Gymnastics For Children

featuring Coach Amy Eggleston

What you'll learn

Learn essential techniques for pre-school through level two gymnastics.

Learn skills that you can incorporate into any practice

Identify areas where you can help the children to improve confidence

This program is ideal for young gymnasts, parents, or coaches

Requirements

No requirements of prerequisites needed for this course

Description

About the program: Gymnastics is a great sport for young children and can provide them with a wide variety of benefits. In this comprehensive program, coach Amy Eggleston teaches essential techniques for pre-school through level two gymnasts. The topics are presented in a fun and engaging way to keep young children interested and motivated. The children are encouraged to develop their basic skills in an encouraging environment. Among the topics covered are: warm ups, how to fall, skill progressions and drills for tumbling, balance beam, bars and vault. These skills are incorporated into two fun obstacle courses to build confidence and correct techniques, as well as improve strength and coordination. The gymnastic activities such as these help to develop cognitive skills and sportsmanship, develop healthy and strong bones by using weight-bearing activities which build bone density, improve flexibility, prevent diseases such as obesity and heart disease. Gymnastics is also fun and can help children build goals, routines, and is a great way to socialize.  This video is an excellent resource for young gymnasts, parents and coaches.About the coach:Amy Eggleston has been coaching gymnastics and has been a member of USA Gymnastics (USAG) since 1994. She is USAG Safety Certified, Professional Development Program (PDP) level one certified, Skill Evaluator certified and has been accredited by the Kinder Accreditation for Teachers (KAT). Eggleston coaches pre-school through competitive gymnastics and has coached numerous state champions, regional qualifiers and western qualifiers. She is currently the head coach of Ruidoso Gymnastics in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Warm Ups

Lecture 3 How to Fall

Lecture 4 Forward Roll, Straddle Roll and Backward Roll

Lecture 5 Bridges

Lecture 6 Another method to teach the Backward Roll

Lecture 7 Cartwheel and Roundoff

Lecture 8 Single Bar Skills and Drills

Lecture 9 Parallel Bar Station for Strength and Coordination

Lecture 10 Obstacle Course (Circuit Training) #1

Lecture 11 Handstand Drills and Progressions

Lecture 12 Balance Beam Skills and Drills

Lecture 13 Floor Balance Beam - Skills and Drills

Lecture 14 Vault Skills and Drills

Lecture 15 Obstacle Course (Circuit Training) #2

Lecture 16 Closing Comments

Young gymnasts, parents, or coaches