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By: Question for Coaches? Difference between class and camp

Question for Coaches? Difference between class and camp — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 15:20:50 +0000

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By: good cartwheels lead to good round-offs — Gymnastics Coaching.com

good cartwheels lead to good round-offs — Gymnastics Coaching.com — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:04:36 +0000

[...] When it comes to difficult skills like round-off, go slow to go fast. [...]

By: TippingCows

TippingCows — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:07:18 +0000

It’s true that in a fast-food mentality if the parents don’t see skills, they run to the gym that WILL teach their child skills. It’s not enough to make me go against my principles, but sometimes I do push skills earlier than I’d like because if the kid doesn’t compete something soon, the parents get antsy. However, I have a threshold. I may give the kid the benefit of the doubt for a time but if there is no improvement of the quality of the skill, there are consequences.
From what I have seen and researched (and I could be wrong) that kids in Romania and Russia, for instance, don’t compete until our equivalent of Level 7/8.

By: coach Rick

coach Rick — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:05:29 +0000

Good point, Diana.

I’ve often let kids compete skills that weren’t as ready as I’d like. For various reasons including that the gymnast was desperate to include a key skill.

Coaches with more discipline, John Smith from NASA comes to mind, I admire.

By: diana

diana — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:12:59 +0000

I dont know how it works in canada, but in the us there is alot of pressure put on coaches by parents to train skills first.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:43:02 +0000

What continues to baffle me is why so many coaches continue to not follow suit? David is an incredible coach and his athletes clearly show it. Enrique, the coach who wrote the post, is a remarkable coach. So, why do so many coaches not see their success and follow what they are doing? It makes no sense to me.

And, it’s obvious that most coaches don’t follow these philosophies based on the quality of gymnastics that I see out of most teams/clubs.

By: shergymrag

shergymrag — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:31:34 +0000

If the gymnast has the correct body shape they can advance to the next drill. The coach just has to continue training the fundamentals the same as they would continue training push-ups.

By: Dana

Dana — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:43:17 +0000

Awesome Rick. Anything David has to say or does is worth copying!