A foot fetisher's dream! | Gymnastics: Balancing Acts

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	• Gymnastics: Balancing Acts Christina Lessa Universe Publishing, 1997 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fantastic!

This book's main focus is on photography; beautiful photos of world class gymnasts playing dress up and wearing different costumes that mostly relate to their personality. There are also pictures of them in the gym, or doing gymnastics. Comments, thoughts, and quotes from the gymnasts are printed in each of their sections throughout the book. As some have mentioned, some of the results listed in the front are wrong, so that's why I'm only giving 4 stars. And about the gymnasts being barefoot: THEY ARE GYMNASTS! THEY COMPETE BAREFOOT. So it makes since for them to be barefoot in the book. Gymnasts featured are: All Mag 7 members (Dominique Dawes, Shannon Miller, Dominique Moceanu, Amy Chow, Amanda Borden, Jaycie Phelps, Kerri Strug), Julianne McNamara, Mary Lou Retton, Trent Dimas, John Roethlisberger, Chainey Umphrey, Cathy Rigby, Kim Zmeskal, Bart Conner, Nadia Comaneci, Peter Vidmar, Jair Lynch, Svetlana Boguinskaia, Lilia Podkopayeva, Mitch Gaylord, Abe Grossfeld, Mariel Grossfeld, Ivan Ivanov, Jordan Jovtchev, Ivan Ivankov, Vitaly Scherbo, and Olga Korbut. Bela Karolyi, Shannon Miller, and Dominique Dawes write forwards and intros. Shannon Miller is on the cover.

Pictures range from Shannon looking like a princess standing on a horse (an actual live animal), to Kerri Strug dressed like a ballerina, to Bart Conner covered completely in gold body paint, to Lilia dressed like a mime, and more. There are also gymnastics poses, like Jaycie Phelps doing a tumbling series on the beam.

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A foot fetisher's dream!

The photos in this book are very nice, but everyone featured is inexplicably barefoot. Not only that, but feet feature prominently within these pages. Weird. Anyway, as another reviewer mentioned, the text is riddled with errors even a casual fan shouldn't miss. If you can tolerate these problems, then you might like htis one.

Okay

Well, if you look at the results in the front, man, are they not accurate! Terrible. Since when did Olga Korbut win two team medalions in the olympics. It has either a lot of typos, or mistakes. The pictures are good, and the stories are too, but Svetlana won more medals at the '88 games than 2. Man, you have got to check up on your trivia, and re read your stuff. It is OK, if you aren't looking for accuracy.

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Awesome

This is an awesome book!!! I am a gymnast myself and usually find any other books about gymnastics besides Biographies or Autobiographies about gymmnastics seem to have incorrect information in them. But not this book, this book is great and it is cool to see all the people in that book that I have met and see what they really think.

A great addition for anyone who enjoys photography!

It is obvious that Christina Lessa understood that the world of a gymanst goes well beyond public performances. She has done a fabulous job capturing the essence of each gymnast featured, in ways unexpected and fascinating. She has set asside "fact sheets" and scores and has captured what drives them to be great as gymnasts as well as unique and focused individuals. Easy to read and filled with great photos, this book would be a great addition to anyone's coffe table! It has also become one of my favorite books to give as a gift...specially to anyone involved in sports.

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Thirty of history's greatest gymnastics champions are featured here, including such celebrated gold medal winners as Kerri Strug, Dominique Moceanu, Vitaly Scherbo, Jaycie Phelps, Amanda Borden, Bart Conner, Svetlana Boginskaya, Amy Chow, and Mary Lou Retton.

"Everyone sees a gymnast's public moments-- the victories and defeats-- but no one, until now, has managed to bring out such an individually tailored, true portrait of these fine people as artists. Through their stories and photographs, we see a side of these great people which they only show to their closest friends."--Bela Karolyi

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