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TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume XIV / Numbers 8&9/ June-July 1972 4 NOTES FROM THE PUBLISHER, Glenn Sundby 6 7
OLYMPIC YEAR FOR THE USA: The Trials are over, the teams are picked and the OL YMPICS are upon us ... How will we do, as a team , as i[ldividuals? .. . Will Cathy, Lynda, Roxan ne, ... Hug, Sakamoto or Crosby come home with a Bronze, Silver or Gold medal? Will either either ofour teams break into the top three . .. is this the year of the Big Win or at least the breakthrough for the USA to be really counted among the top World contenders in Gymnastics? These questions will all be answered by September 1st at the conclusion of the Gymnastic portion of the Olympic Games. In the meantime we can only speculate and hope all goes well with our talented youngsters and their capable coaches. For the girls we should fare well , we have a lot going for us as we field this team of young veterans with extensive International competition experience. This will be the .third Olympic Competition for Lynda Metheny(she made it to the final top six on the BB in Mexico) Cathy has the Mexico Olympics(where she was the top USA scorer), The World Games(a silver Medal on the Balance Beam) and nume rous other awards from International I nvitional Competitons. Pierce, Chace, Moore and Hill were on the World Games team of '70 leaving only .Miss Thies a very talented youngster as yet to be tested in World competition . We expect the girls to show very well, both individually and as a team. Our men 's team of Hug, Sakamoto, Greenfield, Crosby Avener, Lindner and Culhane are all veterans of I nternational competition. Based on their final trial scores they have been assigned to top competition group C placing them with Japan, East Germany, Poland, Hungry and Czechoslovakia. Baring unexpected injury this team should be right up among the winners.
OLYMPIC TEAM BOOSTERS: Not only are we sending top teams to Munich , but if the west coast is any example there will be hundreds of USA Gymnastic boosters. The USGF charter out of Chicago, the VTI charter out of Detroit along with special Turner, Sokol and Teacher groups will be winging countless numbers of gymnastic fans to Munich and the Olympic Games. Our teams will be well supported by the spectators and the press. Your publisher and able Associate editor Dick Criley will be in the press section every session to bring you full photo and statistical reports from the Games. Our Olympic accredited photographer, Don Wilkenson will on the main floor with the action shooting hundreds( perhaps thousands) of photos for GYMNAST. All in all we will have a good report for our GYMNAST readers in the October Olympic Preview edition, our November feature Olympic Report and our December Olympic follow-up issue. .
NAMES & NEWS AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GYMNASTIC COMMUMITY Dr. Joseph L. Massimo NO GYMNASTICS - DON'T LET COLLEGE BE YOUR EXCUSE, Linda D. Law KEEPING WITH THE TIME, Bob Henneche
8 GYMNAST BOOK REVIEW/INTERVIEW: Dr. Eric Hughes, Dick Criley JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU'RE FINISHED, A.B. Frederick
9 WHY ARE THE SCORES GENERALLY LOW IN THE FINALS COMPETITION?, Frank J. Cumiskey 10
10TH ANNUAL USGF CHAMPIONSHIPS
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OLYMPIC FINAL TRIALS: MEN, Les Sasvary 13 HUG, 14 SAKAMOTO, 15 GREENFIELD, 25 CROSBY, 17 AVENER, 18 LINDNER, 19 CULHANE
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GETTING THE GRIP ON GYMNASTICS, Bill Holmes BEGINNER FLOOR EXERCISE ROUTINE, Jerry Wright SEQUENCES BY SCHULTZ, Dietev Schultz THE BACK KIP, Bill Roetzheim '
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NEWS 'N NOTES, Renee P. Hendershott ARE YOU A NEW COACH AND AFRAID TO SPOT A CAST ROTATE?, Renee Hendershott 35 WATCH THOSE CURVES, R.A. Bates 36 REPRINTS FROM THE OLYMPISCHE TURNKUNST 37 HELEN'S CORNER, Helen Sjursen
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BUYERS GUIDE
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INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR THE GYMNASTIC SPECTRUM, Gerald S. George
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LEITERS
GYMNAST"Girl Friday": The excellent photos of the Japanese USA competion on our March cover were miss-credited-and should have read cover photo(and several inside photos) by Ri chard Kenny of Franklin Park, Illinois. Dick Criley also infQrmed us we mixed up a few names in our lapanese Report in the February issue along with several typo errors in the April-May edition. To help minimize future errors, starting in September we will have a " GYMNAST Girl Friday " to check all the little but important things that get by us, pi us put in order materials that should be included but got buried along the way ... If you have little bits of news 'n such you feel should be noted in GYMNAST, facts that would be of interest to many of our readers or perhaps a thought, idea or complaint you may have bottled up inside until you are abouuo burst ... drop a line to our " GYMNAST Girl Friday" and relieve the pressure, it may be a big help to all of us.
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COVER: Debbie Hill, 1972 USA Olympic team alternate at GYMNAST press-time.
Publisher: Glenn Sundby Associate Editors: Renee Hendershott and Dick Criley Contributors: A.B. Frederick, Gerald George, Don Tonry, Jerry Wright and Helen Sjursen . GYMNAST magazine is published by Sundby Publication, 410 Broadway, Santa Monica, Ca. 90401. Second Class Postage paid at Santa Monica, Ca. published monthly except April-May&double edition? and bi-monthly June, July, August and September. Price 75¢ a Single copy. Subscription correspondence, GYMNAST - P.O. Box 110, Santa Monica, Ca. 90406. Copyright 1972@ all rights reserved by SUNDBY PUBLICA liONS, 410 Broadway, Santa Monica, Ca . All photos and manuscripts submitted become the property of GYMNAST unle ~s return requ est and sufficient postage are included.