Former National Gymnastics Coach

Gymnastics Instructor Enrichment Training and Mentoring

Gymnastics Winners

• Not sure if you’re getting the best out of your kids in training or competition?
• Unsure if you’ve selected the right kind of child for high performance gymnastics?

• Parents giving you some grief?
• Not supportive enough…or interfering too much?
• Overprotective or pushy parents?

• Afraid you’re pushing them too fast to do difficult movements before the basics are correct?
• A particularly stubborn technical error you can’t get out of a child? [Throwing their heads back in a somersault?]
• Lost your twist?
• Want to know the drills and progressions and spotting technique for a movement on bars, beam, floor or vault?
• Losing your mind on a flyaway off bars or a combination on beam?
• Kids hating their strength or flexibility training?
• Don’t know how to “take the next step” in teaching a double back on floor or a release on bar?
• Competition nerves just get the better of your team? Kids do fine in training, but mess up in competition?

Or just needing an extra pair of eyes at your gym?

I would love to share my knowledge and experience with young, eager coaches who want to take their talented gymnasts to the top. I can help with:

• Talent Identification: Norms for selection and prognosis
• Nurturing Talent
• Testing milestones [drills and elements, conditioning and flexibility required at various stages]
• Training Load Tolerance: Long term periodisation [long term programme planning]
• Competition Preparation- macrocycle [3 months] and microcycle [weekly]  training loads and emphasis [short term programme planning]
• Specialised and general physical preparation- developmentally appropriate demands
• Implementing twice a day training- variable intensity and volume
• Technical preparation for advanced elements
• Coach mentoring and support
• Parent education

• If you’d like to know more, or just chat with me about your situation feel free to contact me.