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Gymtastics Gym Tools posted some sample of their excellent lesson plans.
I love the graphics. They remind me of Up Down All Around.
Details on Gymtastics Gym Tools. … Those lesson plans are still being developed. I’ll post a link when they (eventually) go on sale.
A Canadian study.
A dismal 12 per cent of Canadian children are getting the recommended levels of daily physical activity …
Health Canada’s physical-activity guidelines recommend that school-aged children and youth get at least 90 minutes of exercise daily. …
The problem begins with pre-schoolers – only half of whom are active as part of their daily routines – and hits its nadir in the teenage years, when barely 5 per cent of girls are minimally active, according to the annual report card published by Active Healthy Kids Canada. …
Learning inversion. Safe matting is essential, of course.
Gymnastic Training Center of Rochester, Michigan
To protect the guilty, I shouldn’t mention the club (Taiso) or the coach (Markos) who reserves the very best parking spot at the gym for himself.
When I was the BOSS of this gym I reserved all the good parking for customers.
And made staff, including myself, park away down the street.
What’s the policy at your gym?
Couldn’t agree more Rick! The leader of any organization should be the one willing to walk the furthest, willing to carry the heaviest load, and the one most ready to serve the needs of everyone else in the organization
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We have been always been told to park as far away as possible from the main entrance! It’s just good customer service. A sign like that would be a turnoff to me as a paying customer!
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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.
This historic photo is in the office of Keith Russell, at the University of Saskatchewan.
… just to show that acrobatics are practiced everywhere.
Meet Darlene Fedyna, owner of Gymtastics in Calgary, Canada.
She’s just launched Gymtastics GymTools:
From little things, big things grow
Educational Teaching Tools • Gymnastics Program Tools • Specialty Program Tools • Visual Aid Tools • Marketing Tools • Management Tools
There’s more to come. But you will get a good idea of what’s offered by checking out the new website – GymtasticsGymTools.com
Or, like me, you may find it more convenient to watch the video introduction. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Darlene “The Bean” Fedyna, founder of GYMTASTICS Gym Club, has over 30 years of experience coaching pre-school, recreational and competitive gymnastics.
Darlene has used her early childhood education, gymnastics background and her astute business skills to develop and grow GYMTASTICS into one of the premier gymnastics clubs in western Canada.
Darlene is also a pre-school consultant, specializing in children’s emotional and physical development, as well as rhyming things with silly words whenever possible (a big hit with the pre-school crowd.) …
I am also an early childhood educator as well as a rec coach who started 5 years ago at a gym club. I am a rec director and am always looking for new ideas and programs. What is the cost and what levels does it include. I work with Yorkton Shamrock Springers in Saskatchewan.
Let me know ASAP.
Kim Gelowitz
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Hey Kim.
Sign up (free) for updates on that site. They’ll email to let you know details.
http://gymtasticsgymtools.com/
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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.
I feel the same about ropes. I can’t get my girls off them 🙂
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Kara Thorpe, from P.A. Aerials, recommends Flipping Education.
That’s Linda Thorberg and Brant Lutska, Rec gurus from the States.
They offer a number of services and products, including this $8 poster.
Kara particularly likes their lesson plan subscription service, $120.00 / year.
Check it out for yourself – Flipping Education. Or click directly to a sample lesson. (PDF)
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My review at a glance:
Content of the sample lesson looks good. But the graphics and layout of the Up Down All Around lesson plans is far superior.
Leave a comment if you’ve tried the subscription.
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)
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!
Accidents can happen anywhere, anytime.
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Wow. How unlucky is that?
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coachliz96 and 
kim Gelowitz, and 
Hannah are discussing. 
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