Gymnastics Growth Show
Audiocast launched May 8, 2018.
First 3 episodes:
1. Guest Dave Tilley
2. Guest Mary Lee Tracy
3. Guest Richard Dwyer
Subscribe on iTunes. It’s free.
Category: coach education
cover girl Laurie Hernandez
Professor Keith Russell many times brought in male gymnasts to “demonstrate” in Anatomy class.
(via theGymter.net)
Canadian coach “certification”
The first level of coach education is called Foundations.
After you finish that in-Gym course, there’s a certification process before you can move to the next level.
Click through to see how that certification works in Alberta.
Gymneo – Backward Salto on Floor
Their most recent skill in French.
Click PLAY or watch a teaser on Facebook.
The English translation will be released soon. Paid members (like myself) get access to both French and English versions.
Forster / Resnick Bars Boot Camps
BOOT CAMPS IN 2018
May 25-27- FULL Phoenix, AZ Arizona Sunrays (full)
June 8-10 – Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy
June 15-17 – Colorado Springs, CO Aerials Gymnastics
Cost $800.
Australia – gender equality among elite coaches
For the first time the Commonwealth Games will achieve gender equality in the number of medals awarded at the Gold Coast, so sports officials have now turned their attention to a glaring imbalance between men and women in the coaching ranks …
At the previous Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, just 10 per cent of the Australian coaches were female …
The AIS and Commonwealth Games Australia are collaborating on a program designed to accelerate the development of eight female high-performance coaches, by bringing them to the Games for mentoring and education. …
We all need to encourage girls and women to coach all apparatus.
YouTube shuts down at midnight
April Fools. 🙄
YouTube is the single best thing that’s every happened for Gymnastics coaches in my opinion.
It’s easy to find information on nearly every coaching topic. You still need skill to distinguish between the good and the bad, of course.
400th FIG Age Group course
As of now, 6900 different coaches from 137 countries have attended these courses. …
The courses were organized in 83 countries over the past 15 years. Over that time, the various parts of the curriculum were presented by 248 different experts from 44 countries. …
coach education – digital or print?
Canada, over the past 5 years, moved all but their introductory coaching course from paper to digital: PDF, photos and video.
Digital is the future, whether we like it or not.
There are pros and cons of course.
There may be economic and environmental reasons to go paperless.
Researchers are studying differences between reading print and digital media:
… Students said they preferred and performed better when reading on screens. But their actual performance tended to suffer.
For example, from our review of research done since 1992, we found that students were able to better comprehend information in print for texts that were more than a page in length. This appears to be related to the disruptive effect that scrolling has on comprehension. …
A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens
In Canada the coach education content was much improved in the shift to digital. VIDEO improves comprehension over our former black & white photos.
Unfortunately the VIDEOS are locked behind a Gymnastics Canada paywall. The friction of remembering password and logging in results in far fewer views than we’d have if they were freely available online.
In 2018 most people value paper content over PDFs. They tend to put books on a shelf somewhere. Often misplace the PDF because of a poor digital filing system.
Coaches were more ACTIVE during a course when hands-on materials. It’s not nearly the same with a laptop or iPad.
I do think people will improve their digital learning skills over time.
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