school desk with pedals
A good idea to improve the Children’s Prison.
A few months back, the staff at JAG Gym collaborated making a video in honor of International Day of Happiness to Pharrell’s “HAPPY.”
It was a fun, off-the-cuff project that evolved organically and with no real purpose but to celebrate being happy. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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.
Cute overload from Gym Gab. 🙂
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Gymnast Crossing)
Gymnastics Australia:
More than 180 gymnasts, including a team of ten athletes with an average age of 70.4 years-old, will descend on Byron Bay this week to participate in Australia’s third Gym4Life Challenge from 11 to 13 July.
Thirteen teams from five states around the country will perform a range of different styles of gymnastics and dance in groups of three or more to show that gymnastics is a sport for everybody, regardless of age, gender or ability. We can expect to see exciting combinations of power tumbling, acrobatics, dance, ribbons and mini trampoline. …
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)
… Jake, a little boy with a cute bowl-cut hairdo, who kicks off the story by greeting his classmates and his teacher, Dave. In the all-around welcoming environment Isadora presents, children are happy and well cared for and are eased into a gym routine with stretches and creative play (“Let’s be frogs and hop today”). The kids are adorably round and smiley, ready to crawl through the tunnel, walk on the balance beam, and hang on to the parallel bar. …
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