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(More customer reviews)International Gymnast - or IG, as it's easier to call - was the first gymnastics magazine to which I subscribed. It took about 6 weeks for the first issue to reach me, and when it did, I was dizzy with excitement. I had never seen so many pictures of gymnasts, gymnasts who were exotic and foreign or completely infamous. There was a poster inside. There were articles by Nadia Comaneci and Bela Karolyi and Shannon Miller. There were advertisements for gorgeous leotards offering free catalogs and fabric samples. It was too much joy!
This is a very well put-together, well-respected, professional gymnastics magazine, yet its editors and writers are all open and friendly to the subscribers, and very close to the actual intimate world of gymnastics. Several staff members are former gymnasts themselves, or are married to gymnasts.
IG makes you feel right at home in the gymnastics community. With a subscription you get posters - quite large ones when events like Olympics or World Championships happen, pull-out gymnastics calendars, advice on gymnastics moves from coaches, lavish articles covering meets, exquisite photography from top gymnastics photographers such as Dave Black and Eileen Langsley, information on the Code of Points, college gymnastics, and much more than I can list.
It's not quite as bubbley as, say, Gym Stars, the former quarterly magazine from Britain, which doled out prizes and posters non-stop, but IG is probably the best known and most together magazine out there. Even though IG is in the USA, it manages to fine-detail all countries with gymnastics programs, from Canada to Holland to Australia to South Africa.
If you don't want to subscribe right away, pick up an issue at a bookstore which offers a large variety of magazines, as IG is often hard to find at stores. The best things are worth searching for!
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Features worldwide reports of gymnastics competitions with interviews, posters and profiles. Includes hints for coaches and gymnasts.
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