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1st June 2023
A guest post from Kath Maguire. Kath is the parent of one of our club’s gymnasts. She asked about doing some volunteering a couple of months ago and whether there was a course she could do. Here are her reflections from the day. “I’ve been thinking about volunteering for a while now but as it’s […]
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Physical Literacy/ Athletic Development: Vern Gambetta
“Paper is 1 dimensional; humans live and breathe in 3 dimensions”.
Vern Gambetta delivered the first lecture of GAIN V on the importance of Physical Literacy and how it underpins everything else we do.
(I know I have reviewed this backwards,but it also acts as a summary of everything I learnt this year).
Gambetta’s lecture emphasised the fact that the Human body is a self organising sytem that is capapble of amazing things: our training should reflect that, not inhibit it.
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