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Here I will make sure to post a picture of the month, a video of the month and a skill series of photos of the month to help with learning how to transition into and out of a skill.

Cancelled

Unfortunately due to low registration the Acrobatic Gymnastics workshop that was to be delivered at the Gymnastics Ontario Coaching Congress was cancelled.

So information that was going to be given out there will be given out here.

Gymnastics Ontario Congress

Just letting everyone know that there will be a Workshop for Acrobatic Gymnastics on Saturday, October 2nd hosted by Gymnastics Ontario as part of the annual Coaching for Coaches Congress. This year it will be held at the Futures Gymnastics Club in Mississauga. Please check the Gymnastics Ontario website for details.

http://www.ogf.com/events/details.php?event_id=2376

Don Holmes will be delivering the work shop from 2:00 to 3:30pm. The session is entitled "What is Acrobatics?!" The session will cover the Acrobatic Gymnastics levels being offered in Ontario as well as upcoming events and the development of Acrobatic Gymnastics. There will also be a coaching component with athlete demonstrators from the Oakville Gymnastics Club.

For news on upcoming events in Acrobatics keep checking this blog.

More updates coming soon!

Acrobatics Gala

The Gymnastics Ontario Acrobatic Gymnastics Gala will be held in conjunction with the Scarborough Gym Elites annual Retro Summer Trampoline and Tumbling Invitational competition this Sunday, June 20th.

I have attached the schedule for the Acrobatics portion of the event here as well as a map with directions.

We hope to see acrobatic gymnastics supporters at this event.

Remember next weekend Saturday, June 26th there is an Acrobatics Beginner Workshop in Port Elgin as well.

Good luck to all the performers at the Gala.

Spring Gala Performance Note

The next Gymnastics Ontario Acrobatic Gymnastics event will be the Spring Performance Gala to be held on June 20th.

The event will be held in conjunction with the Scarborough Gym Elites Retro Summer Invitational Trampoline and Tumbling Competition.

All the information is in the previous post and you can register with Doug Shirton at the GO office.

Hope to see lots of faces there.

Spring Gala Performance

FIG Level 1 Acrobatics Academy

Just to let everyone know that the FIG has posted that Canada will be hosting a Level 1 Acrobatic Gymnastics Academy August 3rd to 10th in Montreal, Quebec.

If you are interested please contact Gymnastics Canada attention Cathy Haines.

Some details are still being finalized but registration is best done earlier than later.

http://www.sportcentric.com/vsite/vnavsite/page/directory/0,10853,5187-188047-205269-nav-list,00.html