Gymnastics: The double back salto dismount from the parallel bars

Sports Biomechanics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-101

  Gervais, Pierre ^a   Dunn, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artistic gymnastics; Dismounts; Parallel bars; Within subject comparisons

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008852722     PISSN: 14763141     EISSN: 17526116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14763140308522810     Document Type: Article

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