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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Rick Mc
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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Rick Mc
Extreme Parenting: toddler fitness
How young is too young to start sport training?
CNN’s Christine Romans reports on an organization that gives structured fitness training to toddlers.
Click PLAY or watch it on Daily Motion.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgnmny_extreme-parenting-toddler-fitness_lifestyle
(via gymco. In the video is Doreen Bolhuis, President & CEO.)
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Rick Mc
children are not small adults
This is good. Great graphics.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
From little things, big things grow
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Rick Mc
gymnastics video/photo privacy
When you post photos and videos of gymnasts online, with permission, consider editing your privacy settings to restrict comments.
Here’s an example of how that’s done on flickr.com.
It’s even more important if you post gymnastics videos online.
The biggest problem … idiots making stupid comments.
related – Connect Safely – Top 10 Safety Tips for Video-Sharing
(via Gymnastics Coaching)
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Rick Mc
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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Rick Mc
gymnastics photo of the day
From Ortona Gymnastics.
I love seeing kids on Rings. It’s one of the best upper body fitness activities.
Obviously we need good matting when introducing inversion.
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Full Twist
I feel the same about ropes. I can’t get my girls off them 🙂
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Rick Mc
birthday party insurance?
Does your gym have it?
… there are things to consider when inviting visitors into your facility.
Guests, both children and adults, who aren’t familiar with gymnastics facilities can easily be injured during parties held on your premises.
And accidents can leave visitors with more than just a bad impression of your operation; they often result in costly lawsuits …
read more on a 2005 article from USA Technique magazine – Birthday Party Alert (PDF)
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Hannah
Oh definitely an important consideration.
After teaching rec gym 5 days a week for 7 years, it was still a gymnastics birthday party which brought with it the nastiest injury I’d had to deal with in the gym. It wasn’t a particularly dangerous activity – but that doesn’t really matter, kids will manage to hurt themselves on anything!
We had set up a circuit of jumping activities – mini tramps, squashy shapes, boxes etc. The last jump was down onto a crash mat off a box about 45cm high (yep, that’s all!). The kid seemed to trip over as she jumped and landed awkwardly on the mat dislocating her shoulder and breaking her elbow! Very, very painful stuff for a 7-year old at a birthday party!
Always a bad situation when there’s an injury, but more so at a birthday party with a hopefully ‘super fun’ atmosphere…
Anyway, her mother was watching from the sidelines, and while concerned and helping us to arrange an ambulance, she was very level headed about the whole thing (thankfully). She told us that at another birthday the year before her daughter had also managed to break her ankle at a soccer party… Just unlucky!
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coach Rick
Wow. How unlucky is that?
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learning ‘balance’
A great way to introduce the ‘balancing beam’.
This girl is age-3 and 4-months. Should the feet of the beam be better padded?
photos by Joshua & Amber
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Recreational Gymnastics 
AssivyDifs 3:13 am on July 31, 2011 Permalink |
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