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Wayne Goldsmith believe we need to reinvent sporting competition:

How to turn your sport into a New Sport:

1. Make your competitions shorter;
2. Make your competitions more enjoyable;
3. Provide something relevant and meaningful for all participants in your sport: not just for the could-be-champions;
4. Be inclusive of families and their needs, their schedules, their time limitations;
5. Listen to your clients and respond to their needs.

Details on this post – New Sport …

I sent the link to Kyle. That’s exactly what he’s trying to do at his new competition, the Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Festival.

Seyram Atubra was the primary researcher in a study of mainly recreation gymnasts.

British Gymnastics – England commissioned the Institute of Youth Sport to conduct a study to examine the reasons why young gymnasts leave the sport. …

Over 5000 former gymnasts and their parents were asked to complete a survey and telephone interviews were conducted with 40 former gymnasts and their parents. …

Key findings:
• started gymnastics at an average age of 6.2 years and stopped at an average age of 9.9 years

Most important benefits gained from being a gymnast:
• Improved strength and fitness
• Enjoyment/fun

Most important reason for leaving gymnastics:
• ‘boring/repetitive’
• Left to take up a new sport
• Didn’t like the coaches’

Here’s the PDF if you want to read the full report. For more information contact name via the Gymnastics England Research page.

Thank Keith Russell and Meike Behrensen for the link.

(via Recreation Gymnastics)

Just elected.

I saw this linked from THE ALL AROUND on Facebook.

Zoltán Magyar (original Hungarian name Magyar Zoltán) (born December 13, 1953 in Budapest, Hungary) was the premier pommel horse gymnast in the world in the 1970s. Magyar had two moves named after him, the Magyar spindle … and the Magyar travel …

Magyar finished his career with two Olympic, three world, three European and two World Cup titles on his specialty. …

(Google translation from Hungarian)

The twice Olympic Vault champion from Spain has announced his retirement.

Albert from Barcelona posted a nice retrospective of his sometimes controversial career. (I’m still irked he wasn’t sanctioned for STANDING on the Vault table in Athens.)

Amanda is having a baby. She needs a good person to take over while she’s on maternity.

The term of employment is from July 1st, 2011 until August 31st, 2012. (Oh Canada, land of wonderful maternity benefits.)

Duties Include:

Coach developmental, provincial, national stream female, and high performance athletes

Assist in administration of the competitive program

Qualifications:

Coach must have proven experience coaching athletes of developmental, provincial and national level over a number of years

Minimum Level 3 NCCP
1st Aid/CPR
Respect in Sport

Submit your resume with salary expectations in confidence to:

Chris Baraniuk
Marian Gymnastics
343 Edson Street
Saskatoon, SK
Canada S7J 4C8

Email: chrismariangym AT gmail.com

Cats and rabbits can “cat twist”. Dogs and humans, not so much.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via io9)

by site editor Rick McCharles

RecGymnastics.com is a new site I’ve just launched. There are already 16 posts published.

“… where coaches, teachers, educators and program directors can discuss ideas, games, lesson plans, etc. … Everything non-competitive.”

Anyone can read and comment. But what we really need to make it take off is 20-30 experts who have “permission to log-in” to start new posts.

Here’s how it works for those who have “permission”.

Email Rick_McCharles@hotmail.com if you think you might want to be a micro blogger on RecGymnastics.

Of course you can subscribe to RecGymnastics.com by email or RSS.

A great rivalry.

Stanford is rocking, jumping from a preseason #6 ranking to #2 (behind Florida). And Kristina Vaculik has yet to make the big splash that everyone expects.

Defending National Champions UCLA, by comparison, have had nothing but problems so far this season, losing to #4 Utah and # 20 Southern Utah.

Miss Val chewed out the Bruins (VIDEO).

In that interview she tells that the Bruins will take a “skeleton crew” to Stanford.

Details on that competition – Go Stanford.

Click PLAY or watch a Stanford promo on YouTube.

Stephen Garcia will be covering this meet for Gymnastike.

Valentin Uzunov has just upgraded his The Gym Press site. I recommend coaches join that social network.

new URL – http://thegympresslibrary.phile.com

Valentin, now coaching in the States, is a great student of the game, collecting as many clinic videos as he can get.

That site links to books and videos. The best section, I feel, hosts the sport science articles.

It’s all FREE unless you decide to buy one of the resources.

The forum is yet to get going. The faster he has enough coaches join to gain momentum, the better.

The new site is a work in progress. Leave suggestions on their Facebook page.

… the “Tamayo” necklace from Mimi and Lu ! Symbolizing the 5 Olympic Rings, the first necklace will be part of the Silent Auction at this weekends fundraiser! After that it will be available for purchase and 40% of each purchase will go to Flip for Charlie.

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