{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-gymnastics-hardcover","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Gymnastics (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Gymnastics is a large-format coffee table book of gymnastics, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two: the beam, the bars, the rings and the horse, the vault, mats, chalk and grips, the apparatus of rhythmic gymnastics, trampolines, practice, and old halls and open-air grounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the horse, the vault and the bars: a modern horse alone on a blue mat, a vaulting table, a springboard, a runway leading across a large hall to the table, the uneven bars in an old hall, the parallel bars, the high bar in warm low light and a beam in a quiet modern hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the apparatus of rhythmic gymnastics: a ribbon lying in loose curves beside its stick, a hoop standing on its edge, a ribbon drawing a spiral in the air, a pair of clubs crossed on a mat, a ball on a herringbone floor, a hoop rolling across the stone floor of a tall old hall and a hoop hung on a peg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the apparatus from new angles, trampolines and tumbling: the rings seen from below against a dark roof, a beam seen end-on, the uneven bars in morning haze, a trampoline alone in a wide hall, a small round trampoline, a long tumbling track and an old wooden vaulting box.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen practice, the gymnasts anonymous in plain dark kit: a still stand on the beam with arms out, a hang from the high bar, a handstand on the parallel bars, a ribbon swung in a spiral seen from above, the run to the vault, a still cross on the rings, a split leap and the last walk across an empty hall at dusk with a towel over one shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward the end: hand grips hung on a peg, a ribbon lying across a hoop, a vaulting table far off at the end of a long runway in an old whitewashed brick hall, a springboard and its long shadow, a beam and its shadow in late afternoon light, a rolled ribbon on a stack of mats and a lone ball on a pale floor at dusk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book, on the apparatus and how it is used, chalk and grips, the rhythmic apparatus and the halls, and the early history of the sport: the still rings hang from straps fixed high above the floor, a padded vaulting table has taken the place of the older vaulting horse, gymnasts rub magnesium carbonate on their hands for a dry grip, and the balance beam is ten centimetres wide and five metres long.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a hardcover with the art printed on the case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":68150173630768,"sku":"9671456004907","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456004907.jpg?v=1792645145","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-gymnastics-hardcover","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}