Keith Russell’s Rec Gymnastics manuals
Keith Russell has been the principle author of the Canadian coach education programme since 1978.
It’s considered one of the best in the world.
In fact, the FIG Foundations course was also authored by Keith.
Here’s how coach education works in Canada.
Everyone takes 4 hours of theory and the 9 hour Gymnastics Foundations course.
Next you can specialize in Artistic Gymnastics, Trampoline or Active Start (preschool).
After completing some work at your own gym, you are evaluated and — finally — fully certified.
You can be an instructor with your own group of kids.
Here’s the 2008 edition cover of the Canadian coaching manual.
Unfortunately that text is not available online. The only way to get it is to take the course.
Similarly, you can’t purchase the FIG Foundations manual online.
Too bad.
Rosemary is discussing. 
All Gymnastics skills can be analyzed in terms of 6 movement patterns. LANDINGS we teach first and best.
It’s biomechanical analysis. Each of the Movement Patterns obeys well defined laws of physics. SWINGS, for example, are skills where the body is rotating around an external axis. Good technique is keeping the Centre of Mass far from the axis on the DOWN swing, closer to the axis on the UP swing.
All Gymnastics finish with a LANDING. The gymnast must bring all forces to zero by attenuating energy over time and surface area.
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Rosemary 4:40 am on December 7, 2017 Permalink |
Wow Rick, that’s the simplest explanation of the GF program that I have seen! Thanks for that; I believe that the Introduction course is taken before the Theory.
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