INDIVIDUAL TUMBLING, ACROBATICS AND BALANCING is a complete guide to individual tumbling, balancing and acrobatics, from basic rolls to the most advanced skills and routines ever performed. This book also covers history and development and competition rules. THIS BOOK is based on the author's experiences as a performer from the seventh to twelfth grades in the Fresno YMCA Gym Circus; as a competitive tumbler from the seventh grade to the end of college with a second place finish in tumbling in the National Collegiate (NCAA) Gymnastics Championships in 1959; as a teacher and coach of...

PERFOMING BASIC CIRCUS SKILLS is a complete guide to performing circus skills, including juggling, balancing, devil stick, diabolo, stilts, unicycling, tumbling, acrobatic balancing, ladders, pyramids, and clowning. THIS BOOK is based on the author's actual experiences as a performer from the seventh to twelfth grades in the Fresno YMCA Gym Circus; as a competitive tumbler from the seventh grade to the end of college; and as a teacher of circus skills when he was a YMCA Physical Director. SUBJECTS COVERED INCLUDE: Learning Circus Skills Juggling Balancing, Spinning, and Manipulative Skills...

THE DIABOLO BOOK introduces the diabolo - a popular spinning toy and performing device. Controlling the diabolo on a string with hand sticks is a fascinating and challenging activity. This book covers diabolo mechanics, equipment and workout areas, individual skills, partner and group skills, and competition and games. Here is a sample of the many fascinating skills detailed: the Toss and Catch, the Around the World, the Whip, and the Kangaroo Hop. Partner and group skills and competition add to the fun and challenges.

This book covers every aspect of boatbuilding from fiberglass hulls and kits, from selecting the right boat and kit through all the important construction steps to launching and champagne. Subjects covered include: Building It Yourself; How to Choose Your Boat; Planning and Getting Ready; Tools, Materials and Techniques; First Construction Steps; Intermediate Construction Steps; Final Construction Steps; and Launching.

THIS BOOK gives us a revolutionary new worldview that is based on simple observations that anyone can make. Regardless of whether you consider yourself a non-scientist or a scientist, or something in between, this book is written so you can understand it. There are no equations in this book. Instead of equations, the author makes reality statements. It's all stated in words, plain and simple. The new worldview that he gives us more accurately fits what we actually observe than does any previous worldview. It describes the general way that reality is here and does change and does continue....

The author Jack Wiley wrote the first major book, THE UNICYCLE BOOK, ever published about unicycling. He now gives us the complete story of how he got started in unicycling when he was eleven years old. He learned to ride a unicycle, started building unicycles, and worked up an amateur act with a friend and performed at the Annual Fresno YMCA Gym Circus and at community events and schools. This book tells the story of how he designed and built unicycles and taught many people of all ages how to ride them. It gives the history of his unicycling writing and how he wrote more books about...

HOW TO BUILD UNICYCLES AND ARTISTIC BICYCLES is a complete guide for building standard and giraffe unicycles and artistic and novelty bicycles from bicycles, cycle parts, and stock materials. Subjects covered include: Tools and Materials; Basic Construction Techniques; Basic Assemblies; Building Standard Unicycles; Handlebar Units and Unibikes; Building Giraffe Unicycles; and Building Artistic and Novelty Bicycles.

NOVELTY UNICYCLING covers eleven different novelty unicycles: Animal-Saddle, Feet-Wheel, Off-Centered Wheel, Saddle and Handlebars, Dicycle, Midget, Handlebar Unit, Pole, Unibike, Handlebar, and Kangaroo. Instructions are given for construction of novelty cycles and learning to ride them. Novelty unicycles are fun to ride and they are ideal for demonstrations, parade riding, and performing.

An "ultimate wheel" is a wheel with cranks and pedals that is ridden standing on the pedals. THE ULTIMATE WHEEL BOOK covers the history and development of ultimate wheels and the mechanics of riding them and gives step-by-step instructions for learning to ride them. Advanced skills such as jump mounting, idling, and riding backwards are covered. Partner and group skills and competition and performing are detailed. The ultimate wheel is fun and challenging.