New Video Demonstrates Basic Gymnastics Moves on Homemade Equipment

A new YouTube video features basic gymnastics moves on parallel bars, pommel horse, pommel pod, and rings, modeled on homemade equipment by science writer and publisher M. Schottenbauer, Ph.D. The author, a self-taught amateur gymnast who practiced intermittently over 7 months, was 38 years old and 50 pounds overweight at the time of filming this video in September 2014.

The demonstration includes: 

• Pommel Horse
• Side Swings
• Preparation for Scissors

• Pommel Pod
• Hops (Preparation for Circles)
• Half-Circle with Windup

• Parallel Bars
• L-Sit
• Swings

• Rings
• Straight Hold
• L-Hold
• Backwards Sequence with Inverted L-Hold, Handstand, and Fold

Update (12/24/2014): New Videos

• Pommel Circles in Bucket
• L-Sit on Rings
• Parallel Bars

Update (7/30/2015): New Video

• Compiled Video with Music

These moves are similar to the ones represented in the author's books on the science of gymnastics, including:

• The Science of Gymnastics: Volumes 1-3
• The Science of Gymnastics: An Anthology
• The Science of Summer Olympic Sports: An Anthology

Related books by the author include:

• The Geometry of Gymnastics
• The Geometry of Summer Olympic Sports

A complete listing of sports-related books from M. Schottenbauer, Ph.D. are available at the author's blog on Sport Science Education.

Additional Information

Schottenbauer Publishing

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