Guy Lavoie retires

One of the great coach educators in Canada has retired from his full-time job as coordonnateur technique à la fédération de gymnastique du Québec.

cartwheel on Beam tutorial

The latest Gymneo skill tutorial in English. (46min)

Click PLAY or watch the Beam Cartwheel teaser on YouTube.

Nick Ruddock’s new podcast

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.

cover girl Laurie Hernandez

An Anatomy Physiology text.

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.

en.gymneo.tv

Forster / Resnick Bars Boot Camps

NEIL RESNICK and TOM FORSTER

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.

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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. …

The Australian

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.

Praise YouTube.

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. …

Hardy Fink