Gymnastic Classes

Don t compare your gymnast’s progress with that of other gymnasts. 2. Don t become overly ego-involved with your gymnast s success or lack of it. 3. Don t take judge s scores too seriously, especially at the lower levels. 4. Don t forget the need for fun in gymnastics. 5. Don t stand for unacceptable behavior from your gymnast during practice or competitions. 6. Don t participate in gossip about anyone in the gymnastics community. 7. Don t interfere with coaches and their coaching duties during practice or competitions. 8. Don t pressure your gymnast regarding skills or competition. 9. Don t set unrealistic goals for your gymnast. 10. Don t predicate your love or attention on your gymnast s competitive success. 11. Don t base your own ego or self-esteem on the success of your gymnast s progress or competitive success. 12. Don t lose your long-term perspective about the importance of your gymnast s participation in the sport. 13. Don t let yourself care too deeply about your gymnast s …

Gymnastics encourages the use of the entire body, not just focusing on either the upper or lower body. The sport improves strength, speed, endurance, coordination, and flexibility. Introducing your child to gymnastics early in life helps improve their coordination and physical development. Most gyms offer classes for young toddlers and their parents to work on these early skills. Some gyms focused entirely on babies and toddlers with special programs using music and games. The purpose of these gyms is to introduce basic hand-eye coordination and to encourage fun in physical activity. Once they progress beyond this stage, if they are still interested in gymnastics as a sport, children should be enrolled in a gym that offers age-appropriate classes focusing on age-specific skills at each level. Most gyms offer not only recreational gymnastics for the general public, but also more advanced classes for those with a special interest or natural ability for gymnastics. Some of these gyms wil …

When her daughter had completed her lessons, she was able to do back handsprings, round offs, front flips and so on. Comparing that, she wanted to know if when her boys were done would they be able to hit? I asked her if they were able to hit before they started? She said yes, but not very good. I said, then certainly they will be able to hit when they are done. Surely better than when they first started. I found this question so interesting because it raised the question in my mind of expectations(by the player, their parents or both). If a player has no ability to hit, no amount of instruction is going to help. Additionally, players and parents must understand that simply taking a lesson here or there is not like stepping into a “microwave oven” where you enter it for a short period of time and then you’re “DONE” as a hitter. Take the fork OUT, you’re just beginning. Hitting is a lifelong pursuit that takes constant and continued work. Hitting is a journey of constant improvement, w …

Gymnasts, athletes, humans in general react best to positive reinforcement, enthusiasm and confidence building. If you find that, you will almost also certainly find all of the following. Pits For any successful high-level team program, pits are a virtual necessity. Most good coaches would not even consider coaching in a facility that didn t have pits. Parents should feel the same about putting their gymnasts into a facility without pits. Pits allow an extra degree of teaching, coaching and learning flexibility. Pits should be available for every event and apparatus type. Trampolines Trampolines are one of the most efficient training tools for gymnastics. They allow significant time saving advantages when doing skills like somersaults. Ideally, trampolines should be in the ground for extra safety. Training in a facility without or that doesn t use trampolines will result in a slower learning curve for tumbling skills. Tumble Tramp and/or Power Tumbling Strip A tumble tramp is a long t …

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This article points them out to you. #1 Fully Support Your Own Gym It seems apparent that many parents do not fully realize the implications of not fully supporting their own gym s summer program. To put it in perspective, for the price paid for every two gymnasts attending a commercial gymnastics summer camp, your gym could purchase a piece of training equipment that your gymnasts could be using year round. It is also highly unlikely that gymnasts will find a coach at any summer camp more committed to their progress and success than they will find in their own gym. Money spent on a summer camp might be better spent on private lessons from your own coach. We seriously recommend that no parent or gymnast pay to attend any summer camp without fully supporting (and paying for) their own gym s summer program. #2 - Why Build Your Competitor s Program? We have to wonder sometimes about the wisdom of choosing to attend (and financially support) a summer camp run by a team you may face in t …

Beware the Phone Game Gymnastics team practices are usually too long for all but most compulsive parents to sit through and observe. Thus parents only hear second hand what is going on in the gym either from gymnasts or parents. We all know how accurate secondhand information is. Everyone on the Same Page The coach should hopefully have discussed their coaching philosophy, goals, methods and training system. This information should help you understand why your gymnast’s coaches are doing what they are doing. Sometimes, however, issues or questions may arise during the year that you might feel have to be addressed by the coach. Don t Try to Argue About the Sport It is rarely useful, possible or wise for parents to challenge coaches on anything to do with the sport itself. Parents are not experts in the sport. Hopefully, the coaches are. Realistically, parents may not know if coaches really know what they are talking about because coaches will certainly know more than the parents will …

This is a loaded question for several reasons… First of all, ANY sporting activity lead by a quality-based coach is wonderful for kids. That being said, the true crux and efficacy of that statement is based largely on the ‘quality-based coach’ comment. It is only when poorly educated and over zealous parents and coaches (i.e. adults) get involved too heavily in youth sports that the experience can become sour. Parents often push too hard and seek success at a young age; coaches often are limited in their understanding of developmental science and routinely ‘drill’ kids with ’sport specific’ (I hate that phrase) exercises that are too narrow in scope (not to mention that many youth sport coaches don’t know how to TEACH specific aspects of movement or speed and yet get annoyed when their athletes don’t perform a given drill to a high enough standard). One the most prominent and problematic realities of the above comments is that there don’t seem to be many (any?) outlets for kids just …

Here are 30 things that can help enhance your gymnast s experience of the sport: 1. Do concentrate on your gymnast s individual progress as the best measure of their gymnastics success. 2. Do emphasize to your gymnast that gymnastics should be fun. 3. Do provide your gymnast with all of the financial and moral support they need. 4. Do get your gymnast to practice and meets on time. 5. Do praise and give regular doses of positive feedback to your gymnast. 6. Do participate fully in any and all fundraising efforts, as this will inevitably improve your own gymnast s experience in the sport. 7. Do show an active interest in your gymnast s participation in the sport. 8. Do leave the coaching to the gymnastics professionals. 9. Do support the gym and coaches in any way you can. 10. Do communicate with your gymnast s coaches about your gymnast s goals and progress. 11. Do inform your gymnast s coaches about any relevant issues happening at home that might affect your gymnast at practice or i …

Our books are full of innovative concepts that we know are not being utilized anywhere else because we developed the concepts. Our camp offers many of the following advantages as well, but we don t know of any other camp that is as innovation oriented as we are. A High Level of Training Available The second reason to attend and pick a gymnastics summer camp is the level of training available. Parents and gymnasts might choose a gymnastics camp run by a gym with coaches who have or are currently training Elite International competitors. That level of training is not available to every gymnast in every town. Thus the choice for a summer camp might be based on a high level of training and there are a limited number of gym camps that would qualify in this category. Parents and gymnast will likely look at the most successful gymnasts of the last year and check into attending camp at one of their gyms. Training Equipment There are still gyms around that don t have all of the latest gymnasti …

Bad news! He’s going to play against teams from out of town and it will cost you a lot of money. Or this one that just happened to me a few days ago: Good news! Your daughter just classified herself for the Nationals in gymnastic. Bad news! You live in Montreal and the Nationals are in Vancouver. It is going to cost you $2000 to send her there. Bad news again! The Nationals are in 3 weeks ;-( Like I said, I witnessed a lot of these events during the years. That made me create, 5 years ago, my own foundation to financially help young gymnasts (boys and girls) and there parents to participate in important events. No parents want to announce to their child that they won’t be participating in a big event because of the lack of funds. But unfortunately, it happens. Can you prepare yourself to prevent that? Of course you can First, if there is even a slim chance that you’re child might participate in a big event, you should start right now to put money on the side. You are better off pu …

Why so young? Because the child is in so much danger the sooner, those types of children become self- aware, the more they are able to achieve a margin of safety. The child with a peanut allergy can suffer additionally with Asthma, making that a treacherous combination. According to Medline Plus, asthma victims suffer a chronic disease that causes airways to become sore and swollen after exposure to various allergens. Left untreated it can be life threatening. An allergy to peanuts, on the other hand causes an immune system malfunction, which can result in Anaphylactic Shock. The Anaphylaxis, if severe enough, can kill. It appears contradictory to imply that sick (chronically allergic) children should be more independent. The very nature of their illness requires parents to be extra wary, extra cautious and extra protective. Is it realistic then, for a parent to consider leaving these children somewhat on their own, just as they would leave children that are not ill? The average child …

Created in 1969, this animated mystery series is an excellent choice of party theme as both the little ones and their parents can get in on the fun. Guests can have a blast recalling the great monsters and mysteries Scooby and his pals have foiled through the years. However, one thing is no mystery; you ll need plenty of Scooby snacks to keep this party rolling. Consider baking cookies in the shape of dog treats, ghosts and witches. Of course, you ll also want to have some party games to keep the young and old sleuths occupied. Scooby and the Phantom Have your guests form a circle around the room, with hands joined. A “”phantom”" is chosen to stand outside the circle, and “”Scooby Doo”" is to stand inside. The guests forming the circle are Scooby s pals, and raise their arms to let him under, but keep them down when the phantom tries to get through to catch poor Scooby. The phantom chases Scooby wherever he may run, until he is caught, when a new Scooby and phantom are chosen. For add …

If a parent or coach learns how the advantages of these types of trampolines outweigh the disadvantages, then they may let the budding gymnast definitely use one. Many coaches and parents are concerned with trampoline safety, and therefore do not want a student of gymnastics using one, especially with so much information telling parents not to ever let their child near one . The American Academy of Pediatrics is one group that warns against any use of one for any reason. They claim that most children will be hurt by doing trampoline jumping and trampoline tricks that they are not trained to do, and this can cause serious harm to a person. While this is true, if a gymnast is properly trained on how to use one to enhance their skills, then tumbling on a jumping tarp can prove to be safer than not. Learning some moves on a gymnastics trampoline can help a budding gymnast be more positive, according to some coaches and parents. By being able to practice the motion over and over on a tramp …

Science teachers use Science Fairs to display science skills and knowledge. History and Social Studies teachers developed History Days so that students could display their knowledge and skills in the history area. Music teachers put on musicals and drama teachers us plays to show those skills. Elementary teachers use a variety of all the above. What about a Physical Education teacher? Sports is different that Physical Education. Some parents think that PE at school is just play time. Maybe it is in some schools but in many schools it is a time to teach students different skills. It s a time to be active, a time to learn about different sports, a time to exercise and gain coordination skills. So after a year of teaching all of these skills why not showcase these skills and show parents what their students can do. I think this is a great idea because it will give parents a better appreciation for what the PE teachers all over this country are doing. These PE teachers are not just giving …