Vaulting: Tips, Rules, and Legendary Stars

By Martín Bustamante and Tracy Nelson Maurer

Vaulting takes a lot more than just a run and jump onto a springboard. It requires preparation, practice, and understanding of this unique event. A gymnast that dedicates her time and effort could one day see her name next to one of the great vaulting legends. Here gymnasts will learn what it takes to be successful.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: May 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781496656964

Martín Bustamante

Martín Bustamante is an illustrator and painter from Argentina. Inspired as a teen by Star Wars and Prince Valiant, he has worked for many book publishers and magazines in Argentina, the USA, and Europe. He lives in the UK.

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Gymnastics: Vaulting by Tracy Nelson Maurer

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Leap Frog with a Horse

Chapter 1: Ready, Set, Vault!

Chapter 2: Block Talk

Chapter 3: Competition

Chapter 4: Legends of the Vault

Glossary

Read More

Index

Copyright

Back Cover

Leap Frog with a Horse

Imagine a game of extreme leapfrog, and you’re close to the thrill of the vault in gymnastics. To vault means to jump over something. Gymnasts use a springboard to launch their jump toward an apparatus called a horse or vaulting table. Blocking helps these gymnasts get big air—up to 8 feet (2.4 meters)—for spectacular tricks.

Vaulting is an artistic gymnastics event. Some artistic gymnastic events are for only men or women. For example, only women compete in balance beam and uneven bars. Men compete in still rings, pommel horse, high bar, and parallel bars. But both genders compete in vault and floor exercise events.

Gymnasts perform the vault with one or more moves in a fast series while in the air. Don’t blink! The entire vault is