Jozi Rhythmic Gymnastics

RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS

We provide a controlled, professional environment that teaches children to enjoy exercise and help them develop strong, healthy minds and bodies

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We Strive to help each gymnast reach her full potential and become the best gymnast she can be!Classes are taught by an experienced and qualified coach whose main concern is the safety and enjoyment of each child and optimising the learning opportunity of each lesson

OUR COACH

Shalene Raath
BA (HONS)Biokinetics , cum laude
Retired Protea Rhythmic gymnast and National Senior Champion
National High Performance Rhythmic Manager and member of the National Rhythmic gymnastics Technical Comitee
Gauteng Rhythmic Gymnastics Discipline Convenor

As a gymnast, I have enjoyed the benefits of personal development through movement at the highest level. I was a member of the South African Rhythmic Gymnastics national team for 8 consecutive years and have coached both provincially and nationally for 6 years since retiring as a gymnast at the 2006 Common Wealth Games.

I have been fortunate in my career to personally witness the joy and change that a good gross motor programme can bring to a child’s life. It is my dream and goal, as a rhythmic gymnastics coach and qualified Biokineticist, to provide as many opportunities as possible to as many children as possible, enabling them to experience their world, while growing, learning and reaching success through movement.

WHAT IS RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS

Rhythmic gymnastics provides a controlled, professional environment that teaches children to enjoy exercise, improve poor muscle tone, get rid of excess energy and aids in the development of strong and healthy minds and bodies.

Making exercise a positive experience is one of the best investments you as a parent can make. Give your daughter the chance to get a step ahead in life, by developing and exploring their huge potential through rhythmic gymnastics!

Rhythmic Gymnastics aims to develop all areas of gross motor development including the following:

* Improving a child’s posture and muscle control and muscle tone
* Body awareness and spatial skills
* Establishing dominance and laterality
* Promotes social interaction
* Improves bilateral integration through midline crossing activities
* Improves balance
* Increases integrated muscle coordination (Hand –hand, Eye-foot, Foot-foot, Eye-hand –foot)
* Improves a child’s understanding of speed, distance and space
* Increases attention span
* Teaches the child to listen and follow instruction
* Relieves excess energy through play and results in a more favourable attitude towards learning
* Builds Self confidence as well a self concentration

CLASSES

Classes are offered to all girls aged 4 and up, and the lessons are 45 min - 1hr in length for beginners and increase in length as the gymnasts progress. Classes are structured in such a way that no more than 15 children per class are taught at a time to ensure each child benefits fully.

The classes include the use of:

Music
Beanbags
Parachutes
Obstacle courses
Basic Gymnastic skills
All 5 rhythmic hand apparatus

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