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by site editor Rick McCharles
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See ALL the Games posted so far on the Rick McCharles Tumbl Trak Fitness Games YouTube channel.
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.
Invented by Dan Niehaus at Westwinds Gymnastics, Lethbridge, the legacy lives on.
It’s still done in Christchurch, New Zealand, I’m told.
Here I am leading 100 gymnasts at Gymnastics Camp in Idaho.
… Thank GOD there’s no video. 🙂
There has got to be a video somewhere?!?!?!
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These are pre-competitive girls. But there are plenty of good ideas for Rec, too.
Girls just want to have FUN. ♪
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That’s the Sparklers program at Gym-Nation.
In 2011 I don’t have much confidence that children will be physically educated in P.E. class.
But they certainly would be with this teacher.
Warm-up for a group of Grade 1-3 students in a school gym, utilizing some principles typical of gymnastics.
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That’s G.Y.M. Consulting out of Regina, SK, Canada. Saskatchewan is a leader in the field of gymnastics instruction for teachers.
Brian Lewis is a physical education consultant with Regina Catholic Schools. Check out his sites http://growingyoungmovers.com/ and http://www.blognasium.com/.
I find school classes with younger children easier than rec classes, but older children schools are harder than both. I try to work around a number of themes in schools; landing, rolling, inversion, moving in different ways, balancing and shapes, and partner/group work. Then we might add benches to all of those activities. So far I haven’t used any other (higher) equitment – with 30 children in a class accidents are likely, and even with back to wall I can’t be checking everywhere at once. You can imagine that if I’m cautious, the regular teachers who aren’t so familiar with gymnastics will be even more so.
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Jason and 
Kara is discussing. 
UK_Coach is discussing. 
Recreational Gymnastics 
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