Gymnastic coaches have a wide array of equipment and equipment set-ups to assist in safe and easy skill learning. Just as there is a particular skill learning progression, there are learning equipment progressions for each event also. These equipment progressions need to be followed because they are safer for gymnasts, a make learning new skills easier for gymnasts, make it possible to take smaller steps of progression and overall to learn more quickly.
Spotting Mixed with Skill and Equipment Progressions
Coaches have the chance to use and intermix skill progressions, equipment progressions and spotting to provide however many steps of progression a particular gymnast needs to learn a skill. Judicious coaching effectively combines all three learning aids to move gymnasts forward through skill progressions.
Vault Equipment Progressions
Vaulting progressions can use a variety of different types of gymnastics safety pits and matting. Not all gyms can have more than one type of gymnastic safety pit, but all of the gyms can utilize a variety of matting techniques. Other vault equipment progressions can include tramp vaulting on and off, mini-tramp vaulting and using foam vaulting tables.
Bar Equipment Progressions
Bar progressions also can utilize the entire range of gymnastics safety pits and matting options for falling safety, release moves and dismounts. There are a number of bar equipment progressions – strap bars, floor bars, single bars, tumble tramp bars, bounce handstand bars, trench bars – that can be used.
Beam equipment progressions usually have more to do with the height and padding of the beam equipment progressions. Beam equipment progressions start with a line on the floor and progress to competition high beams. Matting underneath and beside the beams can also be used to vary the effective height of the beam. There are also a variety of beam pads available for use.
Tumbling Equipment Progressions
Tumbling equipment progressions center around a variety of take-off and landing surfaces and densities. Tumbling progressions include using trampolines, tumble trampolines, air floors, power tumbling floors and a variety of matting, stacked mats, inclined mats and tumbling into a variety of types of gymnastics safety pits.
Safer and Faster Learning
In general, it is logical that the more equipment set-ups and progressions that are available for coaches and gymnasts to use, the safer and faster gymnasts can learn.
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hi do u have a gymnastics equipment safety checklist that u can email me please also need to risk manageemnt for gymnastics
thhankyou
rosemary
Thanks for your comment.
I currently use the copyrighted 7-page form on page 99 of the USA Gymnastics Safety Handbook available from the USA Gymnastics web site as a gymnastics equipment safety checklist. I have not yet created a more comprehensive form than that. USA Gymnastics also has risk management information available in its Gymnastics Risk Management book, 2009 Edition, Item Number: 6001, Price: $20.00. Gymnastics Risk Management is the official text of the USA Gymnastics Safety/Risk Management Certification course. This is the 6th edition of the Safety Handbook and the version currently in use. Again, they have at least 90% or more of the information I use and you might be seeking it it. You can find it at: http://usagym.sportgraphics.biz/c-12-safety-education-business-tools.aspx
Hope that helps.