The Tumbler's Manual
Title
The Tumbler's Manual
Description
Over a score of outstanding instructors cooperated with the authors to produce this popular, authoritative manual on tumbling.
The Tumbler's Manual offers a group of tested, progressively arranged tumbling stunts, with illustrations and directions for their perfect execution.
A feature of the book is the 136 illustrations and 35 diagrams. The illustrations are reproduced in line from slow-motion pictures, thus ensuring an absolutely accurate delineation of movement. They are so arranged as to allow the complete sequence of positions for each stunt.
The Tumbler's Manual discusses other important topics such as teaching and safety techniques in their relation to equipment, instructors, and performers, It gives much-needed suggestions on the standardization of tumbling forms, variations in individual and group activities and socialized group stunts.
The material in this book will be found usable by both beginners and experts in independent gymnasiums and in high schools and colleges.
The Tumbler's Manual offers a group of tested, progressively arranged tumbling stunts, with illustrations and directions for their perfect execution.
A feature of the book is the 136 illustrations and 35 diagrams. The illustrations are reproduced in line from slow-motion pictures, thus ensuring an absolutely accurate delineation of movement. They are so arranged as to allow the complete sequence of positions for each stunt.
The Tumbler's Manual discusses other important topics such as teaching and safety techniques in their relation to equipment, instructors, and performers, It gives much-needed suggestions on the standardization of tumbling forms, variations in individual and group activities and socialized group stunts.
The material in this book will be found usable by both beginners and experts in independent gymnasiums and in high schools and colleges.
Subject Matter
Gymnastics
Publication Year
1964
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Language
English
Files
Collection
Citation
“The Tumbler's Manual,” The Bruce Lee Library Research Project, accessed May 5, 2025, https://www.bruceleelibrary.jamescbishop.com/lib/items/show/1999.