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Title: KiDnastics - A Child-centred Approach to Teaching Gymnastics
Code: B33947
Author: Eric L Malmberg
Year: 2003
Length: 184 pages
Price: £15.50 
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Overview:

Kidnastics changes the way gymnastics is taught. It presents a unique teaching model based on the interaction between movement and the environment. Includes elements of traditional and educational gymnastics and focuses on how equipment can be adapted to produce difference practice environments. Includes 70 skills in the five movement categories of jumping, rolling, balancing, vaulting and climbing.

Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • How to Use This Book

    Part I. Understanding KiDnastics(r)

  • Chapter 1. Rethinking Gymnastics Instruction: How KiDnastics(r) Evolved
  • Chapter 2. Environmental Manipulation: An Approach to Skill Development
  • Chapter 3. Teaching and Assessing KiDnastics(r)

    Part II. Practicing Environmentally

  • Chapter 4. Rolling Environments
  • Chapter 5. Jumping Environments
  • Chapter 6. Balancing Environments
  • Chapter 7. Vaulting Environments
  • Chapter 8. Hanging and Climbing Environments

    Part III. Sequencing and Performing KiDnastics(r) Routines

  • Chapter 9. Ideas for Sequencing and Performing
  • Chapter 10. Organizing and Performing KiDnastics(r) Shows: A Culminating Event

  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • About the Author
  • Appendix: Task Cards


About the Author:

Eric Malmberg, EdD, has travelled the world studying gymnastics teaching and systems, and he has taught gymnastics at every level from nursery school to national and Olympic levels. He has coached four national championship teams and numerous All-Americans, and he has been named National and Regional College Gymnastics Coach of the Year many times. Malmberg is an associate professor of physical education and former department chair at the State University of New York at Cortland.


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