SCIENCE OF GYMNASTICS JOURNAL
Vol. 10 Issue 1 2018
EDITORIAL
Dear friends,
With the New Year we are celebrating 10 years of Science of Gymnastics Journal's existence. When we started our journal, we had no idea how long we would be able to publish articles about gymnastics. It seems that the seeds have been well nurtured and today we are proud that we can be of assistance in the international exchange of knowledge, between the science and practice in gymnastics.
In this issue we have ten articles with authors from Spain, Greece, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Germany, Brazil and Slovenia. Articles cover psychology (motor learning), history, philosophy (gymnastics for all), metrology (judging), physiology (heart rate during exercises), kinesiology (balance). Among disciplines in gymnastics most are dealing with man and women artistic gymnastics, but we have also article on trampolining and general gymnastics. As gymnastics derived from the Greek and Asian tradition, we also include an article on Yoga exercises.
For our October issue we are preparing a special issue about gymnastics at the Olympic Games, with special guest editors Myrian Nunomura and Laurita Marconi Schiavon from Brazil to remember the OG in Rio 2016.
Anton Gajdoš prepared a new contribution to the history of gymnastics, refreshing our knowledge of Abie Grossfeld, a gymnast, coach, judge, researcher and passionate gymnastics fan from the USA.
Our fellow researchers were hard working and published a few new books. Istvan Karacsony wrote '130 years of Hungarian Gymnastics' - 904 pages with 4000 pictures/photos; under editor Monem Jemni the new edition of Science of Gymnastics is published; Juraj Kremnicky and Sona Kremnicka wrote 'Impact of specialized program on changes of gymnastics skills and development of physical abilities of young gymnasts' and Ivan Čuk and Aleks Leo Vest published 'Prevarani sokoli' (Cheated Sokols) about how communists took over the Sokol organisation in Slovenia.
Just to remind you, if you quote the Journal: its abbreviation on the Web of Knowledge is SCI GYMN J. I wish you pleasant reading and a lot of inspiration for new research projects and articles,
Ivan Čuk Editor-in-Chief
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