Campers are working hard in the gyms and having a blast with friends on the final day of IGC’s 2011 Thanksgiving Clinic. After a healthy breakfast of French toast, eggs, sausage, cereal, fruit, bagels and Danishes gymnasts went back to their cabins and got ready to hit the gyms. Everyone continued working towards their goals with coaches and rotating through different events in 45-minute intervals. There was a lot of great activity from beginner to advanced groups going on in IGC’s five world-class gyms: flexibility and strength, uneven bars, tumbling, parallel bars, rings, pommel horse, balance beam, vault and dance.
Before we knew it, it was lunch time! Grilled cheese, tomato soup, macaroni and cheese, salad with all the trimmings and cookies for dessert…mmm mmmm! Campers enjoyed their meals and headed back down to the Olympic Gym where Stephan Douglass held a short motivational workshop for campers. He asked everyone to get into groups and draw on a sheet of paper what they thought gymnastics would look like in the future. Maybe cabin two is right when they guessed the gym equipment would be floating soon! Stephan also talked to campers about focusing on their grades while they continue to work hard on their goals in the gym. He shared with them a few secrets on how to balance both their school work and their love of the sport.
Will we soon see a world where our gym equipment floats, the balance beam grows two feet longer and the audience sits right next to the apparatus during competitions? We’ll just have to wait and see…
