The Buckeye Camp director for the past 18 years has been Dave Adlard. And for 18 years Dave has been telling me about Camp.
I finally got there this summer as a Tumbl Trak Ambassador.
We set up an Air Floor Pro and one of the new T-trainer vault horse / mini-tramps.
Buckeye is huge operation. About 3000 kids / week in two gyms. WAG team about 200 girls.
I’ve never seen a larger Camp based out of a club. It runs in 3 shifts. All day long. One day guest coach Cliff Parks was there from 8am – 9pm. (His daughter was training in a shift when he wasn’t coaching.)
Rotations include = Vault, Bars, Beam, Floor, Sprint training, Dance, Zumba and Sports Psych.
Aside from the regular Buckeye Staff, guest coaches included choreographer Dominic Zito, Luke Wasson from Precision and Sandy Sabo from Youngstown.
It was a treat to watch the Elite group (including Gabby Douglas & Nia Dennis) training.
Dave Adlard continues on to WOGA where he’s a guest coach every summer. Dave’s working the home Camps for the clubs of the 2012, 2008 and 2004 Olympic champions back-to-back. A busy guy at all times, Dave’s never been so busy as he is this Summer.
My advice to Dave Adlard: Bite off more than you can chew. Then chew like Hell! 🙂
Thanks to owner Dave Holcomb and Head Coach Kittia Carpenter for inviting in Tumbl Trak.
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