Team Central Trivia Night

Team Central Gymnastics is hosting its annual Trivia Night & Silent Auction on October 22, 2011 at the St. Ann Community Center in St. Ann, Missouri.  Team Central is a 501-C-3 not for profit organization that provides various different opportunities for children interested in the sport of gymnastics.  They offer recreational classes to children ages toddler throught teen.  Team Central also provides instruction for competitive level team athletes who are striving for National level or collegiant level gymnastics.  Team Central is also home to the "Cardinal Power Kids" which provides instruction to children with developmental and physical disabilities. 

Team Central's annual trivia night & auction raises money to provide for the Regional/National travel fund, general operational costs as well as new equipment for all programs and gymnasts scholarships.

The Trivia Night/Auction runs 10 rounds of general trivia.  We offer a 50/50, silent auction, games between rounds, costume contest (Halloween) and LOTS of FUN!  The tables are $160.00 for maximum of 8 players.  The price includes beer, water and set ups.  If you are interested in attending Team Central's Trivia Night, contact Team Central at 314-291-0101 or visit their website at www.teamcentral.org to print the registration form.   It is sure to please all that attend. 

Our Staff is "Good For Kids"

How do we become "Good for Kids"? We take opportunities to feed our staff member's desire to learn.  By providing our staff with the means to learn in arenas such as training clinics, seminars and training videos we give them hands on experiences to develop and build on their teaching skills. This knowledge in turn contributes to our programs and the children we teach.

In the next few months Olympiad will be hosting several skill building clinics for our staff.  They will be focusing on the following:

• Tumbling progressions
• BHS diagnosis
• Vaulting skills & drills
• Handstands & progressions
• Cartwheel & progressions
• Spotting & drills for bars
• Beam skills
• Tumbling & trampoline

ON OUR WAY!  At the beginning of August, Olympiad Ellisville hosted a clinic that focused on tumbling progressions and BHS diagnosis.  The clinic also focuses on bars for the first hour and spent time on teaching handstands and progressions for handstands.  This was a great opportunity for the staff to learn basic skills as well as the progressions for advanced skills.

SKILL BUILDER CLINICS – Other Continuing Education Clinics being offered at Olympiad Ellisville

October 1 1:00 - 3:00

You will learn spotting, drills and stations for Bars.  We will go over reaching cartwheels and cartwheel progressions.

December 3 1:00 - 3:00

This will be a beam clinic.  We will also breakdown the backward roll for teaching and progressions.

February 4 1:00 - 3:00

We will use the full 2 hours on Trampoline and Tumble Trak skills and drills.

To learn more about Olympiad Gymnastics you can visit our website at www.olympiadgymnastics.org

SPECIAL KIDS NIGHT OUT

Olympiad Ellisville runs a lot of special events; from birthday parties on the weekends to Kids Day Out on weekday mornings.  We also have a Kids Night Out program once a month on Saturday nights where parents can drop off their kids, enjoy a date night, and we’ll ensure their children have a blast in the gym!

We recently ran an event that we were very passionate about and very excited to offer to the community.  It was different than our regular Kids Night Out’s – for this special event we wanted to honor a gymnast that we recently lost.  Macy Tolbert, age 7 passed away unexpectedly from suspected meningitis.  Macy, a triplet, took classes alongside her sisters Ella and Sydney, and we’ve also been able to get to know and love her parents, Shelly and Christian.  Macy's family has been active in our gym for the past several years.  The staff decided to hold a Kids Night Out to benefit Macy’s memorial fund.  Staff right away jumped in to volunteer their time, and we worked to secure food donations from the community so that all profits could benefit Macy’s memorial to assist with medical bills and funeral expenses.

Macy’s Kids Night Out ran last Friday, August 5 from 6-10pm.  We had 64 kids in attendance and a great staff that volunteered their time for the event!  The children enjoyed gymnastics rotations, group games and everyone’s favorite- fort building!  With great support from our customers and community, we were able to raise about $1500 for a great purpose.  Seeing so many happy and smiling faces running, flipping and cartwheeling was a fantastic reminder of why we do what we do everyday.

Olympiad would like to thank everyone who took part in the event!  Also, a special thanks to the Woodford, Duggan, Sabados and Bouras families for their donations of food and supplies.  Pizza Pizza was kind enough to provide us with some tasty pizza pies, and Gulf Shores Restaurant donated a very yummy salad.  We are incredibly blessed with a caring staff who gave their time on a Friday night for a superb reason: Kelly Blanner, Darcy Bates, Jamie Spies, Amanda Major, Morgan Kapp, Jennifer Duggan, Amy Bell, Will Stokley, Sarah Trice and Joy Ordaz.

View this very touching tribute to Macy Tolbert, she will be missed by many http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlKh36TYKQc

If you would like to learn more about Olympiad Gymnastics in St. Louis, please visit our website at www.olympiadgymnastics.org

Gymnastics Terminology

Gymnastics Term of the Week:  Compulsory Vs. Optional

Compulsory Routines:
Compulsory routines are routines where the elements/skills, music and length of the routine are established by USAG or FIG. All gymnasts competing compulsory routines must perform specified skills in a specified order. Compulsory routines is considered levels 1 - 6  & prep optional

Optional Routines:
A routine in which the gymnast may perform skills of their choosing under the constraints of special requirements. The skills can be performed in any order but must fit the requirements as specified in the FIG code of points.  Optional is considered level 7 and up.

Learn more about Olympiad Gymnastics in St. Louis.   Visit our website at http://www.olympiadgymnastics.org/