why kids need learn a shoulder roll
via Outside Magazine
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Rick Mc
creating indestructible children
In gymnastics there is a saying that “we have no right to put a child up onto any height until we have taught them how to come down and land safely”. This is the first step in creating indestructible children. …
- Landing on your feet
- Landing forward on your hands
- Landing backwards on your hands
- Landings while twisting
By teaching your children how to fall properly now, not only can they PLAY safer this summer, but this lifelong skill may save them from hospital visits later.
Play Gymnastics – Soft landings: Helping keep children safe when falling
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land like a “cat”
We’re often asking kids to land softly. Absorbing the impact force like a cat.
The science is fascinating.
Cats can famously fall from skyscrapers and only suffer the most minor of bruises, including the recent story of a cat surviving a 19-story fall in Boston with only a bruised chest. What’s the secret of this feline survival? …
io9 – Why cats can survive falls that would kill any other animal
That post was inspired by an article on BBC – How do cats survive falls from great heights?
(via Gymnastics Coaching)
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Rick Mc
‘elephant vaulting’ over air mats
via Tumbl Trak:
Parkour is super popular with boys right now. This is a great way to get them ‘vaulting’ (SPRING and LANDINGS) in a fun way.
Air inflated mats are the mats of the future.
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mako
hey were did you get these mats and how much did it cost?
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coach Rick
They are available through TumblTrak, mako.
http://www.tumbltrak.com/equipment/1:5/air-gym-products.html
Different prices for different lengths.
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boy flying off a swing
This kind of accident is the reason we must teach excellent landing and falling skills at gymnastics. … The goal is to reduce the number and severity of injuries in the ‘real’ world.
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вкусные диеты для похудениякак похудеть в области бёдердоктор борменталь принцип похуденияправильное школьное питаниекто похудел на 5о кг за 2 месяцадиета жим прессарациональная диетапоиск диета с квашеной капустойсколько калорий в день нужно потреблять кормящей матери чтобы похудетьпохудеть при гипотериозедиета кима протасова как приготовить мясокодирование излишнего веса в нижневартовскекуриная печень – диетический продуктдиета при хирургическом вмешательстве на кишечникрецепт похудения супкак похудеть на 9 кгпохудение после рода как убрать животикпохудеть за месяц на 13 кгдиета при гидронефрозевред кофейно-сигаретной диеты
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teaching landing and falling
The best material on this ESSENTIAL topic was written by Keith Russell from University of Saskatchewan.
Keith’s system for teaching landings can be found in many of his coaching manuals back to 1979. Still on the internet from the 1990s:
… The purpose of teaching Landings is to “make the child indestructible“…Landings are very important life skills which will ensure safe activity, once perfected.
Up Down All Around: Gymnastics Lesson Plans. (Series A, Lesson 1). Ruschkin Publishing, 1994.
Can we teach children to be indestructible on any landings in our facility?
… we can try.
This illustration is from one of his most recent manuals:
Gymnastics Foundations – available from the Gymnastics Canada boutique $75
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gymnastics – Landing and Falling
A presentation by site editor Rick McCharles given at the USA Region 2 Gymnastics Congress, 2005, in Seattle, WA.
The first and best thing we can teach kids is how to land and fall safely.
Click over to Gymnastics Coaching to watch that slide show.
It’s based on material written by Keith Russell from the University of Saskatchewan. That drawing comes from a Canadian education manual.
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