Gymnastics bring a friend week
The most effective way to increase membership, in my experience.
Insurance coverage is the only issue.
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Mismo – Gymnastics parties
Mismo’s First Friday is More than just Gymnastics its FUN!
Mismo Gymnastics has the best kids party and kids activities in Missoula, Montana!First Fridays are full of jumping on trampolines, flying through the air, …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Founder of Mismo Gymnastics Kelley Durbin (Facebook) was contacted this week by the producers of reality TV show Dance Moms:
They wanted to interview me to see if we might be selected for their reality show…oh the poor women I just gave a lecture to.
I told her that when ever they get around to doing a show about a gym or studio that DOES NOT support drama and prefers to work WITH parents for the betterment of our children’s future, THEN they can call me! Otherwise, I could not support anything that encourages self-promotion, child and parent exploitation, and silliness!
Kelley is recently engaged, by the way.
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Rick Mc
Class Planning for Rec Gymnastics
by site editor Rick McCharles
Rick_McCharles@hotmail.comPresented at the annual BC Gymnastics Congress.
Class Planning for Recreational Gymnastics
Successful programs have good leadership: Yearly Plan, Session Plan and individual Class Plans. In this workshop we will analyze the Class Plan and goals in great detail, the objective to optimize every precious minute we have with the kids.
Click PLAY or watch my presentation on YouTube.
Our goal is to MAKE THE MAGIC HAPPEN the moment the kids arrive until the moment you deliver them to the parents.
Gymnastics should be the best 90min of their week.
Coaches requested information links to the best lesson plans for Rec classes. My personal favourites are for SCHOOLS, but they can be adapted to the club situation:
• Up Down All Around – Ruschkin (Keith Russell)
Try the link for all posts on this site tagged with the term “lesson plan”.
Questions? Suggestions? … Leave a comment.
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Rick Mc
Gymnastics Fort Building & Pajama Party
Good idea from earthquake ravaged Christchurch, New Zealand.
CSG Holiday Programme Fort Building & Pajama Party, Friday, July 22, 2011 – the fort includes earthquake bracing and an emergency exit
(via CSG on Facebook)
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holiday Gymnastics camps
Spring Break Camp 2011 at Mismo Gymnastics.
Offering ‘special’ camps for kids of all levels is a terrific way to offer more challenge (longer practices) for your keenest recreation kids.
And parents really appreciate finding a place for the kids to go when school is out.
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Rick Mc
gymnastics road safety theme
Kit Poole is a Rec guru from Scallywaggs Gymnastics in Australia.
From her blog:
… This week was great fun for all. Our theme was road transportation which included cars, buses, motorcycles and trucks.
I made roads for the children to follow simply by visiting my local discount store and purchasing black fabric VERY cheaply. Then cut it into 4m lengths by 1m wide. Finally my husband helped the painting process by making templates of rectangles out of cardboard which we laid on top of the middle of the fabric and painted in white to make the lines on the road. …
I then gave each child a red fireman’s hat, a rubber ring (as the steering wheel) and a fire hose.
We made the fire hoses from garden hose chopped into roughly 30cm lengths and got some blue feathers and glued them onto the ends to make it look like the water. ..
details on Kit’s Kindergym Treasures
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teddy bear theme day
Gymtastics Gym Tools posted some sample of their excellent lesson plans.
I love the graphics. They remind me of Up Down All Around.
Details on Gymtastics Gym Tools. … Those lesson plans are still being developed. I’ll post a link when they (eventually) go on sale.
