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Curriculum & Lesson Planning with Smart Moves- Clinic by Jeff Lulla

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Published on Nov 17, 2014

This is the same live presentation Jeff Lulla has delivered at the USA Gymnastics Regional and National Congresses, Gymnastics Ontario Congress, Alberta Gymnastics Congress and at the GymCon Conference in 2014.
Here, at a staff workshop hosted by Fun & Fit Gymnastics, with club owners and staff invited from other Southern California gymnastic clubs, Jeff explains the importance of using a progressive curriculum and creative lesson plans built online with the Smart Moves teaching system to make classes fun, safe and exciting.

New Skills Bell

How many of you use a cow bell to alert the entire gym that someone got a new skill?  My old gym had one; and to some degree, my current workplace uses one.


I don't know of any gym who has outdone this setup, however:

Here are a couple of other ways to use sound bells/buttons in a fun way:

Coach says, "Everytime a bell rings, a gymnast gets her tap swings."

Similar concept:

Club Promotion in the Age of the Internet

Thinking about this Twistars package, I wondered how many other gym clubs out there are actively taking full advantage of the internet and video-hosting sites like YouTube to help promote their clubs and generate some excitement.  Most gymnastics websites are dull and often not user-navigation-friendly.

When I was in college, we had nothing like the video packages they have nowadays for collegiate teams:

UCLA Gymnastics 2012 Introduction Video
Cal Gymnastics promo 2013
Stanford Women's Gymnastics 12/1/2008 Pre-season video 

Check out this promo for Southern Utah University Gymnastics who hired cinematographer Parker Walbeck to film and document their last season:


Now that is the kind of video that generates excitement and gets fans pumped up!

Christy Linder (who had a floor pass last year to professionally photograph the Bruin meets) has a boyfriend who is a musician and put together footage he filmed to his music for the Bruins.


Many clubs have dull promos; while a few understand how to inject life and excitement.

You don't need big-production budgets like the colleges to put together a nice video promo package.  Today's home computer technology makes it sooooo easy! 

And clubs should probably have several promos, hitting different target audiences, for different purposes.  Some promos should be a quick 30-60 seconds in length.  Enough to draw interest, without detailed, over-explanation.  Then for those with piqued interest and longer attention span, perhaps a more in-depth profile of the gym, with details on specific programs offered. 

I filmed and edited this unofficial LASG video:


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