Hi
I coach af family class. It is really fun and great exercise but not the least competitive. It is children (Boys and girls) age 6-12 with their parents and a relative large groupe (40 kids and 30 parents). We have 30 minutes warm up with fun games, acrobatics together etc. For the next hour the adults have their own fitness session while we coach the kids in gymnastics. We divide them in 4 age groups with 13 minutes on each station.
The stations are normally:
1: basic skills (rolls, cartwheels, handstands etc)
2: Tarzan circuit for conditioning. We create a really fun tarzan style circuit to give them strength. They climb ropes, different obstacles in the wall bars etc
3 and 4: different circuits with mini trampolines, air tracks etc where they practice easy saltos
My problem is to motivate them to learn the basic skills. We do not compete etc its all just for fun, exercise, strength and body awareness. But for many of them their basic skills are so poor that they cannot learn the saltos og hand spring they would like... we have really succeeded with making the conditioning Tarzan circuit highly popular and therefore also see great results. But many (especially the boys) find learning cartwheels, rolls and bridges boring and ‘Girl like’.
Does anybody have god suggestions for fun ways to do it we really have some kids where I think they could learn much more if they just crack the basic code
I coach af family class. It is really fun and great exercise but not the least competitive. It is children (Boys and girls) age 6-12 with their parents and a relative large groupe (40 kids and 30 parents). We have 30 minutes warm up with fun games, acrobatics together etc. For the next hour the adults have their own fitness session while we coach the kids in gymnastics. We divide them in 4 age groups with 13 minutes on each station.
The stations are normally:
1: basic skills (rolls, cartwheels, handstands etc)
2: Tarzan circuit for conditioning. We create a really fun tarzan style circuit to give them strength. They climb ropes, different obstacles in the wall bars etc
3 and 4: different circuits with mini trampolines, air tracks etc where they practice easy saltos
My problem is to motivate them to learn the basic skills. We do not compete etc its all just for fun, exercise, strength and body awareness. But for many of them their basic skills are so poor that they cannot learn the saltos og hand spring they would like... we have really succeeded with making the conditioning Tarzan circuit highly popular and therefore also see great results. But many (especially the boys) find learning cartwheels, rolls and bridges boring and ‘Girl like’.
Does anybody have god suggestions for fun ways to do it we really have some kids where I think they could learn much more if they just crack the basic code