53.10

8.90 8.25 8.90 9.30 8.05 8.70 52.10 105.20 Mi~e Carter 9.10 9.00 9.00 9.15 9.20 7.70 53.15

8.85 8.55 9.15 7.65 8.85 8.55 51.60 104.75 Tim Shaw 7.95 8.55 8.65 8.95 9.25 9.00 52.35

8.45 8.35 8.65 8.80 8.35 9.45 52.05 104.40 Larry Gerard 8.00 8.75 8.70 9.00 9.10 8.80 52.35

9.05 8.55 9.10 8.90 8.05 8.35 52.00 104.35 Charles Wanner 8.40 9.35 8.75 8.05 8.55 8.90 52.80

8.35 8.85 7.75 8.65 8.50 9.30 51.40 104.20 Jim Ivicek 8.70 8.65 8.70 9.25 9.20 9.15 53.65

8.55 6.50 8.90 8.40 8.90 9.00 50.25 103.90 Lee Douglas 8.20 7.95 9.30 9.10 9.15 9.00 52.70

8.45 7.75 9.35 8.65 8.75 7.90 50.05 103.55 Jo hn Hallberg 8.45 8.30 8.85 8.90 9.20 8.85 52.55

8.10 7.50 8.85 9.15 8.05 7.90 49.55 102.10 Mi~e Godow. 7.80 8.65 8.85 8.80 9.05 8.15 51.30

8.40 8.70 9.15 8.50 6.10 40.85 92.15

Clark Johnson, alternate and Team Captain

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PAN-AM HISTORY AND PREVIEW:

OLYMPIAD FOR THE.AMERICAS By Tom Wakeling

1 he Pan -America n Games is fundamentally all that i, chdrdcteri stic of Olympic compet ition and wa , ·ide,I1ly d esigned to promote the original Ol ympic Purpose--international unity based upon dth leti c good w ill through sport. However . the differe nce is that the games are prim'lI il y limit ed to t.hose nat ions which form the 01 gdni l.dtion of America n States (OAS) , whit h Wd '> l ~>t dbli s h ed in 1898, and Canada. Olli(i,dl y. th e Pan-A meri can Games are " Iegiun,d Cdmes" wi thin the framework of the Int el nati ondl Ulympic Games movement. The Pan-Am cricd n Sports Organization, contlUlling bod y for th e games, is made up of nation, w hose Ulympic organizations are memb('r, of the International Olympic Committ('l ' . I he teams that are se lected to compet(' in th e Pan-Alns are done so by the national Ulympic committees of the vario us cou ntl it '"~ I he Cames are conducted once evel y lour ye,lrs, one year prior to each Olympi 'HI. It is .I n ew institution in that the 1st Pan-Anll'ric,II' Ulympiad took p lace in 1951.

Twu thuus,1I1l1 dth letes were on hand for the two wl'ek I'dn-Aillerican Games, the first, at Buenu, A ire", Argent ina . Seventy five thousand spectator, Colm e to the opening ceremonies in the Riv('r 1'1 ,1I e Stoldium and witnessed a minute 125 memh,'r U.) . team ente r th e Pan-Am scene. The tl'am pMti cipJted in each of the eighteen schedul"d ' port s, and after they were all compl(,t( 'd th e Unit ed States claimed 16 goid medal>. Bill Roeuh eim brought one home taking tl w PJI)-American All-Around gymna,til " titl e .JIllJ another for his high bar ellolt. 1 he A rgentine delegat ion was perhaps the mmt "uccess ful by th e end of the games event . hut by the next games one of the greaH', t dthleti c forces in the world would disp la y "uch .I general su peri or ity that it would help mold dlld deve lope w hat were once comid('rl'd insignifi can t sport systems into one, th,lI M e now nearing their own immim'nCl ' in the international sport progl an1'> .

M ('xilll Cit y hos ted the II Pan-American Gam(', in 1'155. A thletes from 22 American Republil " dl't ed ou t th e pageant which was lalg('ly n'nH'mlJered by man y forthe rarified air and I,"k 01 o xygen. rhe capita l is 7,400 feet above , "d Il~ ve l .Jnd a grea t number of people wel(' ,,(' vc rel y bo thered by th e 'normal chal a( t('ri " ti c'> of such high altitudes. Even belol(' th e opening cree monies were co mpl(,t" . .I , 1500-2000 athletes entered the UniV£'l, it y 01 Mexico's vast Olympic Stadium, a U . ~ . bo xer col ldPsed not being conditioned for the unavdildbility of air.

T h(' Unitl,d ) tJtes gymnastic team proved to be amung th e .Jbles t, in that every regular Olympic (' vent WdS won by one of its members namel y J,llk Beckn er for the AA tit le (113.40) , Free-X ( ItUJUJ, P-Bars (19.30) and Side Horse (19.45 ); Richm! Beck ner for Rings (19.05); Abie GlOs, I('ld lor Iligh !:lar (19.60) and Joseph Kotys fOI "aulting ( 1'1.45). In 1955 (and in 1959) the gymnaqic compe titi on included in addition foUl "p, 'c i,di " t events; Rope Climb (Donald Pel I y, U~A-ulHecu rd ed tim e), Club Swinging (F l an( i" 0 Jose A lvarez, Mexico-9.40), Tumbling (Willidm Roy, USA-9.60) and TlampulilH' (iJollJld li arper, USA-9.90!) .

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The 1959 USA Women 's Pan-Am Team and the All-Around winners of the Men's competition . First Row: Gail Sontgerath (Alt.), Teresa Montefusco, Betty Mycock ; Second Row: Judy Klauser, Cassie Collawn, Sharon Phelps and Sharon Richardson . Back Row : Don Tonry, Jack Beckner and and Abie Grossfeld .

1971 Pan-Am Me n 's Team, Back Row L to R: Coach Vega , Butzman, Lindner , Elias , Culhane , Ritter, Aronson (mgr.); Front Row L to R: S immons, Crosby, A.nderson

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Th e United Stdtes won 16 out of 22 men 's team titles <lnd 4 of th e 7 medals availab le for th e women's competition. Such was the beginning of our " trad itional " Pan-American dominance.

The 1<)5<) C,\l11 eS we re originally awarded to Cleve l,lIld , Ohio but just two years prior to the event th<lt city had surrendered its role and Chicago stepped in to host the III Pan­Am er ic<ln CJm es. Over 2,000 sport represl'nt<lti ves from 25 nations competed in 28 catagoril" of sport.

This con tes t was the site for particularly int e l esti ng events in the gymnastic competition. rhe Un it ed States took the team titl e (564.70) by J large margin and with it the fir st six pl<l ces A ll-A round (Jack Beckner, Abie Grosskld . [)on ronry, Greg Weiss, Garland O 'Q uinn .Iml JJmil e Ashmore). Jack Beckner earned the highest sco re with two 9.75 's (optional High 13M and Side Horse) for a 114.30 AA to tal. Hi s performances were remarkably co nsi stant <1 5 indica ted by the comparatively close compu lsory (57.25) and optiona l (57 .05) score,>. ~ollowing the United States was Canada. the on ly other country that was even able to qu,dify gymnasts for th e ind ividual finals. with <I 53 1.1lO tea m point tota l and Argentin<l w ith 514.15 (which is 50.00 points behind the totJI o f th e first place team). These games markl~d th e IJs t appea rance for the Rope Climb (Carvin Smith , USA 3.0 sec.), Club Swinging (I rJn cisco Jose Alvarez, Mexico-9.60). 1 umbling (Haro ld Holmes, USA-9.75) and Trampolin e (Ron M unn, USA-9.55).

Womeli gymndsts had th eir chance to compete for th e first time in this competition . HowevN , in essence it was but an international dual m eet between th e United States and Canada (the onl y two tea ms that entered). Both teams were mJde up from yo ung, relatively inexperienced gymnasts with the exception of Ernest ine Ru ssel of Canada (the average age of the US teJm WdS 16-1 7 years) . The Women 's competi tion finish ed w ith another victo ry for the team frolll th e Un ited States (179.967). About a point p er event de termined the second p lace stJnding as Canada accumulated 175.%7. Ru ssell performed, it yvas believed, at a higher leve l thJn she ever had previously in her co mpetiti ve cdl'eer seeing how she led her tea m with w ins o n th e Beam, U nevens, Vault and All -Around (3B.467) . Betty Maycock (USA) pla( ed ,econd AA by mean s of 37 .400 and Malie-Ci<llt' Ldrson (USA) third (36.434) .

01 the 372 U.S. athl etes that competed in Sao Paulo, BrdLii for th e IV Pan-Americans in 1963, 109 went home with go ld m eda ls (more golds than had been Jward ed to each of the other nations combined), 49 more claim ed silvers and then another 35 accomp li shed what was required in th eir respecti ve areas in order for them to be <lwJrded th eir bronze m edals. The record , show that th e common number of athl etes. 2.000, Cd me from 22 nations to be a part 01 Ihi s spec ta cle promoting amateur athletic, in th e West ern Hemisphere.

Do ri , I'uchs (USA) was responsible for the fir st US AA women 's gymnastic Pan-American titl e becau se of her impressive 77.210. In fact ea( h evt' nt W,IS wo n by either he rself (Beam-19.460 ,md U ncve ns-19.BOO) or one of her teammatc',. [),de .McC lements (who is today, for thme who mJY no t know, Dal e Flansaas one o f our '1')75 P<lnA m eri ca n national gymnastic coal hl" ) I'(~ce i ved th e first place vaulting award for 1<).540 ellort, dnd Free X was won by Avis Tiebe l ('1') .430).

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Dale McClements, 1963 Welhe im Weiler, 1963 All-Around Champ , Canada

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1967 Pan-Am All-Around Gold Medal Winners: Fred Roethlisberger a nd Linda Metheny.

Can'ld.l ·' Welhelln Weil er won the men 's AA pi iz(' (11 5.67) dlong w ith titl es fo r Floor (19.52) and V<lUllillg (,il so 1'J.52). Th e United States was repIl',('nl l'd wi th such standouts as Jamile Ashmoll' (Rillgs- I'J.60) , Don Tonry (P-Bars-19.37). A bil ~ C rossfeld (H-Bar-19.57) and Gall;lnd O 'l)Uillil (Side Horse-1 9.25).

1 h(' [V ['.I II -A lllS proved to be qu ite a show. To h(,11' illu, trdl c th e kind of talent that ( hal a( t('ri ~ l'd Ihe 1963 Ga ines we wil l po int out that in IlIll' bri ef w eekend (known as the week('nd II I exce ll ence), four wo rld track ret 01'(1) I uillbled.

• Winnil'l 'g, .I tow n of conservat ive nature, is

the "II.lit,iI Ilf the Canadian province of Manit ub.l. w hi ch is loca ted some 60 miles north 01 th(, «'lltr,rI U.S. border. Th e residents of Winnil.ll'g w ith ex trao rdinary charity and hon(', 1 ('lllhu, i.l sll1 vo lu nteered to run the Pan­Amel i(.I1l C.llll es of 1967 w hen no one else would .. [ holt yed[ was especiall y significant to Canad" .I , it nlMked her 100th birthday. Every ci t) in ('v('ry province was asked to support a projl'( t til CllnllllClnorate the cente nnial. And in l e'poml'. [5,000 Winnipegers gathered to labol 101 th(, , uccess o f their birthday offering­- th e V [',I II A ll leri C,lI1 Gaines.

1 h(, U ll i tl'd ~ t dt es was represented by 402

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athle t( ', w hll by 'th e end of the Garnes claimed so g l('<l1 .I 11lI11lber of medals (225, 120 of them gold ) Ih.lt il I' l"llved (so ll1ehow) " embarassing" . A vag u(, ulldercurrent o f resentment began to build ,I' .I1"l',>u lt. [t becarne most apparant when Cuba '" [ id('1 c.lstro actuall y demanded that the 1971 P,,"-Anl , be limited to Latin American nati o n, dul,hillg th ose string of victor ies as U.S. '"a thletl( illlper idli sln '".

1 hl' U llit ed Stdtes C yrnna stic Federation conll ibutl'd it , share of " athletic imperialists", 101 OUI gYlllildStS led by Fred Roethlisberger (110 .75 AA tllt ,d) dnd Linda Metheny (74.03) claim('d 1'1 01 Ihe U.S. go ld s. Linda performed ext ell('ntl y ill that she ca ptured firsts in three of the luuI l'V('llt s (in addition to her AA t itl e). Su sa n M( Uonnel o f Cana da interrupted Linda 's swe ep by wi nning th e Unevens (18.614). Ri( h,lI d Lllyd ( [' - I3Ms ti ed with Roethlisberger) and M,lIk Cohn (Pommel Horse) were the only othel LIS Ill en in th e rnen 's division as they met wil h gOlld cornpetition from Mex ico and Cuba, fJ.lrticul.lrl y on Rings, Vaulting, & Free-X. Thi s lUI ' Ull ' wou ld b e taken into co nsideration fO I th(, Ill 'xt ['.In-Aln eri can team.

1 hl'n tlll'l"(, wdsC dli,Co lulnbia the site forthe VI P<ln -A nl l'riull Carnes . It was a haven for ext it('nll'llt .IS Ihere were riot s, spontanious fighl'> , ('Xl h.lllgeu accusa tions about rival

spying .I ' wl' lI ,IS valid co mplaints concerning th e ab, uld li ving fd ciliti es. One man fell from a rool to w hdt has been class ified as a '" m)" t('1 iou,'" dedth. A nd then of course there wa s th.ll li xed bd sketbd ll garne (rea lly it wa~) that ('Iilllillolt ed th e United States from the final ,. Wh y llUt .I Wdr? I:l y the time th e Pan-Ams endl'd tlwil 2 week run nothing short of that would h.l vl' ., urpri sed anyone who was there. Thi s i, w h.lt nl.1 y hdve bee n character isti c of the 1971 ('V(,llt but there was one promise that would oulli v l ~ th e furor ; the world of amateur athll,t il ., !r.1 .,.1 new power to deal with in futu re (ompetilillll--Cuba.

1 he CU lldilS Mri ved in Cali w ith their largest and IlIm t t,dellt ed sq uad eve r, and with th e Cub;ln d('lq';.Ilion we re coaches imported from the )uvi('t li llilln . In th e las t Pan-Am games in W inn lfJ('g. the Cubd ns had rnanaged to captu re 48 med,d , (' ighl llf th ern gold but their marked impIUVl' nlCllt was ev idenced by the 105 medals that W('111 til Cuban dlhl etes, including 30 gold .

Cub.r \ gYllll hlS lic lalent wa s quite good as hel t( '.I 1l1 WIl Il Ihe Men :s di vis ion. They did a«olding tll lliliRoetzheiln (Modern Gymnast O( tob('1 ·1'!7 1. Vol XIII ;;10) by performing the (ompul'l'lil'" w ith class ic interpretation, sound exe( utiO ll ,Ind con sistency. By the end of the compul ' ''l y session Cuba had established a signill( ,Int g.lp (6.65). rhat gap made it next to

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Roxanne Pierce, 1959

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impo"ihl" 10 compensate for U.S. mistakes (shall Wl' \ .I Y -100- lor awarded gifts to some Cuban p,'rlofllhlnces) , and for the fact that they wei E' jll , 1 1,"II"r. l3ul we w.ere there to try, and a crowd 01 UUUU peop le came to the optional ses~ioll 10 w ililess our at tempt. A noble one it wa~ 100, IJln il WJS IlUl enough. Cuba took the team lir,1 w ilh cl comp iled point total of 540.35 followl'd hy .I 5econd pl ace U.S. team with an a« umlll.lll'd )core od 535.90 (only a 1.45 span, a comp'/I.lli vl'diflerence).

DUI ill g Ilw indi vidual finals the crowd was fOl I h,' nlml pMI pro United States which was unu, u,,1 IIhl~ Y we re quite enthusiastic in their re~pon""). I\lter all was over Cuba's Jorge Rodl iqlll" won the /\/\ awa rd, and John Crosby pial ('d "'ll JlIlI.

Six wO IlIl ~ n ' s tea ms competed in two "ab illl y" groups: USA, Canada and Cuba was one. Ml'xi('o, Ilrdlil and Panama were the olhE'l . '1 Ill' LJ llited States team was in a class all to Ih"Il""lvl') w inning eve ry medal available

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1959 All-Around winners: Betty Maycock (2nd) ; Ernestine Russell (1 st); Marie-Clare Larson (3rd).

eXlqJI lor Ilm'e (11V0 sil ve rs and a bronze). Canad" "'HI Cub,1 lVe re lef t to their own contest as Ih l ' LJ~ W' "I the tcarn titl e (363.30) nearly 8.0 poinl > "IH',ld 01 it s closest co mpetition which wa s (ull" (35 l .(5) loll oweu by Ca nada (351.35) . Roxa nll<' I'H 'rn~ w un th e AA for the US by her compill'd tot,rI 01 74.05 whi ch was directl y foll owed (lor seconu, third , and fourth) by Li nda 1vl<'i1H 'Il Y (73.35) , Kirn Chase (73 .10) and AdE'll ' CI, '" v,''> (72.10).

1 hI' >1"'llg lh oj our wo rnen 's teams in Pan ­Am I Olllp,'litioll Cdn perhaps be re lated to that 01 Ihl' '>(lVII'1 power all th e wo rl d wide stage. A (Omp.H '''"'' "II be 1I1dJe, w hi ch isa sure sign of a dE'\ l 'lopillg prOgfd lll w hi ch may in the future pm!' " "'.rli ,> li .- ch.rl lenge for all those who vie fOI I h"l 11lIIlliJer o nc spot in the wo rld stand,llg,.

It " VII'w,'d by Ilhlny that since their ill('plioll 1111 ':15 1, th e quadrennial Pan­Am!'1 II "II (,,,nil' '> hd ve se rved as a k ind of

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Gregor Weiss , 1959

Ol ym pH w ,rrill -Up lo r strong U.S. team s. This viewpol il l ' ,Ill be in 'a way justif ied. The U.S. team > h"v,' '> 11 dUlni lhlteJ th e Pan-Ams that . si III ( ' '1')5 1. IIll'Y hd ve clai rned 1,167 meda ls-602 01 thl 'nl g(l ld . ;\nL! so too is a reason for a ce ll alll ' hll sti lc' atmo sp h e re th at e ll( a III p.""''> lIur tCdlllS att end ing th e event. Cuba h." m,'11 to extreme popul ar ity, probabl y belal"l ' IIH ~ i r teJ lns have a reasonable po '>s luilil y (II wedke ning that dominance. To man) "'HI p"rticul.nl y to Cuba, this is good. Cub" h." I hi , illteme desire to break th e United St alE'> 1,,,d'li'"I .. 1 domination of th e games. Whil!' nl"IlY /\lllerican .lth lptes see th e giHnes as a m!'1 I' p"'p.rr"t ory step towa rd Olympic goa ls (som!' 01 Ihl 'l11 do not scem them as anyt hing at all del lillillg opportunities to pa rti ci pate or not eVE'n pUllilig lorth d redl e ffort to try ... for va liou, """"11') iJut th e Cuban s see th em as a goal In 11" 'n,,,'l ve,> --.lIld a chance to assert their ne\'. Illln lill"ll lC in interndti o nal sports.

1 h!'I%U Ulvlnpi c site, Mex ico Ci ty, w ill be

Don Tonry, 1959

th E' hUllll' lor the VII Pan A m eri ca n Games of 1975. 'IIH' ulli ted ) tdtes O lyrn pic Comm ittee is spon,ulillg " lull national team of over 400 at hl( 'l l" who w ill p.trti c ipdt e competiti ve ly in 16 ,epirr"ll' ' porI'> ( I rd ck and Fi eld, Baseba ll , BOXi ng . 11."k"tiJ.t1I , Cyc ling, Equ es trian Sports, Felll III g. I il'ld Il ockcy, GYMNASTICS, Judo, Ro \'. Illg . ..,IHlolil l g. )occe r football, sw imming and DI\·lIl g. ~y ll Lhro niLed Swimming, Tennis, VolI!' ) l l.rli. W .. ter 1'0 10, Weightl ifting, WI E'>l llIlg, "'HI Ydchti ng). Each member wi ll haH' I hl ' di sl inct iu n and responsibi li ty of rep'I"l'lll lll g the U nited States wi th that palllllll.1I diplulndtic sk ill of at hleti c eXI ('1I1'IH I' . I we lve act ive members w ill be gymn" ' " "'HI it is lV ith them along with their (Odl hI " ,II Hlnl"ndgers that we should perhaps no\'. u(' ,hi,'l lv conLe rn ed. Beca use it is with th E'm 11,,, 1 WI ' h" VI? p laced th e task of exh ibiting wh;" , horr id 1)(, reslJec tcd-A meri ca n e li te ism.

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Wu Shou Te, double full

During the month of June, Ecuador was host to 16 premier gymnasts from the Popular Republic of China . Accompanied by their 3 trainers and 2 interpreters, they performed exhibitions in 10 Ecuadorian cities during their 3 week stay.

Quito, the capito l of Ecuador, was the sight of 4 of the ir best exhibitions. Each exhibition opened to an interesting group warm-up performed by the womens team, followed by womens vau ltin g.

The first run in vaulting included 3 nicely executed handspring-full twiste(s and the second run was highligbted by two Tsukaharas. All of their vaults were very powerful, with strong approaches, forceful repulsion and a ll retained near perfect form throughout.

Mens vaulting was started with a series of rapid-fire Yamashitas as a warm-up. The next two ru ns inclu'ded: several full twisting handspri ngs and Wu Shou Te 's 1'12 twisting handspring; several double fronts and three Tsukaharas (one piked). Again, I was impressed with the power of their arm repulsion off the hprse and with the height achieved in their double fronts and Tsukaharas. In the final exhibition, Tsai Huan Tsung executed a beautiful V2 in V2 out by finishing his Tsukahara with a V2 twist out.

Next came ri ngs, w here I was disappointed to see all of these heavi ly muscled Gymnasts perform crosses as their strength move. Still,

. they did a ll have n ice front and back straight arm giants, solid handstands and high, smooth dislocates. Some of their dismounts included : double twisters, including Yang Ming Ming 's 2V2 twister to an immediate sit-down; many velY high ,llld open double backs with one piked: <//lei of course fsai Huan Tsungs Y2 in - V2 ou!.

Balance beam routines were impressive, beautiful and fluid . They showed high leaps

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Tinsica tigna dismount

and kicks, solid handstands and interesting turns. Most a ll of the women did back walkover-back handspring, and three did high, solid aerial front walkovers. Dismounts included: Tinsica tignas; one back walkover -FF - back somie (without a pause); one gainer from the middle of the beam and several back handsprings - back somies.

High-Bar looked very good and had good variety. Releases included: full twist regrasps, high vau lts and beautiful Voronins. All the men showed smooth Russian giants and several had good Czech giants. Also, several executed c lean Sta ld er and Endo shoots. The dismounts includ ed several very high double fly-aways

Ming Mine and Chen Wei Min , synchronized tumbling

with one high piked double. Variations included two double fulls (both low and traveled excessively,) one full in - back out. And again , Tsai Huan Tsung' s '12 in - '12 out.

The uneven bar routines were quite impressive. Considering their stature, the girls worked the bars extremely wide. The ease with which they were able to cast to a handstand out of kips and circles helped in making their routin es look smooth and effortless. The routin es included various full twist regrasps, high front som ies between the bars to a high bar catch and lots of handstand pirouettes. Dismounts included several hechts with a full twi st over the low bar and one front hip circle

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layout· tuck· double flyaway

on the high bar. cast - front somie away from the high bar.

Th e parall el bar routines were powerful and so lid. Some high points included smooth rea r uprise - hop 'h tw ist to a handstand; several solid back tosses to handstands, a ni ce Diamidov by Chen Wei Min and two high double back d ismounts by Wu Shou Te and Tsai Huan Tsung.

The final 1S minutes of each exhibition brought an excellent display of fast diagonal tumblin g by the men and women. As in th eir floor exercise routines, tumbling was high and powerful but executed with immaculate form in a quiet and effortl ess manner. Although the

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Front aerial walkover

women lacked variety in their front tumbling, th e men were well balanced frontwards, sideways and backwards.

The tumbling started with continuou s cartwh eel - aerial cartwheels and then continuous front walkover - aerial front walk overs by the women. The men, after some basics, got things going with running front somie wa lkout - Round off - flip flop - back tuck. Th e other runs by the women included: front walkover - front handspring - front somi e; and Round off - flip flop - back somies in tu ck, pike, layout posi.tions and alternates or full twi sts. A lternating -with the women, th e men executed : continuous headspring - front

Chen Wei Min

somi es and handspring - front somie walkouts in a row. At this point, ' the men started synchroni zed tumbling. Starting two at a time with continuous dive roll - front somies, followed by round off - continuous side somies; continuous front somies and finally continuous round off - arabian walkout - round off - arabian wa lkou t - etc. They finished up the tumbling run s with : round off - flip flop - full ; front somie walkout - round off - flip flop -double full ; and lastly Wu Shou Te's round off­flip fl op - d9uble back and Tsai Juan Tsung's round off - double back - both of which we~e super high, opened early and stuck beautifully .

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Alexander Ditjatin Photo by Rupert l eser Bildberichter

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International Report

Dr. Joseph Gohler GYMNAST International Editor

Wurtzburg, Germany

Europe <I I this tim e of yea r, is in vacation quietm', .. . The German men 's gymnastic team had labored under strain in Montreal because o f stom,tch flu rece ived in Mexico's Tourn ee.

It was no ted that th e 19 yea r old star, Edgar Jorek . rCIll,tin ed f it , but he fell back fro m his norm,t! perforillance. The world of gymnastics did no t re.t ch i ts full stature in the M ontrea l competiti o n. It was ev idenced as fo llows:

a) 1 he ~<l s t Germans and Swiss came through with glo ry. bu t th e Cubans remij in remo te;

b) 1 hc J<lp<l nese women gymnasts did a routin e perl o rmJnce in th eir ow n class.

c) 1 he Russ ian women had th eir 5 top compl' litor, o n di splay and it was pleasing to . witll('ss th e ex t ens i ve n ess of th e ir deve loplllc nt.

d ) Hart Conner of USA had h is first inter nation.t! Ill<ltch and he was superb.

e) 1 h ree USA worn en gymnasts gave. a good prewnldtio n but we re no t recognized as the be,l .

f) Hung.try Jnd th e CSSR women gymnasts w ere evenly IllJtched in their competition.

g) 1 he women gyrnnasts of th e German Feder a I ion showed they had made much progre, ...

h) 1 hl' ROllldnian women gymnasts are the 1976 lavo rit es to w in the Silver M edal. it seems that Ihe sple llllid Eas t Germ an ladi es w ill give pial (' 10 I he younger Romanian girls.

In the competiti ve battl e in the youth gymnasti c meets o f the Eas t Block in Baia Mare, Ro m<rni,r . Ihe USSR showed their best, being commensurable ' in all the land of gymnastic, first the victo ry by th e boys and then th e girls rece ived th e recogniti o n. It was surprising that the Eas t German girls were o nl y 3rd behind the Romanian leJ Ill . Ve ry likely Comaneci and Ungurea nn were not at their best. Th e young boys Iraining i n Leipzig and East Berlin showed quite ,t sp re<ld in rank difference - 277.35 to 269.40.

How badly ' we re th e Japanese Juniors bea ll'n ! M orc thJn was expected! Only one male, RomJnian, Cziliar, and one female Romani <r n, Constantin were abl e to penetrate th e ph,rldll X by the USSR new Elite! Surpri singl y w eak were the Cuban junio rs. Here are the impor tant results:

Junior Boys Junior Women 1. USSR 277.35 1. USS R . 187.40 2. Ea st Ge rm,II1Y 269.40 2. Ro man ia 185.55 3. Hunga ry 263.70 3. DDR 183.75 4. Po land 261.55 4. HungJry 180.65 5. CSSR 261.25 9. Cuba 172.30 8. Cuba 253.55

Individual Results Junior Boys Junior Girls

1. Kulabikow (USS R) 56.25 1. Go rbi k (U~SR ) 38.15 2. Markp low (USSR) 55.25 2. Comt" nt in (Ro m 37.60 3. Krassin (USSR) 55.15 3. Fi la rowa (USSR) 37.50 4. Lass in (U~~R) 54.50 4. Gabor ,U~~R ) 37.30 5. Cz il i(,1 ,Ro m.! ni .t) 54.25 5. Se le nko (USS R) 37.25 5. Sa lul in ,USSR) 54.25 6. Pan iti ,Rom.t ni .t) 37.20

6. Primak ,USSR) 37.20

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Lydia Gorbik Photo by Richard Endo

The 18 year o ld Ku laks isow won; at th e Spartiakade, the League of Nations in Leningrad, he fin ished behind Kli menko.

Gorbik in her wo rld class has already proven herse lf a winner, as we ll as Constantin and Paniti.

On Jul y 7-9 in Havana,Cuba, the II Yorneco Int ernaction,1i d e Gimnastica was presented. The partic ipdnts at this " Monc ada" were from Ea st Germdn y, Hungary, CSSR, Spain, Mexico, Venezue l,t. rhe largest number were from Cuba ibe lf. rhere was such stri ct evaluation t hat finall y on ly nine participants remained . The DDR women gym nasts were compa red alike to th e OOR m en gymnasts.

Escher' s performance produced a (36.80); Di egu in W,I S better and the over all winner, Jensch , was (54.U5) for the Juniors. Cubas "A" squad team were not in th eir best form.

Th e six bes t individuals: Men

1. je",(h (OOK ) 2. Romnebeurg (LJLJK ) 3. tmre Banrev i (Hungary) 4. Cuervo (Cubd ) 5. Richard , (CUbd) 6. Lau ter (Hung"'y)

Women 1. Escher (OOK ) 2. Cernohou, ovd (CSSK) 2. Pohludkov" (CSSK) 4. Cerlad, (OLJR) 5. C. Nagy (Hung"'y) 5. Bi zd rovd (CSSK) The besl CuL""1 (wolllan) 7. Cruzala ,11HI S,lIl chez (each)

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54.85 54.35 54.30 54.15 54.00 52.75

36.80 36.30 36.30 36.20 35.80 35.80

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Afterwards was yet the momentous outcome in Leningrad. Oitjatin surprised (in the men 's compe titi on ) with a victory 111 .10 over Klimenko (109.70) and Ka li mo (109.50) and won al so the final competition with 111 .15 from Klim enko 110.575 and the yo ung gymnast Kulabikow, scoring 110.20, 110.275 which was a sensation. Ily the (woman) gymnasts ' position Lu dmill.l I uri scheva was in front, w ith 38.15 again;! ::IU.05 fro m O lga Korbu t and 37.95 from Elvilil )""d i. But then in the optional s the advantage w ent to Nelli e Kim and Olga Korbut. So that in end th e fina l outcome was: 1. Olga Korbut 76.95 ; 2. Nel li Kim 76.25; 3. Ludmilla Turi scheva 76.20. Ludmilla was easily vu lnerable in the course (of competit ion ) and also by final competition, Nelli Kim on second spot and now stands as so: 1. Nelli Kim an d O lga Korbut each 76.825; 3. Ludmill a Turischeva 76.400: 4. LidiJ Gorb ik 75.875; 5. Elv ira Saadi 75.400 ; 6. Ljubov Bogdanova 74.875; 7. Bit sch ukind 74.U50.

The newest from Japa n: The East Japan high schoo l competitors compared on a large scale with Kaji ydma (56.45) the horizontal bar artist Kume (54.65) Maeyama (54.55) and T. Taira (54.55 ). The leading compet itor of last yea r was Gushikan with 54. 25 (fifth). On the pommel horse he hold 9.40 just as good as Kaj iyama . Kaji yama bec,lIne the Japan ese high school champion in suprem e styl e. He was ab le to overcome ShinLu in opt iona l exercises easily even thou gh Sh inzu was close to him after compubori es 55.60 to 55 .80. Kaj iyama was clear winne r 112.45 to 110.40. 3. Mikami 1101.0; 4.

Kuma 109.35 ; 5. Maeyama 108.80; 6. Senda 108.10. 1 he difference from fi rst to sixth was surprising ly big! With the women students th ere were m.IIlY good o nes, however very few excellent o nes and very few except ional ro utines. Ndkdmura won w ith 37.20 in the East Japan ese Chdmpionships over R. Sakura 36.65 , K. M<lno won th e high schoo l compet ition with 73.75 "h e"d o f Y. Nakamoto 73.05 and R. Yo shida 72.95. More d efeated were th e leading high schoo l girl s in compet ition, August 6-8, a week belore the high school competition had m et. Usui , N ishiza wa, Takagi who were the tal ent with 73 .30 - 73.25 and 72.95 points. The eight competition batt le provided twenty (wom en) stud ents and 14. high schoo l (women) stud ents with 70 ove ra ll points. Th ey ' re viewed for Montreal, 110 better than seventh place . And which t,li ent rega rded th em by the high sch oo l ! I . Ilerdt e, first, (1 10.55) Yamawaki, second enO.15) o r Seki , third (109.7), Tomura, fourth (109.45) o r not fifth; E. Matsumoto aft erwards being info rmed, 53 .55 performance (vaulting 7.40!).

Th e course of the best gymnast and with 55 .75 certain a certai n internat iona l performance from w ith in Messanger Hirata had in th e co urse on ly 54.60 w ho with him Yamawaki .lIld Seki w itli each 54.65 sca rcely making it. Are th e Japan students not as strong as th e Ru ss idn juniors? obody can real ly say becau se in Japan the exams are very strict also at th e high schoo l leve l. '

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Artist Milan Med in his studio in Prague in 1966

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REPORT FROM PRAGUE Prague had an art exhibition held at the Apantabiada Pavilion

of Arts. On exhibition was your editor's long time friend Milan Med with his paintings and pastels . On hand , to see this exhibition was a travelling gymnastics club from Edmonton, Alberta , Canada.

Milan's wife Vera Medova has begun a gymnastics club for 4·5 year old girls . They come in three times a week . Vera is taking great pains in training these " Junior Gymnasts" in precise mechanical principles.

She is specializing, starting with tumbling and dance, in one event at a time. They have been in this tumbling phase for one year. Vera states that they have progressed ten years in one. Next event · Balance Beam then Vaulting, and last Bars.

Mr. Med 's latest works on display at the Spantabiada Pavillion of Art, Prague .

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Denise Walker

The ant icipation of v isit ing Israe l at this point in time ca n cause a few moments of anxiety in the heM" of men, and needless to say pract ically all newcomers present o n our flight appea red to be the sli ghtest b it apprehensive, As we debarked at LOD Internat iona l Airport in Tel-Aviv we were immed iate lY confronted w ith a secur ity blank et of sold iers who ca rried Uzi machine guns that proved to be eve r prese nt th rough-out th e rem ainder of our stay, We very quit kl y It),t our fear and anx iety, and began to enjoy this most bea uti ful and hi stor ic country, knowing that we we re being verY closely protected against the ominous terrorist act ivit ies,

The Israe li peop le and the admin istrators of the Hapoe l games we re the most gracious hosts wit h red ca rpet treatment the o rd er of th e day,

The Hapoel Ga mes are conducted every fo ur yea rs by the Labo r party of Israe l. They emp lo y the Olym pic format in hosting fr iendly nations in competitive and exhibit ion sporting act iv iti es,

The Uni ted States was re legated to performin g gymnasti cs ex hibitions since it was

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quite apparent that we wou ld ha ve been much too , II ong lor mus t of the countries present. 1hu" o ur entire tr ip was a most relaxing expel ic'n("(' wi th li terall y no pressures, many days of pleasant work-out situat ions and time for ho urs of sunshine and swimming o n th e Mediterranean, Th iS was perhaps o ne o f th e few times in ou r lives that we cou ld go to bed at n ight and kn ow th at the next morning we wo uld ari se to a tota l day of cloudless, sunshi ne fill ed skies and warm temperatures, It never ra ined !

Th e ex hibit ions in Tel -Aviv and Haifa were enthusa iast ica lly at ten ded by large audiences and a capt ivated telev ision fo ll owing of three milli on people, It is interesti ng to note th at there is only o ne telev ision channe l in all of Israe l w hi ch is viewed in eve ry home, business es tablishment and Kibbutz by an avid populace,

The four member team representing th e United States consis ted of th e ve teran Jim Culh~ ne w ho performed in five events, Sam Schu h of Southern Connect icut State Co ll ege w ho wowed them w ith hi s doub le back in pike

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position on floo r ex" Cole Dowa liby the 1975 Women's Co ll egiate Champion w ith stunning balalll C' 1H'.r11l ,ln J fluor exercise rout ines, very ably (hor( '()gr.rph eJ by M uriel Gorssfeld , and a surp ri sing ly charisma tic fifteen yea r o ld Denise Wa lker o f Lowe ll , Massachusetts, Deni se ve ry quickl y wo n th e acc laim of the Israeli people as she performed w ith start li ng aplomb both in the ex hibiti on arenas and on th e nat iona l scene, Once Deni se's fl oo r exercise was viewed by some 9,000 peop le in th e Tel-Aviv arena and a nati o n.!1 telev ision aud ience, she had arri ved as the I,,'.r eli's hero ine, an insta nt symbo l of all that is goud frum the United States,

It was quite apparent that larger groups were appea ring at Wi ngate Universit y Gymnasium to view our work-out sessions and of course all eyes were trained o n Deni se, As th e groups bega n to swell int·o large audiences it beca me obvious that we would have to grant a special question and answer interview and impromptu c li n ic high lighti ng o f course, Denise Walk er, Once again Den ise p erformed with great confidence and compl etely won over her vas t fo ll owing.

The Uni ted States tea m, coached by Ed Kn epper, proved to be a va luab le asset to America at a time w hen diploma ti c relations wei e in.r rdther telluou s position , Thus, it is felt, th at through th e efforts of th is small contingc'lll. .I rewa rdin g friendship has been ref UI u;, I1('<I.

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Olga Koval

'75 PRE-OLYMPICS REVISITED International gymnastics came to Montreal in a big way this July , and from all appearances it would seem that the city

will be more than ready to welcome the Olympics next July . Billed as a "pre· Olympic" competition , one among many organized for amateur sports included in the Olympics during

1975, the Montreal International Gymnastic Competition was designed to provide experience for the organizers of Olympic '76 in running the crown jewel of gymnastics meets here next year. Never before have so many top gymnasts attended a meet in Canada, and the experience is not one which will easily be forgotten by the 15,000 spectators.

The star· studded cast included Mitsuo Tsukahara of Japan , Eberhard Gienger of West Germany, Nadia Comaneci of Romania , and Nelli Kim of the U.S.S.R. The most satisfying surprise of this competition for Canadian gymnastics enthusiasts , however, was the stunning performance put in by Philip Delesalle , a fifteen year old native of Vancouver, B.C., on Pommel Horse. Delesalle just narrowly missed winning gold in this event, and drew a standing ovation from the crowd.

Photos and text by Chris Woods. Results for '75 Pre-Olympics can be found in the September '75 issue of GYMNAST. GYMNAST Nov.

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Canadian Gymnasts Masaaki Naosaki (12th All-Around) and Philip Delesalle (2nd I'ommel Horse)

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VAULTING: THE SQUAT FliGHT VAULT As required by: the description and the table

of deduction By Fritz Reiter; Coach

"Gymnastics Olympica" . Van Nuys, California

Gymnastics has been following - like most other aspects of life - the ANTI HERO SYNDROM. The days when grain was seperated from weed, where the most talented or the hardest workers were rewarded seem to be counted. We seem to do everything - just like society - to protect the weak or mediocre, EVEN if it means penalizing the strong. The thought comes to mind: why work hard? Or, why compete in the age group program? Why learn a SQUAT FLIGHT VAULT?

The. requirements to ' accomplish this new vault have littl e if not nothing at ~II to do with what the gymnast will need to do a handspring with . Doing the SQUAT FLiGHT VAULT will hold the talented beginners back in their progression towards the ELITE I~vel ; it will put them back into the anonymous crowd.

If learning to VAULT starts with a SQUAT FLIGHT VAULT then let's go right ahead. If, on the other hand, learn ing to VAULT starts with HURDLE PRACTICE and REPULSION DRILLS or with improving your RUN and your LANDING, then we are in trouble!

Because in order to compete successfully on the -Beginner level one MUST do everything to avoid SPEED, yet leave great PRE & AFTER FLIGHT without flying to,o high; avoid ROTATION to get power for the REPULSION, ­so the feet don 't fly too high again - but have so much REPULSION that you can leave your body stretched and extended at the height of the horse during the OFF FLIGHT. Of course the 'v'ault must fly a great distance as well.

Why be a beginner gymnasts? What is a beginner gymnast? Someone who cannot do gymnasti cs? Someone who does not want to spend the time and effo rt to improve? Someone who just started iii gymnastics and wants to learn? It is obvious that all of the above mentioned categories fa ll under the label BEGINNER gymnast. So then, who should a COMPULSORY VAULT or ROUTINE serve? I'd say - ALL OF THEM - and you will probably agree!

But does the SQUAT FLIGHT VAULT serve ALL OF THEM?? I' d say - NO.

Can we judge the best or better from the average? (But doesn ' t the ANTI HERO SYNDROM dictate that everybody is equal?) Be patient my friend on the Olympic leve l and in the GAMES it w ill be better. There the HERO SYNDROM exists. Too bad on ly that the heroes must be born behind the IRON cu rtain; and too bad that you won ' t be better than those gymnasts because you weren ' t trained to be the best - - THEY WERE.

But of course I forgot - COMPETITION is not important! Just enjoy doing gymnastics!

What? You want to compete, but why? You want to measure you rself with others? But why? Ah-h-h- you want to be a HERO!! (Back to class III - there are no heroes!!!)

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Now, let's take a look at what is likely to happen wh en doing a SQUAT FLIGHT VAULT.

Under the Title: " General Compulsory Vaulting Deductions", it stresses the importance of PREFLIGHT 0.1 a VAU LT by saying that the vault be scored zero if the vaulter is assisted by a spotter during the ON-FLIGHT. (Inc idcllt,dly there is no mention of a similar rule for the " OFF FLIGHT.")

This says that the kind of PRE-FLIGHT one applies is important to the execution of the va ult; the AFT~R FLIGHT is much the result of the PRE-FLIGHT.

The ENERGY to do a vault must be generated by.the vaulter herself.

To LIMIT during the PRE-FLIGHT phase is to limit the OUTCOME . . (The ANTI /"iERO SYNDROM ca lls it - to put it into the reach of many).

Later under the "TABLE OF DEDUCTIONS" it penali zes the gymnast if she has too much ENERGY so that her body flies too high, because she is really not sLipposed to be a better vaulter.

Interesiing ly enough, under the same Table of Deductions she will also be penalized if s.he has INSUFFICIENT FLIGHT between the board and the hand placement.

If you FLY - it's bad, but if you don't FLY it's bad too ... what are we gonna do?

To confuse matters a little more she will loose: UP TO 0.5 pt. if her body is AT the horizonl ,d (!!!how can we loose UP TO "At" anyone p.ll'ticulJr point - the gymnast is either AT horizolltJI or not!!!) . Under REPULSION it is required to place the hands on top of the horse. With the body being below hori zonta l how is the gymnast going to "PUSH OFF" as required . She is also not allowed to PULL (since it would look too much like a " LATE PUSH OFF" for which she would also bl;'! deducted).

NO PUSH possible - NO PULL allowed - but if you don 't raise in the "OFF FLIGHT" you loose points aga in.

Under " OFF FLIGHT" we notice the elimination of the word " AFTER FLIGHT" maybe because there will be no AFTER

. FLGI HTS? "OFF FLIGHT" merely means that the vaulter wi ll fly OFF the horse. There are no requirements of an arch-like trajectory (flight patt ern) .

Then, how can we deduct .lor lack of body rise (I mean the raise of the center of gravity and not the head) if we call it OFF FLIGHT??

Further how can there be a compl!'!te lack of OFF FLIGHT (for which the gymnast looses 2.00 pts.)? Does it not make sense thatif there is no OFF FLIGHT at all there is no SQUAT FLIGHT VAULT and therefore the vau lt should be VOID.

The "AFTER FLIGHT" would always be insufficient if there is no culmination point or arch like fli ght. But with an OFF FLIGHT

requirement we don ' t 'leed tq do an AFTER FLIGHT but why dpes the body have to raise??

Under " General Balance and land ing" there is an up to 1.00 pt. deduction for poor balance of the flights of the vault. Can there be a BALI .NCE of the FLIGHTS if the ON FLIGHT must b.e low and the OFF FLIGHT high. The ~ords ON and OFF certain ly would allow for a BALANCE but the description and the table of deductions do not allow for . Is there an UNEVEN BALANCE??

I wonder if this is not going to confu se many of our good .judges? DOUBLE DEDUCTIONS: here are some cl~ssical examples:

Under " GENERAL BALANCE" (height and extension) the va ulter can loose up to 0.5 pt.

Under " REPULSTION" (failure to raise - a form of lack of extension) the vaul ter ca n loose up to 0.5 pt.

Under POSITION and STRETCH of the body (also a form of lack of extens ion) the vaulter may loose up to 1.00 pt. for insufficient extension of the body :

Under ON FLIGHT (body bent too soon during the pre flight I a form of lack of extension) up to 0.5 pt.

After all this cr itique I would like to offer what I think a more sensible "Table of Deduciiori ," that follows the basic outline of the existing but attempts to avoid impossibilities or double deductions.

It also would allow the better gymnast to seperate themselves from the average participant. I think!!!

A More Sensible T ABLE OF DEDUCTIONS

ON FLIGHT (Pre f light) Insufficient flight between board &. horse Body .bent too soon during pre flight Shoulder; ahead of hands at moment of contact REPULSION F.ailure of body to rise after push off Body resting on horse Arms slightly bent during support phase Hands leaving horse too late Alternate hand placement OFF FLIGHT (Afteflight)

2.0 pts. 0.5 pts. 0.5 pts.

2.0 pts. void

0.5 pts. 0.5 pts. 0.5 pts.

Insufficient afterflight 2.0 pts. Insufficient extensioh of body before landing1.0 pts. Complete lack of extension 2.0 pts. Toes flexed as they pass over the horse 0.2 pIs. legs slightly apart 0.2 pts. DIRKTION OF V AUL T & GENERAL IMPRESSION Poor direction of entire vau lt poor direction of one of the flights speed and dynamics of flights general impression LANDING

0.5 pts. 0.3 Pts. 0.5 pts. 0.3 pts.

la~ding heavy 0.2 pts. landing out of balance 0.3 pts. One step 0.2 Pts. Two or more steps 0.3 pts. landing out of control 0.5 pts. Support of one or both hands 1.0 pts . Touch of one or both hands 0.5 pis. Fall on knees after landing 0.5 pts. Fallon hips after landing 1.0 pts. Fall with support of body aga inst the horse O.~ pts. Coach or spotter between board and horse 1.0 pts. Aid of coach ur spotter during preflight void Aid of coach or spotter during landing 2.0 p~s .

These new Compu lso ry routines will be with us for the next four years. Let 's take a close iook and be strong enough to accept cr itique that tries to be cons tru ctive.

Maybe we could also do something to improve. For the COUNTRY's sake. . Good luck to everybody with the SQUAT

FLIGHT VAULT. We are all in this iogether, the gymnast , the coaches, and the judges.

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WATANABE COACHES

CLINIC TRAINING SCHEDULES

By Tom Gardner

,(1bis is the second in a series of articles drawn from information given at a coaches c Enic by Mr. Masayuki Watanabe in June, 1975.)

As anoth er competitive season approaches, g~mnaits and coac hes should be co ncerning them selves with th o ughts of how they can best p ep~ 11' for the coming season . The most sys teJTllti c way in w hich a serious gymnast does this is with the use o f different types of training sc hed ules detailing the type of exercise needed at: a p art icular tim e. These schedules include dci ily t ra ining schedules, daily time schedules, and long-range training schedules. Their main pu rposes are to help the gymnast develop a pl an for improvem ent and to assure the gy mnait th at he is correctly prepared for sp ecif ic competitions. The schedules further pr ovide the gymnast with specific goals that he lp f ace him to be constantly evaluating his pr ogress toward these goals.

First of all , th ere should be a daily pattern to on e's tra ining. This pattern should include a light morn ing training session, the normal in l ensi ve afternoon training session , and an ev eni n g eva luation cif the days activity. This Wipe a fdail y pattern not only routinizes one's tra inin g. developin g good training habits, but also spreads one's activity over the entire day so th at the body has time to recover between sess ions.

The morning exercise period should be preferrabl y befo re breakfast, but certainly before dai ly activ iti es such as work or school. Th e purpose o f this exercise is to prepare th e body for th e day and to help facilitate warming up fo r the afternoon work out, leaving more tim e for specifi c training. This session should be primarily running and stretching. A run of from yz mile to 3/4 mile is quite sufficient; just enough to lightly wa rm up the entire body. Then all pa rt s oft he body should be stretched to their in ~x imum range of motion.

Besides th e running and stretching, which should be the main emphasis, several exercises using large mu sc le groups (e.g., whole body tig hten ers) and a few using small muscle groups le.g., handstand push-ups) can be done. These ex erci ses depend upon the individual , with hi s individual weak nesses taken into account. Aga in , some strength exercises in the morning [a n he lp spread out the many daily exercises need ed for the development of good gy mnastics.

One important co nsideration is that one should not make this morning exercise a itr enuous training session. All the exercise should be re lati ve ly light and the work out time should range from Vl hour to an hour. In thi s way. th e bod y is rea dy for the day, but not fatigued.

Obviously included in the daily pattern of ~il ining is a main wo rk out time, usually in th e afiernoon , consisting of 3 to 5 hours of intensive tra.ining. It is during this time when the major po rti on of one's dail y exercise takes place. Spec ifi c sch eduling d etaifs of this work out tim e wi l l be dea lt w ith later.

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Probably th e most important, the most frequently incompleted aspect of the daily patte rn is th e eva fu ation of the days activity. This eva luati on, which should be in written form . should report on things accomplished during the da y. It should also contain specific goa ls for the following days training, based on specific weakn esses . The gymnast should try to rea li ze hi s weaknesses and plan to help correct th ose wea kn esses. This daily evaluation helps keep the gymnas t aware of his problems so that improvement ca n be most rapid . With the eva luation in w ritten form one can constantly refer ba ck to pas t experiences and help organize his approac h for future training.

Th e main dail y training session should cover all events every day. The everits should be set to a time schedule, the time on each event depending upon th e purpose of that particular work out. It seems that there are two different purposes fo r a work out: either learning new skill s o r refinin g skill s learned. Wheh a young gymnast is lea rning new skills or new combinations many repetitions are often needed, with a good effort at each turn . Therefore, th e time devoted to the firs t three events ca n be longe r than the second three, with the order of th e events being reversed the nex t day . With higher level gymnasts, where skill s are being more refined, the gymnast att empts to emphasize good form and technique with every turn on the apparatus. Less turns are taken on each apparatus, and the time period o n each event is very close to being the sa me. Immediately prior to an important competition this " refining" work out can be fu rt her develo ped w here a minimum number o f turns are taken and the time on each event is cut down to a bare minimum. Typical time schedules for each type of work out could be as foll ows:

LEARNING 3:00-3:15 W."m·up 3:15-4:00 I loor exercise 4:00-4:35 )ide horse 4:35:5:10 Rings 5:10-5:30 V"uliing 5:30-&:00 1'.1I·.dlel ba rs 6:00-&:30 Hori lOnlal bar 6:30-&:45 ) lrenglh Total time: 3 hours 45 minutes

REFINING 3:00-3:15 W .... m-up 3:15-3:50 1·loor exercise 3:50-4:20 )ide horse 4:20-4:50 Ring' 4:50-5:10 V"uli ing 5:10-5:40 l'"r" lI e1 b",s 5:40-&:10 Ho ri !.onl ,, 1 ba r 6:10-&:25 ) Irenglh Total tim .. : 3 hours 25 minut .. s

REFINING (COMPETITION) 3:00-3:15 Wdf lll -UP 3:15-3:35 Iloor exercise 3:35-3:55 ) id e horse 3:55-4:15 Ring' 4:15-4:30 V.,u li ing 4:30-4:50 1'."." II e1 bdfs 4:50-5:00 Ho ri l.O llial ba r Total tim .. : 1 hours to minutes

Wh ether th e gymnast is engaged in learning or ref ining types o f wo rkouts there should be a w eekly pattern fo r t hese afternoon session s. In general. two days o f heavy exercise should be followed by a day o f lighter exercise, follOWing the typi ca l co mpulsory/ optional competition patt ern. During th ese " light" days the gymnast has a shorter work o ut time and can emphasize weaknesses that occur in his gymnastics. These da ys ca n be used to return to basic movements on selected apparatus, to practice transition movements in floor exercise, and to generally recove r from th e previous days strenuous acti v ity. A typical weekly schedule could be as follows:

Monday - H.m!. (Rou li nes. lo ng sequences ) Tuesday - H .... , !. Wednesday - Lighl. (Correc lio ns. no routines) Thursday - H.m!. (Ko ulines. lo ng sequences) Friday - HMd . Saiurday - Li ghl. (Basics)

. Sunday - R, ·,I.

Thi s weekly pattern can change, however, depending upon the particular competitive goal. If, for exa mple as in the N.C.A.A. championships, there are team and individual fin als, the gymnast must be prepared to do routines 3 days in a ro w. Therefore, in this situati on th e pattern a few weeks before these competiti ons should contain 3 hard work out days fo llowed by a lighter day.

Besides having daily and weekly patterns of training there sh o uld be a long-range pattern covering th e entire year. The specifics of this patte rn depend upon the competitive season . Ultimate ly it becomes apparent that the long range schedule depends upon the competitive season and th at the short range schedules in turn are dependent upon the long range schedule. The iong range schedule can be div ided into four periods: 1) Ithe preparation period , 2) the competitive season , 3) a re$t pe riod , and 4) th e o ff- season period .

Th e preparation period is the time several months prior to the competitive season and is a time when the gymnast is attempting to prepare himself for the coming season. It is during this period when thel gymnast is building up from single stunts to sequences of stunt s and eventually to his first routines of th e yea r. Th e gymnast is attempting to finaiize the stunt s th at he will be using in his optional routin es and to perfect the stunts that are included in the compulsory routines. The " lea rnin g" type of work out prevails during this period. A typical schedule for this period wo uld be as fo ll ows:

Four we('ks - L" dfning co mpul sory and o ptional stunl ;. Three w('('ks - [Joil )g seq uences (1 / 3 ro utines) . Two weeks - Uoillg I J routines. Two w .... ks - [Joillg 1, 10 fu ll rout ines. Two weeks - [Jo ing fuJI rou tin es o nly.

One sho uld rem ember that the process for building up from single stunts to routines takes several months and one that should not be ru shed into.

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Aft er one has trained himself sufficiently to be able to do a rout ine on each event then he is usually rea dy to begin the competitive period of the sched ule, with " refining" work outs being th e majority. This is the period where the endurance and strength that the gymnast already has is improved upon and final polishing of routin es is accomplished. During this. period one shou ld oscillate between "qualit y" and " quantity" work outs. " Quantity " work outs are those where one repeats sequences or routines many times. The purpose is to build up maximum endurance, strength and body control. When " quality" is stressed, one should atternpt to use abso lutely the best form and technique, simulating a competition situat ion as much as possible. During thi s competit ive period a pattern shou ld be established where one does quantity workout s for several weeks followed by a few days of qua lity work outs, contin uing thi s throughout the competit ive period.

It is al so during this period in which the gymnasts should consider the concept of " peaking " of which there are both psycho logica l and physical aspects involved. In general , th e physical aspects can be controlled by using the correct schedule. Several weeks before an im portant competition many routin es should be done in order to build up endurance. The maximum number of routin es per event depends on the level of the gymnast. Very adva nced gymnasts can accomplish 2 to 3 per event , but top level international gymnasts can do 5 to 6 per event. This period shou ld last for approc imately 1 V2 weeks. In the last week prior to th e competit ion the number of routines should be reduced, with each routine done to the best of one's abi lity. All corrections of routines should be of high quality also. The empha sis now becomes more mental pressure than ph ys ical. Examples of the types of work outs lead ing up to an important competition would be as fo ll ows:

Three weeks prior: seve ral cornpu lsory and opt iona l routinE' ~ P('!" ('ve llt. One w('ek prior : lewer cornpulsory and optional routjn f'~ ~ Ir( · ...... ill g qUJlit y. Four days prior: '1l1dlit y compulsory routines. Three days prior: 4Udlit y opt iona l routines. Two da ys prior: lig ht wo rk out with quality corrections of roulm(· ... . One day prior: (lI1 l> 4Udlit y cornpu lsory routine per event .

Perhaps more important but unfortunately more difficult to cont rol are the psychological aspects in vo lved in peaking. It is generally recognized that an al l around gymnast cannot compete every week and consistently maintain good quali ty competitions. It is very difficult to be mentally fresh if he must compete each week . Therefore, each meet shou ld be at least 2 weeks apart and major competitions a month apart. If competit ions are less than 2 weeks apart the gymnast begins to depend upon a meet at the end of each week. Then he is using hi s maximum effort just one time per week. But if he needn't be concerned with competing each week then he can put his maximum effort in pra ctice during that week and consequently become more consistent. If one maximizes his effort during work outs he can learn to compete in any situation with quality. Also, learn ing takes p lace faster with more effo rt during work o uts.

Further, as an example, if a gymnast is training for a specific compet ition and needs to accompli sh 2 rout ines on a pariicular event, then he should try his utmost to successfully

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compl ete those routines to the best of hi s abilit y. If he mi sses a routine this often reflects some type o f mental weakness and he should be as upset as he wou ld if he were in an actual competitioil . One needs a maximum effort throughout the whole routine. Even i f a mi sta ke occurs early in a routine, the gymnast should neve r relax , but comp lete the rest of th e routin e to the best of his abi lity. But training such as thi s takes a great deal of mental effort and thi s effort cannot usually be sustained for lon g periods o f time. The lack oi man y competitions is therefore a major factor in developing a peak . Too many smal ler peaks can dull a large one.

Nea rl y as important as hard training periods is some sort of rest period during the year. Thi s period typi ca ll y follows major competitions. But the res t period shou ld not be a total abse nce from gymnastics. It shou ld be mainly a m ental rela xa tion . Menta l relaxation is of major importance . After a major compet ition, th e gymnast 's physica l cond iti on is usuall y very good . Witli a relaxed mental attitude one can " pla y " at gymnastics and yet work physicall y hard without knowing it. The amount of time for thi s period would have to depend upon th e indiv idual gymnast and the specif ic situation in whi ch he is invo lved.

Somewhat related to and sometimes con current with the rest period is the off ­sea son peri od of training. This is the tim e between th e last competition of the yea r and the preparati o n period forthe next season . Thi s tm e ca n be less organized, witl-t less specifi c goa ls than during the other periods in the year, and ye t it should have a definite plan prevailing thro ughout. This can be an important period fo r returning to basic movements and correcting bad hab its. It can also be used to learn new stunts and focus on specific strengths that take a long time to develop. Again though , thi s period should not be wasted by simply maintaining o ne 's present condition , but should ge a time to further develop one's gymnasti cs .

Th e off-season ca n, however, be a very difficult tim e to train consistent ly. The competiti ve season, rather than being a concrete , close-range goa l, is several months in the future. During this period, the gymnast is not training fo r next weeks ·competition, but for nex t yea rs. Therefore, using compet ition as the motivational factor in training shou ld be discouraged. If one uses compet ition as the reason for training then it is very difficult to motivate oneself to train ser iously during th e off-season. Every gymnast knows that competition is the ultimate goal of anyon es training. However, the true ultimate goal should be one of trying to perfect movement. If on e perfec ts his movements, then in a particular competition he is going to be the best.

We ha ve seen then that certain types of schedules are needed for different parts of the day, the w eek, and the year. These schedules shou ld be ca refully thought out for each indiv idual so that they are realistic. If they are not realisti c, one is defeating their purpose. But one may ask: exactly what is the purpose of schedules such as these? The idea is this: in order to develop as a gymnast in the most organized, and therefore the most rapid , manner, the gymnast needs a very orga nized plan - a p lan that is being constant ly evaluated so that weaknesses cannot ever develop. Only with an organized approach such as this can the gymnast be abl e to realize his total gymnastics potentia l.

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Pommel horse is simultaneously the easiest event to plan drills for and the event in which technicall y co rrec t execution is most difficult to obtain. It is easy for this reason: horse essentially consists of two types of scissors and two types of circle - front and back scissors and fl at circles and " loop " toe circles. Virtually every move on horse is merely a combination of these moves, though perhaps done in a peculiar position.

It is difficult because it is the only event in which a highly inefficient learning process seems almost unavoidable. It is our view that -each move sho uld be lea rned correctly from the start. However on horse, the most basic moves ca nnot as a rule be lea rned correctly from the sta rt. Instea d, we must try to gradually change from very poor, to poor, fair, sati sfa ctory, on up. It is well known that this will leave the ath lete with remnants of faulty techn iques as he matures. The total program must be designed to minimize the amount of remnants he carri es with him.

It would be ideal if by some mechanical aid , w e could make a man do his first circle in precise ly the correct way, and could embed the feeling of correc t technique in his mind before he tried a single circle by himself. Though mechanica l aids have been invented for thi s purpose by such highly innovative teachers as Charlie Pond (University of Illinois, now Rocky Mountain School near Salt Lake), these devi ces have not proved entirely satisfactory. It is o ur view that the best solution is to work on the basic moves w ith no attempt to do more advanced ski lls, until the basics are thoroughl y mastered. Moreove r we believe that the li st of first leve l moves should consist of single leg work with pendulum swing as well as double leg ci rc les. We believe that the execution of circles on each part of the horse is improved by work done on the other parts of the horse. So, as soon as practical we believe the performer should be encouraged to work them in three standard positio ns, on pommels, " uphill " and " downhill " .

It may be well to give a warning: the horse does not grow wi th the growth of the gymnast, and even the now common "school model " of horse is of the same size and shape and hence has the sa me problems as the competitive model. The competitive horse is entirely unsat isfactory for a man not yet near 5 feet tall. Thus for the very young athlete, it may be best to do almost no work on horse. If the boy has considerable growth, he may to advantage work at junior high school age. But still, he will have much relearning to do as years pass, and this relearning is often terribly discouraging.

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POMMEL HORSE DRILLS: Scissors Training

By H.J. Biesterfeldt

Learning these basic moves is not a many year project, though unlike other events, we expect to see conti nued improvement in even the most ba sic moves even after ten years of training. Because these parts will show continued improvement, the drills that follow have proven useful both for near beginners and for National Champions. The drills should be done regularly (several times daily) even by very capab le gym nasts. They can profitably be the only workout for the intermediate performer. And the beginner can look toward mastery of the parts so that he can efficiently train using these drills as his first serious objective on this event.

Our basic drills cover the following : 1) Front Scissors, 2) Back Scissors, 3) Double Leg Circles + Travel + Loop, 4) Circles + Moores + Kehrs ..

Drill groups 3 and 4 will appear in a later article. We have included with the drills detailed explanat ions of just what"we want to accomplish by doing them. It is to no avail if the gymnast does the drills but while doing so empha sizes the wrong things. These are intended to help avoid forming bad habits . Coach and performer must keep this in mind so that there does not develop a competition to "do" the drills at the cost of doing them well.

FRONT SCISSORS DRILL

In order to save space, the photo sequence is not of the fu ll drill as usually done. Therefo re

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we h,) ve used a code for repetitions. The symbo l :: is used to de note repeti tion reversed , i.e. , done to the opposite side, in addition to the repetition o f the entire (double) group. The " long form " is indicated by the solid arrow, the "short form " by the - - - arrow.

We recomme nd that the beginner work on the cut group by itse lf until he is proficient at it. Each time o n apparatus he should work without stopping for 30 secon ds. The cut group when done by itse lf must be alternately started with preliminary cut to left as shown, and entirely reve rsed.

After maste ry of the cut group, the false sc issor should be added. This is not a single leg circl e, but rather is done with the same pendulum swing used for the rest of the cuts. Do not proceed to the scissors until the false sc isso rs can be inc luded in the long sequence, and the entire long sequence can be executed without the scissors fo r the full three repetitions without stopping. At this point the performer sho uld first be allowed to try front sci sso rs. Since the false scissors is a very close copy 6f th e sc issors, he will learn very quickly, and since he has practiced the drill with equal empha sis on both sides, he will learn both scissors at the same time and with nearly equal facility. As soon as the scissors can be executed both ways, they should be added to the long form of the drill, so that the performer is now doing the full drill as indicated.

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TIP ON EXECUTION Single leg cuts: Once a pre liminary swing is

generated, by lifting the right leg as in ,#2, it is important that both legs swing along. So already in #3 both legs have swung to right for the first cut. For eve ry cut, the shoulder of the support arm leans somewhat to help keep balance. But the hips swing away from the support arm. As the legs swing past the front of the horse, #7, 8, 9; the performer does not try to bring the legs together, for doing so destroys the rhythm of the swing. Idea ll y, the· legs should be somewhat more spread in #8. In just the same way, the legs remain spread in #12, 13, 14; and the sprea d should be somewhat greater in #1 4.

The position shown in #6 is outstanding, but rather difficult to control. The performer

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should lea rn to get the large separation of hips (a nd was) mu sc led and lacked th e easy flowing and support hand shown there. However, a rhythm of good horse wo rk. scissors done with the lower leg so low is a poor One of the principal reasons that led seve ral scissors. Instead a position asin #19, 25, and 28 is coac hes in seve ral different countries to to be desired. introduce the false sc issors into th e training

False scissors. This is to be done exactly li ke a program was that it helped to co rrect a major correct sc isso rs , the lower body swinging as a fault frequentl y found in the execution of the unit. Th ere is no point where one leg stops and scissors itse lf. When first trying scissors, the th e other is lifted . It is important that the lift of performer has some apprehens ion about hi s legs be a part of a swing of the body. Years ago, abilit y to control his body in passage from #25 performers lifted the leg in back somewhat to #26. Subco nsc ious ly, and often consciously, higher than in #18, but did so in an extremel y he tries to avo id th e precarious and potentially tight pike while the hip remained very close to unpleasa nt possib ility of missing a reg rasp and the right arm. The result was that instead of th e instead landing on the pommel in #26. To avoid bea utiful stretch shown in #19, the performer the pommel, o r rather to str ike it less painfu lly, found his hips right beside the support hand, he draws his hips we ll behind the pommel, and and hence he had no swing for the next tri ck . kick s hi s lOp leg around and forward. When The appearance was one of height, but looked correc tl y done, the hips merely roll over, but

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there is no swing over the top leg . There are two rea so ns why the false scissors helps. If the performer insists on swinging the top leg forward , he will end up in front rather than in back of the horse - in order to make the move at all , he must eliminate the major fault of most scissors execution.

Scissors: I t is our experience that we need say very little to the performer about scisso rs, when the rest is we ll learned. However there must be emphasis in the lift of both legs, #19, and on sw ingi ng down with the hips leading as in #26. This last point may need a bit of illustration. Many men w ill actuall y pike during the downswing. Whereas a slight pike might pass, we are talking of often 45 degrees of pike. Just try to swing on say the parallel bars, while retaining 45 degrees of pike at the bottom.

1 he back scissors drill is very much like the front scissors drill in composition and in objecti ves. The basic emphasis is also essentiall y the same. However most gymnasts find it to be a much harder drill to master.

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One last (but very important) point about pendulum swing. Examine #10. The hips are turned about 45 degrees to the right. This seem s about right , for severa l very sound rea sons. First , if the hips are turned much further. Ihen too much hip action is required at the lOp of Ihe sw ing. Second, if the hips are nOI lu rned , Ihen the ang le between the legs must be increased in order to clear the horse at the bottom. Consider the following effects of this spread of legs, and be certa in to feel out the posilion changes on the horse. EffeCi 1: th e distance from shou lder to toes is less. cau sing a quicker and more choppy swing. Thi s is ana lagous to trying to do giants on horizontal bar with legs spread a full yard through th e bottom. It makes the swing very ineffective.

BACK SCISSORS DRILL repelilions as before . This time we want to specially emphas ize that beginning and intermediate performers as a rule cannot handle the short form of the drill at all. The added single leg cuts provide a training drill , and al low the performer to regain his

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EffeCi 2: since most gymnasts cannot draw the back leg as far back as they lift the front leg forward, as d ru le the hips are forced back behind Ihe hands. This forces the performer i nlO a fa LIll y action of the top leg on the sc issors. Effecl 3: The performer tires very quickly on scissors and dr ill s.

We suggest that the coach work out w ith each yo ung performer a comfortab le posi.tion in which he swings wel l, and then be certain to keep an eye on him to be sure he uses it. The posilion w il l va ry from one man to another!

Obviously, the performer must learn toke~p a high support, and a small rounding cif the back helps for this.

Early regrasps, before the body falls much, (see #26) make work quieter, and much easier on wrists and forearms.

eq uilibrium dfler executing the false scissors and sc isso rs combinat ion . DO NOT HAVE LOWER LEVEL PERFORMERS TRY THE SHORT FORM. Reserve the short form for men who execute the long form well, and need a new cha ll enge to spice up the training session.

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and fal se scissors, but in the cut and swing used to se t th em up. Exam ine Fr. 5, 6, 7. Th e high leg swing of Fr 5 allows a large pendulum swing across the front of the horse, and th e legs should be somewhat spread at th e bottom of thi s swing. But lo ts of swing is difficult to control , and performer w ill as a rul e have difficulty in shifting the hips well over th e right pommel as shown in Fr. 8. Now it is essential that the performer have his hips over th e right pommel as well as legs swung to right, in o rder that he get an even, pendulum type of swing to the other side.

Typica ll y, the pe rformer w ill try to make the mot ion of h is ri ght leg into a circular motion, with the hips moving very little, and with one leg almost motionless. This is a ve ry se rious error, since it takes the swi ng of hips and both legs to get the body into the high position

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. required for a good back scisso rs . The height shown in Fr. 10 is adeq uate, in fact well above what we usually see. The body extension is good, and the lower leg is fairly high. But our demonstrato r cou ld st ill do better . And in the sc issors in Fr. 16, the lower leg is not nearly high enough. (Thi s is pa rtl y because that shot is just after the high point) .

The group of cuts in Fr. 18 - - - 24 needs no special comment, and the rest of the photo sequence is merely th e same exercise to opposite side.

Even more than for the front scissors drill , th ere is need for some turn of the hips on the back sc issors dFil1. And the reason for thi s is even easier to see. I f the performer has his hips fa ced sq uare ly fo rward and legs spread enough th at he is not touching the horse, he will immediately discove r that he ca n o nl y swin g about 6 inches in the direction of the back scissors before hi s leg st rikes the arm, and

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It is poss ib le, as w ith front scisso rs, to do back sc isso rs with the hi ps very close to the support arm . In fact, w ith good flexibility this can be done w ith the top leg quite as high as shown in Fr. 16. But wi thout th e total body swing, th e move is so much easie r that it hardl y qualifies as a sc issors by comparison.

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-•• RESERRCH --•• •• ADVANCED SKILL ATTAINMENT • AND SKELETAL DEVELOPMENT

• By Robert V. Acuff .: Graduate Assistant in Physical Education

." University of Tennessee, Knoxville " • • ••..•....................................••

Numerous articl es have appeared in the Gymnast emphasiz ing the importance of proper teaching progressions, strength development and joint flexibility, but possibly because of insufficient research data, few have implicated the possible effect of intense training on the immature skeletal system.

Advancement in the sport of gymnastics seems to have dictated that individuals begin the sport at much younger ages. And, because of an earlier sta rt , many coaches and gymnasts attempt intense workouts on advanced skills without the aids of proper progressions, sound basic techniques, and coaches knowledgeable in spott ing and progressive biological development of the individual.

Rapid advancement in skill attainment seems to be the philosophical approach to all sports in the United States and unfortunately gymnastics is no exception . This can easily be observed when exa mining the " Littl e Leaguer's Elbow", " Tennis Elbow" or the " Football Knee." As a resul t , committees of concerned doctors, parents and coaches have 'Iegislated rules to contain the sk ill levels in age group compet iti on and league play. Fortunatel y the phrase "Gymnast's Shoulder" or " Gymnastics Wrist" have not become part of the present injury description.

Research is beginning to give some information in the area, but still much of the physiological and biochemical mechanisms of bone growth remain a mystery, and as a result , mechan ica l forces to the developing skeleton are difficult to eva luate. The information that can readil y be put into practice (literally), indi cates that the chronological age in many individuals, ca n be ahead or behind th e biological age of th e indiv idual implying that the over all growth rate varies from individual to individual as a result of genetics, sex, hormonal secretion , env ironment; all implying that each indiv idual has his/ her own maturation rate or biological time table.

The growth and maturation rate of bone is characterist ic to each individual, thus allowing the plan of ossificatio n to vary with the indi vidual. The plan of bone ossifica tion can be generall y descr ibed in the following manner:

The diaphysis, or body of the bone, appears first in the developing fetus and is separated from the epiphyses (cart ilaginous ends) by a flared portion the metaphysis. The epiphyses, appearing early in the skeletal development, remains separate from the metaphysis by a narrow carti lagi nous growth layer (epiphyseal lines) for a predetermined period of time until th e complete ossificat ion of the bone at th e end of skel etal growth.

The epiph ysea l lines are the sites of bone growth and are made up of growing cells that must recei ve nourishment to grow and develop. If the vascu lar supply is damaged O (

terminated , as in the repetitive strains to th e media l ep icondy lar epiphysis of th e humerus that is character istic to Little League pitchers throwing cu rve balls, then growth of th e bone ca n be deminished or even terminated.

In o rder to avoid possible damage to the you nger gym nast and probable limits being leg islated to conta in the sport of gymnastics, additional conce rn should be taken for the individual during maturation of the skeleton, where intense or non progressive sk ill advancemen t cou ld lead to injury of the epiphysea l areas.

One must realize that stresses and strains are necessary for the stimulation of bone growth, but severe trauma -cou ld result in the decay or deat h of the tissue because of lost !;llnod supply to the growth area. Fatigue fractures could result from a severe or prolonged strain andthe shearing, comp re ss ing or the distracting of joints w ill cause injury to the growth plate resulting from exposed positions, limited mobility or ligamentous attachment of the joint. These types or injuries often occur when the gymnast jumps from heights, lands stiff­legged or from a joint strain severe enough to be transmitted to the growth plate, such as " falling through " on a dislocate for the beginner attempting the trick for the first severa l times.

We ca n reduce the possibilities of epiphyseal and ske leta l injury if we only take the time to cond i rion our gymnasts by emphasizing proper warm-up procedures, medical examinations of vulnerable joint areas, teaching correct

techn ique, ho lding to proper sk ill progressions and by dissipating the concen tration of forces through proper and active spotti ng techniques .

An attempt shou ld be made by the coach to assess th e rea diness of an indi vid ual for certa in sk ill s and to determine this readiness based on the skel etal age for each individual. Several determination processes are available to the int eres ted coach and are indicated in the references below . These are simple techniques that ca n be emp loyed by the coach and will enabl e him/ her to become aware of individual problems that may confront his/ her gymnasts.

As to proper and active spotting techniques, this wou ld curta il more envo lvement by the coach than simply pulling out a landing pad to subst itute for his/ her knowledgeable hands as . a spotte r. Taking part in the progressive learning of a new or unfamiliar movement should be as active for the coach as it is for the gymnast. Once the movement has been mastered and is ready to be included in the competiti ve rout ine, the coaches responsibility as a spotter does not end! Severe injuries to the knee and w rist areas could have been preve nted in actua l compet ition if a state of active participation on the part of the coach, as a spotte r, was assumed to dissipate concentrated forces to these vulnerable areas. Thi s app li es to the young beginning gymnast as well as the more advanced or elite gymnast. In thi s way each gymnast has the opportunity to benefit optimall y through the sport of gymnastics.

Referen.·,,, 1. bP"'N 1",,1" . 1\11I1J~. a nd Helen M. Eckert. Motor Developme nt, Ch", lcs E. Merrill Publishing Co. , Columbu,. Ohio 1%7 pp. 103-252. 2. Go". U'drl", M"yo. Grays Anatomy, Lea and FebigE'l . I'h il"d",,,hi,, , 1'"., 29th Edit ion, 1973. 3. Klognr.1I1. W.M. Child Growth, The University of Michigan 1'"·,, . Ann Arbor , M ichigan, 1972, pp. 28-58, pp. 1 75- 1~1 .

4. La"on. L.'o",rrd A., Ed il or. Fitness, Health, and Work Capacity, Ivt.lullill"n Publishing Co. , In c., New York , N,'w yo,k . IY74, pp. 179-180, pp. 516-524. 5. La"on. K"I>"n L. "Phys ica l Activ it y and The Growlh d'HI l)cvc!0plll e nt of. Bone and Joint StrU( 101(" ." Physical Activity - Human Growth and Development, L.G. R.lri ck, Editor, Academ ic Press, New YOlk . N.Y .. IY73 .

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Njard was founded on Apri l 21 , 1924 by ten 16 yea r o ld boys. Th e name of the club is derived from No rdi c mythology, Njard being the God of Ferti li ty.

NJARD Norwegian Sports Club

Until the outbreak of war in 1940 NJ·ard was , / '

primaril y known as a sports club for tennis, r skiin g and bandy. At that time the club had 180 members.

The number of members showed a steady increase after th e liberation in 1945. Thi s wa s not least due to the fact that Njard got its own outdoor tennis courts an d its own club house. In 1960 the dub cou ld inaugurate a new sports hall , the Njard Hall , built for all indoor sports activiti es. Th e club took up more and more sports and ga mes, and in 1961 gymnastics came on th e program ·of act iviti es . Today, the club has ten different spo rts and games on its program: Alpi ne ski ing, bandy, football, ath let ics, ski jumping, handball, cross-country sk iing, o ri entee ring, tennis, gymnastics. Th e membership is 1800.

It d id not take lo ng before gymnastics beca me one of Njard's leading sports. Th e club has been Norwegian champion in team gymnastics th e past six yea rs and holds a Sca ndinav ian championship in Gymnastique Modern e. Club members have also won seve ral Norwegian championships in indiv idual gymnasti cs, in the junior as well as sen ior classes. Njard has had four representati ves in th e Ol ympi c Games and World Championships and has been represented on all Norwegian int ernati ona l teams since 1965. Our top gymnast today, Jill Schau, holds a Norwegian as well as Scandlanvian championship in individua l gymnas tics and she has represented Norway in 27 international competitions.

Njard has co mpeted and given exhibitions in va ri ous countri es, such as Austria, Switzerl and, Isra el, Spain, Ice land, Denmark and Sweden .

Eva Berge is Njard 's chi ef instructo r and has been so from the ve ry sta rt .

Action photos with this re port were taken at the Njard exhibition on the ir visit to Los Angeles , Calif. Photos by Glenn Sundby

The c hief instruc tor Eva Be rge together with the two pairs of twins ero and Gry (12 yea rs) a nd Jorunn and Laila (14 years).

Njard instructors Erik & Gunnar Harisen visiting the Sundby Sports Publications Building .

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THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

14 year old Danna Hopper. AAU Jr. National All-Around Champion.

Already known as the track capital of the . United States. Eugene, Oregon is wel l on it 's way to becoming o ne of th e dominate cities in our country for developing elite women gymnasts and presenting international level gymnasti cs.

Within th e 15,000 square foot Academy are housed two se parate schoo ls. The Oregon Academy has an enro llment of 200 students.

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Participation includ es both boys and girls classes from beginners to high school and co ll ege performers .

The Nat io nal Academy enrollment is currently 18 members. These young ladies are training six ho urs a day to become elite gymnasts and for the opportun ity to represent the United States in Nat iona l and International competit ion.

Eugene, Oregon Th e coach ing staff of the Academy is headed

by three time Ol ym pian Linda Metheny and Olympic Coach Dick Mulvihill. Pianist Arthur Maddox and assistant coach Dean Berry compl ete th e faculty.

Presentl y training at the Academy is elite gymnast, Carr ie Englert. The first National title won for th e Academy occured last May when Dana Hopper won the AAU Junior Nationa l All Around titl e. Patti Rope, of Canada, has toured Red China and was a member of the 1974 Canadian World Games Team.

In an effort to provide Eugene with the best level of competiti o n the Academy hosts annuall y, in March, The Emerald Empire Cup. Thi s brings together many of the top women gymnasts in our count ry. This yea rs meet was highli ghted by performances by Tammy Manvi lle, Diane Dunbar, Debbie Fike and Carr ie Englert.

The Aca demy was host to' the 1975 AAU Junior Nationals and the U.S.G.F. Senior Nationals.

During the past yea r Eugene has been fortunate to be ex posed to the best of internati ona l teams. Among these were the mens tea m from Japan, the New Zea land Womens Nat iona l tealTi , and the Nationa l teams from Czechoslovak ia and Romania.

Events such as th ese and the combined effort s of the Academy are ce rtain to p lace Eugene as a forerunner in leading the cont inued development of elite gymnastics in the United States.

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Grace Kaywell Keep those letters coming! It's so great to

hear from friends of my "beginning" days of our great sport. Had a nice letter from Art Shurlock, Coach at UCLA, who sent me his Meet schedule. Good luck, Art ! Talked wit h Janel Bachnd just recently, and also Bud Marquette. Dr. Bruce Fredericks was gracious in his busy schedule to agree to help me with my book. Dr. Fredericks' little figures for illustrat ing gymnastics have long been a great help to me, and I am sure to others as they seem to crop up everywhere from time to time.

But to introduce myself to the younger group of fantasti c gymnasts coming up, let me tell you i hat I am NOT a gymnast. I recently received a letter asking me when I started my gymnastic training ... tha t's a loaded question, as you will see. I was a professional dancer turned teacher. I started my intenstive tra inging in ballet in New York City when I was 12, having started loca ll y at the age of 6. M y Russian ballet masters were Veronine Vestoff and Constantine Kobeleff, both of the Imperia l Theater of Petrograd, now deceased. Both had also partnered the great Pavlova . I danced professiona ll y in New York but did not find that fulfilling for a life 's ca reer, so turn ed to teaching.

In West Palm Beach, Florida, Coach Bud Watson (also deceased) was training Gail Sontgerath in gymnast ics. She was good, but with the new emphasis on ballet and music, Bud turned to me. This was easy for me as my Russian bal let training was all that was needed and Gail became our 1960 National Champion and went to Rome for the Olympics. So did I, where I learned a lot more.

Since that time I have taught at Clinics, Seminars, University programs all over the United States and also in Europe. I have had the privi lege of working with Olympians, World and National Champio ns, not only from our country but others ... and it has been a privi lege, because they are so great and dedicated. I have learned the appa ratus by observing and taking classes at Clinics, but st ill consider myself an amateur at coaching and actual tricks, but I

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Since the spo rt of gymnas ti cs has become "artistic" the competitor must realize that he or she is being judged a great deal on the beauty of the movements, not just the difficulty. We have mentioned " connecting links", or dance steps of rhythm in previous articles and will continue to do so. It is imperative for the gymnast to form beautiful lines in space with the body for the judge and spectator alike .

Th ere are many poses from the classical ballet that one ca n pass through or sustain

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CAMP TSUKARA Cable, Wisconsin

By Mike Jacki and Jerry Fontana

After five growing and successful camping summers, Tsukara is on its way to becoming the most unique gymnastics camping program in the United States. An excellent facility , outstanding staff, sma ll camper number, and perfect ly planned program have lead the way for Tsukaras' great growth and popularity.

In the second year at the newly purchased northern Wisconsin sk i resort, Lake Owen Lodge, Tsukara boasts such features as a carpeted dinn ing room and large rustic lodge, many ca rpeted campe r rooms, new maple beds throughout , new washroom facilities, a large new gymnasium to accomodate everyone for indoor work-outs, and a picturesque setting in the hea rt of the Chequamegon National Forest on over a quarter mile of beautiful Lake Owen shoreline.

Equipment is plentiful and adds to th e smooth operation of the well planned program. A ll gymnasts are carefully placed into abilit y grou ps by the staff. With only 65 boys and 65 girls and a staff of over 40 coaches and counse lors, this allows for only six students per c lass. When you place these groups on 6 pommel horses, 12 balance beams,S cab led uneven bars, and as much of all the other apparatus, this means maximum work-out time and no wait ing. The equipment is all AMF America n including more than 10 crash pads, 12 landing mats and over 50 other mats to cove r all areas perfect ly. The gymnasium is comp letely equipped with duplicates of all mens and wome ns apparatus and a new Ameri ca n ca rpeted floor exercise mat.

Th e thing that makes Tsukara what it is to our campers has been our carefully selected staff.

La st yea rs staff included: Nancy Thies and Patti Carmichael - University of Illinoi s, Roxanne Pi erce - Mannettes of Philadelphia, Laurie Bremer, Debbie Halle, Jill Johnson, and Jenny Foshee of Gymnastics Incorporated of Seattle, W ashington - Char Christensen - coach at Iowa State Un iversity, Ginger Temple -Southern Illinois and now coach of the Wichita Gym Club, Heidi Miller - Sacramento State, Ted M arcy - NCAA Champ from Stanford , Rich Larse n - NCAA Champ from Iowa State - Jon Aitk en - NCAA Champ from the University of New M ex ico, Don Young and Ed Hembd - all­ameri ca ns on pommel horse - Rich Onysko -Southerri Connecticut, Kurt Thomas -1975 Pan Am Games Tea m from Indiana State, Lenny Kravit z - Coach at Houston Baptist University­M ark Graham - Big 8 All-Around Champion from Iowa State, Peie Hemmerling - Southern Illinois, Blaine Dahl - Louisiana State, Mark Cummings - Big 8Conference Champion - Iowa State - PLUS many, many more.

This past summer, a special o lympic compulsory training program was offered to some of our nations top high school athletes. Su ch future standouts as Bart Conner, USGF Nationa l Champion, and Ron Gallimore, National AAU Champ received coaching from Tsukara 's special compulsory training staff headed by: Wayne Young - NCAA All Around champion, Abie Grossfeld - Coach at Southern Connecti cut, Ed Gagnier - Coach at Iowa State,

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Abie Grossfeld covering compulsory exercises with special high school group.

Uneven bars class

and Frances Allen - the coach at the University of Nebraska. The program turned out to be exce ll ent and should be of great interest to all boys who seek a high level of training on elite level compulsory exerc ises.

Former Iowa State All Americans, Jerry Fonatana and Mike Jacki have founded and directed thi s program since its beginning in 1971 . Now with the experience behind the program, and the momentum to keep it growing, campers come from as far away as Hawai i, Florida, Washington, Maine, and California.

Tsukara boasts campers from almost every state in the U.S.

Tsukara is an eight week program composed of a three week, two week, and three week session . You can sign up for one, or any combination up to eight weeks. Applications come in early and sessions are often filled as early as February .

If you are interested in a true gymnastics summer - with plenty of top coachi ng and training, lots of recreational activities, a place to meet lo ng-l asting gymnastic friends, - we might have just the place. Write for information to Tsukara 400 Glenview Road Glenview, Illinois 60025.

AMF AMERICAN TSUKARA COACHING SYMPOSIUM

At the end of the summer, Tsukara provides a unique exe rience for coaches hosting the annual AMF Ame rican-Tsukara Coaching Symposium. Thi s is a five day event where coaches from all over the country come to hear som e of th e nations leading coaches, j udges, and clinicians go through a very complete and comprehensive program covering all aspects of gymnastics. The first tow years have seen two excell ent programs headed by such people as: Vanni e Edwards, Ernie Weaver, Jackie Fie , George Lewis, Dr. Gerald George, Dr. Joe Massimo, Jon Aitken, Ed Gagnier, Char Christ ensen, Roxa nne Pierce, Diane Grayson, and others. The program includes session s on biom ec h ani cs, practical lecture and demonstrat ion , spotting techniques, dance, open discussion and problem so lving, coaching philosophy and psychology, organiza ti on and adm inistration and much more. The week is highlighted by many exce ll ent social events culminated by a meorable coacktail hour and banquet at beautiful Mount Telemark Ski Lodge and resort.

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It isn 't o ft en that a ca mper gets the chance to hit the ca mp d irec to r in the face w ith a plate of wh jpped crea m o r crack an egg over the head of a favorite instructo r but those were some of ! li e' thin gs that happed at Stroudsburg Sports Camp thi s past summer. " 8esides many social activities campers were

also exposed to exce llent gymnasti c instruction prov ided by knowl edgeable and highl y mg t iva ted instructo rs in pleasant surroundings. !,xpanded facilities provided better workout co[1diti ons th an th e previous year and classes ~ere structu red so that the student-teacher ratjo w as neve r greater than 8 to 1. Good gymnastic trai ning was Stroudsburg's first p,ri o rit y las t sumer and aga in this season . " Camp director Fred Turoff was pleased w ith

\he increased ca mp enrollment and the efforts p f hi s staff. Fred, alo ng with Bill Coco, executive qirector of th e Philadelphia GymnasticCenter, il[1d Dennis and Ro nie Seidel, former gymnasts an d graduates o f Temple University, have been running the ca mp at Stroudsburg for two years ahd also a gym clini c during Thanksgiving va~a ti o n. This ca mp has always been held the last two weeks in July and the first two weeks in August.

'Students were required to attend five 45 minute classes a day and an open workout each ev~ nin g. Th ey could also choose to attend an exI ra aftern oon class where age group compul sori es were taught. Following classes free time was provided for other activities such 1Is' swimmin g, boating, fishing, hiking and te[1n is. A recreati o n hall was open during these tlOurs and ca mpers could play ping pong and check out basketballs and volleyballs.

Th e staff at this year's camp was much the sam e as last. Yoshi Hayasaki, coach at the University of Illinois, headed the boy's staff. Yoshi has held every major all around title in the United States and was very popular with all I re ca mpers. Yoshi also won the egg toss for th e s~co nd straight yea r and received an egg on th e bea d as part o f hi s v ictory. Assisting with th e poyos program we re many Templ e University gyrtJna sts and fo rmer Temple gymnasts !ncluding Rich Ca rlson , Tom Kovic, Jeff Rosenberg, Ri ck Lund and Baine and Kent ~asveschu k.

M ost o f the girl 's staff was made up of former Mannett e Gym C lub (now changed to Fbiladelphia Gymnastic Center) gymnasts or ( 4rrent Mannette coaches. Possibly th e best ~n qwn of these teachers is Janet Cantwell , a

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member of th e 1970 W orld Games team and Nati ona l team member in 1971 who presentl y coaches at State Co ll ege (Pa .) High School. Former M annettes Li sa and Judy Neutze, M arni Holmes , joann e Beck, plus present Mannette coach Barbara Thatcher were on the girl 's staff along w ith Betty Bernz and former Southern Connecti cut gymnasts Valerie Lewis and j eann e Thor. Dave Berg, a former SCSC gymn ast. Pete M ullen, and jimmy Leo, a talented instru cto r from New York City helped round out the women 's staff.

Th e dance instruction was carefully handled by Ri ch Martin and Lynn Perro tt , two professional da ncers fro m NYC. Also Kim Musg rave, last yea r's coach at the Uni versity of Illino is and a fo rmer M annette, w as ava il abl e for o ne wee k of ca mp and helped with dance instru ction and cho reography. An added fea ture at Stroudsburg was assistan ce by Kim and janet w ith o pti o nal routine con struction. Bill Coco also conducted several coaching classes d u rin g th e third week when a large group o f coaches (many from Michigan ) att ended to learn new coaching techniques.

W eekend acti viti es were schedul ed for those campers staying fo r more than a one week sess ion. Denni s and Ronie, th e program direc to rs, o rgani zed steeple chases, a skit n ight , several corn roasts and cookouts, feature movies and gymnasti c films. One special event was th e ca mpers ve rsus staff handstand contest where any camper could challenge a member of the staff to see w ho could hold a handstand th e lo ngest. Th e loser of the contest had to get a plate of whipped cream in the face from the winner. Iro nica lly all o f the challenged staffers lost and three of the four directors got rewarded for their e fforts with a plate in the face, too.

A special hi ghli ght of the final week was a demonstration o f tumbling skills. One of the fea tu red perfo rm ers was Ann Carr of th e Phil adelphia Gymnasti c Center who had just return ed from w inn ing the final Pan Am erican Trials in Miami , Fl o rida,

Pia ns are now underway for the ThanksgiVing Clinic and fo r nex t yea r's camp. Already SSC direc to rs ho pe to have additon al improvements fo r next summer's ca mp incl uding mo re social activities and furth er improvements in workout facilit ies. An yone desiring Thanksgiving information can write to Ho liday Gym-In , 340 E. Mechanic St., Phila . Pa. 19144.

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The 1975 USGF Congress will be held at the new Denver Marriot Hotel , and will commence Friday, November 14 . The meetings this year will stretch over a three -day period involving Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning.

The meetings will begin Friday noon and end on Sunday noon . General sessions are scheduled for Friday at 1:00 p.m., and Saturday morning again at 9:00 a .m. Special CONGRESS REGISTRATION CARDS are available from the USGF Office, and those interested in attending should send their registration to the USGF, P.O. Box 4699, Tucson, Arizona 85717, along with their Congress Registration fee, and request hotel reser· vation forms. The special rate for rooms will not apply unless you specify you are registered for the USGF Congress, so be ready well ahead of time and send now for your forms.

The 1975 Banquet is scheduled for Saturday night at 7:00 p.m. Guest speaker is being sought and the program should prove to be very interesting ... and the speaker will be announced when firm commitments have been received.

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Include Registration fee (Make payable to USGF), $25 .00, includes the Banquet, All Open Sessions Admission.

Registration after November 1 will be $30.00.

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FLORIDA ST ATE REPORT There is unofficial talk that Sandy Philips

wi ll be heading FSU way next year to complete her doctorate. There is for sure talk (and official says her dad) that Kim Chace is in strict training in Reno heading for a comeback. Everyone who has seen her says she is in fighting trim.

Miami Dade North , Bruce Davis Coach, gives scholarships to deserving/ earning girl gymnasts . Florida State University will not have a gymnastics team . The University failing to support the program.

Chic Cicio has joined with Pete Sap· anaro (with Bev Martin instructing) to create the Hollywood School of Gym· nastics ... Good staff should be a good school. The new American Uneven bar ·is fiberglass wit h a wood cover. It looks like the bar you're use to looking at however it's lighte r and almost indestruc tib le . natura lly it'll cost more but has a great guarantee .

Gail Herman and Bethea·Ebson school are combining talents in Orlando. Gail is with their program now progressing up the ladder of responsibility . Nov. 1, Men's Hialeah·Miami Lakes Open, C lass III Camp. , Cass I & II Compo and Opt. Don gutzler Hst. End of Nov. Judges Courses No rth , Central , and South Fl a . Districts · site and dates to be determined· or early Dec. Contact B. Davis 1011 Citadel Dr. a lt amonte Spgs. 3701. Dec. 6, Men's Pensacola Jr. College Open , Sei It o host , 3 170 Logan Dr. Pensacola 32503. Second weekend in Dec. Male Judgeing course , Miami Dade North, contact J . Cu lbe r tson or Bruce Davis. Dec. 26·30 Eastern Gym Clinic, Ft. Laud· erdale , Ho liday Pk . Gym; Sarasota Clinic Annual T ramp and Tumbling Clinic includ · ed, Orlando Clinic B/ D Davis hosts. Dec . 20 FGA 9 and under girls Compul· sory meet , Ft. Lauderdale , Holiday Pk. Jan. 17 Men 's Deerfield Beach High open, women's Class II meet, Tallahassee , North Fla. Dist. 1. Jan. or Feb. Suggested for Central & South Fla .C lass III and Class I and II. Feb. 6·7, women's Class I, II North Fla Dist. mee t. Feb. 14 Tentative FGA Camp . Clinic All Classes , Riviera Bch. Feb. Judges courses Nort h, Central, and South Fla . Districts. Feb. 21 Men's Tallahassee Open.

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GA Georgia

Karen Kolman 511 Lee Boulevard Savannah. GA 31405

HI Hawaii

David Dale 1634 Makike #905 Honolulu , HI 96813

ID Idah o

Ms. Diane J. Ostrander 325 Montvue Drive Meridian . ID 83642

IN Indiana

Mrs. Lo rie Walker 220 South Guyer Hobart. IN 46342

IA Iowa

Leah Eberle 399 Myra Place Clinton . IA 52732

Iowa State Reporter Leah Eberle began her gymnastics

interest at Blackhawk Junior College in Moline, minois. When she transferred to Northern //Iinois University she became a team member for 1 year. During this time at Norther, she was employed by the Kishwaukee YMCA in DeKalb, minois as a girls' gymnastics coach. After gradua­tion she became the girls : gy mnastic s caach at Clinton High School in Clinton, Iowa and is into her third year as Physical Educatian teacher and coach. Her hus­band, Steve is her assistant coach. They also give private gymrKlstics lessons to the public.

IOWA STATE REPORT I have written every college in Iowa , plus

every hgh school that has boys gymnastics and I have received the foll owi ng reports:

University of Iowa - Coach Neil Schmitt of the Mens' team. He also runs

a c lub in Iowa City along with Bob Schwartz. Neil has a full schedule includ­ing sc hoo ls such as Texas , Chicago, Western, Illinois University , Florida , Minnesota , Nebraska, Michigan , So. Illinois University, Wisconsin, and the Big Ten C hampio nships at Michigan State Uni versty, East Lansing, and NCAA Championships at Michgan State Univer­Championships at Temple Un versity , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .

GrandView College - Des Moines, Iowa - Coach Jake J acobson. Out of 19 tea ms in the U.S. for Women's Gymnas tic s, Grand View is rated #7 for Women's Gymnastics. Judy Pauley, Judy Steinlage, Lori Pike and Darcella Barker are return ­ing Gymnasts that placed in the top ten in one or more eve nts of their region #6. Note: On Sept. 19 or 20 Judy Pauley was seriously injured while worki ng on the unevens . Last repot was that par ti a l paralysis had occurred.

Girls High School gymnastics season wi ll begin November 4. Boys HS started in August - No reports yet. There is a new gymnastics club in Dubuque ,lowa under the direction of Jim Welbes . I am happy to see this club start since Dubuque does not have any gymnastics in their high schools. My student teacher here at the high school , Pat Hansen, works at this club as an instructor. Thanks to my two assistants - Shelly Carpenter and Karen Locke, from DesMoines , Iowa.

KS Kansas

R. Dean Stamm 2553 S .E. Alexander Dr Topeka , KS 66605

KY Kentucky

Gail Maloney 703 Waterford Road Louisville. KY 40207

ME Maine

Lucie Tardif 39 Whipple Street Winslow. ME 04902

MD Maryland

Margie & Greg Weiss 180, Gamewell Road Si lver Spring, MD

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Maryland State Reporters Greg and Margie Weiss are the

direc tors of MG GYMNASTICS Club , in Maryland. Greg received his Bachelor and Master Master 's Degrees at Penn S tate Univ . And did his Doctoral work in business adminis­tration at Univ. of Maryland. He was a member of the US Olympic Team , US World Games Team , Pan American Gold Medalist , and is an International Judge. He was the TV commentator for Channel 26 for international gymnastic match, and was personal interviewer on TV of Olga Korbut and Ludmilla Turischeva. He is Judging commissioner in Montgomery County, Maryland. Margie was a grad­uate of the University of Maryland. She was Montgomery County outstanding gymnast; National YMCA champion; Eastern Collegiate Champion; National Collegiate Titalist, US National Team , and US All-American Gymnastic Team. Besides directing MG club her coaching career has consisted of Director, Mid ­Atlantic Gymnastic Camp; Master Teacher, New England Clinic; Special Teacher MAHPER, to train physicol edu­cation teachers in advanced gymnastics; Meet director, MG Open Competitions; Judging Commissioner, Montgomery County; Gymnastic judge; TV commen­tator, Channel 26, as gymnastic expert; MAGA coach far Maryland State Team in five-state meet. She is a Member of USGF, USSAIGC.

MARYLAND STATE REPORT An Elite clinic for girl s was h eld on

Sept. 14 in Allentown , Pennsylvan ia . Teams from Maryland to Massachusetts brought their top gymnasts, coaches and judges. From Maryland , one independent, one MG gymnast, two MarVateens, and

one Royal T gymnast participated. Among the top U.S_ gymnasts at the all -day clinic were e lite pe rformers Jodi Yocum of the Parkettes and Kyle Gaynor, now of the Southern Connecticut Gym Club. New Changes in the Olympic compulsories were discussed by Muriel Grossfeld , as a res ult of he r observations and conver­sations at the Pre-Olympics in Montreal.

In Maryland itself, the gymnastic section of the D.C. Officiating Services Association Uudges' organi zation) met to discuss the coming gymnastic calendar with new compulsory clinics , meets, and judging responsibi lities. A judging associ­ation cli nic was held over the summer to acquaint the newer teams, coaches, and judges with correc t positions and deduc ­tions in the 1976 Class compulsories. The association will rent out the new compul­sory films to better co-ordinate compul ­sory movements among the ~rea teams. having joined the Nat io nal Association o f Women 's Gymnastic Judges , Maryland and Virginia have now coordinated the DGWS a nd the NAWGJ with the same board members.

Open meet schedu les for the Wash ­ington area are being organzied for the winter: Sunday, Dec. 14 - MG Gymnastics Open Compulsory Meet , Silver Spring.

October in Maryland is the beginning of meet season for the elite competitors. A pre-elite meet was held on Oct. 11-12, for practice toward the Mo nessen Nov. Elite Meet. There are 6 girls in Maryland working the elite compulsories, who last year were in thei r respecive age-grou p Nationals . Kitty Taylor of the MG Gym­nastic Team (formerly of the Karons in Virginia) Jill Andrews of the Royal T's, and Chris Leonard, independent, parti­cipa ted in the elite clinic in September, as well as MarVaTeens Susy Greer, Jennifer Huff, and Judy Helfin.

Prince Georges Coun ty in Maryland is hosting a teachers' course in gym­nastics. Formerly, Prince Georges County had a very new a nd low key gymnastic program. But by using the private gym­nastic geam coaching staffs as the instruc­tors for the course , gymnastics is starting to blossom in this Washington Subrb .

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Mrs. Marlys Binger 3921 Avondale Street Minnetonka. MN 55343

MINNESOTA STATE REPORT I had a brief chat with our own Kolleen

Ca sey th e other day . She is re a ll y a gymnast in the true sense of the word . She works out 4-6 hours a day in the gym, yet is ab le to maintain very high grades in school. Her enthusiasm for gym nastics is absolutely inspiring. Kolleen is the only Elite gymnast in the entire region _ She competed int he Pan-Am Trials in Miami Beach, Florida and took a 4th place AII­Around to qualify for the Pan-Am Tea m_ She is preparing now for that. Kolleen is a member of the St. paul Turners Club. A former teammate of Ko!leen's, Denise Rive t , who has also had a busy competing summer took a 3rd All-Around at t he National U.S .G. F. Senior Olympi~s i'n Connecticut , wh ich helped her to receive a Gymnastic Sc holarship from Clarion State College in Pennsylvania . Congratu­latio ns Denise they are very hard to come by!!

Theresa Thompson - from the Burns­vill e Gymnastic club tok places in all eventsat the AAU Junior Olympic Nation­als in New York on August IS- 18th_ Which e nabled her to ca pture a First Place AII -Around _

Sheila Ewer - Liz Greene - Lynne Torgerson and Theresa Thompson are eagerly awaiting the Elite try-outs in Iowa. good Luck girls.

MO Missouri

Randy R. Nelson 3931 Taravue "C 51. Louis. MO 63125

NH New Hampshire

Jack Jablonski 489 Pine Street Manchester . NH 03104

NJ New Jersey

Albert Kowalski 88 Iroquois Ave. Lake Hiawath . NJ 07034

NM Ne"v Mexico

Graha m E. Bartlett 5505 Acoma Rd. SE Albuquerque. NM

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Bob Sherman 12 17-D Lockhurst Rd. Columbus. O H 43207

Ohio State {leporter Bob Sherman, 28, has been teaching

and coaching gymnastics since 1967. He has been a State rated men's judge since 1971, and a National rated judge since 1973. He just received his Associate rating in women 's judging this year. Bob was Secretary- Treasurer for the Oh io Men 's Gymnastic Judges Association for th~ 1974-75 yeor and is a member of tlie National Gymnastic Judges Association. He has been 0 professional photographer since 1972 but right now -he just photo­grophs for fun. He is Vice-president of Americon Gymnast, Inc. a private gym­nastics school in Columbus. And is also the ossistant coach for AGl's three competition teams. Bob is a charter member of the USSAF ond has been a member of the Columbus Gymnastics Club since 1967.

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Laurann Rogers 4324 5. Braden Place Tulsa. OK 74 135

OR Oregon

Dean Berry 148 West 12th Ave. Eugene . OR 9740 1

PA Pennsylvania

John R. Buoni R.D. "3 West Chester. PA

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VT Vermont

Holly C. Szabo 12 Dion 51. Winooski . VT 05404

WA Washington

Mr. James H. Ada ms 11929 198th Ave. 5 .E. Issaquah. WA 98027

WV West Virginia

Garnel Robinson 801 University Ave. Morgantown, WV

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WI Wisconsin

Tom Sisulak Gymnastics Coach laFollette High School 702 Pflaum Road Madison. WI 53716

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INNER FEELINGS OF A P-BAR MAN "Attack those bars" said the coach, and think before you make your approach So there I stood contemplating, wishing someone else WQS demonstrating Then I gathered my cauroge and without a care, I leaped on the bars 'and flew into the air! I caught the bars upside down , standing on my hands with my head spinning round While up in the handstand I could feel myself falling "fight it", ''fight it" I could hear the coach calling. So I squeezed the bars and made myself tight And swung dawn those bars with all of my might! And after dismounting I realized something: that the 'routine I had done was really nothing.

By Ron Calderon Parallel Bars Montebello High School Gymnastics Team

TURNED OFF Dear People,

I am writing in regard to your center/old in the August edition of GYMNAST.

I enjoyed the mgazine as a whole but the centerfold turned me off completely for these reasons:

Gymnastics is a sport of grace, beauty, and balance. if you were as muscular as the man in the illustration, you couldn't be a gymnast. Obviously you need musc· les but there is a limit to how much weight can be thrown around and still look light and graceful (maybe I shouldn't say "thrown around").

I just love your photos of people in action and I suggest this as an alternative.

I know a great deal of your center/aids are action photos and I'm grateful for that. ... .I'm really glad though that there are people like you who care enough about my favorite sport to publish a magazine.

Anyways, I'm glad there's you. Sincerely, Ann Brown AnnArbor, michigan

ED .. . It was aimed at our high school boys, who by the way we have neglec­ted in our mostly girls center posters. You would be surprised at how many young boys (and adults) we tURNED ON! with that poster.

MOST OUTSTANDING We just want everyone who reads

GYMNAST magazine to know about Pat and Nikki Yeager. They are two of the most outstanding coaches there are. They started the Oly mpia School of Gymnastics a few years ago. They have devoted many hours of their time to us and this sport. We thank them so much words could never express. Thank you once again because we know they are THE BEST!

Thank s, Turtle and Lynn Houston, Te xas

THANKS YOU Dear Coach Joe and Coach Terry,

I want to thank you for being the wonder/ul coaches that you are. You have helped me to grow and respect others, I am also a better gymnast for it . I never have met better people than I did during those months I was on the team . I hate to see you leave, but I wish you all the luck in the world.

A Gymnast forever, Melanie Modest

LUIDMILLA TURISCHEVA Dear Editor,

Please print this letter . I want to congratulat e yo u and your stafffor presenting such an understanding ort -

ide on L.uidmilla , T urischeva in the Aug. 1975 Gymnast . As a great and long time admirer of L.uidmilla, it made her recent European competition loss . less painful.

Yes, Luidmilla deserves all of the out · standing honors she has wan. She is a tireless worker, beautifully skilled, with her own special kindness and beauty.

LlIidmilla T urischeva is a true champ· ion ;n the gymnastic art . And it is through her art she has demonstrated what one can achieve if you try and do you r very best.

Thank YOll very much , Barbaro J. Dice Clinton. Ohio

ACROSTIC? Dear Glenn,

Please accept my entry for the Gym· nastics Acrostic Contest. If there is not such a contest, why not start one! By the way, this poem can be sung to the tune of" Mother", if anyone is really interested.

Sincerely, Robert F. Marris, Director Delmarva Gymnastic Academy Salisbury, Md.

G is for the guts you need to start with, Y means that you yearn to be supreme, M is for the muscles that you build up, N means that you never doubt your dream. A is for agility, you need it, S' means suppleness and self·esteem, T is for the training, never ceasing, I, imagination with a theme. C ;s concentration you must strive for, S means skills must come without a scream, Put them all together, it's G YMNAST/CS, With these vou're sure to make the team!

WHA T MAKES A GYMNAST? As a gymnast I know what it is like to

mess up a rau,tine, to fall off apparatus, to be disappointed and to feel pain, but I also know the glory, the pride and the happi· ness. What makes a person go through all this? Well ...

A person who is dedicated to gymnas· tics will be the person who will give up everything for it and have the confidence to try more difficult stunts.

Confidence is the foundation for every· thing. It takes an extremely ap-'imistic person to learn samies on the bars, aerials an the beam or layouts on the floor. Should a gymnast lose her nerve in the middle, anything could happen: A gym'· nast must learn to be absolutely certain of herself at all times.

It also takes determination to excel in gymnastics. Most people after a serious injury wouldn't come back and try again, but a true, dedicated gymnast will; she also will get the most out of gymnastics in the end. Determination helps a gymnast to per/ect tricks, and perfection 'is what makes gymnastics so beautiful (a watch.

I also feel that sportsmanship ' is a quality a gymnast must have. It is impor· tant to win and lose gracefully. '

Gymnastics is an art in which the gym· nast must learn to condition her body. It isn't an easy sport to learn, and it requires stamina to get through the long hours of workout , but I for one feel it is all worth · while. I have had many injuries, but I keep coming back. Why? I guess it is the ex· treme and neverending love that I hau.efar gymnastics and the desire to master it, but most important I want to be the best gymnast I can bel I hope you do too.

Helen Miller New York , N. Y.

THE GYMNAST After her move was made just right,

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the smile stayed brite for quite a while. She moved along with wonderausgrace

and stayed right in there with the p'ace. Easy (was the way) she made it seem

as she walked along the beam. Now she walks proud and bald (to

collect) her prize a medal of gold! Karla Helm Metropolis, /II.

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Nov. 1 or 8 Big 8 Imitational, Lawrence, Kansas Nov. 4 Inte rnational Gymnastic "Milk Meet", Toronto . Canad,l. Sit e undetermined. Nov. 14, 15, 16 USGF Congress, Denve r, Co lorado, at the Denver MJrrioi. $25.00 early registration fee. Nov. 22 Windy City Invitational, Ch icago. Nov. 28-29 Midwest Championships, Ch icago. Nov. 30 - Dec. 1 National AAU Committee Meetings {Gymnastics) Ilraniff Place Hotel, New O rl eans, La. , for more info . writ e I\I\U House, 3400 West 86th Street, Ind ianapoli ,. Indiana 46268. Dec. 5-6 1st National Elite Qualifying Trials, Houston , T" x;" - husted by the Xpe ri ence Gym nasti c Clu b.

USSR/ TOUR 1975 Dec. 7 New Yurk , NY Dec. 8 Cleve land , OH Dec. 9 C hampaign/ Urbana , IL Dec. 11 Lus Angeles, CA Dec. 12 ~an ~r,lIlCisco, CA Dec. 14 Detroit, MI Dec. 15 Cinc i'lil dt i, OH Dec. 17 At la,lI,l , GI\ Dec. 18 Wdshin gton, D.C.

Dec. 12, n, "14 Asian Youth Games, Ma nil a, Phillipines. Dec. 12, 13 California Open, University of Ca lifornia, Berke ley. C ,lifurnia . Dec. 12-13 Rocky Mountain Open, Denver, Colorado Dec. 26-30 National Gymnastic Clinic (AAU), Robarts Arena , SMasota, Fl orida. Dec. 26-30 USGF Eastern Gymnastic Clinic, Ft. Laude,da le. Florid,l.

1976 Jan. 16, 17 Elite Program Second Regional Qualifying Meet, Site undet e rmin ed. Feb. 6, 7 Elite Program Second National Qualifying Meet. Site unde termined. Mar. USGF Elite National Championships, Site undetermin ed. Mar. 4, 5, 6 Pacific Eight Gymnastic Championships, Universi ty of Oregon, Euge ne, Oregon. Mar 5, 6 NAIA National Gymnastics Tournament, Universit y of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, LaCrosse, Wisconsin . Mar. 12, 13 NCAA East Regional Gymnastic Meet, Penn State Uni versity, Un ive rsity Park, Pennsylvania. Mar. 18, 19, 20 Western Athletic Conference Gymnastic Championships, Colo rado State University, Fort Co ll ins , Colorado. Mar. 19, 20 Big 8 Gymnastic Championships, University of Colorado, Boul der, Co lorado. Mar. 19,20 NCAA West Regional Gymnastic Meet, San Jose Stat e Un ive rsit y, San Jose, Cali forn ia. Mar. 25, 26, 27 NCAA Division II National Gymnastic Championships, Un ive rsity of No rthern Iowa, Cedar Fall s, Iowa. Mar. 26, 27 Big 10 Gymnastic Meet, Michigan State, Ea st Lansing , Michigan. Apr. 1,2,3 NCAA National GymnasticChampionships, Temple Uni ve rsity, Philadelphia , Pennsylvan ia . Apr. 8, 9, 10 USA Gymnastic Championships for Women, Site undet ermined. Apr. 10-11 YMCA Nationa ls, men and women, Bethesda-Chevy Chase YMCA, Mary land Apr. 15-17 National AAU Junior Gym. Championships, Men and Women, Century School of Gymnastics, Pomona, New York . Apr. 23, 24, 25 National Gymnastics Conference and Workshop (Former ly Southwestern Regional Gymnasti cs Confere nce and Workshop), Las Vegas Convention Cente r; Las Vegas, Nevada, Hilto n ' Internati ona l contact: Tom Edson, Physical Education Testing Cuurd inatur, Riverside County Schoo ls Office, 4015 Lemon Stree t, P.O. Box 868, Riverside, CA 92502, Phone: (714) 787-6431.

Apr. 29; 30, May 1 National AAU Senior Elite Championships, Me n and Women, Exact site not determined as yet but wi ll be he ld in Philadelphia, contact AAU. May 6, 7, 8 Age Group Program USGF Junior National Championships, Site undete rmin ed. May 13, 14, 15 USA Olympic Womens Trials at Los Ange les Sports Arena. May 20 and 22 Me n's Olympic Trials, University o f Californ ia, Berke ley, Ca li forn ia. August 6-9 National AAU Jr. Olympic Championships, Boys and Girls, Me mphis State Unive rsity, Memphi s, Ten n. (ontact : I\I\ U.

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Unofficial Sche dule For the USGF Elite Program 1975-76

Oct. 31-Nov. 1 1st Regional Elite Qualifying Meet. Dec. 5-6 1st Nationa l Elite Qualifying Meet.

Jan . 16-17 l nd Regio nal Elite Qualifying Meet. Feb. 6-7 l nd National Elite Qualifying Meet. Mar. 4, 5, b USGF Women's Committee National Elite Championships. Apr. 9-10 M,lSte r Elite Meet. May 13, 14, 15 Olympic Tria ls. July 5-14 Depolrture for Olympic Games.

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