Modern Gymnast - April 1964

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RESULTS 1964 NCAA NATIONAL GYMNASTIC CHAMPIONSHIPS

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Dear Bill: Had you not suggested it, I would have

asked your permission to reprint your let­ter. I do consider we are friends and re­spect your right to your opinion .

Let us separate fact from fiction and reality from rumor. As for us using the entire magazine to condemn the AAU, this statement leads me to believe you are forming your opinions from sources other than the M.G . .. . HERE ARE THF FACTS: In the past year we have printed nine editions of the Modern Gymnast containing 332 pages of material. Of these, 51 pages were advertisements, 116 pages covered news and pictures other than USFG, 44 pages referred to news and pictures relating directly or indirectly to the Federation, 8j pages of instruction with no affiliation , 5 pages of AAU com­petition results and clinics, 6 pages of Fed­eration meets not covered in othe.r USGF reports and 18 pages of competition re­sults other than USGF or AAU . Also, we had 2 covers which were USGF, 2 partially Federation and 4 covers with no affilia­tion or mention of the USGF. This comes to 322 of the 332 pages leaving 10 pages for table of contents, credits, small ads, notices, etc. Which all adds up to a to­tal of 55 pages of Federation copy .. hardly 100 % .. . actually less than 17 % . These a re facts, not heo rsay.

Regarding stressing trampoline inter­nationally, yes the USGF has done this for a purpose. The federation does not claim to have international recognition in Gymnastics (not at the moment a!ly­woy). However trampolining, which is part of the USGF program, has never been ac­cepted by the FIG, therefore the US Gym­nastic Federation hos been in a positive position to help promote the sport inter­nationally by sending 4 different Federa­tion teams on exhibition and competition tours of Europe and Africa in less than, a year. This is just a sample of what will be done for the All-Around performer when the USGF becomes the recognized administrator for USA Gymnastics Inter-

nationally (not for just the vast majority of US Gymnastics who already support the USGF)' Then you will see many USGF teams touring the world AND THE USA as well as invitations for foreign. teams to compete and tour here in America . . . Not just on the Eastern seaboard, but all across the continent so all will see and benefit from these international visitors.

The USGF is just a little over a year old, and you state there have been ques­tionable 'prQctices initiated . . . sounds like more hearsay ... but if there ore, SPELL THEM OUT and I will personally see thot they are brought up before the USGF council.

You asked us to ignore gymnastic jur­isdictional disputes in the M.G .. .. Would you ask a doctor to ignore concer symp­toms in 0 patient, just pretend they do not exist and hope they will go away? Sorry, we cannot do this . It was not a snap decision on our part to back the Federation concept . It was the result of much forethought and years of association with gymnasts, coaches and officials throughout the USA (Which includes the mid-west and east). This is what they wanted and I too' believe in the USGF, and its purpose and its ultimate victory as the guiding force for Gymnastics in the USA. This is my stand, and I cannot in good conscience, for the best interest and future of Gymnastics in America, do otherwise.

Mony want to sit back and wait and and see and not get Involved, but if you are in Gymnastics, you ·are involved. So, stand up and be counted as a voice in "GYMNASTICS FOR ALL THROUGH THE USGF" ond help get the job done so we can all PIIIl together for a better national gymnastics program throuahout these UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Sincerely, Glenn Sundby, Edito r

P.S. Please take note we put this on the editorial page.

THE MODERN GYMNAST is publ ished by American Physico I Fitness Research Institute, Inc., 410 Broadway, Santa Monica, California . Application to mail at second class postage rates is pend ing at Santa Monica, Cal if. Published monthly except . June, August and October which are combined w ith the prev ious month's issue. Price $4.50 per year, SOc single copy. Subscripti on correspondence , THE MODERN GYMNAST, P. O. Box 611, Santa Monico, California. Copyright 1964 by AMERICAN PHYSICAL FITNESS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., 410 Broadway, Santa Monica, California. All pictures and manuscripts submitted become the property of THE MODERN GYMNAST unless a return request and sufficient postage ore included.

BEST GYMNASTS OF 1963 Report Translated from "Gymnastika"

The Swiss Information Service "Sporting­Special" attempted to compile a list of the best gymnasts of 1963 according to the results for last year. That this is only an attempt is mentioned before himd : "Each evaluation of the performances in the sport of gymnastics depends upon the subjective opinions of the judges. For this reason the attempt to set up a list of the best world gymnasts is not without problems. Especially since c·omparison of achievements is made even more difficult by the frequen t great disparity of measure. Perhaps never before, however, did anyone gymnast dominate the world scene with so rare a showing as did the invincible 26 year old J apanese, Yukido Endo durin l! last year. Strength, endurance, nerves of steel, fl exibility, daring and elegance are combined to an extent not found in any other individual. At the present time he is without a doubt, the best world gymnast and must for this reason be ·considered the great favorite for the 1%4 Olympic Games in all disciplines. Row firmly the Japanese strengthened their leadin g position in the pre-Olympic year is

Yukio Endo

proven by the fact that in the first 10 gym· nasts including Endo and six other Japan· ese: Ona, Yamashita , Mitsukuri, Tsurumi, Rajat and Nagasaw, there are only Snaklin and Kerdemelidi of the Soviets and Yugo· slav champion of Europe Cerar. It is diffi­cult to say which of these will be Endo's greatest rival in Tokyo-all of them are superb contenders. It is perhaps surprising that, at tlie top , we do IlOt find the Ilame of the 1962 cham·

pion Yurij Titov. He has devoted himself, since the Prague competitions, to finishing his studies and for this reason hardly ever participates in competitions. In the second 10, it is impossible to over­look the performance of the Soviet gym­nasts. It is a fact that the Soviet gymnasts before all others, represent, as before, the grea test danger for the Japanese. Beside Capenka, Lisicky, Leontev, Stolbov and Ma­kurin there are the young Japanese Kato and Nakajama; Italians, Carminucci and Menichelli and for the first time among the twenty best, is Chinese J u Lie-feng. In the third group it is necessary to gl) so far a5 to name all those that belong in the fifty best. Here again are shown both leading gymnastic groups with their inex­haustible reserves. Japan has Aihara, Mac­umoto Abeh Watanab, Kuriharu , Kenmota, Aib, Aizaw~, the Russians have Stojda, Arkajev, Miligul , Bogus, Gromov and Azar­jan. Then we have the American Lynn, Ton­~y, Sakamoto; Chinese Liao J ung-tien .and Chang-chien; Czechoslovaks have GaJdos and Stastny; Nor. has Storhaug; Poland has Rokosza' the Fins have Kestola ; Bul­garia has P~odanov; Hungarians, Czanyi ; NDR has Fulle and Koste; and West Ger­many has Furst. The obvious proof that there is such a great number of those whose qual­ities comply with the Iiighest international requirements, is the fa ct that even the world champion vaulter, Krbec, OlympIC cha~n­pion on the side horse, Ek~an from ~mJ land and the European nng champlOn Kapsazovof Bulgaria , could not be included among the first 50 great gymnasts."

GYMNASTICS CLINIC FOR WOMEN TEACHERS AT FLORIDA STATE

UNIVERSITY Durin« the summer of 1964, an activities clinic for women physical education t~ach~rs will be held at Florida State UmversIty during the three weeks period , .J une ~2 to July 10. Gymnastics and tumblmg wIll .be offered during the clinic. Alth.ough skIlh will be stressed, the offerings WIll be meth­ods courses, emphasizing techniques .of teach­ing the specific activties, and WIll c.over theoretical aspects to the degree permItted by the time limitations. Each ?f the courses (there will also be courses m dance and track and field available) will be conducted as a laboratory experience and will car:y one semester hour or undergraduate cred.lt. For further information on the course w~'Ite to Dr. Hartley Price, Professor of PhysIcal Education and R ecreation , Florida State Un iversity, Tallahasseee, Florida.

NEW ENGLAND GYMNASTICS STILL GROWING

According to Dick Aronsen the Ne,~ England High School gymnastics program IS gettmg bi ««er and big«er. There are now over a 100'" dual meets ~vith 24 schools fi elding COI:n' petition teams and 6 still on ~he club baSIS. The boys are doing everythmg from full twisters in Floor Exercise, Altern.ate full s in tumbling, eagles on the H-bar , gIants and twistin g flyaways on the rings, and cast supports and planches on the P-bars (and F-X). . h' The' recent New England ChamplOns . IpS were packed with entrants from SprIng­field , Univ. of Mass., Southern Conn. , Col­lege, Yale and hi gh school gymnasts. The women had the most en tries they have had in years and the Corrigan girls were out· standing. . I' I As for the girl s Mass. has an ex tensIve llg 1 school and college dual meet program as well as a state meets.

GYIVINASTICS FOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IN LOS ANGELES

By Frances L. Chapman, Supervisor Girls' Pbysical Education

In 1960 the Junior and Senior High School Girls' Physical Education teachers. were authorized by the Secondary CurrIculum Council of the Los Angeles City. Schools to develo\)' an experimental teac~mg un~t in Gymnastics , Stunts and Tumblmg. ThIS authorization was a milestone of progress in planning physjcal education pro!?rams. to meet the needs of junior and semor h1gh school girls. Today modern gymnastics. is becoming an essential part of our phYSIcal education program because of its dema!lds in timing, coordination , grace of actlOn , strength , and the increased control of body movement. Presently 60 girls' physical education teach· ers are having the exciting ' expen ence of studying "artistic gymnastics," stunts, and tumbling with Mrs. Margaret Koron~h , Olym­pic Gold Medal Winner, and con.sultant and instructor of the ,bnerican PhYSIcal ~Itness Research Institute. At the concluslOn of their course, they will be ready to teach th is extremely beautiful , feminine type of ac· tivity to girls in our seco?dary schools. Mrs. K orondi is being aSSIsted by Mr.~ . Maria Sasvary, presently a teacher at Sout.h Gate High School in Los Angeles. At t?I8 time 18 junior high schools and 16. sem?r hi«h schools are offering gymnastICS 1:1

th;ir «irIs' physical education programs, and I feet sure this number will increase each year as more teachers qualify as instructors of Gyinnastics.

FISHEYE PHOTO PiCtured below is an interesting photo of

a Gymnastics meet in progress at Penn State University recently. This photo was

taken with a most unusual camera with a fisheye lens and sent to us by Coach Gene Wettstone for us to pass on to you the MG readers all over the world. P erhaps in the future we will see other special effects in gymnastic photography using this and ot~er cameras and techniques which are contm· ually being brought to the attention of the photographic world.

WEDDED

IVIr Robert H aldeman . former captain of S prin'gfield College's gyn;nastic team and an outstanding physical education maj or at Springfi eld was marr ied in Baltimore on April 4, 1964. Seen in the weddin g was A. Bruce Frederick who on this ve ry day celebrated his own wedding anniversary . The bride is the fonner Miss Gail MacGregOl of Baltimore who will teach phys ical ed­ucation in Cleveland. Ohio whi le husband Bob com pletes his wO;'k for the Mast er's de­i!ree at Western Reserve.

The father of the bride was formerly himself a captain of the Springfield Col­lege Gymnastic Team. Coach Leslie J. Judd was one of the honored guests as well as a number of Springfield College gymnasts.

National Assaciation of Coll ege Gymnastics Coaches

Join now for the 1964-65 season; included in all up to date memberships wil l be ou r FIRST official pin adopted at the National meeting in Los Angeles in March. (First pins won't be ready f or 5 wee ks) Active members ......... .... ................... $2.00 Associate members (non-college Coaches)

.... ........ $1.00 Send to: Sam Ba il ie, Sec. Treas. N .A.C.G.C. 2145 Calle Polar, Tucson , Arizona. N otes:

I. Please send results of all Champion­ships f or publication in the annual High­li~hts magazine to Sam Bailie. Sec. Treos.

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Gary Erwin, Michigan University and Danny Millman, Berkeley, California receive their trophies during the award ceremonies with a fanfare provided by the famous Trumpeters of the Life Guard.

FEDERATION ATHLETES WIN 1ST AND 2ND AT WORLD

TRAMPOLINE CHAMPIONSHIPS Two U.S. Gymnastic Federation spon·

sored athletes, Danny Millman, Berkeley, California and Gary Erwin, University of Michigan finished first and second in the First World's Trampoline Championships held March 21st in London, England. Judy Wills of Baton Rouge, Louisiana captured the womens title edging out Linda Ball of England in the finals . Marijhe Van den Boorgard, South Africa, was the winner in the consolation round. In all, 40 ath· letes from 12 different countries competed.

NEW TYPE OF COMPETITION For the first time in Trampolin(l com·

petition, a double elimination tournament was held in place of the usual gymnastic· type scoring system. Participants competed in direct man·to·man competition with win· ner s advancing to the next round and the losers dropping back to the losers consola· tionbracket. By the nature of the com· petition, the competitors enthusiasm and spectator interes t increased as the meet pro· gressed, climaxed with the keenest com· petition and the top performances in the semi-finals and finals.

Competitors performed by pairs, each presenting an optional ten bounce routine and remained on the Trampoline until the judges announced their decision. The judges had only to decide which competitor was the winner in each competing pair. The de· cision was immediate and flashed to the audience with either red or blue cards, cor· responding to the colors' on the Trampo· lines. Jutlges for the meet included Syd Aaron (Wales ) , Kurt Baechler (Switzer· land) , Dr. Heintz Braecklein (West Ger· many) , Dr. D. 1. Gerrit sen (Holland) , Rob Walker (England ), Dr. Newt Loken and J eff Hennessy (USA).

The new method of Trampoline compe· t itian was well accepted by both the offi· cials and the competitors, even though manv had preconceived ideas carried over frOl;1 gymnastics, diving and other sports.

Although man·to·man competition would probably not be appropriate for most gym· nastic events, it proved to have several im portant and uni que advantages for Tram· polining :

1. Direct competition between two per· formers makes for more vivid and keener personal competition than mere· Iy performing for points.

2. A Trampoline routine takes only about 15 seconds so that direct competition between two persons, including time for the judges decisions can be com· pleted in less than one minute.

3. Since skill and timing (not long en· durance ) are more important factors. a Trampoline competitor can perform his top routine several times during a short period of time.

4. Double elimin ation allows each com· petitor to compete at least twice.

5. Because of the speed and effi ciency of a meet, one match or competition can be held at a time, retainin l!: the un· divided attention of the audienre.

6. The same judges can be used for all matches.

7. Auxiliary pra c. ti ce Trampolines are not necessary since competition is con· centrated into a short period of time. All practice workouts can be held prior to the start of the meet.

The success of the First World's Tram ­poline Ch ampionship was due. in no small way, to the or l!:anization and planning of Ted Blake. Manal!:er of Nissen Tram po· line Comp~ny, Ltd., and the British Ama· teur Gymnastic Association. Plans are al· ready made fo~ next years meet to be held in London ' on J anuary 30th, 1965.

EW FEDERATION Followin g th ~- competition , an organiza­

tional meeting was held for the purllose of forming the International Federation of Trampolining_ Officials from every com­petin g country, includin g Dr- Newton Loken and J eff Hennessy of the United Sta tes, wer '! in attendance. A fter some discussion regard· ing the various implica tions of ~ u ch a fed­eration, the following resolutions was passed:

Resolved that, 1. A meeting in Frankfurt in Jul y will

be held to continue the for mulation of an International Federation of Tram· llolining.

2. That representatives of the organiza tions assembled at that meeting consider that the position regarding Trampo· lining is not sufficiently clear at pre· sent to de termine the question of in­ternational representation and there· fore sugges t that all official organiza· t ions representative of Trampolining shall be invited in a year's tim e or when sufficiently clear the new fed· eration will then have to decide how they lIre going to determine interna· tional representation.

3. The passing of this resolut ion im nlie­that the International Trampolin e Fed· eration is established.

Before this resolution was put to the vote each delega te asked, " Do you have the authority from your ol"!!anization to vo te on this resolution" and the answer from all was "Yes".

The feeling of the meeting in l!:eneral also was that there should be a world Tram­lloline Championshil) held every vea r- and tha t the first consideration of the Feder· ati on should be the develollment of th <' sport with control comin g later-

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GYMNASTICS FEDERATION

USGF Trampaline team on tour in South A fr ica. Photos t a k en by Olle A reborn p r ior to a match in DLlfb in, S.A.,

REPOHT FI{ (r'l 1 S(WT H AFRICA

The LS.G.F. Tramp oline Team is currently wra pping up their p: rea t tour of SOL"TH A FR rCA. They are, according to repor ts received here. makin p: fr iends a t every stop. FRANK SC HMITZ. of Southern Illin ois l -ni ve rsity is nO\\" Trampoline Champion of SOl T H AFRICA, with runner­up positi on go ing to STEVE JOH :\SO:\ of Manitou Springs. Coloraclo. In the ,r omen's Competiti on it was NANCY SMTTH. of the L S.G. F. I Svcamore. Tilinois) in first place.

Hesults of the JOH Al\l\ES I111 RG contest :

TH E FIH ST Sm -TH AF IHCA GAMES Compulsory Op tional

1st Place SC HMITZ Il iSeF ) ... _9.55 9.65 Mens - 2nd Place JOHl'{SO:\ (USe F) __ 9.15 9.45 Womens- l st Place SM ITH I CSCf) ____ ___ _ 9.25 9.45

Although the yo ungsters are winning the yast majority of their letters indicate that they are most impressed with the hospitality, the wa rm reaction of the vast crowds that have been watchin'g their performances at every stop I avo eraging 5,000) and the kindness and consideration being shown them by the hosts. It is a grea t educa tional ex peri. ence for the tea m members . . . a step in the right direc­ti on for improved sports·relati ons between our two nations and definitely a m'uch needed shot in the arm for tram­polining. In the yea rs to come let us hope we ca n continue to send and host such teams, includin g all·around per· fo rmers an d tr ampo lini sts.

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HERE'S A WR AP LOP OF THE 1964 COLLEGE SLASOi\

THE W ESTEn:\ ATHLETI C CO]\TEREl'{CE (Wyoming, Ari zona State. Arizona. l -tah. Rri gham Youn g and l'{ew !Vrexico) was \\ on by the n\ l vd~SITY OF ~ A RTZO,\A. Coach Sa m Bailie. -TH E RIC SIX COl\ FEI{ Ei\CE (Washington. C S.c. . CA Ll­FOR:\ IA. Stanford , L C.L. A. , Washingt~n State) ,,;as won by TH E l -\i IVmS ITY OF WASHI NGTO l'{ . Coach Eric Hu p:hes. THE SO LTHEH:\ I:\T EIi COLLEG JAT E CHAM PIONS HTP was wo n by DAV ID LI PSCOMB COLLEGE of :\ashville. Tennessee ~oach ed lw Tom Han vey. . THE EASTER\' I:\TEHCOLLEGIAT E CHAMP IONSHIP was won by TEMPL F C \, IVER STTY . Coach Ca rl Patter-son. TH E BIG El C HT CO:\F F: RE:\CE r HAM PTO:\SHIP was \I on b,- l ' i\TVE RSITY OF :\ EBR ASKA. Coach Jake Geier. TH F. \_A .l _A_\ali r llla l (' haml)i on:: hi p was won h,- \I;' FST­rR l\ ILLl l\OTS l' i\ IVF.HSITY just one-half point ovpr GEOR r; TA SOl -THEn:\ COU EG E. roach Doh CIO\\" (\Vn - ) alld Pat Yeap:e r (GSC) . THE :\rAA COu.rr. r ·DT VISTOi\ n -f AjVIPTOi\SHT P ,\"as won b,VrA:\ T-: ATO STATE COLLEGE. Coach Don Lan,!! . dOll .

THF. L S.C .F. COVE H:\I'\G (()l' :\ClL will meet Apri l 17th in TO\\ ' .'\ CITY _ Iowa in conj uncti on with the T-SC r :\ati onal Champi onshi ps. On the slate are electi ons of new offi ce rs. di scussion of rules or principles of administra ti on. and pla ns for th e f" ture. :\ex t is!' ue of th e M.C. will ca rn­res ults of th e meelill ,!!: .

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1964 IS OLYMPIC YEAR ... an d thi s October will see nea rl y one milli on visitors throng to TOKYO for th e la rgest of sports spectac les. THE l".S .G.F. TOn~ is offe rin ~ tll" O depa rture da te" ... one o f Il"hi ch covers th e oDenin ll cer ­emoni es and the other co ,'e rs ju~ t the gymnast ics comneti­ti on. On e la sts a pproxima tel" a month and one iu ~ t two weeks. Write: LS.(;'F. OLYMPI C. Tm -R . . . P.O. Box 4699, n -CSOi\. ARTZO\-.A.

THE Mli\NfSOTA FLOOR EXEHCI SE MEET ... was held !Vlarch 14th in :Vlinneapoli s, Minn ., with fi ve di visions fo r Gi rl s a nd three fo r boys . The meet was condu cted at Burnsville Hi gh Sch ool. in Minnesota and was sa nction erl by th e l i.S .C.F. Thi s is a n annual event and one o(the fin est developmental ac ti viti es held in the i\o rthwest. The success of thi s meet in 1964 i<; fl di stin ct tribute to th e mell1be r, hi ll o f the :Vll N i\TSOTA GY.VJi\ASTI CS ASSOC I ATION. Their e ffo rts in keepin g thi s 1964 competition on the hi gh edu'­cational plane in which it was condu cted a re grea tl y a ppre­ciated. 1 ' .S .G. F. cong ra tulati ons to the M .G.A. for thei r fin e prog ram a imed at development of yo un g Amer ica n gymnasts fr om th e ages of ten to seventeen. My th anks to MR. P. T. iVll' CKf.. Sec reta ry of the MGA. for hi s fin e report.

THE MEMP H IS CYi\J\ASTI CS CHAMP IOi\SHIP (T en­n e~see) was conducted with three divisions for bo l's and g irl s. Girls Di"is ion was " 'on b y th e Second Presb yte ri a n Church Tea m. ::econd place '.,·ent to the Idle ll'ild Presb l'ter­ian Church and third place to the TW. Lewis Y.M.C.A. tea m. This meet is now an an nual event and it sh ows th e interest being de"e1oped in th e S tate of TEi\NESSEE. This developmental ac ti vit y is pa yin g off in pruducing great yo ung performe rs in th e South. As mentioned ea rli e r the Southe rn Inte rco ll egia tes lI'e re won bv a Coll ege team fr om i\ashvill e, T enn .

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THE ] 964 WESTEI{ I\ ATHLETIC CONFEREi\CE . .. championship was ho ted by ARIZON A ST ATE l ' i\ [VER­STTY at Tempe. Host Coach NORRIS STEVER SO \ did an excell ent job o f running the tw o day compet iti on. This was the second year of th e 'V AC Conference meet and the streng th o f th e fiv e co mpetin g teams was n oti ceabh improved. Coach Steve rson utili zes a unique tea m a nd individual sco ring boa rd that shows th e a udi ence th e las t individu a l sco re ~ nd the funn in g tea m sco re imll1ecliateh afte r the las t ma n works in an e~'e nt. The 1965 WA C meet will be hosted IlI- Rri gha ll1 Young l ·niversit y .

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THE FIH ST \.A. L A. \AT IO\ AL GYMi\AST ICS CHA :VJ­P[Oi\SHIP ... was hos ted b y FT. HAYS KA\ SAS STATr COLLEGE. at Hays, Kansas. Host Coach for th e c,ompe­tit ion was ED \!Jc;\E I L. and Ed did a g reat job of o rga niz­ing th e Coaches a nd Officials meetin gs and th e mee t itse lf. \ine school s took part in th e competition a nd it appears th at th e \ A IA 1l1f'f' t lI' ill be ilTo lI'ing in th e yea rs to comE'. Coac h \ Ilc\ eil lI'as kind enough to arran[!e a real I\: a nsa-· type blizza rd for the sake of P~t Yeage r's t ~am from Georgi:l South e rn since Pat' s team had neve r seen the rea l thin" . The spirit of the mee t was excellent. Coaches and Offic ial s met a t eve ry oppo rtunity to talk about the rul es . procedure~ and pla ns for th e future . Co ngratul a tions to all those pre­sent fo r thi s first champio nship and to Coach i\ifc\ eil a nd Ft. H ays State Coll ege for th e g rea t j ob l

NAIA CHAMPIONSHIPS

Host, Coaches, Gymnasts and Judges

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RESEARCH and FITNESS

RESEARCH and FITNESS

by James S. Bosco, PhD. San Jose State College

This is the second oj a series 0/ articles dealing with gymnastics and mlotor jitness. Readers are reminded to submit research reports or comm ents dire ctly to the M.G . R esearch and Fit· ness Editor Dr. James S. Bosco, San Jose State Col1ege , San j ose , Cali/ornia.

Editor's No te: It was interes ting (see table ) that the

gymnasts scored higher than any group of athletes tested in vertical jump. Cym· nasti cs is often cr iticized as an activ ity which develops the upper body at the ex· pense of leg development.

Vincent Di Giovanna "The Relation 0/ Selected Structural and Functional Measures to Success in

College Athletics," The Research Quarterly, 14.t}99, 1943.

The individual who tends to succeed in college gymnastics is one who compared to the average individual's patte rned as follows : s ubstantially smaller in height, leg length , and hip breadth , substantia ll y la rge,. and stronger in arm girth , right grip, back force, leg force, arm pull , arm push, total force and much greater in explosive power.

Tn genera l te rms, gymnasts may be de· scribed as being moderately shorter, sub· s tantially more muscular and stronge r and much more powerful than the ave rage col· lege student.

P RPOSE The purpose of the s tud y was to determine

the rela tion of se lected structural and fun c· ti ona l measures to success in each of sev· eral sports; namely, base ba ll , basketbal l, foo tball , gymnastics, tennis and track and fi e ld and to locate patterns or combin ations. METHOD

The subjects were co ll ege men bet ween 17 and 24 years of age. The basic data in· volved 836 student s from 6 universities and co ll eges. Obj ectivity coeffi c ients Wf! re ob·

tained by computing the produ ct moment coeffi cient of correlation of s ingle measure· ments made inde pendently on the sam e group of subjects. The stru ctural measures yielded correlation s hetween .92· .99 and the fun ctiona l te, ts !!ave correlations be· tween .80· .95. . I\ NALYS IS OF DATA

See attached stati sti ca l information. CONCLUSIONS

The gymnasts exhib ited real diffe rences from the normal (non·athl eticl group in fi ve st ruct ural s ix streng th and bot h power measurements.

They were small er in heigh t. leg leng t h. hip breadth and arm span and great er in ann gir th . right grip , back force. leg force. a rm pull. arm push. total force. verti cal jump and phys ical capacity ind ex.

All of the above s tructural and strentgh items exce pt arm span ( . . 27) had indice, of moderate magnitude whi le the power it ems had indi ces of great magnitude.

Sitting height ( .. 10 ) as compared to· .60 for height indi ca ted that moderat ely short legs were characteri s ti c of gymnast s. Thi < was verifi ed by an index of . . 63 for leg length.

MAGNITUDE OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EACH ATHLETIC GROUP AND THE NORMAL GROUP

IN STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL MEASUREMENTS

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1. 2. 3. 4 .

5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

10. 11. 12. 13 . 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.

Weight Height Sitting He ight Shou lder Breadth Chest Breadth Chest Depth Hi p Breadth Arm Girth Arm Span Vertica l Jump Right Grip Left Grip Back Fo rce Leg Fo rce Arm Pull Arm Push Tota l Fo rce Physical Capocity Index

Number of cases

a .0

~ o

a:J

.29 -.48 -.38 . 17 .30 .3 1

-.16 .56

- .44

.48

.40

.35

.20

.42

.57 .29 .51 .64

. 13

o .0

OJ -'" '" o

a:J

.8 1

.80

.52 .52 .37 .66 .4 5 .40 .62

1.09 .40 .44

.24

.55

.63 -06 .47

1.07

. 16

O-V; .0 -'" - u o a 0.0 u. _

.53 -.03 .12 . 17 .56 .72 . 19 .57

-. 12 .64 .33 .46 .52 .96 .59 .70 .97

1.05

.17

o .0_ - <lJ o C 0·­

u.;::;

1.47 .78 .57 .74 .90 .92 .36

1.27 .38 .44 .93 .80 .67 .92

1.03 .69

1.07 .92

. 19

'" .'!

'" o c E >-

19

-03 -.60 · . 10 .21 .19

-.18

-.52 .63

-.27 1.36 .52 .38 .52 .60 .67 .80 .75

1.19

. 15

'" c C <lJ f-

.17

.23 -.05 . 14

-.27 .2 1 .2 4

·.09 .03 . 11

.05 -.37 .03 .08 . 10

-.14 .09 .13

u.

.25

.39

.34 .2 1 . 14 .29 .09 .05 .41 .69 .25 .17 .41 .32 .3 2 .32 .42 .56

.12 .3 1

U)

::J U

'"

-o .r: Vl

1.62 .75 .49

1. 13 1.32 .95 .62

1.27 .91 .43

1. 94 1.72 1.53 1.08 .74 .86

1.52 1.06

.'! OJ -f o Cl. , ::J

§ e Z Ol

· .06 -.03

00 -.04 -.04 - .04

00 .06 00

-.07 -.06 -.05 · .06 - .08 -.01 -. 19 -.09 -.1 1

.07 .734

-o Cl. '" Cl. , ::J <lJ 0 C L

001

.39

. 11

.05

.21

.28

.25

. 19

.40

.1 8

.4 4

· .37 .30 .36 .42 .47 .44 .50 .0 1

.8 1

.53

.29

.46

.20

.35

.74

. 16

.62

. 10

.95

.50 . ]:3

.59

.88

.66

.40

.93 1.24

. 14

-o ~ w Cl. <lJ ::J L 0 .r: L

f- Ol

1.01 .51 .47 .86 .66 .83 .38 .63 .59

1.03 .77 .68 .67 .76 .35 .69 .93

1.)3

u

] -f o

Cl. o ::J - 0 o L

f-Ol

.45

. 17

. 16

.24

.32

.35

. 18

.43

.20

.55

.4 1

.35

.4 1

.51

.53

.46

.64

.7 1

.07 . 102

Note: The Indices of significance were inte rpreted as follows: From .00 ± .50 denotes a negligible or sma ll differ­ence; from ± .50 to ± 1.00 denotes a moderate or sub stantial difference; and from ± 1.00 and above denotes a ve ry grea t difference. A negati ve differe nce indicates that the normal group ha s the larger measurement whil e a positi ve index indicates a greater measurement for the ath letic g roup .

NATIONAL ASSOCIAT ION OF COLLEGE GYMNASTIC COACHES Los Angeles, California , M arch 26 . 1964

N. !\. c.e.c . MEETI NG HIGHLI C HTS h I' Salll Bailie

Th " hl',.1 uf the e ven in i\ was a ve r y fin c dinne r. Thi s thanks alon g with lII a n y o ther ,. i':ucs to Gordon M addux th e hos t coach a nd ,\1ee l Direc tor.

The hon ur coaches award wa; present ed to !\Ir. H e nry J . S midl. lVIr . S llIidl who re­tired ill 1957 aft e r 39 yea r:; of teachin ;! in Chi ca;!o publi c hig h school" was elec tl'd It) H e llll ~ Hall o f Faille in 1960. Hi , lea ll '" have won a lulal of 49 Champian ~hipE .

Th,' fir ,.1 uffi c ial N. A.C. C .C. pill wa:; pr,'­~e nl e d a nd a pproved by Ihose pre:;ent. Thi ,. will be ava ilabl ,' 10 all membe r!' in a houl fi ve wee b.

i\ II La,1 year, office r:; we re re-e lected. Pres idenl: Bill '11ead e, Sa ulllt'rn II I illtli ,.

Un iver sity Vice Presid enl: \Varn'n Ne i ~e r. Un iVl'I",. il \.

': f P,i~l sburgh, Sec.- I rea~ . : 5a lll Ba ilie. Uni ve rs il y of i\ ri ­zo na

U.s .G .F. Delegal e : Gene W ell slont'. Penn 5 1a le

Ne xi yf'a rs lII eel s ighl wa!' awa rd ,'d 10 SoUI"­ern I llin ois Uni ve rs il y for Ihe las l wee k in '.Iarch 1965 , IVl ee l Direc la r, Bill M eade,

The Coach of Ihe year prt'''e nlal iOIl wl' nl 10 IVlr, J erry T odd of Pa, adena C ity Col leg". \\·ho fa r sO lli e year s has had a pari in Ihe Il'ain ill ~ of Illany of our lead in~ f!:Y IllIlHst:-: and hi s lealll record i, nn e o f Ih e Iw,. 1 in Ih e nalion .

The local selection for coach of the yea r for the NIid-west went to Jake Geier of Univer sity of N ebraska and to Carl Patter­son of T emple University for the East.

: \ 'W I\' ~1',; 1 t' 1Il for in'di vid ual and lea m sl' l­ec lion for Ihe N ,C.A ,A , Championships ha,. been worked oul by Ill(' rules co mlllill ,'" Ilhe ba ~ i c!' of Ihi s sys lelll are Ih a l Ihe N ,C.A ,A, lealll lill e will bl' del ,' rrnin eri by head a nd head dua l lIlet' I ('o lllpel ilinn I as in ba ~k e l ba]]) and the indi vidual fin a l­i,.1 IIIU :;1 qu alify by regions,) F or de la il. ColI ­tac t your r r- prf'~cntati v(' nn Ih(· ruJcs. ('() Ill ­

,"ill ee, Hul ,' ~ CO llllllill ee '1Ie lllbcrs:

1. Gl enn \Vil son. U ni ve r:; il y of Colorado 2. T orn iV[a lony. \Vesl P oilll 3. Bob Kriedl e r. U ni ve rs ilv of C hi ca~o S, Dick H a lzae pfe l. U nivP;'s il y of '10\\'>1

6, Frank W olcolt. 5 prin~field Cn l h-~e

* U.5,C .F, n ' pllrl was mad" bv fra nk nan '. l e llin ~ of III<' progre;. and gH'a l , I r id" ,. whi ch have been mad e in Ihe pas l y,'ar . frank !(a ve a ll Ihe Crt'clil for Ihi , 1\'l'IIH' II ­dou , a ~hieve llH'1l1 tn tht·· cnac h'l' :-: and Il 'H(' II · (' r~ or 0111' ('ounlr\, . .. 'II ... C knn Wil son. lJni\·e .."il y (I f C" lurad " GYllln as li cs Coac h hm' Iwen a llPoinl ed a, Ih ,' N .A.c. e .c. n,'w,. r ep,' rln 10 Th e l\ l od t' r11 CYlll ll a..: l.

H (-,~t'a rl' h C 01ll111illl 'c : I I wa '" IHop(I :-o.( ·d and appro \'(·d In awa rd t WI!

N.I\ .c.e .c. honor IT ,.ear(' h a ward ,. for 196,1. "Ilt' 10 I", prpsenl en al Ihe Ea~ l e rn Ci ini, ' in 5 a ra,0 la and one 10 Ih " W "sle rn Clini ,' in Tu c"o ll . TI wa, al ,.o noled Ihat candid a l"!' ('ann ot :, uhlllil Ih e ir oulline, In hOlh Clinic,. rll r awa rd ::.

OTE

NACGC Off icers: left to r igh t , Warr en Neiger , Bill Meade, Sam Bail ie and Gene W ettst one.

Below: NACGC meetinq in progress, awards, presen tations, pro posol s, etc.

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Mitchell Line-up for final competition on Saturday night

TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL N.C.A~A.

GYMNASTIC CHAMPIONSHIPS 1904 NC AA CHA'IIrIO NSHJPS

Report by J erry Wrighl A" I s it here refl ect in !! back on Ihe mag·

nifi can ce Ih a t was the ' 1964 National col· legi a le GYlllllas ti cs Championships 1 find it diffi cult to do ve rbal justi ce tn the tre· mend ous di s play of gy mnasti c, th ai tholl' sa nds of rabid Los Angel es "pectators \Veri'

fortunate to witness. The beautiful Los Angele, State C" lIege

gymnasium was fill ed wi th an a ir of tre· mendous tension and a ppretlension th Ht made one. even a spectator , tingle wi th ap· prehension as the firs t preliminary event s began.

With 71 entries in FX. 29 in tramp. 78 in SH . 65 on HB. 68 on PB, 74 on LH , 35 in tumbling, and ' 74 on still rin gs the compe­tition began in a rather untidy fashion in the floor exercise with the first few com ­petitors a plJearin g to merely go through the

paces and clea rly showing why they were their teams fifth man. It was as early 3S

the FX event that the fir st indications be· came evident of the role the pressure was go ing to play in the competition. T he P enn State Gymn asts- showing unique and im· aginative floor exercise pat tern s were des· tin ed to low scores because of minor f1aw~ and even maj or breaks. It was quite ev ident Ih a t these a thletes were excellent gymnast, but thi s was not to be their day , with Isa belle the only one to qualify in this event.

The fir st signs of life were given by Rusly Mitchell as he mad e no bones abo ut the fa ct Ih at he was read y and picked off a 9.6. Mike Henderson, who tied for first las t year, could muster only 9.0 for a 6th place ti e. Tony Bautista , pic ture a feather floating across a wind·less sky, and you realize his 9.4. Last Contestant was Ron

Everyone worming up and ready t o go, Gymnasts, cameram en, announcers and judges.

Barak. Lackin g the flair of M itchell or I.:au tis ta , Ron , ne ve rtheless, packs a lo t of gymnas ti cs into 90 second s a nd was re­warded to the tun e of 9.25.

The trampolin e s tarted off wi th a bang-­de fendin!! champ ion Gary Erwin was the second ma n up a nd gave the appearance o)f a n olympic dive r as he recorded 9.45, from there on the Mi chigan trampolinis ts we re int erm ingled with r efu gees from the old tra mpoline school. No longe r w ill thi s titl e be won without impeccabl e form. 'John H am­ilton (9.5) led teammates Erwin and Saun­ders ( 9.3 ) into the final s ahead of H ery IIf Iowa ( 9.0) .

The side hor::e event was all Rusty Mills- ­no one else had a chan ce. Bill Nash of L.A. S tate Cullege surprised with a second place ti e with Cohn of T emple. A nd S teve P as ternak of S I U appeared to be unde r­scored at 9.2. H ere S teve Doty, Arizona 's fi ne performe r beca me the fir st major cas­ualt y as he slipped and fail ed to qualify for the final s.

The H ori zo nt al bar event was a nightmare - with Higg ins of the Air F or ce and Buck-

Higg ins

ner of USC the onl y two able to feel they did what they intend ed to do. Jacobson of P enn S ta te. the Eas tern lnte rcolle!! iate A ll aro und champ end ed hi s A-A hopes hv fa llin !! off- un l ikely as it may seem the a ll aro und was ve ry much decid ed as a r esult of the work in this event ... Isabelle main -

tsabelle

tamed a steady pace after falt ering on the s id e horse (but then who didn't falter on the side horse excep t Mill s ) to stand at 26.40 in the A-A . Dennis W olf . las t yea rs r unner-up q ualified 8th and Lascar i who ti t'd Wolf la st yea r qualifi ed 6 th. Tt seemed as though two- thirds of th .. 65 entries e ither ca me off the a ppara tus or had major break>. Barak led th e all -around aft er four event s wi th 27.15: rvfit chell had 26.55. Cohn 26.50. Curzi 26.35 a nd so on. Jacobson was fin-

ished a nd Cohn had missed hi s cha ncl' I,,· g(' 11 in g only 9.25 on s id e hors(·. hi s he< t event and ewryllne else:: weakes t. Th e bi g difference by now was that eve ryone of the top pe rform ers had had a hreak . but Barak '" on th l' h igh bar fa il ed to slow him dow n a" he still ;'ecord l' d 9.35.

On the Para ll el bars Ba ra k snowed hi ­oppositi on un de r wi th a 9.6 hea llt v. B il l Wolf broke for 8.9. [sabell e !'Iayed ' in at 9.2. Hu ckn t' r was "t ill the re at 9 .1 S. C urzi In" t !!rnlilHI at 9.0S. Qu int a nt lo;o t wi th fl.9S. Cohn broke aga in for 8 .8'i. !\ [i tch,, 11 f..JI hehind w ith 9.1 a nd ] acoh"o n fell c(l m­ple t" ly apar t with RA'i. r.rod Chin. Ca l'·, finl' P. Bar ma n had a f" w hrl'aks a nd Iw­(' anH' th e" ~ t' co n d ma jor ca ~ ua l t y hy failin g too qualify for the finals .

The L~n g H orse prod uced on e of tl lO' !'-a rld es t 1ll () lll e nt ~ thi s obser ver ha ~ e,:v(' r witness'ed in s port- Rusty :\[it che ll I how thi s fellow has improved in th e a ll -a round I was now in second place in the A-A behind Ba rak 36.75 to 35.75 . Bara k va ult s firs t a nd scores a good 9.2- again he vault s and breaks slightl y for 8.4, 8.4. 7.8, 8.6. Rus ty now could pull a lmost even with a 9 .. ~ average ( which he is ca pable of in thi s eve nt ) . Down he runs- and he trips-fall­in g int o the nea r end of the horse- score.' - zero, zero, zero, zero!!!!! T o lop it off hi s second va ult scores 9.55 but to n o a vai l . . . Rusty is now out uf t he A-A picture. By the way S id Oglesby- poss ibly the first n egro national colleg ia te gy mnasti c"

Ogtesby

cha mpion. ra n away with the prelimin a ri es a t 9.57.

The scene now shift s to the sti ll rin !!s a nd Bara k leads the Big T en ·A-A . ch ~m p i on Curzi from :\'li ch . S tat e 4.555 to 44.37 . Is­a be ll e hit s 8.8, Cohn fall s apa rt a t 7.8. Curz; up nex t . .. but he j ust is not up to it . .. as he manages onl y 7.9 to fall behin d Isabelle .. . Now Barak is up a nd he need" on ly to sco re som ething above 8.0 to wrap it up- scores 9.3, 9.3. 9.3, 9.3 a nd R on is the 1964 NCAA A ll-Around Cha mpion . No w the a ll ention is focused on the tre­tremendous d uel anti cipa ted on the still rin gs hetween Cooper. E"an". B . W olf. Z in ­kll' , Buckn er. Za hlll. H oppe r. Gaili s . Ehrl ich. a nd others. Evall'; is fl awless a t 9.6 .. E hr lich is ne xt up a nd practi ca ll " dupli-ca tes a t 9.55. Coo per i" nut quit e up to It a t 9.45 . but eve ryo ne say" jUc' t

Borak

wait until the final s Ga ili s ilit s 95 .. Za hm 9.4 an d H OPpl' r 9.4- fallin!! O il

hi " di smount. Hu , tl' }fit chell take" OVer the t umbl in !!

frolll a grea t fi e ld (6 doubl e backs) an ;1 'vc ,wa ril y leave tllP fi eld "f ba ttl e af te r R hours of gy llln a ~ 1 iC5-lookin !! forward In t he fin als . . .

And a trul y ma:.rni ficant evenin:r it wa :­.. The Finab of the 1964 NC;\ '\ Gym­

nast ic, Champion ships.

CBS Tel ev j s i ~n was there .. . 5,000 s pec­ta tors we re there ... about 60 of the fin es t colleg iate gymnasts in the coLlntry were thel'{! .. Gary Frank of K VOA-TV chan­nel 4 of Tucson and Chuc k K eeney were manning the announcer s mikes . .. Coach 's Bi ll Meade, J ack Beckner , and Newt Loken ha ve their pencil s r eady- with the team titl e up for grabs-and the fir st events a re floor exercise and trampoline . . .

Curzi

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:--IIulhl' rn Il linui, Ita , Iw .. 1I1t'n in lilt , FX , -"Ii ch. ha ;; li ne and USC ha, lin,': -" Ii (' h. ha, Ih l' lop Ihree qua lifier, Oil Iralllp"lill c. ::;llu lhcrn III. alld USC , havl' n 9 n ~ , The Tralllp"lille prllcl·,·ded I" bl' "lri('ll ), a _'''i ch­i ~· a ll ~ h(l w H:, Hamilton droPI H'd sO lll e •• 1'

hi , diffi cull v bUI \I'a" a lillie , ha"", Sa ulI ­lkrs lalld ed -vll hi ~ halld" alld kll (,c~ Vil hi , di,lll OUIlI a ll "w ill !! H en ' I.. I i, ' hilll f .. r Ihird alld Erwill ' IIIIIk all Ih,' Illarbr.. wilh a ' I' l'ndid roulillc alld a 9.6 .. pullill ~ a hl'ad IIf Halllill ,," b,' .2 of a poi lli.

III 11ll' Fl oor EXl'l'ci"c -"Iil (· he ll ~ Iarl l·d IIff wi lh a .2 kat! blll fl aul i, la pu l 011 Ihl' pre~:; urc ri~hl frolll Ihe ,Iart wi lh a ll cW'" Iwll t' r I'CrfOrlllallce I hall I he 11 i ~ h I bdll re a ll d racb'd up a 9.6:> Ihi " 1111\1' kal' l" RU :; I)' wi lh Ih l' probl elll (If ha v ill ~ III ,cn re at lea:-:t 9.-1.1 10 wi n HlI ~~ iall di \l' io :,(did Ilan,L-land. elc . .. , Irai!!hl arlll

. clc . r~ ff ful l I'll ff ff lav llul .

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alld l i'-;C 8.

Bat ista

Mills

TIll' , ide horse and i-Iorizoilial bar pro­" id('d all ullu sual conlras l . . Ihe one "\"l'1l1 ( hi !!h har l ,0 close alld so climali c. Ih l' II llwr' "0 un co lll e" led a nd anliclilllali c, 51eH' l'asll'l'llak was Ih e oill y co m1Je lili oll 1' (11' RIl , (v' -"I ilb n il " id c horse and il W H '

fc ll Ihal S I{'\"e was un derscored. Probahly nl'\"c r hefore ill Ih e hi slory nf Ihe mcel ha , o Ill' pl'l' fo l'llwr !;n comp lelely domillal cd all c,'(, 111 a, did Husl,· -"Iill " Ihe , ilk horse

~ fI {'l lilIpld c wa .~ I Ii (' rou tine IllHny of Ih ,' a ud i(' nl'" 'H' re (Ill Iheir fce l hefore he '1'11- [ini,h('d a lld rellla ill ed , Iand in !! 10 ap­"l a ud Iii , 9.8, 9.9. 9.9, 10.0 scor~s .

Hi ~" in,-Ih e hi !! 11 scorN ~oin ~ inl n Ih, ' hi ed( ' r'Jar final" ha'd Ih e mis forlu l;e In come UI; fir >' 1 and qni r kl v found him .. e ll· in Irlluhle I" IIIl' ('xle nl "I' an R.2S. Curzi (whc> ~" I'llI'm alld Illt'cilanit's J1l1l ~ 1 he cOlllpared fa'"· IIrahly \r itll I hal of C(' r a r-klH' l'~ fill nose nil iIlH'r,-('d ~ialll ~ for exa mpl e J wa~ ~n lll C' whal 1ll'1 .. \\" hi" "landaI'd bUI , Ia\,(' d ncar Ihc lo p. Iln l' kn l' r~ 'i n a lif, ' in ~ "rcon,i- hef':an \I' ilh d­fn rlit-" ,'a~ I f" lurn " ul 10 "atlll ~and a l'i l'l ul'I '- perfl'l'1 Ill'c hl I" rock ,,, lid landin ;\!

9.(;.) , Barak up n,'x l ~und (' r" \\' in g 10 ~ Ioo p Ihrllll !.!.h . dlluhle ' in\"('rlf'd I n f' a~lt'~ . Tak alllO!n I" ,'a·nll. kil'-~ialll-,Iald, ' r (.iU ' 1 a hair f1 al IlJa "[,(, .1 .. I'll and a mile hi ~ h doubl e f1 y­,m'av , ,· .. r,' 9.R a nd Ih,' Iiiii'. conlin, unin !! Ihe hi !!h hal' dom inalion by USC Ih a l ' ,' xll'nd, r'''ll -l< 10 1961 wlll'n Lvnn and Ha l" \\" e l'l ' 2-.0 . 19(;2 Lyn n and Dar'ak " 'rrl' ] ,2. and 1903 ilu l'knN- allt! Hale w,' re 4-,. ,\1 1111 ' half way poinl il i, -" Ii ch ,07. S IU :'\(i. l 'SC 28.

:\ fler Ih r I'x c il r nll'nl of Ih e horiZllnlal [,ar I and 11ll' ,id c horse ) Ih e res l of th e 111 e{'1 Ill i!!h l ha\'[' heen anl i- clim ali c hUI 1111' 'mrk wa' ... ~n !,!I)od Ihal til (' t (' n ~i() n ~ tay ('d ri glll ti l' III 1r'1l' r nd . '

Th e paral lel ha l' ,' 111'IIl11i'l'd In be (lnl' IIf till ' el .. -,',I [nud11 of all bUI Ihe lon~ hor,e \\"(1..; IIr'=-- 1 inf'd I ~I IH' a 0111 ' man ... hn,~r Illu cil

a, Ih l' , idl' hnr,e c"l' nl pJ'flI"l' d 10 be. Fir'l l11an up i, Crod Chin on Inn ~ hilL'" whil'h rClllind , I11 c--111I' Pni,'. nf Cal if. i'

a1: .. o ha\· i n~ a I'l lll!!h tilll{' here in Lo :=:. ;\n­,-, .. 1< ,. CI'I;<I !!d, ,,'ff Iwo fair vaull , 10 pla l'<' 'riflh an;1 nO\l' In fl arak "" Ih " p,nall,' 1

ha l' , . . wilh USC havin~ Iwo , Iron!! en· Iri c, in Ihis evenl . .. an;1 Ron dupli r al c, hi , pre lilllinary pcrfOI'llH(nCC and ra ckin~ up hi" ",'cond 9.6 in Ihi" event in Iwo da\', Op:le, hy next on I he lonp: horse. ' fir , 1 vaull . .. hechl . . beaulifu l h c i ~ hl hUI he "rl" , Iu ck and fail , 10 cxtend full v afkr Ihc' pu ~ h off ... 9.4S ave .. . Il l'xi \'a ull . . a beau ly .. fronl hanrl , pr.ill~ fl'Ol l1 nea"r end- pike pOi' ilion (fronl flip 10 some) 9.7, 9.7. 9.4. 9.8 .. fini shing far ahead of Qu inl ana in second place with con­~ i :; l a nl 9.2's. Next up is La~c ari of l\Iich. on Ihe P. Bars . , . he ha s 10 !!c l 9. 7:) 10 , u cc l'~,f ull l' defend his NC ,\A champion­ship on thi s evenl .. . bUI he i, in Irllubk ri ~ hl off and can nol recover ... com­in'~ ou l a bil wor~e for th e weal' bUI ~ I ill hi~h al 9.30 .. The long horse is no,\" sc ill ecl . . except that USC Ir a, an 01' ­porlunil y In ga in in the lea m score wilh 1"" enlrie, . Barak ~rabs a poinl wilh a 10lh place fini sh . . Nakayama hit s Iwo fine vault , 10 pu ll up to 4th place and rolkel" 7 va lu ahl e poinl " , . So ulhern 111. ha, two

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thrlll;!.!11 wit h fl" ill !! ('oln r~ ... [), 'nni ... Wolr' hit s 9. 1;:; for ' 4' ~ point , a nd RII -i, \ri tcllf'l l allHlZI'~ l'n~ rynn l' . afler a weak Ilrt ·lilll inary ~ h ()\\'i n ~ of on ly 9. 1. a ~ ill' fla,h p" 10 ~ Irul y Ill ai! ni fica n l 9.0 t" pull fr,,," lOl h 10 2nd place .

Wi lh ' Ihe "cor t' now al SO f,,,· 1I~r.. 119 1 :'

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vc l 10 ('0 111 e . ..

In s p ilt , "f a ll px ln'lllt'''· , Ir"n !.! fi ,'ld "f lu mh lrrs RII " lv \Til rllPl ( i" llla ,, " ' r "f IIII' ,'vpnl .. . Ha;nilt o n i" li lllp in !.! , Ii ;! hl"· · . . Bo llon h ils well fnr 9 . ~". H end,'r""n flf .\1 ic h. Illi ""t'- had lv Ill a kin~ Nt',," 1 e:riIllHc,·

. . Zerl is Pl ea n · a nd Ill~ve" up · In :,Ilt place . David of Washin i! ton hil s a fin, · rontin e and coll ec t" 9.S 10 1ll 0V(' to a second pl ace ti e w ith R eynold s o f the A ir Force ",cade lll Y who falt e red slighll y in each Ir ip a nd Ihen . .. Rusly .. . 9.7. 9 .9. 9.8. 9.8

. wha t more can one say . T he s lill rin "s WOW . Rusl v

.\Til clH'lI s la rl s s l1j on· it " way 10 a ha pp)' endi ni! w ith a 9.45 and 6 point s ... Oak Cooper . the old m aster fin a ll y "how" he is h Ullla n and a las he mi sses cOlllplete l) on a shoa l 10 ha nds la nd ma king it onl y 10 a shoulde r s tand . . . 9.35 B ill Z inkie u p fo r A rizona.. beauliful job . . . "cor e" 9 .. ,. 9.1. 9 .4 . 9.3 ... a nd the c rowd boos . . . Ehrli c h of S. II I. up nexl . . . (STU has four men in the fi nal s ) worked l! ra ce full y a nd e fforll ess ly a nd full y ea rn ed hi s 9.SS .. Gai li s n ext .. . and w hal a s pect aelt '

· . . r es pond ing w ilh excell enl timin l! and diffi cu ll y for a 9.6 ... Bill WoH Ihen Pl'!"· fonn ed probably hi s best r outine s in ce wi n· n in!! Ihc 1962 Na t. AAU tit le and ea rn t'd hi " 9 .6 . . . Cl inchin e: Ihe 1964· Na li on al (oll ce: ial l' I('a lll t il le' fll r lill il' S"u lh{'rtl IIlin o·is Uni ve rsit y . . D en ni s WoH the-, preceecled 10 add a no lhcr 1 'h po int , 10 Ihe lotal heTon' Barak picked u p 3'h for USC .. Bul it 's not over yet ... S tc,·e Zah m up . . .. fami l ia r di sloca tt·' sh oot tn in ve rt ed c ross . pu ll ou t a nd he a c tu all y ,I re tched for th ,' cc ilin !! a nd s lrai l!hlen ~ hi" back a bil . . . then fl ow" I" a 9 '() ( Ihe thi rd on e ,,0 far in thi s f' ve nt H opper up .. with a chan cc tn w in it a ll hi " ro u l in c is perfec t bU I he ca tch e" hi s foo l in Ih (' rin g on hi s full Iwi s ler d is· m ounl jll , 1 he ,lid in Iht' pre lim " a nd s('n rc" Oll/Y 9.2S. Nex t up . Evans ... leadin l! q u al if ie r know ing hc wi ll

h avc 10 pu ll sa met hill !! pre ll y formidahl e "ut o f the hai! h e dum hfounds Ih e aud ienet' a nd judge" 10 tlw tun t' of 9.R. 9.6. 9.7. 9.7 .

r would he rcm i"" not to a dd that to c limax Ihi s who le Ihin g. Q uintan a. the la"t man li p in Ihe mee t ki cked a rin !': on hi " d is mount a nd wrapped it ahou t :) ' time" arou nd Ihe po ri able s tan d" .. . co mpl plelv o ul o f r ('ae h · . . Filla/ Resllit STU 84'/,; : Il~C fi9 1/.,: 'Iri ch. 65. --

No tt',, : H a rd lu ck Ica m o f Ihe met'l Pen n ~I a l ~ . a Iso d id anyone no t ice t hc pre· pOll tJrore ll c t' of !!ood South ern Cali f. GvmnaSI" in Ilw mee l ?· ,

A t r ight: Chr is Evans 1964 NCAA Ring Chomp

NCAA W INN ING AND TOP ROUTINES Mitchell-Parallel bars : Peach t o handstand,

piroutte , drop cost to support , st raddle cut catch in ilL", press straight arm straight leg t o handstand , stutz, drop peach, layaway front upraise, front som;e dismount with V2 twist.

Mitchell-Floor Exe rc ise: Russian dive to hand­stand, roll forward , m oore, Y2 tur n on back to 3';" handstand (planche p os ition ) to stoop through, bock extension to handstand , stand , round o ff flip flop full , swedish fa ll , right led a round to straddle stond, prpss st ra ight a rm stra igh t leg to handstand, piroutte , for ­ward ro ll, bend right leg to sit, back ro ll ex­tens ion to reverse piroutte , scale, drop to front , on e leg circle, dis locate , kip . run , swan, imme-

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dlate kip to seat drop, back extension to Y2 turn to front leon , t o " cockroach " (neck spring Y2 turn ), irnmediate straddle ilL" on hands, press out , turn forward ro ll , cradle , handstand pike down , run , round off flip fl op flip flop layout.

Isabelle-Floor Exe rci se: Round o ff flip flop full twist , back step out , turn front hand spring , bock roll Y2 turn hit on feet , high single leg kick to Japanese splits, straddle L , finger tip press , pike down, stand , front handspring to seat drop, leg ci rcle ove r head ,inverted leg scissors ) headspring step out , cartwheel , full twisting pirouttc left , fallout to split , press straigh t arm straight leg from seat , pike down, round o ff flip f lop back (pike Position).

Mitch ell-Tumbling : Round o ff FF back whip over FF double ba ck , front step out , tinsica , fso, tin , fso, tin , fso , tin, front front fso, round off , FF, mile high back with Y2 round off FF , FF , double twist Round off , FF , back , back , back , FF , back layout immed ia te front.

Erwin-Trampoline : T riple bock , bran! out , (double back , back full , brani out , back , double twist , back 1 and 3,1" to doub le cody, no t nec ­essaril y in that order) .

Evans-Rings: Pull to " L" cross, straight arm press to inver ted cross , press ou t to handstand, front giant , cast , inlocate , bock uprise to mal­tese , back roll through bac k lever to ol ympic cross , turn to olympic to othcr side, bock to regu la r cross, drop, dislocate to fl y-a-way.

Mills- Sid e Horse: Back m oc rc mount , trom­le t in , kehre out , back t ram le t in , russian m oore to m oore , back sci sso rs, three front scissors, stockli out , half ~d urham , three loops with half twist off.

OGLESBY : Long Horse: Hecht and Front pike somersault

ROUTINES OF 1964 NCAA ALL - AROUND CHAMP IO N RON BARAK

Free Ex erc ise : (Starting in a corner , five feet inside the square ) . Standing back somersault to splits , hold; ro l l back leg around to front (sitting positi on on floo r ) and rai se to finger ­t ip " L", h old (one s"cond ); pull legs (straight legged) through hands and ca nt inue upward t o handsta nd on fi nger t ips (suck through stiff ­stiff p ress with legs together ), ho ld ; step down and run to front handspring, front somersault , front handspring , to swedish fall (one leg up , chin on fl oor), and , raising up and turning , fall to side splits, chest on floor ( this sequence of tumbl ing is done across the diagonal o f the square ); press from side splits to split legged planche, ho ld ; chest ro ll out and stand with one quarter turn to left ; run (down side of square ) to front handspri ng , front ha ndspring, chest fall , immediatel y raising one leg , scissor kicking, stepping down on to the originally rai sed leg , making a half tu rn into a front scale , hold; spin out o f scale and run (across second diago nal~no t the one used in the beginning) to round-off , bock layout somer sault , flip- fl op , bock somersault to stand.

Side Horse: (Stan d ing at end of horse ) Douulc rear into center , two high doubles, m oore , doub le rea r out , doub le rear in , break one leg back and around to one back sci ssor , bring leg around to t wo fron t sc issors, one rever se hig h double, pi ck up two h igh doubles, tra vel ou t to end, one high doublp , and t hree loops to stand.

Horizontal Bar : Jump to over-grip positi on with bo th hands and chin and cost with half turn riding forward swing up to handstand , stoop legs through hands and shoot outward to inlocate (i nverted) giant , dislocate out to d islocate (eag le ) g iant , change one hand to under-gr ip do ing giant with one hand disloca ted and other in under -grip , full spin over :op of bar on dislocated hand , to vault catch; kip , changing to under -grip w ith both hands, to handstand, one reverse giant , one half pfrouettc to giant with both hands in over-g rip , stalder shoot (straddle in and out ), giant , doub le fl y ­awa y to stand.

long Horse : Front piked somersau lt over the horse. Hecht.

Parall el Bars: Cost to support to swinging p irouette to peach (underbar ) to il L", hold; press with straight legs together and straight arms to handstand (stiff-stiff press ), ho ld; bock overbar catch to immediate stutz catch , cost to upper-arm support , boc k uprise, strad dle, layawa y, front u pri se , front som ersau lt off with one half tw ist t o stand.

Ring s: Pull to inverted hong, ba ck upr ise TO

hands tand , hold; forward gian t to handstand (di rection same as g ian t with over-g rip on hor­izonta l bar ), hold; lower to cross with " L", hold ; co st off , inlocate ,snapri se (backri se ) to il L" in support , hold; holl ow-hock to hand~ stand , hold; roll around to back lever , hold; d islocat e out o f lever , di slocate , doubl e fl y­away to stand .

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FINAL INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES

All-around: Ron Barak, USC, 54 .85; Ed Isa ­be l le, PSU, 52.72; Jam es Cu rz i, MsU, 52.30; John Quintana, Den., 52.02; M ark Cohn, T em ., 51. 90; Gary Buckner , USC, 5 1.45; Arno Lascari, Mich., 51.37; Bill Wol f , s IU, 5 1.02; Glenn Ga i lis, Iowa, 50.75; Fred Roeth l isberger , Wis., 50.72.

Floor Exercise: Rust y Mitchell, sIU, 960; Tony Bautista, CsC LA, 9.52; Ron Barak, USC, 9.30; Mike Henderson, Mich. , 9.15; Jim David, Wash., 9.15; Ed Isabelle, PSU, 9 . 12; F. Roeth l isberger, Wis. , 9.05; George Hery , Iowa, 8.97; Jim Pet­rino, Tem., 8.97; Dennis Albers , Neb., 8.85 .

Trampoline: Gary Erwin, Mich., 9.57; John Hami lton, Mich., 9.55; Fred Saunders, Mich., 9.17; George H ery, Iowa, 9. 17; Pete Ba uer , Wis., 8.65; John Qu intana, Den., 8.62; Robert Poston, Co l. , 8.10; Jim Selby, Iowa st., 8.00; Dennis Albers , Neb. , 7.80; Rich McCabe, Col. ,

Side Horse : Russell Mill s, Yale , 9.80; Stev e Paste rnak , SIU, 9.27; A l len Porter , PSU , 9.07; Bob H all, Wash. , 9 .05; Bi ll Nash, CSCLA, 8.90; Tom Arneson , Minn. , 8.77 ; Jerry King , Air Fo rce, 8.70; Joh n Torkelson, Wash. , 8.57; AI M iyam o to, Stan., 8 .5 5 ; Mark Cohn, Temple , 8 .52 .

H ig h Bar: Ron Bara k , USC, 9 .57; Gary Buck­ner , USC, 9.52; James Cu rz i, Mich St. , 9.37 ; Bill Wolf , SIU, 9.35; Ed Isabell e, 'PSU , 9.2 5; Dennis Wol f , SIU, 9 . 17; Rust y Mitche l l , SI U , 9 . 12; Arno Lascar i, M ich . , 9. !O; Terry Higg ins, Air Force, §.85; 0,kp Lovell , Wash . 8. 60 .

Para ll el ~Qrs: Kon Barak , USC, 9 .60; Rusty Mitch ell , SIU , 9.35; A rno Lasco r i , Mich , 9.30; Francis Allen , Nev., 9.27; Paul Newman, Cali f. , 9.25; F. Rocthlisber ger , Wis., 9 .22; Denn is Wolf, SIU, 922; Gory Buckner, USC, 9.07, Ed Isabelle, PSU, 8.77; Todd Gates, M. St., 8.67.

Long Horse: Sidney Og lesby , Syra. , 9.57; Joh n Qu intana, Den. , 9 .32; Denn is Al b ers , Neb. , 9. 17; Randy Nakayama, USC, 9.16; Crodd Chin , Calif., 9.0 1; George H ery, Iowa, 8.98; Mike Flansaas: Wash. , 8 .97; James Curzi, M. St. , 8.96; Jim Selby Iowa , St . , 8 .9 5; Ron Barak, U SC, 8.93.

Sorry , trophy phot o of Still Rings winner did not turn out. ED.

TEAM STANDINGS 1. Southern Illino is Universi t y 2. Uni v ersity o f Southern Ca l if. 3 U ni versity o f Michigan 4: Uni v ersity o f Washing t on 4 . Pe nn State 6. Iowa 7 . Universi ty o f Denver 8. Mich igan State Un iv ersit y 9 . Univers it y o f Wisconsin

10. Univ ersity o f Calif-Berkeley I I . Los Angeles State Co lleg e 12. Air Force Academy 13. A r izona State 13. U niversit y o f N ebrask a 13. Ya le University 13. Sy racuse Un iversity 17 . Temple Universit y 18 . University of Nev ada 19 . III . State N ormal Univ 20. Iowa Sta te - Univo- . 20. Univ ersity o~nesota

8 4 V2 69 Y2 65 30 30 25 V2 2 4 23 ~/2 20 19 1.5 14 V2 II II II II

9 V2 7 6 5 5

Tumbling: Rusty M itch ell , SIU, 9.7 2; Doug Reyno ld,. Air Force, 9.30; Jim Dav id , Wash ., 9.30; Ph il Bo lton, M ICh , 9. I 0 ; Paul Ziert , II I. St. , 8.92; Mike Henderson , M ich ., 8.82; John Ham ilton, M iCh. , 8.57; Ric k Por te Wis 842 ' Jim Oldham, Den., 8.25; John Tracy, De~:, 8'.25'.

SWI Rings : Chris Evans, Ariz. St., 9.65; Chuc k Ehrl ich , SI U, 9.55; Glenn Gai li s, Iowa, 955; Steve Zahm, Calif. , 9.50; Rusty Mitchell, SIU, 9 .45; Bill Wolf, SIU, 9 .42; Ron Barak, USC, 9.35; Dale Cooper , M . St., 9.35; Dennis Wol f , SIU , 9 .32; J im Hopper, 't/is .. 9.3'2.

20. Univ ersity o f Co lo rado 23. Stanford Un ivers ity 24. Arizona 25 . Br igham Young Univ. 26. Ca l Po ly (SLO) 27. Chicago 28 . Col o rado State 29. Colorado Sta te Co llege 30. Colo rado State Univ. 31. Eastern Wash ington State 32 Long Beach State College 33: Mankato State 34. Washing ton State 35. West Vi rginia 36. N o r thern Illino is Uni v . 37 . Sacramento St ate 38. San Fernando Va l ley State 39. San Jose State College 40 . Spr ingfield 41. UCLA 42 . Uni v ersity o f Illino is

Coa ch Bi ll Meade and S. I.U. Champion­sh ip team .

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'MNASTS IN ACTION AT THE 1"9"64 :AA CHAMPIONSRIPS

Gregg Weiss-USA

Wi lhelm Weiler-Canada

Armando Voiles-Mexico

Mexican Team

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THE NORTH AMERI CAN GYMNASTI C CHAMPJO NSHI PS

\Vest Ch es te r S late CoJl ege-West Ches ter, Pa.- March 14 & 15

by A. Bruce Frederi ck, Educa tion Edilor for the Modem Gymnast

U.s. gymn as ts proved to be too strun~ for those of Canada and Mex ico as they won both th e men's and women's tea m titl es in the fir st s t a~ in g of a champi onship mee t for countries uf North America. Since the competiti on was conducted under F .I.G. (Federation Internationale de Gymnastique I rules, there were al so separa te, individual competitions fo r pach of the ten Ol ympic events. Gaining an ea rl y lead which they were never to lose, the U.s. gy mn as ts al so wo n nine of the ten indi vidual eve"t s. From any angle, it was the United Sta tes a ll the way. There were a few out standing perform· ances turned in by the Canadi ans while the four iVl exican representatives made an a p· pea rance for experi ence a lone.

It is hoped tha t the North Am erican Gym· nas ti c Championships will become an an· nua l affa ir. The ent ire na tion will have an oppor tunity to view the mee t in m id A pril on a national T.V. hook·up. Canadian T ealll is a Disappointlllent

With Canada enterin g a full team , there was some pre·meet di scussion about a pos· s ible Canadian upse t. Soon after the fir st few co mpul sory events, however, it became appa rent that Canada's gymnasts were not "up" for the competition. The compulsory exe rcises performed by each gymnast were those which will be used in the forth com · in l!: Ol ympic Games in Tokyo .

According to Charl es Sebestyen, Canada 's AA U Gymnasti c Chairman , our northern ne ighbor wi ll not be sending a full team to th e- Ol ym pics this yea r. Wi th out thi s incentive. the Canadians have not been too enthusia;tic abou't Olympi c compulsori es. In add ition. the exercises are ve ry diffic ult ; perhaps the most diffi cult eve r. They a re rea l tes ts of gymnasti c skill well worth y of t he a tt en ti on of the el ite gymnast. North American Cham ps.

In all·around compet ition , the United Stat es placed fi ve men and fi ve wo men ahead of the best Canad ian gymn asti c per· formances. Canada's onl y solid victory was in the long horse vault. This event was won by Wilhelm W eiler who just la51 year won the gold medal for all ·around compet ition in the Pan American Games in Braz il. U.S . Coaches are BOlh Bolh Former Olymp':ans

.\'lr. Lou Bordo of Philad elphia . Pa. and .\1r, . Helen Sjllrsen of Scotch P la in s. N.J. were the U.S. coaches. Both had been members of the 1948 Olymp ic Gymnastic T ea ms which competed in London.

Ca nada's coaches for men and women wen' respec t ively J acques Chounnard and Chuck Selw, tyc n. Lt. Col. Ruben G. Vi i'suet was the .\[exi can coach. We iss ':s "Clean" and "Steady"

Grei!or Weisi'. a young Air Force Lieu· tenant and last year 's silver medalist in Ihe Na ti onal i\i\U Gymnas ti c Championships in Philadelphia , outclassed the sensational yo un gs ter l\ l akoto Sakamot o and Armando VCi!a. perennia l cont ender for U.S. gym· nast ic honors.

T he thin g which makes a gymnast truly ~ rea t is his abi li ty to do ex tremely diffi· cu lt movements wi th apparent ease. Weiss's fro nt somer i'ault from support to su pport on the pa ra ll e l bars was in thi s class. It was sof l and hi !!h und on(' of many thin i!s which earned 'for hi s performances tllP ultimat e in gy mnastic expressions for excel·

lence. " Clean and ~ teady . " The onl y serious mis takes for yourlg Gregor came 111 t he free cali stheni c compulsory. H e wa, n ot a lone. .Hiss Walther WillS AIl·Around

A much improved Marie Walther won th e wo men 's all ·around competition. A pro· duct of Turner gymnast ics she n ow attends K ent S tat e Colle!!e. Both her sureness and pleasant smile 'prevailed throughout the competition sendin g her ahead of Dale Me· Clements and Avis Tieber who both had identical scores and tied for second place. l\Irs. Muriel Grossfeld placed fourt h due to a poor performance in the sid e horse vault.

Miss Walther may well turn out to be a carbon copy of Muriel Gro"sfeld . H er perform ances seem to be very s imil ar ex · cep t for vau lt ing in whi ch the yo unger per· former has the edge. .\-[arie has adop ted the "wh ite !!love" chaIk in!! of the hands which has been a chara~t eri s ti c of her more experi enced teammat e. Chalk is used by most i!ymnasts to prevent undue injury to the pa lms of the hands while on the ap· para tus. Usua lly the "ubstan ce i" applied ~en e ro u " l y . to the palms of the hands but .\[rs. Grossfeld and now Mi ss Walth er ap· ply it to th e whole hand. g ivin i! the ap· pea rance of whi te gloves. U.S. Olympic Outlook

Since gymnas ti cs is considered to be our poorest Olympic sport, how wiIi we fare in Tokyo based on performances of our team at W est Chester ? T he best way to answer thi s question is to say th at we have seen many promising improvements but it i" doub tful that we are any closer to an Olym · pi c medal th an prev iously.

In the opinion of the writer our women continue to show the greatest amount of pro­!!ress. Bot h l\ Irs. Grossfeld and iVliss Walt her 'found piani i' ts to accompany them whil e pe rforming in free cali sthenics. What a tremend ous difference it mad e. P erhaps even th e judges were conscious of a welcomr break away from t he scratchy record s and tapes i' ince these two gi rl s scored a fir,t and a second. We suspect thi s might not have occured had all of the g irls used a pianist.

On the uneven bars there was a definit e improvement in diff icult y. This is d ue to the fac t that the g irl s are releas ing the ba ri' more often and also demonst rate a wide vari ety of kips on the low bar. On the balance beam we missed the perform· ance of Dori s Fuchs who was not present. S id e horse va ultin i! continues to be our weakest di staff event althou i!h .\'1 is, Mc· Clements did q uit e well as an ind ividual. I f our vaulting does improve in the nex t few months. we could be surpri sed by at least one of our Olympians.

The U.S. men have al so improved but not to the ex tent that they will pOi'e a se rio ous threa t to the Russ ian. J apanese or Czech teams. Should Weiss master the co m· pulsory for parall el bars and then turn in an optional in thi s even t similar to the ones he demo nstrated a t West Ches ter. he should do Ye ry well. The com bination of Weiss. Sakamoto. Tonry and Vega should help th e United States ach ieve a very solid four th place in Olympic team compet ition . Added insuran ce will come from perfo rmers such as Ar t Shurlock and Glen Galis who we re amoni! the miss in g at the North American mee t.

Valfes is Mexico's Best

Those who ha ve followed Mexico's pe r· fonnan ces in recent years agree that Mex· iean gymnas ts have improved although they pose 110 serious threat to the U.S. or Can ·

ada. Arm ando Valles, 22 year old Univer­sity stud ent , had competed in the Rome Olympi ad. He placed in the all-around ahead of three Canadians and one U.S. gymnast. The latter did not compete in two even ts, however.

A lone Mex ican senorita Pil ar Castellano provided the only performance in her coun ­try's behalf.

SCORING We were asked to mention the following

points on scoring by Don Wild ero ter who was Chi ef Scorer for the meet.

1. There were two types of competition ; individual and team.

2. A full team is one consistin g of six members each. In the team score only the five best scores in each event count. The actual score given by the judges is the one used.

3. To enter any of the individual events. a performer must have posted at least an 8.0 average in the all -around com­petition. If he satisfi es this requirement. he must also have been one of the fir st six in each event he seeks to enter individually. If he indica tes such an interest in an individual event he mu, t compete unless a doctor certifies that he is unabl e to do so . If he refuses to compete for any other reason all of his scores are negated and it is as though he had never been present.

4. The one exception to No.3 is when a gymnast qualifies for more than three individual events. In this case he may elect any three of his choosing with­out being penalized for failin g to com­pete in the ones he elects to drop .

Mr. Wilderoter explained that such in­ternational scoring is seldom used in the Uni ted States and should be explained. Team Totals

Men Women United States 556.60 373.45 Canada 522.05 340.95 Mexico 262.55 31.00 Men's All-Around

Place Name Country Score 1 G. Weiss USA 112.65 2 M. Sakamoto USA 111.55 3 A. Vega DSA 110.85 4 D. Tonry USA il0.55 5 1. Werner USA 108.55 6 (T ) R. Kihn Can. 107.85 6(T) G. Larose Can. 107.85 8 W. Weiler Can . 107.55 9 A. Valles Mex. 100.30

10 Simard Can. 98.85 11 R. Dion Can. 97.45 12 Y. Boisclair Can. 92.15 13 M. Vargas Mex. 81.4:' 14 F. Valles Mex. 80.80 15 A. Grossfeld USA 55.90

Teams line-up for the

Women's A l1-Around

opening ceremonies

Place Name 1 M. Walther 2 rT) A. Tieber 2 (T ) D. McClement s 4 M. Grossfeld 5 K. Corrigan 6 G. Daley 7 C. Rabun 8 S. McDonel! 9 I. Haworth

10 G. Sebestyan 11 P . Sebestyan 12 E. Austin 13 P . Castellano Individual Events Flloor Exercise Sakamoto Larose Weiss Side Horse Weiss Sakamoto Tonry Rings Sakamoto Weiss Larose Lonl{ Horse Vaul t Weiler Larose Weiss Paral1el Bars Weiss Tonry Kihn Horizontal Bar Weiss Tonry ' Verner Floor Exercise Grossfeld Walther McClement s Side Horse Vault JVlcClements Tieber Walther Balance Beam Grossfeld Walther Tieber Uneven Parallel Bars Walther Grossfeld Corrigan

Country USA USA USA USA USA Can. USA Can. Can. Can_ Can . Can . Mex .

(Men) 19.325 18.350 18.125

19.175 18.900 18.500

19.050 18.975 18.900

19.325 18.975 18.950

19.650 18.900 18.625

19.250 18.990 18_900

(Wo men) 19.375 19.075 19.025

19.325 18.775 18.625

19.025 18.850 18.725

19.225 19.000 18.900

At right: Muriel Grassfeld , Dole McClements and Marie Walther .

Gymnastic photos by Ri ck Robson of Wilmington, Delaware.

Score 75.55 74.45 74.45 74.05 73.20 72.85 69.35 68.15 67.70 66.55 64.80 62 .9., 26.00

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CARBON COpy By HERB VOGEL Womens Coach

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, III .

ADVANCED WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS

Ba I ance Beam " Straddle Swing" Movements continued

This article. the fourth a nd fin a l o f the "straddle swin g" seri es is directed to further illustrate the variety o f sta rts which ca n be progressively produced through the mastery of a few principles of movement. The reader is directed to the las t three M.C. issues for discussion of these p rinciples a nd fundam entals required to master the advanced variations of the "straddl e swing". The variations that have been covered are : (1) to squat sta nd (2) toe Ifoot ) lever 13) arabasque (4 ) splits (5 ) " whip over" forward roll (6) to Engli sh hands tand 1 closed positi on ) (7 ) to English handstand (split leg position ). The use of the " overhead" mechanic, hand held me­chanic, hand "spotting" and " lead up" acti viti es were al so illustrated and di scussed.

In summary, this arti cle shall but list va ri ous stunts or mo\'ements which term as " EXITS" from the initi a l movement- the straddl e swing.

Let us assume that the performer has reached the Engli sh handstand in the straddle swing progression.

EX1TS-options that could be deve loped fr om the straddl e swing to handstand with selected examples illustra ted.

1. Forward roll II . Forward roll , repeat straddle swing to "whip ove r" roll

III. Front Walkover-see (A) IV. % (handstand ) piroette to side ha ndsta nd (see B)

A. Immediate cartwheel to sta nd B. Lower legs to straddle stand C. Lower legs to free straddle a ng le support D. Lower to single leg or double leg squ at through the side stri de supp ort or

sitting supp ort rearways. E. To dismount (from side handstand (See C)

1. Stoop 2. Squat :). Strad dl e 4. Limber

c.

V. Immediate I don't ho ld ha nds tan d ) to one a rm ro und-o fr dismo unt I Wend,') (See D )

V I. 1h (handstand ) piroelte to Lntr li sh handsta nd A. Lowe r to s ta nd or Arabasque (See [ I

B. Lower. s traddling lei!s to V sea t. o r backll"a I'd roll.

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by A. BRUCE FREDERICK · 2125 ARMOUR DRIVE · WILMINGTON 8, DELAWA RE

~ With this edition 0/ the MG we start a series 0/ articles on Education in Gymnastics lor girls by Barbara Saltz­sieder . . . ABF

RHYTHMIC EXE RCISES USI NG BALLS

Barbara A. Saltzsieder

A t a recent deve lo pmental mee t at the Mann Recreation Cent er in Phi lade lphia WI'

picked up a couple of ~h o t " of some future f!y mn a~tic hopefuk Winninf! the all -a round wa" Car l Frederi ck of the Wilminf!ton Turn­t' rs wh il e Johnny Ca ron was second , pl ace a ll-arou nd. The two boy~ a re shown holdinf! an " L" on the fl oor. A Ithou!!h we are bet­ter abl e to answer the qu~s tion. "Daddy .. . why do gym meets take so l o n ~?" we are s till a lonf! way from making tlH'~e affa irs short s. sweet and to the point. P erhaps the picture of yo ung Carl and hi " look o f d isda in in th e third hour will remind u" that the a tt ention span of our very yo un ~ competit ors is short a t bes t. At any ra te con !!ra tul a ti o n ~ to Bill Coco of iVlann Recreati~n Center who was mee t director. Tt is th rouf!h the efforts of peopl e like Bill tha t more and more and more opportuniti es in gvmnasti cs are be ing provided for the boys and ~i rls in the greate r Philadel phi a area. 1'llr . Coco w ill once aga in Sl)onsor a clini c-camp at Camp Deerlwad in H ancock. N.Y. Th e Camp wa;; favo red last summf'r by appea rances of ,o nw of the current gy m­nastic Olympians. The dat es for the camp a re J une 23 throu~h Jun e 30. 1964. Fror more inform ation. writ e to the Ea;;t ern Gym Clinic. 811 Vern on Rd .. 5-3. Phil a­dt:lphia 19. Pa.

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The feeling of good movement is not a thing that can easily be communica ted in wo rds But whatever that feeling is, it is the ultim~t e objective in rhytillilic exerci se. The mos t important aspect of rhythmic exercises is the movement and not the light hand ap­paratus which may be used incidentally to the exercise. There fore the rise in popular­ity of rh ythmic exercise us ing la rge balls should be accompanied by an increased un­derstandin g of the fund amentals in volved in appropriate movements. The following point ~, then are vital to the proper use o f the accompanying se t of exercises.

1. Exercises a re composed of alternating relaxations and tensions or ex tensions. St u­dents should become aware of the major muscle groups and be able to use them in a ny natural way. Too often students learn onl y the technique of tension in an exer­c ise program. Relaxa tion is more difficult to teach, but is no less important.

2. The whole body should be involved in eve ry exercise_ For example, an a rm swing or toss of the ball orig in ates in the feet and wo rks its wa~' through the body to the a rm. The ac tion is large and ends in a complete extension of the arm with neither the ex tra tension of a hyperextended elbow nor the incomplete movemen t evidenced in a sli ghtly fl exed arm.

3. There a re no unnecessa ry tensions. S tretch ing a rms does not include hunching shoulders.

4. The exe rc ises fo llow the na tural move­ment inclina tions of the body. There a re no unnatural stra in s on the joints, shift s of weight , changes of e1 irec tion or shift s in rhythm.

5. The s tudents should learn to isola te movement in a particular part of the body, keeping the uninvolved par ts both staba lized and relaxed.

Startin g with these fundam ental charac­teristi cs of good movement, we move to some addi tional considerations in the use of balls in exercise.

1. The ball is secondary to the movement and will inhibit rather then enhance the movement if the bulk of concentration is on ho lding on to the ball . Good ball handling techniques must be taught before the in­troduction of complex exerci ses.

2. The ball is controlled through the use of cent rifugal force or by balancing it on the hand. IT IS NOT GRIPPED. This is vit a l to the performance of free, lid,t movements

' The following' unit has been writt en to fit with the recording of "Never On Sun­day" as it appears in the United Arti s ts a lhum UA L 3122 entitl ed " Original Sound Tracks and Hit 'Vlus ic from Grea t Motion Picture Themes.- ' It is a lso ava ilable on Long Playin g Stereo UAS 6122. Rh ythmic exerc ises can be done without music bu t there is no doubt that the use of music en-

hances the prog ram considerably. T each the exerc ises without the record a t the be­gi nnin g in ord er that the s tudent s will fo­cus their a tt ention on the movement and not be fru strat ed by the pace of the music. )\s skill is gain ed the class w ill fall into a comm on rhythm. Then add the music, in ­troel ucing a new stimulus for old mater ia l and motivatinf! the s tudent s to bett e r per­formance.

No exerc i se~ are li sted for the intro­duc ti on of the music. Thi s music can be u ~ed for an entrance or s imply to es tabli sh the rhy thm. Exercise I. l'vlus ic: " A" theme; 32 count~ .

Pllrpose : Introd uction of proper ball handlin g techniques.

Description: Feet toget her, ball balanced on two hanels low in front of boOd y. Boun ce ba ll with two hands in front of body three times 1-3, ca tch with two hands 4. re pea t 5-8. Re pea t with left hand l A, 5-8. Re pea t wi th ri ght hand 1-4, 5-8. Repeat with both hands 1-4, 5-8.

Teaching hin /s: "Give" with the entire body while boun cin g and ca tching. K ee p the arm s long. Bounce the ball in fro nt of the bod y hut do not bend forward to do it. To ca tch the ball put the hands, pahm down and thumbs towa rel on e another, over the ball as it comes up from the fl oor. As the ball reaches the hands, separat e them making a small hole for the ball to come through; sl iel e the hands under the ba ll. palms up. and gentl y gather the ball lettin g the hand ~ move downward with it as part of the ca tch. K eep the elbows ex tended throughollt. When chang ing from th e le ft hand to the right hand, s imply place th" ri gh t hand on top of the ba ll a~ it res ts in the left hand and bounce the hall to th ,· floor on the fi rst count. Exercise 2. Music "B" theme; 32 count ;.

Pllrpose: Pro per ball handling technique,: introdu ce proppr arm swin g ing with free­dom and fl ex ib ility in the shoulder.

Descrip tion: Start with the ball held forward in the left han(1. Swin g the ball backwa rd and forward two tim es l A: at the pnd of the ;;('cond sw in g change hands and repea t th e exe rcise sw inging back wit h the right arm ::;-8. Repeat thi , "equence three times 1-8, 1-8. 1-8.

Teachil/.{! hill/s : Let the swin g come up from tllP flo() r. pushin g with the f ee t and f!i vin g with the knee~ and trunk. If the arlll is swung properl y the hall wi ll fee l heav\' a t the hottum of the ~w i n~ and li ght at th ., back and the front. Do n()t to"" the hall tn c h a n ~'· hands: rather , uspend it in fn,nt of tilt> hod y and ~ath p r it in with th e n.-w han cl. hl endin!! tilt-' ca tch wit h tIlt' ha.-kwa rd ~w in ~. Kc:!'p the should er" down and th e arms l on ~. Sw in g fre!'ly. Do not he afra id to drop th e ball a ' tim e or two while learning. Exercise .3. !'vlusic : "A" theme repea ted ; ltj

coun ts. Purpose : Ball h andling technique; side

bl'ndin!!: coordi nation Uesc'ripti1on: Stride 'standing, ba ll h eld in

Idt hand. Sw in g the ball acr oss the hody whil e s id l' bending to the l eft away from the s wing 1, swing arm sideways left 2 , sid e ste p to the right (s tep ri ght, close lef t, s te p ri ght ) whil e circling the arm across in front o f the bod y. R elea se the ball into the ri gh t hand , r e peal th e e xer­c ise in Ihc o ppos it e direction 5-8. R e peat e nlire sequen ce 1·8.

T eachin g hints : Le t the body "give" dur­ing the swing ing a ction. K ee p the side ste p I ight and s prin gy. The circlin g of the a rm during the s ide s te p is done with a bent plbow d irect ly in front of the body. The cir­c le is small , and para ll el to the front al p lane o f the body and helps the lift on t he s ide sle p. F oll ow the ball w ith the eyes . Wh en tossin g to the other ha nd. r eo lease the ball genll y a l the top of Ihe circiP sw in g. Wh en rece iving the ball w ith th e n cw han d, gather Ihe ball in and sw in g il a c ros~ the bod y immediately . Exercise 4. 'Mu sic : "C" the me; 14 count s.

Purpose : Coordinal io n ; I runk I wist ing . Descri ption: Ba ll h eld in l eft h and ; brin g

fee! toge ther at end of exerc ise 3. Swin g le ft arm back ward with trunk Iwis tin g an d swing forward relea sing ball to o ther ' h a nd 1·2; re pea t with ri ght hand 3-4. R e pea l .' ntire movl' Iwice 1-4. 1-4. R e turn to pos i­lion wi lh ba ll he ld low in front in two ha nds. ( t wo count s )

Twching hints : Sw in g the arm directl y to Ihe b ack wall , arm shoulder he ight. F oll ow Ih e ball with the head . When Irunk twist ­in g. k eep the feet toge ther a nd lurn the s hould ers pa rall el to the s id f' wall. K ee p Ihe a nn "w in g cominl,! out of th e fl oo r. Exercise 5 . Music: R e peat of "A" th en1<': 16 count s.

Purpose : Ball ha ndlin g techni qu E'S in lo:,s ing a nd ca tchin g; ba~k and sh ould e r rclaxat ion.

Description: St rid l' s la ndin g. ball held low in front in Iwo ha nds. T oss ball up· wa rd a nd ca tch in two ha nds . rI' lax in!! a rms . head a nd should prs on ca tch 1·2. l ~ t the trunk fall r e lax ed down wa rd 3-4. roll UP

to starting pos iti on le llin g arms and hea;1 come la st 5-8. R e peal one lime l ·R.

Teaching hints : Wh en loss in g the ball. rai se Ihe a rms well up wa rd a nd forward keep ing the arms exte nded. Do nol flip Ihe ball int o the a ir. K eep in ('onlacl with il as long as poss ibl e. L ea ve Ihe arms high unt il the ca tch . On ca lchin g. le t th e arm" fall at the sa me s peed as the ball. ga lh e r· in !! it in no iseless lv. To le t Ihe trunk fall d o';v nwa rd. lean fo r'ward and le t gravity do the wo rk. Do not " lower" th e trunk. Le i it fall and h ang the re durin g Ihe fourth count. R ela x the k;l ees . R oll u,; slowlv. Sa vo r til(' relaxa ti on in Ihi s exercise . " Exercise 6. Mus ic : Re peal of --B" Iheme : 32 count s

Purpose : S ire ngihen abdominal and thigh l1luseles; practi ce in relaxation.

De scription: Take four counl s t o CO I1l P tn angl e sittin g pos ition with lower legs r claxf'd . lacs barely touching fl oo r a nd back " trai ght. R oll the ball under Ih e l egs from lef t I" ri !!ht rai sing the lower legs to the h ori zo nt a l a; " the ball pa!'Ses unde;' a nd returnin g to ~ t ar tin~ position a ft er it passe~ 1. H' )1 p al ill

op pos it e d irecti on 2 : repeat entire 1110\'P

one lim e 3-4. relax fo rward OVf'\" knees Jel · lin g fee t con;e to the fl oo r S-R. R e pea t f' n· ~ ire "equence Iwice ] ·R. ] -R. Usc four counl­to s ta nd.

Teaching hint s : Lea rn In " it wil lt a i' lraight back . K ee p th e head in lin f' . Cnl ­la pse fo rward inl o the r ela xa lion phase of Ihe exe rcise . dropping Ihe head 10 the knees and th e fec t 10 th e fl on r. Y ou "hould he a ble to hea r il . S tanda rdi ze Ihe procedure' for ~e ttin ~ down onl n Ih (' n onr Hnd lIJl a~a in . Exercise 7. Mus ic : R epea l o f " A" II]('m£' : ~2 count s fading out a t the end.

Purpose,. Side I]('ndin g : Irunk fJ ex ihilil v : ha ll ' con lro l: u"t:' of fe~t a nd legs: !!.'nf" :31 <: irc ul a lion . .

Descriptioll : H old ball in I" fl han d . Sw in e: lef l a rlll ae ros' in front of l)Od v to th;, ri ghl " ide whik s id e benning 10" th e lef l 1.' s win g a rm 10 the kfl 2: ~ win!! Ih e le fl a rlll anD" in front of tl1(' bod y hori Z(J nlal 10 Ih., flllor (ba ll fa ce high ) a nd tran , fpr Ihe .h all 10 Ihe right hanel. At Ih e . sa nil" time mak e n full ' Ihree " Ie p lurn 10 Ih (' ri i!ht (s te p. leap. sle p) 3-4. R e pea t on 11](' oppo, il e s ide 5 ·8. R e pea t entire scqucncp 111'0 limes 1-8. 1-8. End entire rou lin e in , I riri e s landin g po, ilion w ilh four litlk "v ll1 gs in front of the body pass in g th e ball from le ft to ri ght 10 le ft to ri ght hand a nd !! ivin g wilh Ihe bod v int o a , li " ht - id. · I)(' nd: Fi,;'i:, h " landing ;,·ith the " b~ll I~eld in Iwo ha nd" ba l a n c~d low in front.

T eachill{! hillt s : Cover 101" o f s pa ce. S ire ich Ih e iee:, on Ih e t urn. T o rece ive Ihe hall in Ih (" new hand. ~w ing both a rll1 $ for ward on a horizr>n lal plan e. S tart th e rece ivin !! arl)! 1lI 0v in !! awav fro 111 the hall befo re il r('c(' i ve~ it ' in nr~l e r to pa s!"-' it n()i ~e l es~ l y . The s lu cknl , will be 1110 ca utiou s in pass in g Ihp hall. Prac ti ce " landin g s till and s win g· ill !!: Ih l' a rlll ~ forward ~n d hack wa rd ~n a . hori zon la l plan e pass ing Ih l' hall froll ' ha nd 10 ha nd in fro nl of th e face The ('1· h.",'" s hould 1)(' extellded all Ih e timf'. Th., a c t ion "houl d he hig.

:\ " ea ch se t of ('xere i-es appear" in The l'foriern em/llast. il w ill 1)(' Illade availahk fo r ren tal ' Oil hl ack a nd whit f' R 111111 . fillll.

R enl a l: ~2.00. Addre,s reques ls 10 : Barba ra 1\. ·Sall z·

s ie rl e r. T-Tpa rs l C Y/nnas iuIII. U nivlT" il V of Californi a. BerkPle), 4. Californi a. .

Malmoflickorno . the Malmo girls af Sweden

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GYMNASTIC GIMMICKS By Bud Beyer JOE SULLIVAN- SPECIAL GIMMICKS

During the process of traveling over 150,000 miles and teachin g over 15,000 teachers, I have come across some very wonderful in· structors who have not necessarily been top performers but who have a good mind and ap. excellent grasp of gymnastics. They have become teachers through the medium of study, clinics, movies, etc. Mr. Joe Sullivan of Stivers High School in Dayton, Ohio, is such a man. He has been responsible for many inter· esting innovations which he is perfectly willing for other coaches to try. One example is the single yoke safety belt attachment. As shown here in picture No.1, we see the single yoke passing from the rear of the belt down between the legs forward to the D ring which attaches to the two parts of the ceiling lunger- one rope coming from the double pulley and one rope coming from the single pulley. This would be the set up used for teaching the under bar ~omersault or "Basket," which many coaches have trouble spotting. The youn g man in the picture with Mr. Joe Sullivan is Dan Trobaugh who, inci· dentally, is also a fine football player as well as an excellent gymnast. In picture No.2, we see the detail of the single yoke in a close·up. Miss Della Obbers is wearing the belt, and Joe Sullivan is showin g the details of the belt to Bud Beyer. For straddle dismounts off the high har of uneven bars, you have safety with· out the ropes interfering with the straddle maneuver. The idea of the rigging is quite evident and needs no further explanation. In picture TO. 3, we see Joe Sullivan's method of teaching the Barani. With the use of a Mini-Tramp, the gymnasium buck is raised bit by bit to just about as high as is will go. The performer who is to learn the Barani takes off from the Mini· Tramp and does an ordinary round·off us·

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ing the buck as a support. Eventually, after full height is attained, the buck is lowered slightly, and the man tries to do the round­off up to the original height of the high buck. The end result is a very spectacular high Barani, and if the performer tends to retrogress in height, he is again taken to the high buck- Min i-Tramp set up for additional practice. The system seems to work spectacularly because all of Joe SuI· livan's men who have learned the Barani in this manner have extremely high move· ment. In picture No. 3 we see Bill Wikle of Stivers High School demonstrating the use of this teaching "gimmick." In picture No.4, we see Mr. Joe Sullivan with floor handstand apparatus which he has made himself. They call these floor pommels. These two aids were made in the Joe Sullivan home workshop. Shown are Hcnry Favorite and Jim Lewis both of Sti· vers High SchooL Henry Favorite is using the hand stand teaching aid which Joe Sullivan also made. This consists of a pipe set on a platform curving to another pipe which creates a curved T bar which is padded to receive the arch of the individual. Joe has made this vertical curved pipe ad· ustable so that it iust fit s into the small of the back of each performer. In picture No.5, we see a back handspring aid which Mr. Joe Sullivan invented. One can rest the hips against the padded support , look back at the fin ger tips, fall back gently. place the hands on the mat and do a snap· down. The apparatus pivots with body action as can be seen here and it allows the student very free movement for the beginning of the feeling of the handspring. The device is also ad justable for height , and Mr. Joe Sullivan claims that this teach· in g gimmick has been very useful in teach· ing some of hia beginners a handspring with minimum use of additional spotting techniques.

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In picture No.6, we see the use of a high jump standard for gauging the height achieved by a performer off the Mini·Tramp. Note particularly that old tires have bef'n strategically placed under folded mats. This gives a very wonderfully soft platform upon which to land . The tires are firm but do give under heavy impact and give much more protection that the mats would afford by themselves. I sincerely believe this is ,vhy Mr. Joe Sullivan's youngsters do such tremendously high Baranis, front somer· saults, and back somersaults. They have the advantage of landing on this extremely so ft platform and therefore do not hold back for tremendous height. Mr. Joe Sullivan was born in Dayton, Ohio, and was educated at the University of Day· ton and Miami University. He has been particularly successful in working at the County Detention Home with supposedly "Bad Boys" which he soon proves are merely neglected youngsters who need af· fection and vigorous skills. He is a great believer in the use of the Trampoline to interest young people in gymnastics, and he had one of the first Trampolines in Day· ton in 1947 at the Montgomery County De· tention Home. It is interesting to note that Mr. Joe Sullivan is an expert carpenter and does a great deal of carpentry in his spare time. He is very handy and is able to make a great deal of his own equipment. He has spent a lifetime in his main ob· jective of finding the proper spot in sports for each boyar girl whereby the boy or girl can achieve some recognition. From what we saw in Dayton, Ohio, at Stivers High School , we can say that Mr. Joe SuI· Iivan is a successful man, an ingenuous l1)an, and a fin e person to know. Our hat's off to Joe Sullivan and his imagination and his gimmicks for teaching gymnastics.

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BAt LET for G y mus ts ff'~;~";'~dYC:;~' 3 IT' est Palm. Beach. Florida

As most· of the Modern Gymnast readers know, I have had the pleasure of working with our na· tion 's gymnasts, both boys and girls from rank beginners to. the Olympic level for the past eight yea rs. One reader asked, " In your op inion from from the thigh to the knee to the big toe with the toes curving back?

I cannot give all of yo u just one exercise, but I feel sure that every athlete needs to work on his or her feet. Yo ur coach will always say " point your toes." But can you? Can you get an unbroken line from the thigh to the kneed to the big toe curving back ?

Ernestine Russell Carter has illustrated the use of the foot exercises that I recommend. Practice them diligently and see if the beauty of your per­formance isn't enhanced by the added strength and beauty of your feet.

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1. Press on the side of the big toe and at the some time pull heel up. 2. Somet imes it is necessary to put the body weight on top of the foot . This a " hurry up" method to getting a flexible foot. Take caution. Onl y allow as much weight as you can comfortab ly tolerate in the beginn ing . 3 . Do push ups from this position with toes. Make exercise work for you from a stand po int of per­fecting the feet. 4. Do little run ning exercises on the top of foot with the toes curled underneath. 5. WRONG: Be ca reful not to let weight slide over onto little toe. This will stretch the muscles on the s ide of the foot and will make foot appear "pigeon toed," 6. RIGHT: push up through center of foot to the metatarsuls. 7. This exercise stretches the muscles all the way to the top of the foot. The pressure of bock knee against one in front creates pressure on top of the foot . Be sure foot is straight.

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Danny Millman 1964 World Camp

Gary Erwin 1964 NCAA Nat' l Champ

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By Jess Robinson

TramJloline act ivit y reached a hi gh puint the last of March with Danny Millman win· ning the world championship at Albert H all , London, England , and Gary Erwin taking first a t the N.CA.A. na tionals at Californi a S tat e College a t Los A ngeleo .

WORLD C HA !\'IPlONSHIP

The world cha mpionship meet in London was s ponsored by N issen Trampoline Cu. in cunjuncti"D n with the British A ma te ur Gy mnaoti c Assn. It was truly a world cham· pionship with 32 compe tit ors r epresenting Be lg ium , Denma rk , England , Wes t Ger· ma ny, H olland. No rway , Sco tland , South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland , Wales and the Unit ed S tates. From the U.s. were Danny .\lillman , 1963 USG.F. national champion; Gary Erwin, 1963·64 N.CA.A. national cha mpion ; and Judy Wills and Wayne Mil· le r, 1963 A.A .. na tional champi ons . Judges were chosen from Walcs, Swi tzerland , W e, t Ge rman y, H olland. England and the U.s.A. t Dr. lewt Loken and J eff H e nn essy from the U.S.)

Com pe tit ion was unusual in that com· pe titors were ma tched againoL each other in pairs wi th winnero ad va ncin g through ,ucceedi n ~ round" to the fina lo a nd loo .. r" of th e firs t round proceding to a lose r 's conoo lat ion tournament. Competing pairs pe rformed on id enti cal trampolines, one immediat ely af ter the o ther , and judges had onl y tu d etermine whic h was the w inner of each compe ting pair.

'\len ·s final elimination before a house packed with trampolin e enthus iasto sa il Danny .\lill man win ove r Gal)· E n vin fur the championship. Five of seven judges ocored for Millman . one for Erwin and one saw a ti e.

Ii/ inn er in the ladi es co mpetition was Judy Wills with Linda Ball from En~land takin~ second.

N.CA.A. NATIONALS

New t Loken's boys from Michigan pretty nearly swept the trampoline event at the N .C.A.A. national s with Gary Erwin win· nin g, J ohn H a milt on sco rilO g second a nd Fre.d Sanders in a tie with George H ery of I owa [o r third. J ohn Hamilt on narrowly won the prelimina ri es with a flawless routin e tha t contained r equired diffi culty. H e used a piked back·Ydront fliffi s very e ff ec tively in the middle of his routin e for his back landin l[ swing ing out of it with a bailout with a I'/:' twi st. In the final s, howeve r. Gary mounted with a well executed triple back and went on to perform all stunt s at maximum he ight and with exce llent fo rm to ed!!e J ohn for the titl e .

The mee·t was telev ised and should be "hown " "lletime in '\'l ay ove r C BS·TV sta· ti on~ .

TRIPLE TWISTL IG DOUBLE

We received a motion picture of Wayne .\1iller performing a triple twisting double back ( this one is a back with 2% twist to a bar any ) and as his coach says, "he does it with such ease it is r edi culous.'· it for the magazine from that film. We arc trying to get it on a different type of film a nd if possible will certainly publish it.

S POTT IN G TWISTERS

Larrv .\l artin from Ontario. Canada writes: I eit her get lost or don't complete th f!

s tllnt i i I attempt to watch t.he bed on a bar-k l ~ith dOllble or triple tw':st Or iron ! wit h 211:" ye t swin g easUy .:l I dOll 't watch th e bed. And because th':s ':5 so, I am a li tt le reluctant to in stru ct m r stll'ienls to do so . Can YOII digress a lillie on it ?

If yo u Eee th e bed durini! a barany. back with full a nd front with Il/:, twi st yo u can ima!!in e how mu ch more diffi cult thest' o5 tU /;t5 would be if JOLL couldn't spot the bed until th e la ndin g. Th erefore, yo u mu , t r ealize how much eaoier multiple twi stin ~ tri cks wi ll he when they a re pe rform ed co r· rectl y.

It "o unds a, though in tryin g tn s pot tlIP hed durin~ the twist yo u wai ted too Ion!! belore t w,:., ting and didn't have tim e to (·0111·

piet e it. I f yo u think of tlw so mersault as a clock wi th fee t s ta rt in!! and pnd in !!: on tlIP s ix. th e twist should b~g in on the'te n and ~nd no la ter th an the two. S in ce yo u a re a lready performin g the s tunt. try to cor · r ("c t the head by looking for the bed soone r at the end o f tllP s tunt in stead I)f al the be!! innin!!.

He a l,o ~sk s : ' Frollt with /'/:' - Rudolph Front with 211:, - Randolph Front with ·n~-? W e call it an Adol ph.

W H\TS GO ING ON ?

What', ~o ing on in yo ur area - trampolin t' w i ~ (-"~ Writ e in anti we will pa~~ it along. Fronl Hob Wa lker. No rtho lt. Middx .. En :! · lan d we hea r: '

·'We a re hol d in!! a mens mat ch w ith W es t Germa ny at We,;,bl ey. Lond on. Th (" ir \li en bea t u" in ·61 and our !!irl s bea t the m in °63. \V t' are now !!f'ttin; routin es in COIll­

peti ti on of thi s ~r~de (i't is onl y our sixth c- ha nlpion"hip ) : ha ran y out fliffi s. A lthou~h 11'(' don' t cO lll pa re with yo ur diffi c ult y we a rc' pro~ r f':.:.:.:. in g. :\ ~('s. ,HP gn in ,!.! down - four out of fiYe llIl'n fin a li s t .. on Saturday an' 19 a nd und ,, \". Prev ious winner" Hi . 20 . 27 . 28. 24 year" of age r (" .. "pct ive l,·."

HO UTl N E Probably the bes t advice we can gIve

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don 't try for too much difficulty. Use only s tunt s you can perform high , in the mid· di e of the trampoline and with good form. In preparing for a season's competition, write out yo ur routine, practice it in parts 12 or 4 s tunts at a time) and finally work it all toge ther. Then perform it every day working for height and form until you know it in your sleep. At the same time work on one ·or two new stunts and when you are' certa in you can do them work them int o the routine.

lNGREDIENTS OF A ROUTlNE Since a trampolinists can perform somer·

sault s and twisters forward and backward frol11 fee t, stomach and back, there are a number o f stunts from which to choose when makin g a routine. IVIany of them, however, are not suitable for routines. Those that end with the trampolinists lookin g away from the trampoline such as front s, doub le front s, backs with lh . Ph. 21;2 twis ts, front s with full, double twists are diffi cult to wo rk out of and are seldom seen in rou· tines. Also forward work off of the stomach and backward tri cks from th e back seem !o cut he ight and al so are used infrequently.

Gene rall y speaking, a routine should start and fini sh strong wi th somethin g int erestin ~ in the middle. It should contain both front and back som ersault s but s ince there arc more back stunts to choose from a ratio of two backs to one front is suitable. W e have always advoca ted a stomach or back landin g or both and las t year the N.C.A.A . ruled a stoma ch or hack landin g is n'­quired.

Tn addition to thi s we strongly r eCOl ll · mend a flashy form tri ck somewhere in the routine. This usuall y attract s the judges att enti on and with all other thin gs equ al cnuld win a meet.

SELL THE RO UTI NE When you are read y to compete don't

just gpt up and throw a routin e. Sell your­se lf and yo ur rou tine to the judges with HS

much showman ship as possible. Be sure you are neat and clean with hair cut and combed . Approach the trampoline with conf ide nce and show thi s confidence through the entire routine. S tand at attention as a sign of respect to the judges before and aft er your performance. And if yo ur routin p doesn't go as yo u planned whatever yo u do ... don'! shalre YOllr head in disapprornl. I t will cost you points.

WHEN TO CO:\'IPETE Whe n should you s tart competing? We

say the first chance you have. Vile don ' : mean jus t because you have a few trick, yo u should get on the trampoline and do whatever comes I1:J mind. That would be of no value to yo u and a was te of time for the judges. Plan a definite routine, even if it contains considerably less diffi culty than those of other compet itors, work on it for form, height , control and on the approach and re treat before you present it. You may bp surpri sed to find that yo u wi ll beat so me· one who throws mOIe difficulty. But even if yo u come in last, th e ex peri pncp of CO I11 -

peting will be of value to you. It is like anything else, it takes a ce rtain amount of competitions before yo u ga in confidence and feel at ease while performing.

BEGINNING ROUTINES If yo u have a back, front alld barany. even

if you can 't swing the m, yo u can put tn­p:ether a respec table r outine. Tt might p:" somethin g like this :

1. Back som ersault 2. Lavout (o r pike) to stomach drop

3. Half (o r full ) turntabl e 4 . To feet 6. Barany 7. Pike to seat drop :) . Jump and tu ck ( feet to feet) 8. Swivel hips (legs strai ght) 9. To feet

10. Front flip As yo u improve you mi p:ht chan ge it lik(·

thi s : 1. Back flip 2. Barany 3. Airplan e (1,1:! twist to stomach ) 4 Half twist to feet 5: Jump and touch toes (Free X mov(> j o. Barany 7. F;j front flip (to stomach ) 8. Half (or fulll turntabl e 9. T o feet

10. Back flip with 1,0 twist Then as you are able to swin g more trick,: 1. Layout back flip 2. J limp and touch toes 3. Back flip 4. Barany . 5. Front flip 6 . Jump and tuck 7. :y, ba ck somersault 8. !ialf twist to feet 9. Barany

10. Piked front flip These routines should be alt ered to [it

each individual but they each contain a form tri ck and bpgin and end compar3-I ively s trong.

BARA NY BACK S YSTEM Once the competitor is able to swing

ten somersaults we recommend he use what we call the " barany back " sys tem. This sys tem uses a barany and back combination as spacers between difficult stunts or com­binations; the barany to straighten up and ge t back on balance and the back to give he ight and time to prepare for the nex t stunts.

A beginnin g routine mi g:ht go some thin f! like thi s :

Back with full twist Barany Back

Layo u t 'l4 back Cody Barany Back 1'l4 front Barany bailout Piked back

This system helps cons id erabl y in mem­ori zin p: a routine. Above routin e can be memorized by thinking of onl y three tri ck co mbinations II) the hack with a full mount. (2) the :y, back-cody as on e tri ck and (3) the endin g com bin a tion of three s tunts. These. of course, are se parat ed by the ba r· any- back ~pacers. -

This system can 1)(> uspd un ti l th e con· tes tant is performin g reasonably diffi cu lt stunts and still be effective. Conside r thi s routine :

Double back Barany out fliffi s

Barany Back

Back with double twist Rudolph

Barany Back

1')1, back Doubl e cody One last thought about . thi s system. P er­

forming a routin e in thi s mann er g ives th e' judges' tim e to full y digest each - diffi cul l combination beforp the nex t one hit s him . Enough sa id.

UNUSUA L ST UNT OR WILD RO UTINE Triple coely. Gary Erwin recentl y pe r­

fo rmed this feat. Several top trampolinist:; have turned triple cody ( three in thi s area) but none ha ve fe lt the necessity nor the de ­s ire to u s~ one in a rouline. And no wond er . . . t hat las t somersault is a long way around.

RECORD Of THE ~ONTH S do ubl e Iwist ing codys I stomach to. stom­

ach I by Dell'in DuMey of Burhank.

Any News? Send news of int e rest to trampolinists

to J ess Robinson. c/o Tram poline Inc .. 4207 '.Yes t :\Iagno lia Bl vd., Burbank. Calif.

AUSS IE BED-Pictured is section of t rampoline bed made in Australia by Bill Fraser. It is woven ny lon string , coated with rubberized substance to protect ny­lon from the weather . Bed gives fantastic bounce because it is like a sc reen and has no air resistance and is ideal for stomach or back work or for perfecting individual stunts. Top performers pr efer not to attempt rou ti nes on this bed be­cause o f the high bounce and also be­cause, being like a sc reen, it is d ifficu lt to spot as the performer sees right through it.

IIWHAT'S THE SCORE?" hy J e tTY Wrighl

~an Fran c isco ~Ialt' Colle ge

~Oi\[ ETHTNG TO THINK ABOUT: NA TTONA L COLLEGL\ TE RULE~

CHA NG ES :

1. The alional Collerriale T ea m cham-pion will hencefor lh he ciel e rmin ed hv head nn dual mee ts.

2. The lumbl in g evenl has been elimin a led fro m NCAA competit ion.

3. T he counlry wi ll be divided inlo four regions . .. each region wil l qual if\' ,i, Ill en in each evenl for the NCAA finals ... each reg ion will aho be represenl ed 'hy il ~ s lrongesl dual Ill ee l If>a m for Ihe ru~·off . (a ll de lails have not been fi nal ized as of vpl)

THE 1965 NCA A FINALS WILL Br HELD AT SOUTHERN TLLTNOTS UN I­VERSTTY AT CABON Dc\ LE.ILLINOfS.

THE FOLLOWTNG "T EET RESUL T~ WILL GIVE YOU SO,,'!£ IDEA OF Ho\\, T HE Gy" tNASTS REA CHED THE NCA :\ F IN.\ LS TN LOS ANGELES. CA LIFOR NTA

1ST MID-EAST MID-WEST REGIO NA L NCAA COLLEGE DIVISIO N GYMNASTICS

CHAMPIO NSHIP Another sig n of the times. The constont

g rowth o f ou r spor t o f gymnastIcs IS agoln brought to ou r ot tentlon by thiS report of the f irst NCAA Regional College Division Champion­ships held March 13-14 at Boll State Teachers College in Muncie, Indiana.

There were seven schools represented in the compet itio n and it prov ed t o be a fine meet. The coaches o f the schools participating a re quite anx ious f o r the College Divi sion Gym­nastics picture t o g row and h ope that a Na­tional meet will b e organized in the nea r fu ­tu re.

It appears, from the meet result s that Man­kato State Co llege pretty much dominated this first meet with its superio r team depth and outstanding ind iv idual performers. Mankato was led b y first place winners Len Thompso n­A ll-around and S.R. , J im Schmid t - Long H orse a nd Vic Dutkov ich-Parallel bars.

Other I ndividuol champio n s were Paul Ziert - Fl oo r Exerci se, Trampo line, a nd Tumb ling. Curt Hahn Indiana State Co llege-Side H orse and Ken Scorza- Indiana State Co llege ond Jim Schmidt- M ankato a t ie f o r fi rst o n t he h igh bar.

M EET RESULTS A ll-arou nd: Len Thompson . M S. 46 .425; Ji m

Schm idt , MS, 46 .0 0; Pete Wi lson, C. 44. 17; Roger Hell inga , EI , 41.37; Bob DeVinny, M S. 39.75; Bill Snook. ISC, 38.55 ; Ken Scorza , ISC . 36.7 2 ; Bob M i ller . BS, 36.20. Floor Exe rci se : Pau l l iert . ISU . 8. 75; Bob DeVinny, 8 .4; Bi ll

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Eads. EI , 7.9 . T ra m polin e : Paul lier t . 8.1I~ . Jock Rees, ISC , 7. 125; Donny Poe, ISC . 6.625. Side H orse : Curt Hahn, ISC . 7.]5; Roger Hellingo, EI. 7.70; Larry Rockwood, C, 7.35. High Ba r: Ken Scorza , 845; Jim Schm id t , 8.45; Len Thomp son , 8.425. Long Ho rse: Jim Schmidt . 8.725; Bob DeVinny. 8.712; Len Thompson . 8.525. Pa rall el Ba rs: Vic Dutkov ich. MS, 8.775; Len Thompson. 8.70; Pete W ilson. 7.87. St ill Rings : Len Thompson. 8.35; Steve Weisser , MS, 8.10; Bill Snook, 7.90. Tumbling : Pou l lier t , 8.825 ; Bob DeV inny , 8.15; Bill Eads, 7.8.

TEA M STANDINGS Mankato State College 230 Indiana Sta t e 88 V2 Eastern Illinois Univ . 5] Illinois State Univ. 47 Chicago (Univ. of) 46 Bo ll State T eochers College 34 Wheaton College 7 V2

Officials: Lienert . Ryser , Orlofsky, Fr itz . Sav­pring , Brown , Miltenber ger , Hays le tt , Rhin be" , ger .

BIG SI X (A AWU ) GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSH I PS

W ith telev isio n camera ' s gr ind in g away and some 400 rab id , gymnastic -wise spec t a t o rs loo k ing on, the Big Six conference presented its 1964 editi on of the AAWU gymn ast ics cham­pio nships Satu rday ev ening March 14, on the UCLA campus.

It was , without a doubt , the finest display o f g y mnastic talent ever witnessed inv ol v ing these pacific coa st schools.

Although it was an evening o f outstanding perfo rmers the meet contained three outstand­ing highl ights: ( 1) the fantastic team depth of Coach Eric Hughes' University of Washing­ton t eam , (2 ) the a ll -around performance of USC's Ron Borak ond (3) the surpri se perfo rm ­ance o f Washingt on 's versatile Bob Holi .

The Universit y o f Washingt on ( 132) swamped the University of Calif. (9 1 V2) and USC (82 ) f o r their seco nd team title in a row. Thev were followed b y UCLA (21) Stanford ( I ~ V2 ) and Washing t on State (6). .

Ron Barak . who won the AAWU a ll -around in 1962 and m issed last yea r because of an inju r y , ran away with t he all -a round in spite o f badl y missing one long horse vault and t opped his ev enings p erfo rmance with the outstanding r outine o f the meet , a 9.75 master­piece on the high b ar, l opping teammate Gary Buckner who had on excellent 9.5. In addition to this Ron garnered seco nd p laces in free ex.ercise , side h o rse , and parallel ba rs, and a third place on the still ri ngs.

Bob ~all showed amazing ve rsati li ty wi t h a sec~nd In the a ll -a round, first on the tram ­p o line. (ov er teammate Jim Dav id ), first on t he Side h or se , second in tumbling ( t o team­mate Dav id ). and thirds on parallel bars and lonq horse . scaring 54 of his teams 132 points

The onl y unpleasant aspect of the meet was the . ext reme length- a 3 V2 h o ur mee t is just a litt le t oo lo ng and it is surprising that the co nference does no thing to alevia t e the prob ­I~m . It .~as :~g r~ttab le t o see Rich Go ld en, the fine California rrng man rece ive wh at appeared t e:' be .0. severe inju ry knocking him out of a ~j~~ ~1~dshH~r the rings-hope it isn ' t t oo bod

Other highlights o f the evening included the beau ti ful parallel bar rout ine of Crod Chin f or a f irst place. th e smoo th tumbl ing o f Jim David o f Washington ( includ ing a good so l id double bock), a g ood routine on the st ill ri ngs bv Steve lahm (9.55 in spite o f being a bit sh ort of the required number o f major parts ), and the Randy Na ka yama-Gar y Buckner tie for first on the Long Horse for USc.

All-A round : Ron Barak. USC, 55.20; Bob Hall . Wash . . 53.725; Mike Flansaas . Wash .• 53.00; Kiell Hansen, Wash. , 5 1.35; Ri ck Field , Calif . • 51.32; Crod Chin , Calif ., 51.05 ; Gory ~93~n5er . USC , 50.97; Paul Newmon. Calif.,

Officiols : Jerry Todd Ken Bartl ett John Muir , Lesl ie Sosvar y, Fr~nk Endo, Abe ' Lober.

WESTERN INTERCOLLEGIATE GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Univ ersit y o f Wash ington came from be­h ind in the last event of the meet t o suc ­cessfull y defend its Western In t erco llegiate Gy mnastics Champio nships team title . Mar ch 2 1 at Tucso n , Arizo na.

Washington t railed the Univ ersit y of Sou th·· ern California 104 V2 t o 95 go ing into t he final tumbling ev ent. But the Huskies racked up 2 4 p o in t s in that ev ent t o only three f o r the Tro jans , thereby copp ing the team champio n ­ship with 119 points to USC's 107 V2.

CALIFORNIA STATE COLLEGE California Sta te Co ll ege at Long Beach (f orm ­

er ly Long Beach Sta t e College) come up as t he darkest dark horse to captu re the 1964 Ca lifo r n ia State Co llege g ymnast ic champion­ships March 14 on the Long Beach campus.

Favored Son Fernando Volley State Co llege and California Stote Co llege at Los Ange les were 2nd and 3rd respectfull y ofter finishing 1 st and 2nd ahead o f Long Beach a week be f ore in t he CCAA Conference Championships.

The meet was highlighted b y the esprit de corps of the Long Beach Team, and th e once­in-a- lifetim e hit~ing o f thei r routines , and the vocal v eracity of the h ome t own crowd (as spa r se as i t was).

Dove Smith of Son Fernando Voll ey per­f ormed by far the ou t stand in g si n g le routine o f the meet with a 9.45 score on the high bar. In additio n t o this Dave captured the oil-around with a weak 8.38 average for 6 events, and finished second on the rings and 4th on the parallel ba r s.

J I'll Mills of Lonq Beach deserves special credit for a job we ll done in placing second in the all-around, secon d in free exer cise , fir st on long horse, f ourth on the high bar and f ifth in tumbling.

Other t op performances we re r eco rded by Tony Bautista wi th a smooth 9.35 first place in the free exercise , Don Devendorf-Long Beach a 9.1 fi r st place on the side horse and a 8 .9 first p lace on the parallel ba r s over Fred Want land of Long Beach , Gardner-a 9.1 v icto ry In the tumbling , O' Bannon-Cal Pol y. 9. J 5 blue r ibbon exercise on the trampo line (o future threat o n the trampo line if he would co ncentrote on improving h is form), over Dodson o f Son Jose. and Imoyue of Long Beach wi t h a 9.15 v ictory on the still r ings over Smith and teammate Vic T aggett (Vic was a ran k teginner last yea r and deserves a Dot on the

Regiona l NCAA Mid-east . Mid-west Championships, Bo ll St ate College , Muncie, Indiana

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back f or the job h e has d one in that shor t period o f time).

H ope you are reading thi s Amerine!!!!! I think a coup le o f stati stic s from the Statc

Co llege meet and the Big Six meet tell 01

in t eresting sto ry : (I) The top 6 all-around per­formers of the 1964 State Col leg e Meet a ver ­oQed 7.8 o r better os compa red t o the winning 1963 a ll -around score of 7.6 . (2) The first 7 all-around performers from th e B ig Six meet received a higher score than the first p lace winner in the Sta te College meet. Tell ing very v iv idl y that the Sta te Co ll eges have improved a q reot deal and still hav e a lonQ way t o go!!!

All-around: Dove Smith, SFVSC, 50. 27; Jim Mil ls, CSCLB. 50. I 2; Scott Nettles, CSCLA, 49.60; Rich Chew, San Jose , 48.95; John Gard ­ner , SFVSC, 4852; Geo rge Wilcox , SFSC, 46 .97 ; Fred Wantland, CSCLB , 46.52; Hiroshi Kato , SSC, 44 . 17; Jerry Crouse, SFSC, 43.47; Honk Stee lsmi th , SJS 4 I. I 7.

Officials : Jerry Todd , Marsha l l Claus , Laszlo Sasvary, Fred Be llmar , Gib Peralta , V ince Mot­tola, Di ck Beckner , Don Fabe r .

EASTERN I NTERCOLLEGIA TE For the 13th Consecuti ve y ear a Penn State

gymnast captured the Eastern Interco llegiate a ll-around tit le.

Thi s y ear it was Mike Jacobson, Captain of the 1963-64 Nittany Lions, who scared 55 .05 points t o outlast teammate Ed Isabelle for the championsh ip h eld at Penn State University on March 7 .

Temple was declared the team champion on the basis o f the dual meet record , remaining undefeated in dua l meet competition.

MEET RESULTS All-around : Jacobson , PSU , 55 .05 ; Isabelle ,

PSU , 54 .30; Mark Cohn, Tem., 53.45; Jim Cul­hane, PSU, 5 1.40; C. Pop lar , Syra. , 5 1.30; G. Spencer , W. Vi rg., 51.15; W. Wright, Tem. , 50.90. Floor Exercise: J. Patrine, Tem., 19.05 ; M. Jacobson, 18 .80; Sid OglesbY, Syra ., 18.70. Side Horse : Rusty Mills , Ya le, 19.30; F. Yapps , Tem., 18.75; A. Porter, PSU , 18 .70. High Bar: M . Jacob,on, 19.25; T . Phillips, Tem. , 18.50; Jim Culhane, 18.40. Long Horse : Sid Oqlesby , 19.35; Pete Saponaro, PSU , 19.35 ; C. Exkler , Tem. , 19. 10. Parallel Bars : M. Jacobson , 19.00; S. Oglesby, 18.55; T. Ono, Army, 18.40. Still Rings : Weissman, Tem ., 19.10; Martin, PSU , 19.05; D. Christie , Tem ., 19.0. Tuml'Jllng : Sap ­anara, 9.25; S. Oglesby, 8.90; J. Petrino, Tem. , 8 .85.

1ST ANNUAL BIG EIGHT CONFERENCE GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

From the officia l results it wou ld appear that, almost without except ion, the Univer­sity of Neb raska domina t ed the first annual Big Eight Championships held Morch 13-14 ot Ames, lowo .

First o f all congratulati ons t o those instru­menta l in b ringing this meet int o be ing-Jake Geier-Nebraska , Glenn Wilson-Colora do, Ed Gagnier- Iowa State, Frank Thompson-Kan­sas State , Bob Lockwood- K ansas, a nd un­doubtedly many others.

And a great big welcome to the Big Eight-· we o re most p leased t o have you in the gym­nastics f amil y .

Dennis Albers o f the University of Neb ra ska apparantl y st o le the sh ow with vic t o r ies in the all-around, floor exercise (9.0), side ho rse (8.7), long h orse (9. 0 ), and tumb ling (8. 75).

Other fine performances were turned in by: Francis A l len who fo ll owed Albers in the 011-around, fl oo r exercise , and tumb l ing and cap­tured the paralle l ba r event; Jim Selby, who finished ahead o f the field on the trampoline and was second on the lo ng horse , and T o m Jenkins who turned in 0 top flight 9.0 per­formance t o win the still ring event.

MEET RESULTS All-around: Denni s Albers, N, 52.00; Francis

All en, N , 50.40; Rich Minser , IS, 49.85; Bill Pod ia, C, 46.40; Harry Howard, N , 45.725; Ken W iggers, IS, 44.075; Lonnie Arfsten , C, 4 1.40; Wa rren Hoatwright, C, 4 1.10; Rich Poulsen , IS, 33.075; Kent Dobbins K, 13.55. Still Rings : Tom Jenkins, C, 9 .0; Warren Boatwright, C, 8.8; Rich Minser , IS, 8.6. Floor Exercise: Denn is Albers, 9.0; Francis A llen, 8.65; Harry H oward, 8.45. Trampoline : Jim Selby, IS, 8 .85; Floyd Con­st ant, IS, 8.65; Ri ch McCabe, C , 8.625. Side Horse : Dennis Albers , 8.775; Tim Bumonn, IS, 8 .575; John Stomps, C, 8.275. Tumbling : Den­nis Albers , 8.75; Francis Allen , 8.6; Kent Dob­bins , 8.22. Long Horse: Dennis Albers, 9.01; Jim Se lby, 8.85; Franc is A ll en, 8.75. Parall el Bars: Francis A llen , 8.72; Rich Poulsen, 8.5 ; Dennis Albers , 8 .5. High Bar: Richa rd Jones, 8.80; Rich Minser , 8.475; Rich Poul sen, 8.35.

TEAM STANDINGS Nebraska 203.5; Iowa State 154.5; Col o ra do

129; Kansas 13 ; Kansas Sta te 4 . Officials: Warren Ro lek , Fr ank Perry, T o m

K idd, Bob Weech , James Young , Bob Gillette . Herb Hanick , Duane H oecherl.

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East ern Co llegiates Al l-A round Champs and Coach Carl Patterson with his championship team from Temple University .

SOUTHERN INTERCOLLEGI A TE LEAGUE GYMNASTIC CHAMPIONSHIPS

Gymnastics proudly represen t ing the Pu rp le and Gold o f David L ipscomb College , a small school ( 1500 Students) located in Nashv ille , Tenn. , walked o ff with the Sou thern Intercol ­leg ia te conference g ymnastics champ ionshi~ team tit le on March 20-21 , at the Ci t adel in Charleston, South Carol ina.

Led by it ' s fine a ll -around per fo rmer-J. Lee , Dav id L ipscomb rang up 168 V2 po ints to finish ahead o f the Univ ersity o f Florida wi th 141

Lee o f L ipscomb captured the all-a round, floor exercise, and tumbling (the only gymnas~ to win more than one event ), added a seco nd on the long ho rse and 0 third on the side horse whi le persona ll y accountin g f o r 62 o f L ipsco mb 's points.

Other signif icant performances were turned in by: B. Fay o f Furman who scored 9 of thG 10 ev ents topped by hi s t hird p lace in the all -a round; B. Gramling o f Florida State came up with a second in the all a round and scored In

seven events. C. Deane, C. So lom on, and B. Horwood led

the University o f Furman with v ictories on the high b ar , para l lel bars and sti ll ring s re­spec ti vely. Other winner s included B. Davis of Florida Sta t e on the Long Horse (where· the top 6 finish ers were over 9.0 with Dav is at

9.55 ), B. A ld r ich o f Georgi a Southern in the rope climb , and B. Kell ey o f the University o f Fl orida who tied with H arwood f o r f irst on th~ still rings.

MEET RESULTS

A ll-arou nd : J. Lee , DL, 46.30; B. Gramling. FSU , 44.80; B. Fay, FUR , 44.50; J. Nance, DL , 42 .60; D. Harwood , U F, 41.80; G. Buffing ·~ ton , DL, 40.80; B. Kelley, UF , 40.60; G. At­kinson , FSU , 36 .30; C. Solomon , U F, 35.70; B. Davis ; FSU , 35.4. Rope Climb : B. Aldrich , GS, 4.1 ; J. Holmes, GT , 4.4; J. Jakubecy, GT, 4.7. Floo r Exercise, Lee , 9.0; Boker , DL, 8.55 : Gramling, 85. Side Horse : P. Gaddis , UV, 8.3 ; R. Snyder , GT, 7 .9; J. Lee, D L, 7.65 . Still Ring s: B. Harwood , 8.55; B. Kelley, 8.55; B. Fay, 7.7. Trampoline: L. Boker , DL, 8.65; R. Gonzalez, U F, 7.8; D. Harr is, Cit , 7.6 Paralle l Bars: C. Solomon, U F, 8.5 ; R. Snyder , 8.45 ; C. Walker , UF, 8.3. Long Horse : B. Davis, 9.55 ; J. Lee, 9.20; G. Buffington, 9. I 5. High Bar: C. Deane , U F, 9 .1; R Snyder , 8.9; J. Nonce , 7.95. Tum ­bling : J. Lee, 8.2; L. Boker , 7 .15; B. Norgorden, UF , 6.95.

TE AM STANDINGS David Lipscom b, 168V2, Universi t y of Flori da

14 I , Florida State Univ. , 74 V2, Furman, 60 V2, Georgia Tech., 56V2, Georgia Sou t hern , 24 V2, Citadel , 17 V2, Univ . o f Vi rg inia, 16.

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1ST NATION A L ASSOCIATION OF . INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLET ICS

NATIONAL GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS The Western Illino Is UnIv ersity Lea t hernecks

were recentl y cro wnerl the first NAtA Nationa l gymnastic chornpions at Hays, Kansas on the campus 0 1 Fo rt Hays Kansa s Stote Teacher s Co llege, Ma rch 20-21.

We5tern squeeked out a 156 V2 to 156 ( t hat' s fight Y2 of a po int ) v ICtory over Georgia South­ern , after having just recentl y captured t he Interstate Interco lleg iate Confer enc e title f o r the seco nd year In a row (would someone send the results o f tha t meet to Jer ry Wright ).

Leading the Leathernecks t o v ictor y we re H oward Soko l- a freshman from \IVestern wh ·:> won the still rings , Mac Weeks- wif"""ler o f the tumbling title , and Jerry Po lacek all stc r sec­o nd team selection in the all - a round. In addi­ti on Coach Bob Cl a w 's Western illinoIS entr y placed three men o n the NAIA a ll -star fir~t tearn.

Scenes o f 1964 NAIA National Champ ion­sh ips

MEET RESULTS

A ll-Around: Roger Hellinga, E. III. , 40.57 ; Buddy Harris , G. So. , 40.20; Jerr y Po lacek , W. III. , 40.5 ; H oward So k o l , W. III. , 39.02 ; Dennis Hallett , Will. , 38.77 ; Do nnie Maples, G. So . , 37 .80; Gary Coopcr , FHS, 35.35; John Zuerlelll , Stout , 31.82 . Floor Exe rcise: John Peac ock , G. So . , 8.225; Bill Eads , E. III. , 8.15 ; HarrIS, G. So., 8 .05. Trampolin e: John Tob ler , Bem idli , 7.575; Ra y LaFrancl5, W. III. , 7.37 ; Jan Kil borne , FHS, 6.6. High Bar: Harris , 8.025; Lawson King , Sw. La. , 7.57; E. Hellll1ga , 7.3. Sid e Horse : Heilinga , 7.62 ; Joe Johnson, FHS, 7.27 ; Po lacek, 6 .47. Long Horse: Peacock , Ga . 50 ., 7.82; King , 7.65; Hellinga, 7.63. Parall e l Bars : Harris, 8.1 , Gerold Peterson , W. 111. , 7.9 ; Peacock , 7.7. Still Rings : So kol , 8.3 ; Doy le Tun ­ison , Ga. 50 ., 7. 45; Gary Coope r , FHS, 7 .0; Po lacek , 7.0. T umbling: Mac Weeks , 8.37 ; Pea cock , 8 .27 ; Eads, 8 .25.

Coach Bob Claw and his NAIA championship team from We5ter n Illinois

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John Tabler NAIA Trampoline Champ

A LL-STAR FIRST TEAM All-Arou nd

Roger Heilinga, Sr . , Eastern IllinOIS , Chi cag o. Floor Exerci se

John Peacock , Soph ., Georgia Southern, Atl . Trampolin e

John T ob ler , Fr. , Bemidji State , Minneapolis. High Bar

Buddy Harris , Jr , G. 50 ., Statesbor o. Sid e Horse

Joe Johnson, Sr. , Fort Hays, Ken. , Preston. Long Horse

Lawson King , Sr . , S.W. Lo uiSiana , Jacksonville Parall e l Bars

Gerald Peterso n , Fr. , W. I llinois , Des Plaines. Still Rings

H owa r d Sokol , Fr. , W. Illino is, W heato n . Tumbling

Mac Weeks, Jr. , W. Illino is , Elmhurst.

NAIA A LL-STAR SECOND TEAM A ll -Arou nd

Jerr y Polacek , Soph. , Western I II. Berwyn. Floor Exercise

Bill Eads , Jr. , Eastern III. , Arthur. Trampolin e

Ray LaFrancl5, Sopth. , W . III. , Mt. Pr ospect. High Bar

. Dave Do naldson , Jr. , Wes t ern III. , Elmhurst. Sid e Horse

Donnie Maples, Soph. , G. So. , Northport. Long Horse

Pa ~a~re l ln3:~:oll, Jr. , W. 111. , Western Spr ings.

Dennis Hal lett , Jr., W est ern III. , Chi ca go. Still Rings

Doyle Tun ison , Jr. , Ga. Southern , Adel . Tumbling

Kip Bur t on , Fr. , Ga. Sout hern, At lanta.

TEAM STANDINGS

Weste rn Illir:ois! 156 V2; Georgia Southern , 156; Eas tern IlImo " , 6 2 ; Fort Hays Sl ate , 48 V2 ; Benrnld, 1 (Minn. ) Stote, 34; U. o f S.W. Louisiana 25 ;. N o rthewstern Oklahoma, I I; Stou t Stat ~ (WIS. ), 4 ; Grambling (La .) co l lege, 4.

OffICials: ~ou Fino, Jake Geier, Tom Kidd, Rober t Mann ll19 , Julian Mc Ewen , Phil Sprague , Frank Thomp son , Glenn Wilson.

U .S.G.F. WESTERN REGIONAL GYMNASTIC

CHAMPIONSHIPS V enic e High School April 4, 1964 7:30 p .m. Meet Mq. GEORGE ROSE , Announcer: NOR ·

MAN PATIT Z. Award>: M ICHELLE STEPHEN S. JUDGES: Frank Doig , Frank Endo , Ver ne Evans , Fronk N obhe , Gi b Peral ta , Do n Rosenstock .

RESULTS Rop e: Sieve Leidner , 2.9 ; Bob Skemp, 3 3;

Sy lvester Lucio, 3.7. Trampolin e: Rick Save'r s, 9.4 ; Dan MacFarland, 9.16; Bruce Foot , 9.1 0. Sid e H o rse: Richa rd Alba , 9.43 ; Henry Mag · daleno, 9.30; David Kiltrel , 9. I O. Parall el Bars : Peler Parra , 9.33; Dick Nicho las , 9.23; B,-,b H yde, 9.16. Horizontal Bar : Stan T ar shis , 9.66 ; Ed Gunny, 9.33 ; Peter Parra , 9 .33 ; Ed Isa belle , 930. Long H orse: Richard Elkin , 9.38 ; Steve Parr , 9.10; LOUI S \,yest , 8 .95. Floor Exercise : Ton y Bauli5ta , 9.56; Henry Magdaleno, 9.53 ; Don Dunit . 9.33. Tumbling : AI Langdon , 8.73 ; Den n is Sulli van , 8.73; Richard Elkin , 8. 6 3 ; Stev e NOriega . 8.63. Rings: Richard Blinder, 9.6; D ick Nicholas, 9.30; W arren Beers , 9. 20. All-Around : Ed Isabelle , 53.44 ; H enr y Magdaleno, 53 .23 ; D ick Nicho las, 5? 30; Bob H yde, 51 .54 ; Scot t Nctlles, 50.07.

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Dear NIr. Shurlock:

QUESTIONS and

POINTERS Ali{*> ~

A few days ago I go t a shoot to a hand­stand on the end of the parallel bars. There is only one move out of it , however, a stutz. This is a disaster if missed, and I miss. I do want to use the move; however, it would have to be in the middle.

I have tried this, also with disas trous ef­fects: An early grace. Could you suggest something to remedy the situation, outside of quitting gymnastics? I await your reply with high hopes and pulled muscles.

Dear Andy:

Sincerely, Andy Cohen Sharon, lVlass.

In order to avoid disastrous results it is necessary to protect yourselj. First by know­ing exactly what you are trying to do. Sec­ondly, the stutz should be learned in the

. center of the bars with mats covering each

bar. Yon then pnt Ion a sweat shirt and start building your stutz toward the handstand position. It will be low at first but with persistance and understandil;,g, it can be mastered without serious repercussions . The important jactors in per/arming the stutz are pulling into a pike jnst as you reach the vertical support swing, letting your feet rise at least to J'our head level before' the arch is thrown, and keeping ,the pivot ann straight . If yon turn to the right (the pivot is on right ann) then body is thrown slightly to the le/t. This will COll1pensate for you roo tating on your righ t ann, causing you to swing down perfectly between the bars after the tum is completed. A good illustra­tvon 0/ this is in the March/April 1963 i; SlU 0 / IvI.C. where Makato Sakamoto ij perjorming the stutz in sequence pp. 18-19. (Note body throw to the opposite side I)f his pivot arm.) .

After mastering this moue in the center you can then try it on the end 0/ the bars perfonning it exactly the same way with special emphasis on the compensat,:ng thnow to the le/t. Read the Sept. 1963 M .C. "Ques· tions and Pointers" article on P. 33 for hell' on the peach basket .

Handstand on Rings

The performer when first learning the handstand should press into it slow ly from a shoulder stand or from a tuck knee, bent arm pOSition.

Once the body is fully stre tched out the perfo rmer keeps hi s body motionless whil e hi s arms and shoul ders estab li sh and maintain the balance. The less the body moves, the less variabl es are in ploy in ho lding a solid handstand.

When the arms are st rai ght in the hand­stand pos iti on, keep them st rai ght and

ma intain your ba lance with your wri sts and hands only.

The perfect ha ndstand on the rings in one where th e body is st retched almost to a straig ht body pos ition, the e lbows are comp lete ly locked, the wr ists are rota ted so the rings a re pe rfec tl y parallel, the hands are approx imate ly shou lde r width aport, the body is motion less, the head is held backwa rd (towa rd the spine) and the fa ce is composed.

Remember, on the Dress the body moves s lowly a nd in a contro ll ed manner towa rd the handstand position since a ny fast or jerky movement ca n t hrow the o,erformer qu ick ly off ba lance. A.S.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA GYMNASTICS CAMP CLINIC Camp sessions this year wil be from August 15th to August

22nd for boys and girls 8 to 14 years of age, and from August 22nd to August 29th for men and women 15 years and up.

The cost this year will be $55 per session. See enc losed reg­istration card. We will have the following equipment in camp: 5 overhead spotting rigs, 5 high bars, 6 side horses, 6 P. Bars, 5 sets unevens, 5 sets rings, 2 long horses, 1 free exercise mat and 300 feet of tumbling mots, 6 trampolines.

Fallowing ore the names of some of the stoff who will be with us:

Fronk Hoiland-former National Tumbling Champion, wil l be our clinic Director.

Ernie Marinoni-Camp Director. be in charge Hal Frey-of the University of California, will

of units for credit thraugh the -UC Extension that qualified col lege students and teachers can apply for .

APPLICATION : NORTHERN CALIFORNIA GYMNASTIC CAMP CLINIC MAIL TO ERNEST MARINONI, CAMP DIRECTOR, BERKELEY YMCA,

~OOI ALLSTON WAY, BERKELEY 4, CALIFORNIA.

Camp Dates-August 15th to 22nd. Boys & Girls ages 8 to 14. August 22nd to 29th. Men & Women 15 & up.

Cost of Camp $55.00 per session.

Registration Fee: $25.00. Fina l $30.00 due by August 1st.

Name ______________ Age ____ Sex ___ _

Address City Phone

consider myself a BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE

ADVANCED ____ GYMNAST (PLEASE CHECK ONE)

All Campers must have one year of gymnastics or dance.

Transportation (Please check if needed) -- $5.00 (round trip).

For Minors : This application has my approval.

Oate of Application Signed Parent or Guardian

Irv Faria-Sacramenta State College. Bob Lynn-NCAA all-around champion. Andrea Molinar-Olvmoic Gold Medal wi nner, formerly of

Hungary. Inez Coon-Los Ange les State Co llege . Maria n King-Dickinson, Texas . Lou Perschke-Asst. Coach University of Ca li fornia. C lair J ennett-Son Jose Sta te College. Nil s Bengtsson-Chico State Co ll ege Coach. Rose Ann Saylor-Menlo Pork.

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WH A T' S N EW

N EW KINDER GARTEN -SI ZE GY M LINE INTRODUCED BY PORTER A THLETIC

A new line of gymnasium equipment, designed to teach physical fitness fr om pre-kindergarten through fourth grade levels, has been introduced by the Po rter Athletic Equipment Co., Schiller Pork, Illi­nois.

Called "P rudden-Porter -Gymster," the unique new equipment was developed in conjunction with Bonnie P rudden, o ne of the nation's fo remost authorities on phy­sical. fitness in cooperation with Woco­Porter. The equ ipment consists of a num­ber o f components-pyramid-shaped tubu­I: r s~e.?1 and wire stands , balance ba rs, a ladder , ond a rocker boord-which e'on be arranged t o provide the youngsters with a wide range of challenging bu t interesting physical fitness exercises.

The basic "Prudden-Porter-Gymster" pockage includes fi ve steel stands in three different sizes, two multi-purpose bal­ance beams, a [adder , a rocker board ramp and an attachment which can con­vert a stand and balance bar into a teeter­t o tte r o r a two-student merry-go- round.

Sco res o f exercise combinations con be created with the equipment. Commented Miss Prudden, "We can use the th ree different sized stands in a row and have our ba lance beams inclined. Or, we can build a 90-deg ree turn-or perhaps two.

The "Gymster " equipment is lightweight and can easily be moved bv the teacher or child. The stands a re self-Ievelinq and can be nested or collapsed for storing in a small clothes closet. Sturdy enough t o support a full grown adult, the equip­ment has been designed t o be attractive as we[1 as functi ona l and the v arious pieces have been painted red , green, blue , and yellow.

For additional information about the " Prudden-Po rter-Gy mster " line, contact Sidney Brunk, sales manager , Po rter Ath­letic Equipment Co .. Sch i ller Pork , III.

Ne w All Am e rican Fi e ld Marking Ac ry lic Marking Liquid

A new Ac ry l ic Field Marking Liquid is a vailable f rom American. I t is specially compounded, high ly concentrated , a nd homogenized. Th is highl y concentrated Acrylic may be diluted with more water than ordinary ma r king mater ials , and is available in white and yellow col or s.

All American Acrylic marking liquids are safe. They cannot cause bu r ns or other annoyances long associated with o ld-fa­shioned marking mater ials. Amer ican Ac ­r y[ ics have been tested and found so fe by the Notional Association o f High Schoo l Athletic Associations and other safety ­minded gr ou ps.

For further in formation wr ite the Amer ­ican Ath[etic Equipment Company- P .0. Box II I - Jefferson, Iowa 50129.

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Phone : 849-6039

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N EW FOLDING GYM M A TS A newall-purpose 6' x 12' gym mot that accordion f o lds f or easy handl ing has been developed by Nissen Corporation , Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The unique panel construct ion of these mats permit them t o be accordion folded into a compact bundle, easi ly tucked under the arm and carried away to stor­age. The weight is only '/ 2 pound per square foot so that even erementary stu­dents handle a 6 ' x 12' section without difficulty. The practical 6 ' x 12' size (5' x 12' 0150 availab le) allows many ac tivities to be handled across the width , or in two lines d own the length, o f the mo t-on idea l feature for large classes . Wh en longer mats are required , t he 6 ' x 12' mat sec­tio ns may be quick ly joined by pr ess ing together the special Velc ro fasteners lo­cated on the ends of t h e mots. Maximum protection is provided bv the 1'/.' super shock absorbing e t hafoam, equal t o 3 " o f ordinary hair filler. The new gym mats can be o rdered with special tie straps for wrestling mat con­version. For schools that pr actice in one qym and ho ld wrest I ing meets in another. Panelite mats are particularl y advanta­geous. Fo r m o re information write: Nissen Corp. , 3-27th Ave., .SW. , Cedar Rap ids , Iowa.

Notional Association of Colleg e Gymnastics Coaches

Join now for t he 1964-65 season; included in all up t o dote member sh ips will be ou r FIRST o ff icial pin a dopt ed a t the Notional meeting in Los A nge les in March. (First pins won' t be ready fo r 5 weeks ) Active members ... .. ... .... ....... .... ....... . $2.00 Associate members (non-college Coach es)

. .. .. ...... 51.00 Send to: Sam Bailie, Sec. Treas. N .A.C.G.C. 2145 Colle Po la r , Tucson , Arizona Notes: .

I. Please send resul t s of all Champion­ships f or publica t ion in the annual High­lights magazine t o Sam Bailie. Sec. Treas.

2. In future send 0[[ subscriptions f o r the Modern Gymnast direct to The Moder n Gymnast , P.O. Box 61 1, Santo Monico , Cal­ifornia.

] )e;II' Sil, , DUI'in'" ou r g'Y ln I Hl~tic..::s p r actlee our top

ring' nu.7n h eld an j no ~l e ro~ s p e rf~et for twe nt \' secon cl~, Tf) gl\'e y ou an ~rl ea , o f h i!-> aJ.}i l ity·, during t h e 1!l6~ sen.~o n 1 ~1 hlg-h schoo l competiti on h e p la ce d 3rd In ,th e ~t;\te n nd fi l '~l i n the A,A,P, r o p e c ll mh with a fi\'t' - :-; econd plat ,Thl~ past ::;eason he h:1 s plcH.:ed ~econd in th e ,:"ort!l w e-.;l Gymnastic m ee t h e ld at th e U nI\'e rs l t~- of

M~~,~e~~~aI Ook i ng- fo r gre at t hing~ from thi ~ I;id i n th e COIn ing \\Tiscons in sta t e m e~ t to b e h eld in Grand\·ille, :lf il wau k ee o n :lIarl"h

14 His name, V e rn "-ille r s, a junior at :lIe ll1oria l High Sch ool, Eau Cla ire, \ \"i scon-:-: in ,

Dear Si r:

Eau C laire \Vi scon s i n M e l S hayer

Coach

Cong-ratulation s on your F ebruary. 1964 j s:-:ue artic l e, " Palnl i s try For Th e G~.'ll1-n,,!'t." Good ~ how but, . '

I thought it hig hl y ~ i gnif i cant that no 11lention was tnad e of the qynl nas t:-; ' t,ru e fri e nd, T i ncture Benzoin. Thl~ preparat l on~ \\-h e n bought in any dl'ugs tor~. C[lll be 01 in\·aluable aid in t orn and npped h a nd s ai' fing'e r s , It h as a sh arp s ting wh en f irst appl ie d but it immediately forms a tough e xte rna l protec tive coa ting . Instantly a ll of th e lymph fluid is ab sorbe d. Hea lll1/f " r edu ce,1 to a mirac ulously short p e n nd.

If th e l'e are any of your read~rs \\-h o :11'e UI1 [lwar e o f Tincture B e nZOin 's 1'e ­Ill:1l'ka ble h en lin g ab il it ies, a n d I'nl su r e t h e r e a r e, may I s u gg~st y,ou a le rt t h e m of

ii.Co ntinued s ucces~ in your fin e magazin e.

D en r G le nn:

R espectfu lly yours , J errv R, Hitlles Monterey, Californ ia

In the art ie le Paul Davis wrote he had sOlne \' e l'y good po in ts in fa\'or of " r o p e e lilllhin o '.- ' H er e are 111Y conl lnentr-- about th e rop"'e cl imb a s an o ld "rop e c li mber' · :l n d g-y mnast i c coach. ' "

~ r y f eeling is tha t rop e c lllnblng l[.i one of th e be"t uppe l· arm and s houlder deye l­opel' \\' e h a\'e in gYlnna s tics, I had thi~ pI'o\-en to m e n o t o n ly in 111Y O,wn ca~e . but the man y boys I worked Wi t h '\'~ll e coa c h ing- gym nas ti cs at Santa Pau la H Ig h . Tn one of t h e a rti c les wr i tte n in your mag ­azine th e author made t h e s tate ment t hat gYll1na stics i s f o r phy~ i ca l d e\-e lopnlent fin.;t :l n(l competi lion n ex t.

If (h i ~ is " 0, w e had b e tt e r tak e a good l ook at p;ynlnnst i c~ . for t h e boy~ and gir l ~ and n l) t b e '0 con cern e d abo ut A ll- Arou nd ('om p e tijtion , \ iVe h a\'e sOlll e f ellows a rou~Hl th e countrv who want to th r ,o w a ll spec ial e \·e nt" out and haye on l~· the s ix A ll ­Around e'-entf-:,

Tn track, w e h a\-e specin l e\'ents such :-IS sh ot pu t, po l e VRUIt, high jUI11P a nd runnin g' €' \' e nt s , 'Vhat is. wrong w i th hn\,­ing- spe('in liHs in gYJnna~tks?

During- th e twenty ye[lr~ that J coach ed g::\'Inna~tic s h er f' at Santa Paul a ~igh ,IllY l' f'nIl1S WOIl :-tbout ~e \'en e l F C h anlplOnsh lps , \\'ith Ill;tll\' se(,.'I nd plaees, I f o und thnt Illiln\, hov!-:' b e(, :-1n1 e int e r e~t pd in gymnastics h e('a'lI !-:e th e.\' ~ t :t rt e c1 \\'oJ'k ing o n the "I'Op~ " 'Th e \' , \\-e r p in many case:-:, boys \\'h.o dul nothing- in th e ot h er ~pOl'ts, T h ad a ll boy~ c l i mh th e r op e. lU nny t i m es a fter working in g:Ylllna:--:ticF: for th e fil'~t t hl'ee year~ hovs ' \\' (> 1' (' th e n , as spni ol'~, ~oll gh t after in.' th e f oo th:--d l conc' h , This cam e aft ('l l" th eir d f. \' e lopm e nt phys i('n 1I~'- in the g;'-'-1ll 11 as ti c ( 'l;IS~

Tht · :1 \'e rag' €, hig'h ~('hllo l o r coll e g e bo~: d , )t~:-: n't h n\'f' tillH-' 0 )' th e :1.hi l it;..- to w o rk up 1 h (' ~ i x OI.\'n!piC' e\'e n tF:,

\\"11(' 11 I \\-a~ at ,;SC'" in 1!'l:: :? \\-" h ;ld a hout 111 0 1' 12 g'on(\ hov~ fill cl iff c'I'Pllt 0 \' P llt:--:, F rilllk n n ic' \\'fl ~ a Ile of th e b oy!' who \\' ('I nt " ,-\lI-Aro \II'Hl," ("om part' t hi ~ \\'jth th E' "sr'" - l'('l . .-\ ll l l'f· t that \\'a~ I'l ' ('(' 11 I I ." T eh:> \ ' j:-: f'd, "~r" h a d t \\-0 II I' thl'Pf' h()~-~ \\'h (1 l1l:1cl (' all t ill' poill ts.

r IlO 14lIH.!.'\'· r climli l ll' t 'II:I('ll, 11111 will ('(' 1' ­la inl~' l o:-:p int pJ'( ':-:t in g-."Illll:l~til':-: if th E' I'I '

i ~ no rope (' l i mb, :\1:1,;\' oth e r~ \\'Iil l o~€' int f' I't:'!'t. al!-=fl fl'C/1ll a {'oi11pe litnr :1 1Hl =--Ih-('-1:11' .1' ~tall(lnoillt,

A !-: I l ook back t hi~ a nic'I f> i ~ :1.way tHO long, but I h a \-e Oll e In -,re point t o mak c',

I f ee l thnt g-yqll1naslic~ i ~ hurt h~' tht, c'r nlt i nu:1.1 c hnng-t's in th f> (" \ 't' ni!' , F o r examp le:

R ope 1. In ]~1~2 Olympic:-: th e ~' ('lim l ,ed a n ~ m e t el ' r Oll f' , nl) Ilan, hoth h:1.nel ~ a lJun-" " tape for th f' f i ni~h, Th e ~t<ll't h a d b o th hand~ on e m E'tp l' ahr)\'p t h e fl oor.

2, (" it\- !'c h oo l ~ nnd AAtT m ee t!-= ('l imbed 2i'i f ee t' [0" :vea l'~ n:-:. oppo~ ed tn r IF and (' o lleg'es <"1imhing: 20 f ee t and fillet1l:." tht, (" it.\· all,1 th e AA 1· , ·hang-e rl to 211 fe~ t. Rings

1, They use to hn\'e :t !'ti lJ :1.IH1 ~ \\-jnginp: ('olllil inatio n,

2 . .'\ ("xt th e ~- mad e two :-:.e p a r at e P \- e 1l1~, "ti ll an(1 S,,-ing ing-.

::, .'\O\\" nnl~- F:ti ll e x e rc i~ f' , L ong H orse

1 In o ll e o f th e ~ational lll eP t~ t h 0Y rai!'ed the L ong- H() r~e up in th e :til' ahn Ul fh'e fee t and lI~ed a I'ea l ~ pl'ing board , (A hroad-jumper from SC \\'(l]\ th e e \,(-' nt)

2, ("hang-e(l th e b ent bonn1 f l'om \yoorl t n pln~tic ~() the \'nult e l'~ get n much hig'he r lift. F ree E xerc ise

1. Size o f t h e area. It was 20 x2n ,")(1 no tumhl in g,

2, Chang-eel size to lar ger a l'ea ancl in ­c lu d ed tUl11h lin g',

~. One H'a l· th e v let th e m tra\·e l a l l oye ,. th e fl oo r: -:\ 0 area ma,.ked off.

4, X ,f) W I b eli eye the a r ea is al)(lut 40x ~n fe e t

So it goes, Thi!-> is e n Oll g'h fo l' no\\', I would like to see HrOp e' back in gym n as­tic s as an event for t h e good of the s port . th e individu a l , a nd for the spectators ,

Dear Glenn;

Gymnastically YOlt)'!, . Randall A. Br~·d e n Sa nta Paula T-t ig-h Sch Ol) l

I have often wanted t o drop you a note of commendati on for the sp lendid job you hav e done fo r g ymnastics in America, Y ou have d one what a t first seemed an imposs ib le task and I for one honor you f o r it. This yea r I am in Bangkok, Thailand and have had m y " Modern Gymnast " sent t o me here, A l though teaching gymnastics is not my sale responsibilit y I have, as usual , gi v en it and those interested a good deal o f time. The Thai 's can' t be li eve some of the pictures which appear in you r magazine, The cu rr ent issue contains you r article on the pedestals and was of specia l interest because I have made pedes­tal s for the Tha i. You probably don't know it bu t I designed t he base o f the pedestals you used for the pictures. Jim Drinkward designed the h and g r ips and you probab ly got them from my friend Johnny Gibson . My Tha iland pedestals were mode f or on ly S2.75. We used '/4 inch pipe, welded the base and then mode wooden hand grips to keep the cost down. I have also des igned ond bu ilt them a set o f adjustable p arall el ba rs at a cos t o f $70.00. We built a pai r o f pedestals for Jack Thomas who is a fine ba lancer, world traveler and says he has ba lanced a lo t with you. The next time you come up to the Bay A rea don ' t spend all your t ime at Cal. (tho I don ' t blame you ) come over to Stan fO"rd and work out wi th us. Th ey tell me we wi ll have the Big 6 meet next year bu t few gymnasts, while the cu r rent y ear is ou r strongest ever , Wel l Glenn, p lease give my regards to all the coaches and our many mutual friends,

Sincerely, Wes Ruff of Stanford Currently in Thailand

P.S. We m ounted the sleeve assemb ly at a slight ang le t o make it easier on the wrists, We ld a plate over a piece o f pipe f o r o sleeve then attach t o t he hard wood hand grip, We mode the grip with a rat t ai l f ile ,

ED_ Thanks f or inst ructio nal diagrams on the pedest al s, I know many o f our reader s will take no te , and build a set,

TO: T HE GYMNASTIC COACH

Do you have a senior gymnast who meets these criteria? I. Will g raduate in 1964 with a major

in Phys ical Educati o n and an overall academic average o f at least 2.5 (3.0 equiv a lent t o a " B") .

2, Seeks a Graduate Assistant ship t o wo rk on his Master ' s degree,

3. Would like to hav e the dev elopment o f a gymnastic team (either competi­tive or et<hibiti o nal ) os one o f his maj or responsib ilities,

If so , may we suggest you inform him o f our program, and t o refer him t o the encl osed information which explains the details. The candidate who is accepted would commence the program either in the Summer or Fall o f 1964 and would com­plete the requirements in o ne calendar year, His Assistantship opportunities would cut ac ross the fields o f intramurals , teach­ing in our Basic Instruction program , and coaching the gymnastic club which we hope some day may be a va rsity team,

The interested candidates should f o l­low these steps: 1. Write Dr. Allen Erickson f or app lica­

tion f orms fo r admittance t o the Col­lege o f Educatian graduate program,

2 . AFTER being accep ted , write Dr. Don­ald Kern f o r app l ication forms f o r a Graduate Assistantship.

3, Simultaneousl y with step 2 above, write me regarding his strengths, aspiratio ns , and interests,

We expect t o make our final decisions regarding the candidates by May I.

Sincere ly David A. Fiel d, Directo r Arno ld College Division Bridgeport , Connecticut 06602 University o f Br idgepo r t

GYMNASTS IN THE PEACE CORPS Qua l ifi ed gymnasts are urgentl y needed fo r overseas coaching positions, Th e de­mand for specialis t s in this field is great f or aSSignments beg inning th is summer a nd fall. We so licit the assistance of all coaches in loca ting individuals with the necessary gymnastic skil ls and the personal Qualifications fo r service in these impo r­tant overseas assignmen t s, The American Association for H ealth , Phy­sica l Education, and Recreation is ad­ministering fi ve physical educatio n and sports projects f or the Peace Corps. Pre­sen tl y there are 110 men and women serving overseas in these projects, Each country has requested tha t some of t he Volunteers be qua li fied to teach and coach gymnastics, In our efforts to re­cru it q ua lified p ersonnel during the post year and a half we have not been able to attract individua ls wi th skills and knowl­edge in this sport . It is assumed that g ymnasts are as patrio tic to se rvice of their country as any other group and that the lack o f Vo lunteers from this sport is due to the fact that th e opportuni ty for service has not been w ide ly dissem­inat ed, We are , therefore , asking all gym­nastic caaches to bring to the attention o f their graduating senior s and other qual i­f ied personnel the oppor tunit ies fo r coach­ing in the Peace Corps, A pproximate ly 300 men and women are needed this com ing summer and fall f or Peace Corps physical education and sports projects . Of this number 30-35 individuals qualified to teach and coach g y mnastics can be u tilized, The assignments will in­clude the teachi ng o f g ymnasti cs at all educatiQna l levels as well as coachin g schoo l , universi t y, club, state , and national g ymnastic teams, For those who have a strong desire f o r serv ice the Peace Co rps offers many oportunities to initiate, de­v elop, and expand gymnast ic programs in the developing countr ie s, Qualifications for these Peace Corps proj­ects include American citizenship ; min ­imum o f 18 years o f age ; bacca laureate degree; skills in physical educat ion, rec ­reation , ond athletics; and a desire to ser ve , For further in formati on about the new Peace Co rps ph ysical educat ion and spo rts projects write t o: Raymo nd A, Ciszek , director , AAHPER Peace Corps Proj ect , 1201 Sixteenth Street , N.W .. Washing to " , D.C. 20036.

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