2010-08-19T12:04:00.001-07:00

Yup! Jeff Tucker is coming-January 29th and 30th- Mount Vernon facility for a CrossFit Gymnastics Certification. Add to your knowledge base and skill level.

Spend two full days with Coach Jeff R. Tucker and his staff of coaches from CrossFit GSX learning, practicing, and applying the basic elements of gymnastics. Whether you are a novice or accomplished CrossFit athlete, our coaching staff will teach you the necessary skills and drills for applying gymnastic elements for your workouts and personal goals.

You will also learn how to safely teach, spot, and coach correct techniques for the gymnastic elements taught in the two day speciality certification. The recognition of incorrect form and cues for striving for perfect form will be indispensable as you work on your own drills or as you seek to teach others.

Jeff R. Tucker - or "Tucker" to those who know him - is the CEO and co-founder of Global Sports Xtreme (GSX) in Ft Worth, Texas and he has a passion for teaching gymnastics. He and his staff will delve into basic and intermediate gymnastic forms in a lecture setting followed by practical application. Skills will be repeated until the student has satisfactory understanding of how to learn, spot and teach such methods safely. You will also be taught how to scale the movements until they become second nature. You don't merely attempt such moves, you LEARN them, and through repeated progression and persistence you gain great rewards.

Tucker's goal in this speciality cert is NOT to make you a gymnast, but rather toaid CrossFitters in using gymnastics for strength development, core control, and WOD progressions. Result: the CrossFit community will become more engaged in using one of the foundational blocks for CrossFit workouts - Gymnastics.

You will be taught a wide variety of movements and techniques, including these and others:

Parralette work - handstands, L--sit, stretching, core control, handstand push ups, scalability of basic and intermediate movements, spotting
Rings - support work, proper hand placement, L-sits, iron cross progressions, dislocates, presses, muscle ups and muscle up drills, self spotting techniques, kips, and conditioning,
Bar Variations - back levers, skin the cat, L-sit pull up variations, stretching, kipping swing, spotting techniques, bar muscle ups, scalability of all moves
Handstands - HSPU's, HS forward rolls, balance work, press to HS, L-sit to handstand, how to spot and scale this foundational part of the elements for WOD's and newbies. hand placement, core control, strength development
Gymnastic overview - We will have an in depth lecture and video presentation throughout the two days with detailed information and discussion on gymnastic elements and the best application for such drills in crossfit boxes and the community at large.

What do you need to bring? Athletic attire and an adventurous attitude! We look forward to teaching all comers and all skill levels how these foundational gymnastic elements will increase your strength, your flexibility, and understanding on how gymnastics programing is part of Greg Glassman's vision.

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