Junior Superhero Training Academy – Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics
… aka: Our Preschool Gymnastics Programs …
🙂
One of the best promotional videos I’ve yet seen.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Kyle on Facebook)
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Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics, Calgary
Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics is a new club in Canada.
Business is great. The club booming. I stopped by to interview Kyle and Krystal as to “best practice” in non-competitive Gymnastics.
Though Kyle is an Olympic Gold medalist, their mission is to “become Calgary and Canada’s leader in non-competitive gymnastics programming“.
The facility is clean and bright. The vision clear to anyone who walks in the door.
more facility photos
They have a lot of happy, healthy participants.
more in-gym photos
It’s well worth look at their website. Online registration is pretty slick.
Rick Mc
Gymnova inflatable gymnastics equipment
More Air Mats for fun and fitness in a safe environment.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Rick Mc
Rings are great for strength
For boys and girls. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Rings are one of least expensive apparatus you can add to your gym. Those from Tumbl Trak cost as little as $56.
Rick Mc
Calgary Gymnastics Centre promo video
I’ve spent a fair bit of time at this club over the past 3 years. With 5000+ members / year, they’re doing a terrific job. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Here’s a happy parent with 3 children in their programs.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Rick Mc
Fitness Wheel – Special Needs Gymnastics
Soft. Safe. Round.
The unique inflatable Fitness Wheel is ideal for those with special needs. And ALL CHILDREN are special. It’s great for everyone.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Tumbl Trak just posted a series of videos on Special Needs Gymnastics. Browse the Grow Through Movement playlist.
Rick Mc
cleaning the foam pit
😦
Everyone’s least favourite job. Who knows what we’re going to find at the bottom.
Best for non-competitive gyms are solid Resi Pits. We don’t need to train multiple somersaults with multiple twists.
Equipment companies can give you quotes on every type of landing pit.
Foam pits are FUN. A good draw for kids checking out your facility. But ultimately I’d rather have something cleaner.
related – covered foam UCS Rounders pits
Rick Mc
Rec Gymnastics in China
Former Chinese team member Liang Cheng now coaches at Capital City Gymnastics in Edmonton, Canada.
He and Jeff Thomson, former Men’s Programme Director for Gymnastics Canada, now CEO of Inspire Sports, want to bring Recreational Gymnastics to China.
In China, kindergarten-age children who show potential and the right physical characteristics are normally selected to begin training at a state-run gymnastics school, but there is little recourse for those who aren’t selected for the intense training regimen but still want to do gymnastics. Cheng’s idea, based on what he learned in Canada, was to build a recreational gymnastics facility where children and adults alike could learn gymnastics skills for fun and fitness. …
In 2011, Cheng and Thomson opened Inspire Sports, a non-competitive 15,000.00 square foot gymnastics facility in the Jiangsu Province, outside of Shanghai. It was the first Gymnastics for All facility in China …
… gymnastics classes are combined with something else that would be beneficial to China’s youth: English language immersion. Inspire Sports instructors include Canadians, Americans and Australians …
The Inspire gymnastics project has been so successful that Cheng and Thomson plan to open another to another 25 to 30 similar gyms in China within the next five years. …
Here’s a video from the first Gym opening in 2011. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
related – Growing Gymnastics for All in China, one gym at a time
Rick Mc
getting kids to be more physically active
Scientific American:
Kids should exercise at least one hour a day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But in the U.S., less than half of six- to 11-year-olds and only 8 percent of 12- to 19-year-olds meet that target. …
Over in Denmark, a longitudinal study of how schoolchildren move through urban environments provided an opportunity to find out by outfitting hundreds of students with accelerometers and GPS trackers during their waking hours. …
The researchers found that children were significantly more active when playing on grassy areas and at sites featuring playground equipment. …
… in all five areas studied, girls spent more time being sedentary than boys. …
Gymnastics Adventure, Regina
Our Gyms are padded playgrounds, the perfect environment for children’s fitness. 🙂
Recreational Gymnastics 
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