Brisbane City Gymnastics Club
Brisbane City Gymnastics Club
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard"
- Tim Notke
General Gymnastics
General Gymnastics
Why Gymnastics?
Gymnastics is a sport for everyBODY, regardless of age, gender or ability. It is the perfect activity to prepare children for long-term participation in sport and develops vital life skills.
Gymnastics provides many benefits to children’s growth and development. The package of benefits offered by gymnastics participation can enrich and physically educate the lives of its participants in ways that are difficult to achieve through most other activities and sports (Sands, 2003).
Participation in gymnastics should be recommended as a positive foundational activity for school-aged children. Some of the studied benefits of participation in gymnastics are:
- enhanced development of fundamental motor patterns
- enhanced flexibility
- enhanced general strength and postural control
- ability to learn to jump, land and fall safely
- enhanced balance
- enhanced aerobic and anaerobic endurance
- unique long-term bone forming and strengthening advantages
- potential for enhanced cognitive benefits
- enhanced Task Mastery orientations
- potential for enhanced skill goal setting, team work and the ability to focus on tasks.
Young Achiever
(General L1-L3)
Age: 6+years
Class Length: 1.5 hours (For faster progression gymnasts can attend more than once a week)
Requirement: Previous gymnastics experience
This class is all about the fundamentals. During each 1.5 hour class our young gymnasts are facing a variety of new challenges on the gymnastic equipment. These gymnasts will have the opportunity to showcase their skills in an in-house carnival at the end of each year.
Junior Achiever
(General L2-L4)
Age: 8+years
Class Length: 2 hours (For faster progression gymnasts can attend more than once a week)
Requirement: Previous gymnastics experience.
In this class our junior gymnasts will work on key progressions on their fundamental skills as well as on some more advanced skills.
These gymnasts will have the opportunity to showcase their skills in an in-house carnival at the end of each year.
Teen Achiever
(General L3-L5)
Age: 11+ years
Class Length: 2 hours per week (For faster progression gymnasts can attend more than once a week)
Requirement: Previous gymnastics experience.
With physical preparation being the key to successfully mastering the more difficult requirements, teen gymnasts in this class will further improve their strength and flexibility allowing them to learn new gymnastic skills on the Olympic apparatus.
These gymnasts will have the opportunity to showcase their skills in an in-house carnival at the end of each year, and may be invited to compete in external invitational competitions throughout the year.
Senior Achiever
(General L4-L6)
Age: 10+years
Class Length: 6 hours per week
Requirement: Invitations only. Previous gymnastics experience to a Level 3-4 standard or have moved through our general gymnastics program.
Patience and a diligent work ethic are required to excel in this program. In this class our senior gymnast will learn more technical and difficult skills on the gymnastic apparatus. This class is the ultimate challenge for our senior achievers’ general gymnastic experience.
These gymnasts will have the opportunity to showcase their skills in an in-house carnival at the end of each year, and may be invited to compete in external invitational competitions throughout the year.