Daniela Nanova, former National Choreographer for British Gymnastics, is a popular clinician in the UK. She will also choreograph routines.
DANIELA has vast experience of working across all disciplines in the following areas:
Body Preparation and Posture improvement Flexibility training Ballet and Choreography Floor and Beam routine construction Dance and Movement skills
A 2-DVD set was shot in England by super video editor Charles Minister from Australia.
This is a superb resource for beam and dance coaches. And choreographers.
AUS $90 + $10 p&p + GST
UK £32 + £1p&p
Running Time: 3hrs
See video clip samples: Charles Minster Productions – Daniela Nanova
related posts – all videos by Charles Minster
Yet, at a course in Canada just yesterday, coaches agreed that dance — particularly ballet — is of decreasing importance in Women’s Artistic gymnastics. We would rather hire a strength training specialist than a dance instructor. For one thing, the ones we want to hire are too expensive. (How can I justify paying a part-time dance teacher more per hour than I pay my best coaches?)
Canadian clubs are scheduling fewer hours / week of dance training than ever before.
Sad, but true.
With FIG pushing difficulty at the international level, in 2007 skills are higher priority than artistry at all levels of competition.
Leave a comment if you disagree.
It was the first time ever that Valeri Liukin – one of the currently most successful coaches in the world – and Eduard Yarov , who was the coach of Valery to former Soviet times and helped him to do some of the most exciting skills in Gymnastics like the triple back somersault on floor, taught together.
One program that has survived and thrived is TOPs in the USA. (That’s surprisingly since it is so difficult to get American coaches to agree on anything.)
No wonder the Panda was chosen as the symbol of the 
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