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1. When coaches use fear tactics …2. Coaches that use humiliation …
3. Coaches that overtrain their athletes …
4. Coaches that believe you must tear an athlete down to build them up …
GET PSYCHED! – 4 TECHNIQUES OF OLD-SCHOOL COACHING THAT DON’T WORK, SO STOP USING THEM
Gymnastics is not the worst sport. But we could do better.
Dave Tilley posted an article that might make the majority of coaches feel guilty.
Here are the headings:
The Problem with Not Individualizing Gymnastics Strength and Conditioning
1. Goldilocks & The Three Bears / Strength Exercise Bell Curve
2. Gymnast’s are Individuals, With Different Characteristics
3. Promoting Compensation, Movement Dysfunction, and Possible Injury Risk If Too Challenging
Are Gymnasts Being Limited By Strength & Conditioning That Isn’t Individualized Enough?
By age-8 (or thereabouts) training programs must be very specific to each athlete for optimum efficiency. We do a good job on that in technical training (drills) but often a lousy job when it comes to strength, power and flexibility improvement.
If you are assigning the same conditioning to everyone in a training group, for some it’s too easy. For some it’s too difficult.
via the Gymnastics Coaches Skills & Drills Facebook page
Showproject consists of two men from Czech Republic (Martin and Daniel), one from Armenia (Artem) and another from Germany (Thomas).
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(via Greg Roe)
Spotlight on Region 5 Trinidad and Tobago adoptee Thema Williams. Thema has been training at Twistars Gymnastics since 2013 in order to prepare herself for a change at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Thema talks about her decision to come to Twistars and what impact the gym has had on her gymnastics. …
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Zach Anner is an Austin, Texas-based stand-up comedian with cerebral palsy who gained world-wide attention with the submission of a video to Oprah Winfrey’s “Search for the Next TV Star” competition. He won his own TV show on OWN through Oprah’s Your OWN Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star. …
If your kids complain that conditioning is too tough, show them Zach’s video.
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Thanks Mike.
Gym Mom Jodi Brichta-Coyne:
They spend 15+ hours a week with my child. They are molding and teaching her not only gymnastics skills but life lessons such as this one. They know their athletes and see things in them that they or we don’t see. Your athlete may come home angry at them some days for being tough or happy when they compliment and encourage them another.
Either way, I say know who your coaches are. If you do not like the way they are being treated or if it goes against your values then by all means you are not a tree, you can leave and find a better environment for them to grow. But if you have found a coach or gym that your child loves to go to, is growing, learning and is generally happy and your gut tells you its the right place then by all means… TRUST in the process! Because even when they don’t win, they learn. …
Get Psyched – THE PERFECT COACH WITH THE PERFECT TOUCH
At this point, due to injuries, it’s far from certain. 😦
Cedrick William, editor of Gym Blog Brazil, has a lengthy post questioning whether the Soviet model put in place by Alexander Alexandrov and Oleg Ostapenko has worked.
… The training system used by Oleg Ostapenko, between 2001 and 2008, and by Alexander Alexandrov, from 2013 until now, it has brought results and medals, but the price paid was too high. …
When it was decided to merge all talented gymnasts in the permanent selection in Curitiba, Brazil virtually all clubs lost their gymnasts. …
Gym Blog Brazil (Portuguese)
Use Google translate to read it.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 