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Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, agility and coordination. Artistic Gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports.

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How to do a handstand or handspring

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Beginner's Guide to Gymnastics Created in preparation for the 2004 Olympics this BBC Sport page provides a simple explanation of the different gymnastic disciplines and is a great starting point for those new to the sport. Save to My Listings	Learn Artistic Gymnastics This cool animated website is home to a large collection of floor skills lessons and is in the process of expanding to feature lessons for the other major disciplines. Save to My Listings	Drill & Skills Drills and skills provides detailed descriptions and training advice for hundreds of gymnastic techniques implemented across the entire range of apparatus. Save to My Listings

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SportFocus Club Search The SportFocus website has a directory of UK gymnastics clubs with a function allowing you to search by location for your nearest facility. Save to My Listings	Gymnastics & Movement for People with a Disability This section of the British Gymnastics website hosts information on GMPD, a programme set up to provide training and competitive opportunities for people with a disability within the sport of Gymnastics. Save to My Listings	Cheshire Academy Integrated Sports Acrobatic Club The Cheshire Academy is an acrobatics club that offers fully integrated classes, with disabled and non-disabled children working, training and even competing together. Save to My Listings

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Inside Gymnastics

Inside Gymnastics is a magazine targeted at gymnasts, coaches and fans of the sport. Check out the magazines online blog for the latest competition news and opinions.

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Talk Gymnastics is an online forum for discussion about the sport. As well as the blog the page boasts guides to the three gymnastic disciplines, information on competition and rules and skills, movements and postures.

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Perfect10: Gymnastics Blog

Self described as ‘a random collection of thoughts on the sport of Artistic Gymnastics’.

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