Category: spotting

#SheCanCoach #SheCanCoachBARS

#SheCanCoach campaign aims to fight idea that women can’t coach

Only 30% of all coaches in Ontario are women, according to the Coaches Association of Ontario

We need encourage women to spot Bars, in particular.

#SheCanCoachBARS

Thanks Kim.

 

spotting is not illegal … yet

Still, the less spotting the better in my opinion. Assign more physical and technical progressions. Wait longer before doing the full skill with spot.

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Sarah Finnegan – Bars

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And WHY is coach standing in for that shoot?

One of BBS’s best routines of week 3.

SPOTTING – education and respect

Alina Williams:

I call gymnastics a contact sport because we cannot teach our athletes without touching them. We spot, poke, shape, and catch our athletes every day, but if we don’t teach them early that they have a say in how and when they are touched we are failing in our duty as educators. …

But here’s the kicker and the hardest part of all of this to implement in the gym: if a child refuses your touch, you must respect that refusal. Sometimes that means watching a kid go around the bar in an ugly shape you really want to fix …

Contact Sports: Teaching Touch and Consent to Young Athletes

At a coaching course last week we had a number of demonstrators from the host club. Of course we explained what spotting was included and encouraged the kids to opt out of anything that made them feel uncomfortable in any way.

spotting double-mini tramp

It looks like she would have been OK landing hands and knees on that excellent mat, but coach does react well.

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apparatus to simulate diving on dry land

How does it work?

  • Athlete wears a body harness that attaches to the middle of the mechanism
  • The athlete is secured tightly around the waist and close to the bar
  • The athlete completes the number of flips required for the dive
  • The athlete then holds at the vertical position and the spotter stops the wheel

Divers’ secret weapon

Click the image to see it at work with coach Joel Rodriguez at the New South Wales Institute of Sport in Australia.

Thanks Tom.

spotting Free Hip

Watch coach Franki when a gymnasts slips on the ascending swing.

#WomenCanSpotBars 🙂

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