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Unlock your Potential with Gymnastics Direct Training Aids
Are you ready to take your gymnastics, cheer, or acrobatics skills to the next level? Look no further, because we’ve got you covered. Gymnastics Direct’s premium line of training aids is designed to enhance your training experience and accelerate your progress.
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Gymnastics State Events: April 2024
New month, new state events. Check out what gymnastics events are happening around Australia this April.
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Overcoming fear on the Balance Beam
Feeling fearful about the Balance Beam? We’ve got the strategies and tactics to help you overcome this and become a confident gymnast.
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Care Tips for your Gymnastics Equipment
Welcome back to The Gym Spot – your go-to destination for all things gymnastics! Whether you’re a gymnast practicing at home or a dedicated club owner, taking care of your equipment is key to keeping it safe and durable. In this blog post, we’ve got the inside scoop on how to clean, inspect, and…
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Club Focus: Ace Collective
Club Focus looks at the grassroots of Australian gymnastics, specifically the people and organisations that keep the sport ticking! This month, we welcome Ace Collective, a sports and aerobics club centred in the Newcastle & Hunter Region. How did your club start? As Sport Aerobics continues to grow in the Newcastle & Hunter Region,…
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Injury Prevention for Knee Pain
Did you know that our legs can experience 4-17x our body weight when we are tumbling or coming down from working on an apparatus? This is why it’s important to ensure that we monitor this part of the body, most especially our knees when participating in high-impact sports like gymnastics. For the final series…
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Injury Prevention for Wrist Pain
According to Physiotherapist Dani Davey, weight-bearing exercises such as handstands, bridges, planks and tumbling can cause frequent wrist pain in gymnasts, cheerleaders, acrobats and dancers. To prevent wrist pain or injury, it’s important that athletes work on their motion extension and strength exercises before doing any of these movements. The below image portrays the…
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Injury Prevention For Lower Back Pain
Introducing Dani from Edgeworth Physio! Dani graduated from the University of Newcastle in 2012, and and she works mostly with gymnasts, dancers, aerialists, cheer leaders and hypermobile people for when it comes to recovery from sports- and movement- related injuries, as well as provides ways in which you can prevent them. Gymnastics, acrobatics, aerial…
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How To Strap an Ankle using Rigid Tape
According to Nationwide Children’s, a blog written by pediatric experts, most studies show that using tape can significantly decrease the incidence and severity of ankle sprains. Besides the physical support that taping can offer to an ankle, taping can also increase proprioception (the body’s ability to know where it is in space) and helps improve…
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How To Strap a Knee: Rigid vs. Kinesiology Tape
In the second episode of our Strapping Tape Series, we welcome back Bri Ritchie, a Strength and Conditioning Coach and a Level 2 Sports Trainer based in Newcastle, NSW! Today, she will be showing us how to adequately strap a knee, with both rigid and kinesiology tape. To watch our first episode on how…