16. März 2011  
Guatemala-City  
Artistic Gymnastics

FIG-Academy now in Central America after Malaysia

FIG College lecturer Hardy Fink (CAN)


In continuation of the FIG Age Group Project last month in Malaysia, the second course for the Central American Countries and the Caribbean took place in Guatemala.
A total of 35 trainers from eight countries - Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic - participated .

The experts of the FIG Trainer Academy, Joanne RICHARDS (AUS), Hardy FINK (CAN; < photo, left) und Dieter HOFMANN (SUI/GER) offered the participants the complex training- and competition program and talked about the various technical-methodical solutions to realise this preparation line.

35 participants from eight Central-American Countries
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In addition, lectures were offered on the topic of biomechanical supported solutions at simple and combined turning techniques in the long term preparation under consideration of the complexity at using elements of a modern training system and ist differentiated application in these countries.

Joanne Richards from Australia in action as lecturer

Dieter Hofmann, working with a proband

Furthermore, there were contributions and themes on the development of strength and on the necessity of choreographic training fort he preservation of the ’artistic’ in contemporary artistic gymnastics!

These courses are not only a matter of supporting the gymnastic preparation in these countries, but also a real act of solidarity because the initiators IOC and FIG bear the cost involved fort he participants. From flight to hotel.