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From Alison Arnold via email:

… FREE sample of our LIVE ONLINE coaches seminar with Tammy Biggs teaching “Training For Speed and Cardio” on Tuesday, July 13th at 6pm PST/9pm EST.

To get a personal invite for yourself, all you need to do is email andrea@docaliarnold.com

If you like that FREE session, consider registering for the next Session on USAproject2012.com

by site editor Rick McCharles

Shout out to the recently expanded Campia Gymnastics for hosting the past 2 days of our Men’s Gymnastics Canada Winter Games Training Camp.

Looks like we killed this one.

This hip bar mat is perfect. (I stuffed it in my gymbag before departing Campia.)

Campia Coaches stayed after workout Tuesday night to participate in the USAproject2012 LIVE presentation → Mary Lee Tracy - Tumbling complex for floor

If your club can’t afford the high price ($199 / night), you could check out the free video clips (over 200) posted on the USAproject2012 YouTube channel.

UPDATE: There’s some kind of promotion offering free access for July 6 and July 13th … but I’m not sure how you can get those. Leave a comment if you know how.

by site editor Rick McCharles

I’m leading a Level 2 Technical MAG and WAG coaching course at Altadore Gymnastic Club, Calgary.

Friday, Sept. 3rd – Monday, Sept. 6th, 2010

To register contact Gina at Gymnastics Alberta:

gpeake AT abgym.ab.ca
Ph. (403) 259-5500
Fax: (403) 259-5588
1-800-665-1010

Registration deadline Aug. 20th though it will likely fill-up before then.

If you need only MAG or WAG modules, now’s a good time to get them.

This post is for the 15 coaches, all successful, who took the 6-day course at CGC last week.

All course videos and links are now posted on the official Level 3 Coaching Clinic 2010 (MAG and WAG) home page.

Clinicians: Kyle Shewfelt, Adam Wong, Jeremy Mosier, Valérie Oudin Arsenault and Rick McCharles.

From a coaching course at Calgary Gymnastics Centre with Olympian Adam Wong.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The two demonstrators are age-11.

As you can see, boys tend to crash a fair bit at that age. We need good matting under the parallel bars.

CGC has excellent training apparatus. This spotting deck is pefect.

more photos from CGC

A glimpse into the week long NCCP Level 3 Technical gymnastics course we just completed.

Shout out to guest coaches Valérie Oudin (Champions) and Jeremy Mosier (Gymtastics).

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Note: that’s a new YouTube account I’ve just created, dedicated to this site. I’ll be publishing there from now on. Subscribe if you want to see more videos like this.

Valérie does not use low and medium beams much. Instead the kids wait until they are ready for competition height beam with big mats underneath. Progressively, she lowers those mats.

Jeremy recommends we prepare kids for double somersaulting skills by training “Cody” and backward “Kaboom”. Once you can do those, the double salto backwards seems easy. (I also like backward salto travelling forwards (“gainer”).

The Head Coach of trampoline sports at the host gym, Calgary Gymnastics Centre, Brett MacAulay, feels that Artistic coaches teaching somersaults and twisting saltos should be certified in trampoline up to Level 3.

We recommended that Artistic coaches bring in a trampoline EXPERT when introducing double backward somersaults to gymnasts.

Double forward somersaults are very dangerous. Beware. Some of the best tumblers in the world have been badly injured on multiple forward saltos. (e.g. Shewfelt, O’Neill, Dragalescu)

Kyle Shewfelt, Gold medalist in Athens, led a full day at our Level 3 Coaching Course this week hosted by the Calgary Gymnastics Centre.

Click PLAY or get a glimpse on YouTube.

There are no secrets.

Condition. Pay attention to detail, technique and form. Take pride in your gymnastics. Have some personal style. And creativity.

His best advice for young gymnasts is to do series of round-off backward handsprings every practice. For over 15 years he did 10 sets of 5 back handsprings on a soft surface like a TumblTrak or Rod Floor.

Term 1 begins June 15th.

… the Academy of Coaching Excellence presents, Project 2012: a Web Event for Coaches, highlighting the essential techniques for gymnastics success in the next quadrennium. This web event brings the best coaches in the United States to your computer screen doing LIVE lectures and demonstrations on the most important cutting-edge information in our sport.

NEW! 2010 Summer Sessions begin June 15! Sign up for for one session at $199 or all four at $699.

Cost has really gone up. Winter 2009 was only US$199 for 6wks.

It’s a great program. But, honestly, how many club owners are going to pay $700 for their staff?

TERM 1: June 15 – July 13
TERM 2: July 20 – August 17
Terms 1 & 2 will be Tuesday evenings, 6pm PST / 9pm EST

TERM 3: August 24 – September 21
TERM 4: September 28 – October 26
Terms 3 & 4 will be Tuesday mornings, 9am PST / 12pm EST

Term 1 schedule:

June 15th
Cheryl Jarrett: Beam compulsory – training drills and progressions: are you doing them correctly?

June 22nd
Tony Gehman: Taking the angles out of tumbling

June 29th
Larry Nassar: Upper extremity injury rehabilitation progressions

July 6th
Mary Lee Tracy: Tumbling complex for floor

July 13th
Tammy Biggs: Training for speed and cardio

Each session consists of different topics. Participate in one or all four sessions, depending on your availability and interest. Coaches will learn cutting edge information from the best clinicians in our country! Sessions include 45 minutes of lecture and 15 minutes of question and answer, using live lecture, video, power point, and of course your questions, all on your computer. Watch it live or watch the recording from anywhere you’d like.

Featuring: Alison Arnold, Mary Lee Tracy, Tammy Biggs, Russell Warfield, Mas Watanabe, Larry Nassar, Cheryl Jarrett, Tony Gehman, and Tony Retrosi.

Visit www.usaproject2012.com for more information and registration.

The excellent Project 2012 is returned.

The poor man’s USA Congress, as I call it.

With the mission of broadening gymnastics education to coaches around the country, the Academy of Coaching Excellence presents, Project 2012: a Web Event for Coaches, highlighting the essential techniques for gymnastics success in the next quadrennium. This web event brings the best coaches in the United States to your computer screen doing LIVE lectures and demonstrations on the most important cutting-edge information in our sport.

NEW! 2010 Summer Sessions begin June 15! Sign up for for one session at $199 or all four at $699.

TERM 1: June 15 – July 13 · TERM 2: July 20 – August 17
Terms 1 & 2 will be Tuesday evenings, 6pm PST / 9pm EST

TERM 3: August 24 – September 21 · TERM 4: September 28 – October 26
Terms 3 & 4 will be Tuesday mornings, 9am PST / 12pm EST

Each session consists of different topics. Participate in one or all four sessions, depending on your availability and interest. Coaches will learn cutting edge information from the best clinicians in our country! Sessions include 45 minutes of lecture and 15 minutes of question and answer, using live lecture, video, power point, and of course your questions, all on your computer. Watch it live or watch the recording from anywhere you’d like.

Featuring: Alison Arnold, Mary Lee Tracy, Tammy Biggs, Russell Warfield, Mas Watanabe, Larry Nassar, Cheryl Jarrett, Tony Gehman, and Tony Retrosi.

Too expensive?

Ask your gym owner to pay for the entire Staff.

Watch it LIVE. Or after the fact.

details on the website – USAproject2012.com

by site editor Rick McCharles

I’ll be attending part of our annual week long (May 30 – June 5th) coaching clinic following Canadian National Championships in Kamloops.

Presenters include Canadian National Coaches Vladimir Lashin (WAG) and Edouard Iarov (MAG). And MAG Youth National Coach, Markos Baikas.

As always, the course will be coordinated by Keith Russell, current President of the FIG Scientific Commission.

Welcome to our special guest, planning guru, Dr. Istvan Balyi.

You don’t hear much about planning these days. It’s fallen out of favour, me thinks. Istvan can light the fire, once more.

Any ideas of genius coming out of the course, I’ll post here.

I’ll be doing a short presentation to the group myself, “The Internet for Elite Coaches”.

Dr. Gerald S. George is out and about, doing seminars in support of his new book Championship Gymnastics.

International Gymnastics Camp
Coaches Education Program
Bartonsville, PA
June 21-23, 2010

U.S.A.I.G.C. Congress
Coaches Education Program
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
June 27-29, 2010

USAG National Congress and Trade Show
Four (4) Lecture Presentations
Hartford, CT
August 12-14, 2010

Winning Gymnastics – Seminars

This post for Canadian coaches only.

Reminder. Last chance to register for NCCP Level 3 Technical or Practical, hosted by Calgary Gymnastics Centre, June 6th – 12th. Clinicians include Kyle Shewfelt, Valerie Oudin-Arsenault and Rick McCharles.

Email gpeake AT abgym.ab.ca

Early bird registration ends May 15th.

August 12 -14, 2010
Connecticut Convention Center, Hartford, CT

Held in conjunction with 2010 VISA Championships

Same old, same old?

Or will USAG be offering something new this year at Congress?

Three days of education with over 150 sessions. Lectures given by recognized top people in the field. Sessions are provided on coaching, judging, business, preschool, recreational, sports science, fitness, and cheerleading. The opportunity to learn from leading experts from all six disciplines, Women’s, Men’s, Rhythmic, Acrobatics, Group Gymnastics and Trampoline and Tumbling.

Along with the sessions, the Trade Show exhibit hall will feature 200 booths of products and information from over 90 different Industry Member vendors. Special events, such as the USGSA Mega Raffle take place in the exhibit hall daily.

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Leave a comment if you know of a twitter hash tag for this event or for VISA Championships.