Dr. Gerald S. George is selling 180 slides from his excellent book.
“Championship Gymnastics” – Powerpoint slides
Category: coach education
GymnasticsGenius.com
GymnasticsGenius.com is the new app and website from Max Whitlock and coach Scott Hann.
Coach education.
14 day free trial available.
After that you have a choice of £149.99/year or £44.99/quarter.
Deal-breaker Behaviours in Coach Education
In Canada, coaches and clinicians will be removed from official Sports Canada course for these behaviours:
- Uses language that is racist, sexist, or demeaning
- Allows learners to use language that is racist, sexist, or demeaning
Via the GymCan National Coaching Certification Program requirements.
NEW Pommel Book by Miguel Costante
Amazon for Kindle or Paperback:
- Pommel horse: Practical guide to excellence (English)
- Caballo con arzones: Guía practica hacia la excelencia (Spanish)
The English translation has just been released. Miguel has coached in Canada for decades and is completely bilingual.
Miguel is widely recognized one of the best MAG age-group coaches.
He’s available as a consultant for any club worldwide.
- Premium Gold $99 / year
- Standard Silver $79 / year
- Personalized (one time) contact for price
Happily, Miguel also has a lot of FREE content on his site in both English & Spanish so you can check out his coaching philosophy first.
The NEW website is Evolve-Gymnastic.com (no S at the end of Gymnastic)
Luke Carson – modern coaching
Luke Carson is the personal coach of Rhys McClenaghan, 2022 world champion on pommel horse. 2-time European champion and a Commonwealth Games champion on the same apparatus.
Luke is now the Men’s National Coach for Ireland, as well. As everyone has noticed, that nation is one of the most improved in recent years.
As part of the FREE FIG Education Seminars program, Luke explains his philosophy of coaching.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Evolve-Gymnastic.com ~ Miguel Costante
Miguel Costante is widely recognized one of the best MAG age-group coaches in Canada.
He’s available as a consultant for any club worldwide.
- Premium Gold $99 / year
- Standard Silver $79 / year
- Personalized (one time) contact for price
Happily, Miguel also has a lot of FREE content on his site in both English & Spanish so you can check out his coaching philosophy first.
The NEW website is Evolve-Gymnastic.com (no S at the end of Gymnastic)
Moy progressions
Shun Tomizawa is a Japanese coach who worked in Canada. And is currently in Germany.
He has many MAG tutorials on his YouTube channel. Here are a couple of samples.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Fun fact. As a young coach, we took a team of Americans and Canadians to Netherlands for a friendly international competition. Moy won the AA representing France. He was already excellent at age-16.
2023 SHIFT Symposium in June
The SHIFT Symposium is a 3 day online gymnastics education event.
June 23-25, 2023.
- Day 1 focuses on Gymnastics Medical Care
- Day 2 focuses on Gymnastics Coaching (two separate tracks for Women’s & Men’s)
- Day 3 focuses on Gymnastics Strength & Conditioning
… recording every lecture, collecting every handout, and uploading them all to the course website so that people can either see the recordings or purchase the course after the weekend takes place. …
View ticket options.
SPIN Summit 2022, Vancouver
December 7-9, 2022 in Richmond, B.C.
The SPort INnovation (SPIN) Summit is Canada’s leading edge symposium for professional development and networking in the areas of applied sport science, sports medicine, and innovation.
This annual conference combines experts from around the globe to build knowledge and skills to support Olympic and Paralympic sport success through applied scientific research.
Registration deadline – November 30, 2022
GymCan Culture Report expected JAN 2023
Gymnastics Canada brought in McLaren Global Sport Solutions to review Ethics, Safety & Culture.
Richard McLaren, who led investigations into Russian doping and corruption in the International Weightlifting Federation, is well respected in the field.
I first filled out McLaren’s online survey. Better than most of those fill-in-the-blank forms.
At the end of that survey, I was asked if I would be available for an in-person online interview. Of course I was keen to do so — and that happened NOV 8th.
About 90 minutes long, I felt McLaren was very open to hearing everything I had to say regarding culture. We spent most of the time talking recommendations for the future.
For example, I was asked what 3 changes I’d make first IF I was suddenly in charge of Gymnastics Canada.
I did call McLaren out on independence and transparency. And left convinced GymCan will have no influence on their findings.
McLaren Global Sport Solutions and those within it are completely independent of Gymnastics Canada, its sponsors, and other stakeholders.
MGSS has been contracted by Gymnastics Canada to independently, and without any interference or dictates from the sport, develop a Roadmap to a Culture Review and a Safe Sport Policy Review.
Roadmap to a Culture Review & Safe Sport Policy Review terms of reference
For example, the McLaren Report of Canada Soccer published July 2022 was scathing.
I told my interviewers they should do exactly the same with Gymnastics if that’s what the investigation finds.
I’d recommend spokespeople from Gymnasts for Change Canada have interviews with McLaren. They will listen.
The documentary BROKEN – The Toxic Culture of Canadian Gymnastics was released this week.
Canadian victims can contact Gymnasts for Change:
