An innovative way to train running speed for VAULTING
Yes- this is a joke.
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Fun Straight Body Drill for Pre-School
Thanks to contributor Casie Millhouse-Singh, Casie is an American gymnastics coach with over 20 years of experience in the sport as both gymnast, coach and judge. Currently, she is coaching for the Singapore American Community Action Council, better known as SACAC, gymnastics program. She is elected as Singapore Gymnastics Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Recreational Pathway Technical Leader and is also a Singapore National judge. You can follow her blog at: COACH CASIE [Read more…]
WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM GEESE
Fact #1 – As each bird flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the bird following. By flying in a “V” formation, the whole flock adds 71 percent greater flying range than if one bird flew alone.
Lesson Learned – People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the strength of one another.
Fact #2 – Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to fly alone and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front.
Lesson Learned – If we have as much sense as geese, we will stay in formation with those who are ahead of where we want to go and be willing to accept their help as well as give ours to others.
Fact #3 – When the lead goose gets tired, it rotates back into the formation and another goose flies at the point position.
Lesson Learned – It pays to take turns doing the hard tasks and sharing leadership.
Fact #4 – The geese in formation honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.
Lesson Learned – We need to make sure our honking from behind is encouraging, and not something else.
Fact #5 – When a goose gets sick or wounded or shot down, two geese drop out of formation and follow it down to help and protect it. They stay with it until it is able to fly again, or dies. Then they launch out on their own, with another formation, or they catch up with their flock.
Lesson Learned – If we have as much sense as geese do, we too, will stand by each other in difficult times as well as when we are strong.
Clear Hip Circle Progression
USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame Coach MARY LEE TRACY (Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy) shares some great drills for CLEAR HIP CIRCLES.
The CLEAR HIP CIRCLE is one of those skills that every gymnast is going to need at bars to be really successful. It takes a great deal of core strength to hold the correct body shape as well as shoulder strength to open up. Mary Lee does a great job breaking the skill down to some basic shapes and movements. [Read more…]
CRASH OF THE WEEK
Thanks to Andrew and Stuart in Australia (Pcyc Launceston Gymnastics) for sharing this. Andrew was the smart one recording Stuart trying to do double full on tramp with a split in the first twist.
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CRASH OF THE WEEK
Thanks to Bill Smith from Kennet Gymnastics for sharing!
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Beginning Yurchenko Vaulting. Al Fong
Thanks to Contributor Owen Field from Nebraska for sharing these. Make sure you follow his blog at: Coach Owen Field
Al Fong Beginning Yurchenko Vaulting from Region 4 Training Camp. [Read more…]
WIT and Wisdom 12/16
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.” Arthur Schopenhauer
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You musn’t lose it.” Robin Williams
“The pleasure which is at once is the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.” Edgar Allen Poe
“Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.” Franklin Pierce
“I got a rock stuck in my nose at recess.” Overheard in the lobby of my gym.
“Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.” Vince Lombardi
“Chess is intellectual gymnastics.” Wilhelm Steinitz
“When I go in to compete, whether it’s gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.” Shannon Miller
A NEW WAY TO CLEAN CHALK!
Shared by Jay Soucy, Owner of Evergreen Gymnastics. Jay and his wife, Nancy, own and coach at their gym, Evergreen Gymnastics in Lisbon, NH. Both from Methuen and MHS sweethearts, they moved to northern NH in 1998 and purchased the gymnastics school in 2005. Jay began gymnastics after watching Luke Skywalker flip through the swamps of Dagobah with Yoda on his back.
“Do or do not! There is no try.”
Nancy & I installed beautiful, cocoa, hickory hardwood at the house last month. We couldn’t be more pleased. Our puggle, Molly, loves them too. She shares all her unwanted dog hair with the new flooring. The contrast is something to behold. Needless to say, we started shopping for a handy, easy to use broom or mop to clean the floors. A friend told us to try a Shark Steam Mop. You can find them at Walmart, Home Depot etc.
It works as advertised, no cleaning supplies needed. You add water, attach the re-usable cleaning pad, plug it in, and you are off. The steam seeps through the pad as you push it back and forth and the pad pick up the dirt, hair, and CHALK. That’s right. Chalk. We found the perfect cleaning device for those chalky mats around the gym. The steam mop is light and glides along those gymnastics mat surfaces with ease. In no time, we had all our mats done.
You cannot add cleaners or deodorizers into the mop, because of the heating element and risk of damage to the device. Because of this limitation, we like to spray some deodorizer down on the mats to “freshen-up” the gym. It would be nice to be able to add the water and deodorizer into the mop.
We purchased the two-sided version. This cuts down changing out the pads. You may want to buy additional cleaning pads. Two pads come with the mop. We bought an extra two for an additional $19. When the pads get dirty, you wash them in the laundry. We love it!
Give it a try!
JAY SOUCY
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Incorporating Fine-motor Work Into Lesson Plans
Thanks to contributor Casie Millhouse-Singh, Casie is an American gymnastics coach with over 20 years of experience in the sport as both gymnast, coach and judge. Currently, she is coaching for the Singapore American Community Action Council, better known as SACAC, gymnastics program. She is elected as Singapore Gymnastics Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Recreational Pathway Technical Leader and is also a Singapore National judge. You can follow her blog at: COACH CASIE [Read more…]
