1. RYTHMIC GYMNASTICS TRAINING CENTER:
Extended version of the rhythmic gymnastic training center: Many of the same shots but the outside of the center is shown at the beginning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMJorfZpAiE
2. 1983 SOVIET GYMNASTICS DOCUMENTARY – INSIDE THE GYM PART 1:
Translated into English. An inside glimpse (from the Soviet perspective) of the countries main training facility and the couple, champions themselves, who are now head coaches. Their two young sons are following in their footsteps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qopt5VDi25I
3. ARE YOU GOING TO THE BALL: DOCUMENTARY ABOUT SOVIET GYMNASTICS
Fuzzy quality but English subtitles. Interesting footage of girls playing with dolls, mother who sent her daughter off with trainers at 5, eating, school, the depressing place they live. One woman describes how the coach was both a mother and father to them.
Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEuVCW1orDU&NR=1
Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl6fBycGmRQ&feature=related
Part III: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbDRnZmESWU
4. "SLOMMANIE KUKOLKI” – BROKEN DOLLS DOCUMENTARY
"Slommanie Kukolki" is a 2004 documentary on artistic gymnastics and its risks and dangers.
Main subject are two girls with the same surname, Zasypkina. Though they are not related, their fates in gymnastics due to serious injury are common. The documentary is in Russian of course and has lots of interviews with Svetlana Khorkina, Anna Pavlova, Mariya Zasypkina and Yekaterina Lobaznyuk. The general tone is quite critical towards leadership and lack of health insurance, education etc. Lots of training footage from Dinamo, Round Lake and some other venues in Tula and Orekhovo-Zuyevo.
Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTKmY04HBRA&feature=related
Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KsEd05xqoc
Part III: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOmMtqz6vVQ
Part IV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXPv2RqOZdY&feature=related
Part V: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMz7R8gvWcw&feature=related
5. FEAR TRAINING IN RUSSIA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL6E4RlzxOc&feature=related
UP FRONT: AFTER ESCAPING HER ROMANIAN SVENGALI, NADIA COMANECI TRIES TO GET HER LIFE BACK ON THE BEAM
Interesting article about the Romanian gymnast’s escape and the hold the man who helped her had on her because she had grown used to being the property of someone and having no control over her fate.
http://www.nadiacomaneci.com/library/article052.htm
6: NADIA: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NADIA COMANECI:
http://www.amazon.com/Nadia-Autobiography-Comaneci/dp/090607178X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223902838&sr=1-2
