Year: 2010

support NCAA Cal Gymnastics

Daniel Geri 09 July at 19:22
Dear Friends and Supporters,

The Cal Gymnastics Forever Foundation will be meeting with the Chancellor of UC Berkeley NEXT WEDNESDAY, JULY 14TH. We will be submitting our Business Plan for financial viability, including ALL your letters and pledges.

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR LETTERS AND YOUR PLEDGES NOW so that your voice will be heard. Pledges will only be collected after the University guarantees our program beyond the 2011 season.

We have made it easier to submit your letters, and even designed an ONLINE auto-create letter system so all you have to do is enter your name and contact information and click a button! It will take you LESS THAN 3 MINUTES!

just go to http://www.calgymnasticsforever.com/

We have already received 25% of our annual operating budget and over 100 letters, but there are 1200 of us in this Facebook group alone!

If you truly support Cal Gymnastics, now is the time to act.

Thanks to all who have already submitted, and to all of you for your ongoing support,

Sincerely,
The Cal Gymnastics Forever Foundation

10 dumb things we do in Coach Education

Wayne Goldsmith from Australia overstates, … a little.

But he’s got some very good points in an article on Sports Coaching Brain:

1. We base coach education programs on sports science.

2. We create athlete development pathways but then do not align the coach development pathway to them.

3. We believe that competency based training is the new messiah.

4. We run workshops and conferences that are largely based on sports science, gimmicks, fads and short cuts.

5. We give token attention to mentoring programs.

6. We teach all coaches the same outdated periodization processes.

7. We spend most of the alloted time teaching “what” to do and not focus on “how” and “why”

8. We create courses which do not reflect where the sport is going -i.e. we present course information which is based on what worked in the distant past.

9. We allow people to present the courses without insisting their teaching, education and communication skills are the best in the sport.

His best point, I feel, is the last:

10. We continue to present courses which are classroom based.

How many goals are scored in a classroom? How many world records are broken in a Board room? How many touchdowns are scored in a training room? Why do we insist on making coach education classroom based?

He’s right. From now on I’ll do every presentation possible inside the gym, alongside the apparatus we are discussing.

Coach education – Ten Dumb Things we do and call it Coach Education

Active learning.

(via Brett MacAulay on Facebook)

Lizzy LeDuc – Beam

Gymnastike:

Routine of the Week for July 5th comes from the final National Elite Qualifier of the summer. Lizzy LeDuc waited until the last meet to qualify for the summer competitions and after a fall on bars it was down to her final event to secure herself a spot at this summer’s elite Championships.

She unveiled a difficulty-packed routine with poise and earned a solid 14.85, the highest score of the meet for both juniors and seniors. She totaled a 53.20 in the all around, qualifying for the 2010 US Championships. July 3, 2010

Click PLAY or watch it on Gymnastike.

http://c1403192.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/player.swf

Good luck at VISA Championships, Lizzy!

backward uprise on P Bars strength

Great drill for beginners.

… Scott Burns from California Sport Center shows a drill to develop this unique strength.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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record 26 muscle-ups

via TKO

Extreme feat of strength.

OFFICIAL World Muscle-Up record on 4th Jan 2010. All the necessarry officials witnessed it, and a small crowd, the video was officially evaluated & APPROVED by Guinness on 13 March 2010. …

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube

marcusbondi.com

Note: I tried to check on this record on the Guinness site. No results for the search “Marcus Bondi”. Leave a comment if you can verify. It’s more likely under the name of the athlete.

Here is the Guinness link:

The most consecutive muscle ups performed is 25 by Jarryd Rubinstein (Australia) at Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on 4 January 2010.

Blokes. Get out and beat that record. … No “kippiing”.

Is the record 25 or 26?

free Tammy Biggs gymnastics seminar

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