SCIENCE OF GYMNASTICS JOURNAL
Vol. 2 Issue 2 2010
EDITORIAL
Dear friends,
It is already four months since the last issue of the Science of Gymnastics Journal. In the period from 1 February to 1 June, the previous issue received 4320 visits from 81 countries. For a scientific journal, this is quite a respectable number.
In May/June, EBSCOhost list of Journals included the Science of Gymnastics Journal in the SPORTDiscus database. Hence, our Journal is now indexed in the largest sport journal databases.
Additionally, Thomson Reuter promised to consider evaluating our Journal for the Impact Factor if we publish our next three issues on time (June and October 2010 and February 2011). As you have been very diligent sending your papers we are certain we can respond to the Thomson Reuter's requests in good time and with high quality content.
The gymnastics community (FIG) knows that more knowledge leads to a lift in the level of gymnastics. At the end of June, the second symposium on artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, organized by the Faculty of Physical Education, Campinas University, will be held in Sao Paolo, Brazil. You can visit their web site at http ://www.fef.unicamp.br/sigarc2010/index.htm. We strongly support gymnastics conferences and would like to share information about all such scientifically orientated events. If you are planning to organize a scientific conference on gymnastics please let us know and we will publish the information on our pages.
In the current issue, we present a History of the USA Artistic Gymnastics written by Abie Grossfield. I first met Abie in 1995 when he was video recording the World Championships in Sabae. Abie is a living legend and in his article I found interesting new pieces of information that only somebody who has lived the moment can provide. His article is the first historical article in our Journal and hopefully it will inspire others (for example, Antonin Gajdoš who will turn 70 this year) to write more such papers.
Mikko Pehkonen from Finland conducted an interesting research study on the quality of teaching in schools. The physical education theme is another new topic in this Journal and, again, it will hopefully lead to many more stimulating papers on gymnastics in schools.
Our third article comes from the United States; it was written by Earhart Gammon who researched and analyzed walking in handstand in comparison with normal walking.
The next article is from Greece: George Dallas examined judges in men's artistic gymnastics and how their knowledge and experience influence the quality of judging.
The last article is from Slovenia. Miha Marinšek writes about landings in gymnastics. His review provides an overview of what has been done and suggestions on what should be done in the near future about landings.
Wishing you inspiring reading,
Ivan Čuk Editor-in-Chief
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