88yr-old gymnast Johanna Quaas
(via Gymnastics Coaching)
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Rick Mc
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Rick Mc
KidFit Games and Activites
Tumbl Trak is sponsoring a series of videos appropriate for all children, not just gymnasts. It will be fast and easy to find new games.
Here are a few video stills.
Carrie Spender Lennox from Tumbl Trak leads the kids. 🙂
Availability should be announced SOON.
I’ll post it here.
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Rick Mc
Quick Tip – Jumping
Swing Big:
… one of the drills I do with young gymnasts to develop their punching and coordination. …
There are lots of ways you can do these drills, this is with a small hula hoop, but I really prefer carpet squares or a chalk box on the floor. The more ways you can get gymnasts punching and jumping early, the better off they’ll be. …
click through to see the rest – Quick Tip: Developing Punching and Coordination
(via Gymnastics Coaching)
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Rick Mc
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Rick Mc
more drills build confidence
You could SPOT a beginner on backward handspring. 😦
Far better is to set-up dozens of progressions without spot. Let the child move step-by-step at their own speed. Have success at each. Dozens of successes.
Let them take ownership of the skill. 🙂
Carrie Lennox:
In last month’s Tumbl Trak newsletter Doug Davis wrote about how progressions build confidence and reduce fear. Just thinking about an athlete “balking” in a round off-back handspring, or other tumbling series is enough to make me shudder.
“Connecting the Dots” is a way to describe all the steps involved in the physical preparation of an athlete and offering an athlete frequent opportunities to feel confident in every step in the process. In a recent video session filming skill progressions, we worked with a young athlete who has good basic training combined with good genes from her parents. The video session focused on cartwheel, handstand, and back handspring progressions from jumping to limbers to fly-backs to work in the pit, (which she had done in many workouts previously).
After filming more than 30 different progressions that lead to a back handspring, our session ended in the pit where we saw in her a confidence and will to move on to her very first back handsprings!! Wooo Hoooo!! We cheered and celebrated with hip-hip-hurray’s and it dawned on me…..we had spent the last two hours “connecting the dots” for this athlete. All the preparation she had done in her classes, put together in a sequence, helped to give her to confidence and success.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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Rick Mc
Canadian kids not exercising enough
While 84 per cent of children who are 3 and 4 years old get the recommended 180 minutes of daily physical activity, the picture changes drastically for older age groups.
Only seven per cent of kids ages 5 to 11 and a mere four per cent of those aged 12 to 17 get the recommended 60 minutes of daily physical activity of moderate to vigorous intensity. …
Based on nine categories, Canada received a grade of D– in overall physical activity, putting it below Mozambique, New Zealand, Mexico, Kenya, Nigeria and England. …
Access to physical activity in Canada isn’t the problem: 95 per cent of parents report local availability of parks and outdoor spaces; 94 per cent say public facilities such as arenas and pools are available; and over 90 per cent of students have access to a gym or playing fields at school.
(via Lukas Stritt)
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Rick Mc
Bar pullover progressions
Tumbl Trak:
… For beginner athletes, building enough strength and confidence on bars takes lots and lots of steps that often get skipped in a typically rigorous, fast-paced gym curriculum. We’ve compiled a list of important success steps to challenge kids BEFORE the elusive pullover. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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Rick Mc
girls using Rings
I love to see girls doing anything on Rings. They are even better for general upper body strength than rope.
Click PLAY or watch a few drills on YouTube.
I especially like the flyaway from Rings. :_
Rings are one of least expensive apparatus you can add to your gym. Those from Tumbl Trak cost as little as $56.
(via Tumbl Trak email newsletter)
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Rick Mc
Start Here, Go Anywhere.
Gymnastics New South Wales in Australia seems to have embraced the USAG motto. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Recreational Gymnastics 
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