FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DE GYMNASTIQUE
FIG Age Group Development Program (MAG & WAG)
Another very large and very important program
has been added in the past two years. It is the
completion of an Age Group Program for Men's
and Women's Artistic Gymnastics: Specifically
a comprehensive Competition Program and a
Technical and Physical Testing and Monitoring
Program for developing countries. The
Competition Program includes a participation
stream and a high-performance stream of
multi-level compulsories and modified age
group rules for all levels of males and females.
The program was completed with the financial assistance of the IOC and includes complete
manuals for MAG and WAG available in three languages English, French, and Spanish.
Three-day introductory camps were held in five regions of the world during 2011 and 2012. These
were:
South-East Asia (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Central-America (Guatemala city, Guatemala)
Southern Africa (Pretoria, South Africa)
Central Africa (Thiès, Senegal)
Western Asia (Doha, Qatar).
This program has now been introduced to 32 federations and 128 of their coaches.
The future intention beginning in late 2012 is to provide annual five-day monitoring and training
camps under the supervision of FIG experts for each federation that commits to implement the
program.
Olympic Solidarity and Continental Training Camps (all disciplines)
The FIG Academy Program staff met with
officials from the IOC Olympic Solidarity
Program to explore ways that these two
programs could be coordinated. The
meeting was very positive and for the most
part, Olympic Solidarity experts are now
appointed from among the academy experts
and the curriculum of the OS courses now
more closely follows the academy
curriculum rather than being haphazard and
random as it had been in the past.
The FIG Academy Program has also helped some of the Continental Unions in staffing, organizing
and focusing the training camps that are funded through the FIG Development Funds. This is
another way that the content and focus of coach education is becoming more consistent worldwide
so that the FIG "message" of safe and healthy and systematic training of gymnasts towards
excellence will become universal.
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