Gymnastics: Safety Basics for Instructors

Success in gymnastics starts with planning and knowlege and GYMNASTICS: Safety Basics for Instructors is the first step to becoming a gymnastics coach, to building teaching confidence, increasing your knowledge of the sport and most of all learning how to keep a gymnastics program safe. * Information is presented in an easy-to-read format that is a great introduction to important safety issues for the novice and educational reinforcement for experienced coaches! * Includes complete descriptions of gymnastics equipment and safety matting. * Illustrations and terminology for all the basic gymnastics body positions including a glossary of gymnastics terms that is one of the most complete in the industry. * Information on Lesson Planning, Spotting, Supervision, Basic First Aid, Legal Concers and many other topics! * This book can also be coordinated with the GYMCERT Levels 1 - 6 Coaches Certification books and online program information for additional knowledge of skill progressions, skill techniques, and training methods. The materials contained in this reference are to be used to provide a base level of knowledge about gymnastics skills, equipment, and safety training. The purpose it to help novice gymnastics instructors identify the potential safety hazards present in any recreational gymnastics program, and to help each instructor develop a commitment to continuing education and to aid in communication guidelines to students, parents, other instructors, and coaches, and program directors to help raise the standard of teaching in recreational gymnastics. Take this first important step on your goal to become a gymnastics coach. Gymnastics: Safety Basics for Instructors!