Last night a great new kind of gymnastics coach education started. The first presenter Mary Lee Tracy.
… Project 2012: a Web Event for Coaches highlighting the essential techniques for gymnastics success in the next quadrennium. This 12-week 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.
Session One begins Tuesday June 2 at 6pm PST-9pm EST and once a week until July 7th. (US$199)
Session Two runs from July 14 through August 18th.
Sessions normally are 45 minutes of presentation and 15 minutes of question and answer, using live lecture, video, power point, and of course your questions, all on your computer. (The first session ran 1hr 26min total.)
homepage – USAproject2012.com
Tracy and her presentation are terrific. I can see why she was chosen to launch. I was happy to get a copy of her Powerpoint presentation as part of the package.
You can participate LIVE as it is streamed. Or watch the archived footage online later, as I did next morning. (My attempt to get to the internet by 6PM Pacific was a comedy of errors.) Click “Float All Panels”. Chat, Participants, Table of Contents and Video.
USA Gymnastics recently took over all the Regional Congress events in the States. Many fear they will all be similar in future. You might well get better value for your coach upgrading dollar through distance learning options like this. And if you don’t live in the USA, no need to fly there to learn from some of their best clinicians.
I could see a club using Project 2012 as part of their professional development strategy.
I’m very positive about this pilot so far. And am looking forward to the next presentation, Week 2 – Tuesday, June 9th at 6PM Pacific.
They had a couple of glitches on the first go. Especially with the audio on the Q&A. But overall it was far better even than I expected. And will only get better each week. Congratulations to the organizers.
Hey, Mary Lee trained only once a day last season. Shawn Johnson seems to have inspired a bit of a trend away from two-a-day workouts.
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The project is associated with GymSmarts. And Alison Arnold’s sport psychology site Head Games.
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