still “tricking” age-44
Most gyms with Adult Rec have trickers these days.
I saw them last week at Twisters, Port Townsend, Washington. (PHOTOS)
Here’s Jack Lee age-44 at another gym.
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Thanks Guy.
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USA Gymnastics Agility commercial
From the USA Gymnastics Gym Club page, a great promo.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
…An unlisted video is a different type of private video. Unlisted means that only people who know the link to the video can view it (such as friends or family to whom you send the link). An unlisted video will not appear in any of YouTube’s public spaces …
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Special Needs Cheer
Questions to consider before you start a special needs team
by Natalie Keller Reinert
The U.S., Canada and Great Britain together now boast more than 300 special needs cheer teams, giving children and adults with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to shine on the mat. Hailed by parents and researchers alike as a transformative experience for kids who might feel socially cut-off from the rest of the world, cheerleading can bestow confidence, pride and friendship upon its participants.
Starting a special needs team at your gym, however, is not an overnight decision. There are many things that should be considered …
read the full article on Cheer Biz News – Starting a Special Needs Team
I saw that on the Tumbl Trak February 2012 newsletter.
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Tumbl Trak video goes viral
I’d prefer kids be doing gymnastics in a proper facility, with a qualified instructor. … But “home” gymnastics is very, very popular. This Tumbl Trak video has gone viral with over half a million hits.
Tumbl Trak products that work in the home.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Right now I’m out with the Tumbl Trak video crew. They’ve got BIG plans for future videos. I’ll link to the best of the best.
Thanks Chris.
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Preschool Gymnastics Missoula
My friend Kelley Durbin explains her preschool and toddler classes at Mismo Gymnastics. Mismo offers the best preschool instructional classes in Missoula, Montana. Mismo has an entire gym dedicated to gymnastics for toddlers.
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Rick Mc
inflatable gymnastics equipment Europe
I strongly recommend Eurotumble.com.
Eurotumble is dedicated to inflatable gymnastics equipment of all kinds. Air is the future, I’m certain, replacing foam which is made of petroleum, a non-renewable resource. Air is free. 🙂
Here’s a sample of what different kinds of kids can do on an Air Floor.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Eurotumble is a division of Eurogym Belgium, though they distribute throughout Europe. And the world.
Founder and chief evangelist Lieven Vercruyssen was kind enough to host me recently, show me a number of clubs in Belgium … and even bring me along on a club visit where kids at Apollo in Antwerp got to test an Air Floor for themselves.
Eurotumble.com is a distributor for the American company Tumbltrak.
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Special Needs gymnastics
Nate Hendrickson, Director of Kids Fitness and Special Needs discusses the Kids Fitness and Special Needs program and opportunities at TNT Kids Fitness.
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Tumbl Trak school visits
I’m visiting Tumbl Trak founder Doug Davis in Washington State.
Tumbl Trak sponsored some school visits recently, setting-up an appealing assortment of equipment, delighting students.
Quilcene school for 2 days, Nov. 2011
It’s called “Rec Kid Fit“, not gymnastics.
Blue Heron Middle School Tumbling Clinic
see more Blue Heron pics on FacebookThat was a cooperative effort involving Rec staff, YMCA staff and PE teachers.
Note: I’ve added a “school” category for posts like this.
via Diana Hughes. Thanks!
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Rick Mc
Christmas Gymnastics Show
Basingstoke Gymnastics in the U.K.
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I saw that on a new Men’s Gymnastics blog – GymnasticsPlanet.co.uk
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best Gymnastics Report cards
I went through my file folder of OLD Recreation Gymnastics progress reports. It wasn’t a pretty sight. 😦
Most are too complex, too time consuming and the unclear to parents. In many cases, report cards are a waste of time.
The only two I like were home made. For example, here’s a system David Burgess and I used at Taiso Gymnastics during the 1990s. (click on image for larger version)
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Those were photocopied back-to-back twice. Folded. One copy kept in the gymnast’s file, the other sent home to the parent on the second last week of the Recreation session.
Short. Simple. Not too onerous for the coach. Rather than test every skill at that level of the Canadian Gymnastics Report Card system, we selected only 30 KEY drills. Progress for each marked: Attempted, Learning, or Mastered.
Coach worked on filling out the DRAFT copy throughout the session, rather than all at once end-of-term.
Even simpler was a home made system I used at Altadore back in the 1980s.
One page. Single sided. Only 10 key skills from each level.
Those were the days when “cut and paste” meant cut with scissors and paste with magic tape. The drills were taken from an earlier version of the Canadian “badge” program.
Here’s the template I used.
Rec Report Cards are mainly for the parents. Kids and coaches are far less interested. Best practice is to make time to chat with each parent who comes into the gym, end of class. Update them on at least one point of “progress” for the day. Informal communication is more powerful than formal.
IEGA has continuous evaluation. They can print an up-to-date report card at any time. That’s cool.
The GOAL is to keep your reregistration rate as high as possible.
Leave a comment if you’ve a favourite way to monitor and report progress for once-a-week kids.
related
• 2nd Edition of the CANGYM recreation program
• Gymnastics Zone – Gym Communications Systems
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Dave Norgate
I think that skills testing, strength testing or report cards are great – not just for the parents, but mainly for the gymnasts. It gets the kids working their hardest and we often get breakthroughs and best results on testing day.
Rick – Thanks for the ideas, I love the pictures in your examples. Are there pictures like this in the CanGym manual? I might have to order myself one. I wonder what the postage to Australia will be… 🙂
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The illustrations have been completely redone, since then.
AND I’ve just heard the CANGYM report cards have been “improved” to a format more like this one. I don’t have a copy of the latest version myself.
Shipping would be expensive. But you only need to buy one copy and ship once. Everything is photocopy ready and photocopy legal.
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