Gym Momentum

You are here: Home / Blog

VALUES

by Leave a Comment

Are these old fashioned values?

I sure hope not. These values are important to me and I hope they are important to you. Take a minute today and think about these and how they apply in your life and work.

Courtesy

Respect

Loyalty

Responsibility

Accountability

Integrity

Honesty

Civility

Value based decisions

Wit and Wisdom. 40 Weird Facts About the United States

by Leave a Comment

40 Weird Facts about the United States.

The following are 40 weird facts about the United States that are almost too crazy to believe….

#1 The highest point in the state of Florida is only 345 feet (115 yards) above sea level.

#2 Today, 66 percent of all Americans are considered to be overweight.

#3 The state of Alaska is 429 times larger than the state of Rhode Island is.  But Rhode Island has a significantly larger population than Alaska does.

#4 The average supermarket in the United States wastes about 3,000 pounds of food each year.

#5 Approximately 48 percent of all Americans are currently either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty.

#6 Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U.S. states put together.

#7 In the UK, an average of about $3,500 is spent on healthcare per person each year.  In the United States, an average of about $8,500 is spent on healthcare per person each year.

#8 Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.

#9 The average U.S. citizen drinks the equivalent of more than 600 sodas each year.

#10 The only place in the United States where coffee is grown commercially is in Hawaii.

#11 The United States has 845 motor vehicles for every 1,000 people.  Japan only has 593 for every 1,000 people and Germany only has 540 for every 1,000 people.

#12 The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California.  But no grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.

#13 For many years it was the other way around, but today a majority of all Americans (including Pat Robertson) actually support the legalization of marijuana.

#14 Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital.

#15 In the middle of the last century, the United States was #1 in the world in GDP per capita.  Today, the United States is #13 in GDP per capita.

#16 Today, approximately 25 million American adults are living with their parents.

#17 One survey found that 25 percent of all employees that have Internet access in the United States visit pornography websites while they are at work.

#18 In 2011, our trade deficit with China was more than 49,000 times largerthan it was back in 1985.

#19 One out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.

#20 The city of Juneau, Alaska is about 3,000 square miles large.  It is actually bigger than the entire state of Delaware.

#21 The United States puts a higher percentage of its population in prisonthan any other nation on earth does.

#22 There are more unemployed workers in the United States than there are people living in the entire nation of Greece.

#23 The original name of the city of Atlanta was “Terminus“.

#24 Sadly, more than 52 percent of all children that live in Cleveland, Ohio are living in poverty.

#25 The median price of a home in the city of Detroit is now about $6000.

#26 Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs.  Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.

Pampered Children Are Hard To Coach

by 2 Comments

Many of you know Tom Burgdorf from Gymnet Sports. He posted this on Facebook the other day. It really makes a lot of sense.

Pampered Children Are Hard To Coach

“Your child is a real treat to teach/coach.” One of the comments about your child most parents love to hear. It means you have done a good job of parenting and your child has a bright future in learning from others. Great.

Children who grow up pampered are hard to coach. They get so much without earning it that they feel “entitled” to a reward regardless of effort or behavior. “Just show up sweetheart and we will give you a trophy.” “Sure, only give 50% in practice the week before the meet and you can still compete and represent my team.”

Are we sending the right signals when we “give without earning?”

We seem so hung up on keeping these kids happy that we are “giving” them their early life without them earning it. And then we are releasing them off to college, away from our umbrella of protection and saying “have a great life.” The college bound young adults aren’t afraid because they expect to find more people to “give” them what they want and need. A disaster waiting to happen and we are seeing it all over.

As parents, consider giving your coaches athletes who work hard. Athletes who know that you need to “do A and B before you get C.” If they consistently are given “C” without doing “A and B” guess what they will expect in the future. We want athletes who aren’t afraid to sweat. Children who have been raised at home where the lesson is try and learn from your experiences, not you will win all of the time. We want athletes who aren’t afraid of falling. A pampered child is usually shielded from situations where they may fall.

Step back today and look at the children you are guiding toward young adulthood and determine if you may be giving a little too much too often. We as parents need to be preparing them to be able to handle the ups and downs of life rather than making them “happy” every day. You are shaping these individuals for a life with “less of you in it.” The sooner we realize that the better. Build a young adult who can excel at handling everything that life throws at them. I want them to win that trophy.

Tom Burgdorf Gymnet Sports

SOUTH FLORIDA SKILLS CAMP

by Leave a Comment

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO JUMP START YOUR SUMMER AND THE GYM MOMENTUM TRAINING CAMP IS ALL THE WAY UP IN NEW YORK?

HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO WORK WITH SOME GREAT COACHES (In my humble opinion)

Staff: Tony Retrosi, Steve Arkell, Sue Arkell, and others!

WHERE: South Florida Gymnastics. 3241 59th Dr E  Bradenton, FL 34203

WHEN: June 15th-17th

FOR MORE INFO CALL OR E-MAIL: Chris Lakeman 941-730-8016.  sfgymcheer@verizon.net

 

Hello everyone!

I know I have spoken with many of you already about this camp/clinic we are doing this summer and wanted to get all the information out to you and explain what we are doing in a little bit more detail.  Hoping you all can join us.

On June 15th-17th, we will be hosting a coaches hands-on clinic and athletes skills camp. We have asked National Clinicians Steve and Sue Arkell and Tony Retrosi to come and help us run a Coaches “hands on” clinic to help teach spotting techniques for upper level skills as well as an Optional and Compulsory skills camp Saturday and Sunday respectively.  We have 72 spaces for each optional and compulsory camp.  We will be reserving participants for our own athletes until April 16th.  After April 16th, its first come, first serve until we reach max capacity of 72 per clinic.  There is no limit to coaches allowed for Friday’s clinic.  There is no registration deadline.  We are keeping registration open until we are filled.  So feel free to call and check availability at the gym at 941-758-5775 or Chris’ Cell at 941-730-8016

We invite coaches to come and learn spotting techniques for advanced optional skills on each event for 4 hours on Friday afternoon starting at 2pm and ending at 6pm. Steve and Sue will be bringing 4 of their upper level athletes as “spotees” for the hands-on clinic. We are also opening an invite to coaches that wish to bring any Level 8 – 10 gymnast who would make for good “spotees”.  There will be no charge for any gymnast on Friday for the coaches clinic.  We will need you to email us the skills those athletes are training so we can see if there is a need for those skills.  But extra training work for free is always a good thing!

Saturday, we will be holding the optional skills clinic. Gymnast will get a chance to work on each event with either Steve and Sue Arkell as well as Tony Retrosi. SFG Staff and any coaches that wish to practice their new spotting skills are welcome to coach both days! This skills clinic will run from 9am to 5:30 pm with a 90 minute break for lunch. SFG Booster Club will be providing lunch for all gymnast and coaches that participate. They will also be planning some fun activities during their break.

The compulsory camp will be held on Sunday and will run from 9am to 2pm. There will be a 60 minute break for lunch that will be provided by SFG Booster Club for all gymnast and coaches. We will be splitting the compulsory camp between compulsory skills and a 90 minutes open gym for the athletes to develop some of their early optional skills.

Prep opts: For prep optional athletes, please use your best judgment as coaches.  If your athletes are working level 7+ skills, then the optional camp would be great.  If not, we recommend the compulsory camp.

Enclosed you will find the brochure along with the registration form and the skills evaluation sheet for grouping.  Please distribute to your team kids at your convenience.  The front of the form is for your athlete to fill out their camp skill “wish list”.  On the back, we ask that you write any and all progressions you have worked with your athlete so that we can properly group them prior to the skills camp.  Prices are listed on the brochure, if your gym sends 5 kids to camp, you can send 1 coach to the Friday clinic for FREE.  If your gym sends 10 kids to our camp, you may send as many coaches as you would like for free.  Cost for Friday only is $100 per coach unless you have athletes attending.  All we ask is that you list them on the registration form, along with any USAG information so that we may submit it to our insurance.  We are hoping to make this an annual clinic and will continue to try and help it grow over the next few years with more national coaches and additional facility for boys next year.

We are hoping you all can come and bring some kids to this great one day camp.  If you have any questions, please call Chris at 941-730-8016 which is his personal cell phone.  He will be happy to discuss with you any and all questions you may have.

Chris Lakeman

Program Director
South Florida Gymnastics

www.sfgymcheer.com

941.758.5775

SFG_Skills_Clinic_Brochure

Wit and Wisdom

by Leave a Comment

“It’s not journalism. It’s theater” Mike Daisey, writer who admitted to fabricating stories about oppressed workers at an APPLE contractor’s factory in China

“Whoever learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.” William Jennings Bryan

“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.” Journalist Franklin Pierce Adams

“The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.” Actor Paul Fix

“I cannot praise a fugitive or cloistered virtue, exercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary.” John Milton

“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown helpless about them.” Clare Boothe Luce

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

As the US SUPREME COURT is in session I have decided to put some of my favorite quotes from Justices. Sorry for the diversion.

It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system
that is the true backbone of the rule of law. Time will one day heal the
wound to the confidence that will be inflicted by today’s decision.  One
thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete
certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s Presidential
election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear.  It is the
Nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of
law.  I respectfully dissent.
Justice John Paul Stevens 12-12-2000

“It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in
speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of
the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of
grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable.
They are cognate rights, and therefore
are united in the first Article’s assurance.”
Judge Wiley B. Rutledge
[Wiley Blount Rutledge] U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Source: Thomas v. Collins, 1944

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine
on it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects
from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the
reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal
principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty,
and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and
assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote;
they depend on the outcome of no elections.”
Justice Robert H. Jackson

“A nation’s success or failure in achieving democracy is judged in
part by how well it responds to those at the bottom and the margins
of the social order… The very problems that democratic change
brings — social tension, heightened expectations, political unrest
— are also strengths. Discord is a sign of progress afoot; unease
is an indication that a society has let go of what it knows and
is working out something better and new.”
Sandra Day O’Connor

“The First Amendment has erected a wall between Church and State.
That wall must be kept high and impregnable.
We could not approve the slightest breach.”
Hugo L. Black
Everson V Board of Education 1947
“From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press,
it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest
in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them…
It is not the business of government to suppress
real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.”
Tom C. Clark
Burstyn v. Wilson, 1952

“The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any
government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither
compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate
against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the
authorities.”
William J. Brennan
Sherbert v. Verner, 1963

 

 

gymmomentum.com runs on the Genesis Framework | Site Map
© Copyright 2011 Gym Momentum
Verified by MonsterInsights