Thanks Kyna Fletcher and Phoenix Gymnastics Vancouver for once again hosting our intensive 4 day Competition 1 coaching course. Phoenix is a leader in coach education.
The course is digital. Video and PDF.
Coaches can annotate the PDFs or print the material. Coach Kipp got his printed and bound for only $20.
Personally, I’m going to bring both printed and digital copies to future courses. As one coach noted: “Print copies don’t run out of battery in the middle of the session.”
Shout out for hosting our 1 day NCCP Level 3 Practical coaching reunion. (One of the last ever to be scheduled. The NEW NCCP courses will soon be required instead. 🙂 )
With Bruno Grandi retiring, there are two candidates in the running for FIG President: Georges Guelzec (FRA) and Morinari Watanabe (JPN). Guelzec runs the European Gymnastics Union while Watanabe is Secretary General of the Japan Gymnastics Association.
Guelzec is well known worldwide. Watanabe is not. He did not declare until the last minute.
This camp, hosted in Guatemala City, was unique in that it was the first one that combined an Olympic Solidarity technical course with the full content and focus of the FIG Age Group Programme for Artistic Gymnastics. Indeed, the entire development and world-wide dissemination of the age group programmes has been subsidised annually by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). …
Guatemala has had a surge of interest in Gymnastics with the success of 2012 and 2016 Olympian Ana Sofía Gómez. …
Myself and José Súcart were the experts for this one. We both agreed it was as good as any of the 5 day camps we’ve led.
The quality and variety of demonstrators at the Camp was a highlight. Some gymnasts are resident at the Gym, doing their schooling upstairs between training sessions.
One of the final National Coaching Certification Program Level 3 Practical reunion courses will be held the Monday after Nationals. (It will soon be replaced by the new NCCP course.)