These 2 gymnasts can make any coach a proud coach - "your coach!"
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Zone VI DMT Snr Champions!
A huge congratulations to Jivanka Kruger and Reinhardt van Zyl for achieving this without having a Double-min trampoline to practise on!! Both showed sheer guts and determination that day.
Reinhardt van Zyl busy with one of his routines.
Jivanka Kruger going into double pike back (8 - - <). This was the last element of the 2013 Zone VI competition.
These 2 gymnasts can make any coach a proud coach - "your coach!"
These 2 gymnasts can make any coach a proud coach - "your coach!"
Monday, 13 January 2014
2013 FIG Zone VI Coaching Course/Training camp
During August 2013 the Trampoline
and tumbling section of the Namibia Gymnastics Federation hosted John Beer from
British Gymnastics in Walvisbay as presenter of a coaching course to Namibian
coaches.
Namibia has a total of 5 trampolines
ranging from Eurotramp to 1 Nissen trampoline.
All trampolines have the 6x4 trampoline beds and Walvisbay have 3
Eurotramps for the gymnasts to practice on.
Only 2 Eurotramps have the full specs regarding safety mats. The rest of the trampolines have make-shift
safety mats.
The coaches that attended were the
following:
V Kostin - Walvisbay, WBGC - Bulgerian
J Kruger - Windhoek, Excelsior - Namibian
E Burger - Windhoek, Intendo - Namibian
M Kesslau - Outjo - Namibian
Y Petrov - Outjo - Russian
Lesley - Walvisbay, WBGC - Namibian
The duration was from Monday 26
August until and including Friday 30 August 2013. The venue was the Jan Wilken Sport stadium
and each day the course took place from 08:30 till 12:30, and from 14:00 till
16:30.
The T&T section made sure that
all coaches received a manual that John send to the T&T section beforehand
to print out.
Below an excerpt from the invitation
to all clubs in the NGF:
“Please
be advised that John Beer will be coming out to Namibia as the expert
trampoline coach as part of the FIG Zone VI Training Camp being held at our
club from Monday 26 August until and including Friday 30 August 2013. There
will be only training for selected Trampoline and Double Mini Trampoline
gymnasts in Level 4&Up.
We are
hereby pleased to announce that John Beer of the FIG Academy will be presenting
a coaching course for coaches from the 26th August 2013 to the 30th August 2013
at the Walvisbay Gymnastics Club.
Everyone interested in attending this course, please send your details
to the following email address: xxx@iway.na
Each
prospective coach will be responsible for his own transport and accommodation
in Walvisbay.”
All level 4 gymnasts were invited
from all clubs to aid them as well and to prepare some gymnasts that would
travel to Sofia to attend the 22nd WAGC.
The main coaching topic was
trampoline basics and then we went further to show the coaches the step by step
method of teaching various double salto’s, with and without twists, and with
multiple twists. John Beer touched on
the DMT as well as some gymnasts that attended the course, only participate in
DMT.
The coaching sessions was attended
by all coaches each day and the amount of information transferred impossible to
measure. The insight i.r.o. trampolining
that John Beer transferred to the gymnasts was impeccable in the sense that
most of them displayed change behaviour in the positive after the first day.
The philosophy of John in respect of
coaching new skills to young gymnasts was widely accepted as good. His presentation was simple and basic, filled
with fun and the occasional humor was loved by all.
His saying “difficulty made easy”
made sense to all as he was able to connect all coaches through understandable
English and the occasional demonstration by himself.
His coaching on the analysis of
routines was very good, as well as how to build and analyse routines to benefit
the gymnast at the end.
Photos
of John Beer during analysis and with the group of gymnasts:
The whole course was funded from the Zone VI budget and my
sincere thanks to those people as well.
I can recommend John Beer for any such coaching courses due
to his immense knowledge, his easy way of communicating to different people and
coaching skills to adults as well as children of all ages.
Johan Kruger
President Trampoline and
Tumbling
Namibia Gymnastics
Federation.
NGF Council Meeting notice
Please be advised that the first council meeting for 2014 is
scheduled for 07 February followed by a Special AGA and Sports awards on the
8th February 2014.
Please note that all FINAL nominations for the Sports awards
are now due. Please submit your nominations to me or Meagan so that same
can be presented and final decisions made at the Council Meeting.
All section heads - please ensure that all trophies are
located and arrangements made for them to be delivered to either the Walvis Bay
Gym Club (Coast) or to Meagan in Windhoek. This is urgent.
Regards
Barbara Krauer
Secretary General - NGF
Zone VI 2013
Zone VI in Zimbabwe - December 2013
The Namibian gymnasts took part in the Zone competition in Harare in Zimbabwe last December from the 9th to the 14th of December. All sections were present namely: Trampoline and Tumbling, Women's and Men's Artistic, Rhythmic and Aerobics.
I have only the results of the T&T section available. All gymnasts did an excellent job and brought back to Namibia several medals. The T&T section brought back 16 medals, 6 Gold, 4 Silver and 6 Bronze medals.
The competition was organised fairly well with some issues at the last competition that were addressed to get the competition done. The results showed that Namibian gymnasts does not have to stand back for their counterparts in Africa. They all practice through the year and one word of thanx to all the coaches who have done a marvelous job of preparing their gymnasts.
The results for T&T are as follows:
| Zone VI Results / Medal count | ||
| TRA Jnr Fem | Individual | Team |
| M Lourens | Gold | |
| C van Zyl | Gold | Gold |
| C van Zyl (jnr) | Silver | Gold |
| J Kruger (jnr) | Gold | |
| TRA Snr Fem | Individual | Team |
| J Kruger | Bronz | Silver |
| TRA Jnr Male | Individual | Team |
| B Slabbert | Bronz | Silver |
| L Potgieter | Gold | Silver |
| TRA Snr Male | Individual | Team |
| R van Zyl | Silver | |
| V Ahrenz | Silver | Silver |
| Q Jacobs | Silver | |
| DMT Jnr Male | Individual | Team |
| L Potgieter | Gold | Gold |
| B Slabbert | Bronz | Gold |
| N Krone | Gold | |
| E Kesslau | Gold | |
| DMT Snr Male | Individual | Team |
| R van Zyl | Gold | Silver |
| H du Buisson | Silver | |
| Q Jacobs | Silver | |
| DMT Jnr Fem | Individual | Team |
| M Lourens | Bronz | Gold |
| C van Zyl | Gold | Gold |
| J Kruger (jnr) | Gold | |
| E Kesslau | Gold | |
| DMT Snr Fem | Individual | Team |
| J Kruger | Gold | Silver |
| TUM pre-Jnr Fem | Individual | Team |
| C van Zyl | Bronz | |
| TUM Jnr Fem | Individual | Team |
| C van Zyl (jnr) | Bronz | Bronz |
| TUM Pre-jnr Male | Individual | Team |
| E Kesslau | Silver | |
| N Krone | Silver | |
| G Cilliers | Silver | |
| B Slabbert | Silver | |
| Mini-Trampoline Male | Individual | Team |
| P Bruwer | Bronz | Silver |
| G Ciliers | Silver | Silver |
| A de Klerk | Silver | |
| Mini-Trampoline Fem | Individual | Team |
| M van Zyl | Silver | |
| M Slabbert | Silver | |
| C van Zyl (jnr) | Silver | Silver |
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