FIG Artistic Gymnastics Age Group Programme
Riyadh, December 5 – 9, 2012
… Over the previous two years, the FIG with annual funding assistance from the IOC, has developed an Age Group Programme for Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. It was completed in 2011 …
Twenty-eight participating federations expressed their intention to implement the programme and were offered five-day training and implementation camps within the first year. …
The first country to host one of these five-day camps was Saudi Arabia that hosted the camp in its excellent facility in Riyadh from December 5-9, 2012. The FIG expert for the camp was well-known and enthusiastic gymnastics educator and coaching blogger Rick McCharles of Canada. …
… in Saudi Arabia, seventeen coaches attended but held citizenships from five different countries – Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan and China. It was a remarkably high level of attendance for a country not much seen in world level gymnastics.
The FIG Age Group programme includes a testing and monitoring programme for Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics physical abilities and technical skills as well as a complete competition programme with modified optional rules for age-group gymnasts and compulsory exercises for all ages. …
The programme was developed by FIG Director of Education and Academy programmes, Hardy Fink (CAN) for the competition programme, Dieter Hofmann (GER) for the testing programme and Carol-Angela Orchard (CAN) for the dance and choreographic content. …
… read more – FIG Age Group Programme Camps begin in Saudi Arabia
I’m at Camps #2 and #3 next. Qatar and Yemen.
Middle East weather in December is terrific. 🙂
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