Active gymnastics coaches are telling me they love the quick fix of a short video tutorial.
The Gymnastics Minute is a new series of free introductory video tips produced by GymSmarts.
The best so far for me personally was Mary Lee Tracy’s tip on Yurchenko.
Tom Beach, 1976 Olympian head honcho of GymSmarts, filled me in on the back story:
The Gymnastic Minute is all Tony Retrosi’s idea.
When he was growing up in NY there as a one minute TV spot called The New York Minute (most have heard of a NY minute). This TV show gave things to do around NY and was fairly popular.
Tony wondered if we could do the same with gymnastics. We were at his gym to film one of his Yurchenko DVDs so we just asked if he had any tips that he could do that day, and he did. We shot the Yurchenko video and 3 or 4 gymnastic minutes.
We were going to Mary Lee Tracy’s gym in two weeks so we edited one for Tammy and Mary Lee to see and they loved the idea so we shot several more with them on that trip. They are realitively simple to shoot (compared to the DVD’s we produce). The really cool thing to us is the music in the short intro is performed by Tony’s Band!
Follow GymSmarts on twitter at @gymsmarts. Or GymSmarts on Facebook.
Or subscribe to the GymSmarts YouTube Channel.
Or, best strategy of all, follow Tom Beach’s blog.
On Gymnastics Coaching I only post some of The Gymnastics Minute videos. All are posted on Tom’s GymSmarts Community blog.
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