No comments about TUMBLE X (The Ultimate Training Guide for both Coaches & Athletes!!).

1 comments about Baby Pro: Let's Dance & Tumble: Cheerleading - Dance - Gymnastics Sports (2005).

1. I have a 15 month old daughter who enjoys watching videos which show children being active. Music and Action are a must to keep her attention. When I first popped this DVD into the player she watched for a few minutes but then decided her toys and books were more fun. The next time I played it she was sitting in her highchair eating a snack and since she was trapped - she watched. She laughed and clapped as the toddlers jumped, cheered and danced across the screen. She has since become my little cheerleader, and has learned how to use her little blankies as Pom-Poms! It is quite adorable. I will definitely buy another DVD in this set!

1 comments about NBC Sports Presents: Atlanta's Magnificent Seven- The Grestest Moments Of The Gold Medal Winning U.S.A. Women's Gymnastics Team.

1. Do not buy this video if you want to really see what happened during the gymnastics competition in Atlanta. This video features a very brief review of the competition, with NO full routines or original commentary. Instead you get a poorly put together "fluff" piece of the events. Fancy music plays over the spliced together routines and some random guy talks about the competition. I have the original broadcast of the gymnastics events from Atlanta and this doesn't even come close.

1 comments about Mastering Men's Gymnastics: Beginning Skills and Progressions.

1. As an adult, I found this DVD extremely helpful in mastering the basic skills. The tips are laid out in an easy to understand, sequential form that I apply to my training each and every class.
   
   The video is clear and concise and would be of great help to any gymnastics beginner.
   
   A strong 5 stars!

1 comments about Gold Medal Gymnastics Drills: Beam.

1. I have bought complete set of Gold Gymnastic Drills (first bought Beam and Floor, then decided to buy Bars and Vault too). All videos are great and helpful for coaching beginner gymnasts. There are many nice tips and pointers for drills and conditioning, every drill is explained progressively, step-by-step, moving from simpler forms to complete complex forms (you just have to watch and listen good, and definitely re-play every video in slow motion and/or several times).
   
   These DVDs show limited set of drills, but Amanda Borden explains them quite well - better than many others.
   
   DVD 1 chapters - Bars:
   01 - Body Position
   02 - Casting
   03 - Glides - Glide Kips
   04 - Front Hip Circle
   05 - Shoot Throughs
   06 - Squat On
   07 - Underswings
   08 - Tap Swing
   09 - Flyaway
   10 - Clear Hip Circle
   11 - Baby Giant
   12 - Full Giant Circle
   13 - Straddle Back
   14 - Pirouettes
   
   DVD 2 chapters - Beam:
   01 - Beam Complex
   02 - Balance Fundamentals
   03 - Handstands
   04 - Jump Drills
   05 - Leap Drills
   06 - Turn Drills
   07 - Cartwheel
   08 - Level 6 Skills
   09 - Beam Tumbling
   10 - Back Handspring
   11 - Connected Series
   12 - Dismount Series
   
   DVD 3 chapters - Floor:
   01 - Floor Complex
   02 - Back Extension Roll
   03 - Front Limber
   04 - Round Offs
   05 - Back Handspring
   06 - Flipping
   07 - Tumbling Drills
   08 - Twisting
   09 - Front Tumbling
   
   DVD 4 chapters - Vault:
   01 - Plyometric Drills
   02 - Speed Drills
   03 - Running Drills
   04 - Hurdles
   05 - Board Position
   06 - Heel Drive
   07 - Blocking
   08 - Tsukahara Vault
   09 - Yerchenko Vault
   
   I would recommend these DVDs for coaches and young gymnasts.

3 comments about Intermediate Gymnastics for Girls: Preparing for the Team.

1. This was a gift to my grand daughter who already had one like it so she did not want this one and I returned it. So to be honest I do not know how to rate it.



2. I am a team gymnastics coach, and I am always looking for new, innovative training tips. Most of this was review for me, but Steve Nunno had some good ideas that I have implemented since watching. I wasn't impressed with the caliber of the athletes (I hope mine will have better form!), but this was an interesting one-time watch. I would also not recommend this to athletes as a training tool. The skills are explained, but not broken down enough to show how to train for good form, and most of the drills should not be done without direct supervision of an experienced coach.
   For example, back handsprings on beam are addressed like this:
   Have the athlete start on a line, then a floor beam with panel mats, floor beam, high beam. Yes, we know that, but what makes a handspring technically sound? What are some drills?
   I ordered the advanced dvd, also, which was more informative, but very similar to the intermediate in that skills are shown in slow and fast-motion, but the mechanics of the skills are not reviewed.



3. This dvd was presented in a conscise and easy to follow, understandable format. It shows moves in slow motion as well as natural movement so you can really see each action. The coach explained why he does things the way he does.
   He shows ways to help his gymnasts overcome fears of an apparatus. We really enjoyed it and bought the beginners and advanced dvd's too. We also showed our gymnast coach who also found it to be of benefit.

3 comments about Beginning Gymnastics for Girls: Skills and Progressions.

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



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



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

5 comments about Perfect Body.

1. 
   I had bought this movie along with the DVD "Dying to be thin" which I found to be much more enjoyable to watch.
   
   Perfect Body is about a girl athlete who was forced into the world of eating disorders. I found it disappointing that even though many people were saying how she was "too thin". The only thing different about her was the makeup on her face to make her appear gaunt and malnourished.
   
   Overall the movie was okay but I could only watch it once.



2. Not only was the acting horrible, but the process from being a normal teenage girl to a weight obsessed gymnast was not believable at all. Basically, the middle part was fine. The beginning and ending to this movie did not flow. I was not convinced she had an eating disorder.



3. Welcome to Andie's world. A world of school, training and eating disorders. Andie Bradley is a high achiever who accels at anything she does. When she gets the chance to train with an Olympic coach and has the opportunity to go to the Olympics, she jumps at it. Only after her and her mother relocate to Seattle does the pressure begin. In the most humiliating moment of her life she's put on scale in front of the entire gym and told to lose weight. So she does. Only she couldn't stop once she started. Thus, begins her spiraling downwards into the devestating world of anoroxia and bulmia. This is very well made movie and highlights the stress and strain that female athelites feel and the pressure to be thin and perfect. This is not your average movie. The stress Andie feels is acurately portrayed and the pain of her parents is raw and real. This movie achieves its goal to tell a story in a thoughtful and compelling way.



4. This movie was excellent, the acting was impressive for a lifetime movie, it was good to see Amy Jo Johnson back in film.



5. I love buying things here, its such an excellent service, and you can find whatever you want :D
   And what can i say about the movie, it one of the greatest movies ever

5 comments about Stick It.

1. From the Bring It On Crew I should have known this one would better than it appears . It was. Very current plot and fun time watching the movie but nothing that require paying total attention its just fun to watch. Not Bring it On but in the same sort of type movie. Always a happy ending ! Interesting theme picking on Judges of gymnastics.



2. This is a great movie if you're into gymnastics or dance. Even if you're not, it really inspires you to do it--but remember, it's not called "gym-NICE-stics."



3. This is an energetic movie that will brighten your mood. No big surprises, no high art, but well done and entertaining. And it has good politics. Fun to watch and rewatch.



4. My 3-year-old boy loves this movie. That means I have seen it at least 50 times. I can still watch it, and I still find things I haven't seen before - probably because I'm always having to get up to get something for someone during the movie. Our first disk got scratched, somehow, so we're ordering a 2nd.



5. Stick it is a fun movie to watch with teenagers, especially if they are interested in sports and have lived through the arduous work-outs of gymnastics.
   
   The main character, Haley Graham, beautifully played by Missy Peregrym, is a troubled teen who walked out of a competition because her family was coming apart, but her friends think she simply quit, giving up her right to win first place. A rather amazing pirouette on a bike lands her in trouble with the police, and she is sentenced by a judge to either go to juvenile detention or to a gymnastics camp, and she soon finds herselfe under the tutelage of Burt Vickerman, played by Jeff Bridges, a trainer that is tough, demanding, will take nothing from her, and sees through her every manipulation.
   
   Burt Vickerman has the reputation of getting all his students injured, but as he says... "he has insurance to cover it." A love hate relationship is evident between coach and gymnast and soon we see Haley training to her potential, which is excellent. The other gymnasts are excellent characters, with some routines leaving us spell bound by their grace and aptitude. The battle between coach and student, between coach and judges, between a system of judging that leaves audiences upset by their lack of fairness are awesome. Don't miss this movie!

5 comments about Peaceful Warrior (Widescreen).

1. I absolutely loved this book, I never read a book so fast! It changed my outlook on life on how I choose to live and look at everything in my life. I can't believe how I got so caught up in my life and the world and forget all the beautiful treasures we have, i.e. listening to a bird song, looking at a tree and really seeing how beautiful it is. It was very informative about how we are to be a service to other people, how to deal with other people and how to live here and now! I've already loaned it to two friends. It is a treasure for keeps! I can't wait to read the next book.



2. To quote Don Henley, "what the head makes cloudy, the heart makes very clear." This movie helped me become more aware of how my logical, rational (but mostly irrational) thinking can handcuff me from executing on my deep desires. The journey is chosing what to listen to and believe about ourselves.



3. I was impressed with the performances and the message of the movie - especially since it's based on a true story. I didn't read the book so I don't know how closely the movie followed it. In any event, it was powerful. The characters were well-developed and have credibility. The one thing that I found puzzling was athletes who don't eat or drink healthfully. Even when they're adolescents, they prize their bodies so the drinking and junk food binging didn't make sense. It's definitely the kind of movie that helps to raise people's consciousness above the realm of self-destructive Ego. It's just what the world needs most.



4. Excellent movie. Followed the book very well. Nick Nolte was particularly good in it as was the younger man.



5. Book is much better, but that's how it usually is. They can't simply fit all of the book into the movie. Still for people who don't like to read much I guess it's an OK introduction to Dan Millman's books.