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Grouping Gymnastics Students For Fun And Profit
Grouping of students is one of the primary and regular points of contention in a gymnastics program. Everyone is familiar with the stereotypical pushy mother who wants her child moved up to the next higher group. Maybe not everyone knows … Continue reading
Current Issues in the Gymnastics Training of Young Gymnasts
It is evident to us and to other observers of our sport that there are serious issues with the training regimens our children, our gymnasts are forced to undergo. The problems are not limited to the training programs as there … Continue reading
Systematic Creativity in Gymnastics Coaching
A rigid system of training, in so far as skill variations, leads to humorless, mechanical gymnastics routines. Over-repetition of the same skills in practice leaves no time for creative development and robs the sport of one of its most pleasing … Continue reading
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USAG Compulsories as a Training System
What’s all this obsession with perfection of the USA Gymnastics compulsory routines? Level 4, Level 5, whatever. Where did all these professional compulsory gymnasts come from? Who is sentencing America’s gymnasts to a lifetime of compulsories? Basics are Fine We’re … Continue reading
Definition: Timer
Timer: A drill that simulates the feel of a skill, or the set for a skill without the risk or danger of completing the skill. Timers are used on most events and are a progression for learning the harder skill. … Continue reading
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Definition: Heel Drive
Heel Drive: Coaches use this term or correction to inform their gymnasts that they want them to drive their heels harder up and over on the front side of a handspring vault or front handspring on floor. Increasing heel drive … Continue reading
Gymnastics Coaching System
The most important coaching concept is that gymnastics training must be done systematically. The long-term success of the Russians, Romanians and other Eastern Europeans has come from their systematic approach to coaching. Much of the recent success in the United … Continue reading
Gymnastics Coaching Styles – Profile vs. Encyclopedic Training
There are two distinct coaching styles in America today, the vertical progression profile method of coaching and the encyclopedic method of coaching, which is both vertical and horizontal progressions simultaneously. Actually one and this recommended style. Narrow Training Is By … Continue reading
In Memoriam: Kim Bird
Gymnastics coach and choreographer, Kim Bird passed away Monday evening, November 19, 2007, after battling complications from Valley fever. Kim was the founder of Tumbleweeds Gymnastics and well known, well-loved and well-respected throughout the gymnastics community. Tumbleweeds Gymnastics was founded … Continue reading
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Keep Gymnastics Instruction Fun!
Gymnastics is a naturally fun sport. Running, jumping, climbing, swinging, bouncing and tumbling are activities that you would likely be doing on your own without being in a gym or gymnastics class. You do those things because they are fun … Continue reading
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