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While growing up in a family of ten children I had an abundance of early lessons in cooperation and competition. The dynamics of these two forms of interaction has been an interest of mine since early childhood. My mother used to call me her, "little peace maker." This early "training" in communication, later became an asset for coaching.
My family could not afford much sports tuition, so my after school activities included climbing trees or doing round-offs and front handsprings on our front lawn with the neighbor kids and my brothers and sisters. It wasn't until I was 21 that one of my brothers introduced me to coaching gymnastics. We bought a small gymnastics club for a small down payment and a big promise.
It was then that I fell in love with coaching and decided to make gymnastics the focus of my career. After more than a decade of coaching I have personally taught thousands of students and have managed three gymnastics clubs. Starting with that first tiny little club of one hundred forty students, to managing a gym with over sixteen hundred students enrolled. In my modest sized town I enjoy a sort of pseudo fame. When I am out and about children point me out to their mothers or fathers and say, "Look! There is that gymnastics man!" I think that what coaches have is better than fame, because we have a relationship with the people that admire us. Those children look up to us and we know them by name.
My success with developing gymnastics skill by developing the whole person inspired me to create gymnasticsman.com. I have had the privilege of training hundreds of coaches over the years and have created coaching seminars on several topics including gymnastics safety, skill development and student motivation. All of which are based on principles of love, respect and skill development.
The Big Book of Gymnastics Games was published to increase my ability to share the motivating power of gymnastics games for skill development with coaches world wide. It is thrilling to see my book shipped to places like Iceland and Australia.
I am inspired by the thought that through gymnastics instruction (and most any athletic instruction) you can teach more than athletic skills. You can teach life skills. Those are the kind of skills needed for the patience, endurance, perseverance, focus, balance and understanding it takes to have a good life.
My family could not afford much sports tuition, so my after school activities included climbing trees or doing round-offs and front handsprings on our front lawn with the neighbor kids and my brothers and sisters. It wasn't until I was 21 that one of my brothers introduced me to coaching gymnastics. We bought a small gymnastics club for a small down payment and a big promise.
It was then that I fell in love with coaching and decided to make gymnastics the focus of my career. After more than a decade of coaching I have personally taught thousands of students and have managed three gymnastics clubs. Starting with that first tiny little club of one hundred forty students, to managing a gym with over sixteen hundred students enrolled. In my modest sized town I enjoy a sort of pseudo fame. When I am out and about children point me out to their mothers or fathers and say, "Look! There is that gymnastics man!" I think that what coaches have is better than fame, because we have a relationship with the people that admire us. Those children look up to us and we know them by name.
My success with developing gymnastics skill by developing the whole person inspired me to create gymnasticsman.com. I have had the privilege of training hundreds of coaches over the years and have created coaching seminars on several topics including gymnastics safety, skill development and student motivation. All of which are based on principles of love, respect and skill development.
The Big Book of Gymnastics Games was published to increase my ability to share the motivating power of gymnastics games for skill development with coaches world wide. It is thrilling to see my book shipped to places like Iceland and Australia.
I am inspired by the thought that through gymnastics instruction (and most any athletic instruction) you can teach more than athletic skills. You can teach life skills. Those are the kind of skills needed for the patience, endurance, perseverance, focus, balance and understanding it takes to have a good life.
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