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By Jack Biesterfeldt This month the poster and most of the rest of the center section was obtained at UCLA. A few days ago when some photographs that we had planned to use for the center spread were not satisfactory, we decided to trY some experiments in photographY, and chose a location convenient to Santa Monica. FortunatelY, the very next day was a press photo day for gymnastics at UCLA, and Coach Art Shurlock kindly agreed to have three of his men come in a few hours early so that we could do our photography outdoors on the beautiful UCLA campus. Even the weather was with us; temperatures were in the 80' s in mid-January so we worked under ideal conditions. With the return of warm weather in the rest of the country, we
hope to do other outdoor gymnastics photography at other locations. The photo we have chosen for the poster was done by zooming the lens of the camera while the shutter was open. We hope you like the effect as much as we do. The performer on the poster is Shawn Miyake, a Junior at UCLA . In Coach Shurlock's words, " Shawn is UCLA's outstanding pommel horse man of all time " . He was a Pac 8 Finalist during his Freshman and Sophomore Years, and placed 5th in the National AAU 1974 Championships. His high score of 9.40 in the USA All-Stars vs. Swiss National Team, last season, earned him first place in the meet. Shawn came to UCLA directly from Venice California High School , where he was coached by George Rose.
Below: A non-zoom photo of Tim Deeds and Shawn, Donn & Tim hita static pose on the PB's for GYMNAST
GYMNAST Feb. '75
I n addition to the poster shots, we (ook a few "standard " shots. The following single bar sequence is the mount of Tim Deeds' routine on parallel bars. Tim graduated from Wilson High in Long Beach, Ca., where he was coached by Jack Elder, and went on to Long Beach City College where he competed for two years on John Draghi ' s team . There, he won the California Junior College All-Around and Floor Exercise Championships. This is Tim 's first season at UCLA . The second sequence is of the finish of Donn Leavenworth's parallel bar set, Donn is also from John Draghi ' s LBCC team, and was 1974 California State Junior College Champ on Parallel Bars, His top score: 9.55. He graduated from Lakewood High , where he was coached by Richard Flood. Photos by Jac k Bies terfeJdt
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