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Canada’s “Run Jump Throw” Program – Back to the Grassroots

Run Jump Throw Track and Field CanadaAthletics Canada is the national governing body of Track and Field in Canada.

Their Run Jump Throw program is a fundamentals program that teaches boys and girls the technical skill progressions for athletic events. The primary goal is physical fitness, health and physical development for children 6-12 years of age in Canada.

It is also a foundation program that all youths can benefit from with the basic skills of running, jumping and throwing, and designed to increase transferable physical skill abilities to other sports including soccer, football, and basketball.

In short, any sport that involves speed, strength, and agility.

The program provides individual assessment for participants and is a terrific tool for physical education, special education or adaptive physical education programs. Moreover, it is a great after school or Saturday morning program in which parents can participate as volunteer officials.

Every province has their own Provincial branches. More information can be found at Athletics Canada.

A 4:42 min video (352x 240) is presented here by the Alberta branch of the Run Jump Throw program :


The Run Jump Throw program – Click To Play

Thank you to Jimson Lee of SpeedEndurance.com for this guest post.

July 21, 2007 Leave a Comment

AT&T Home Turf – Behind the scenes with some of your favorite athletes

The Summer Olympics are just over a year away and the buzz around the hopefuls is already starting. AT&T; has dedicated part of their AT&T; Blueroom site to highlighting athletes on their”Home Turf” – including Olympic hopefuls Nastia Liukin (gymnastics), Marlon Shirley (Track) and Sanya Richards (Track).

AT&T Blueroom

In the Home Turf feature with Nastia Liukin, host Dione Sanders shows up at Liukin house in Texas at 7 am ready to go with Nastia to the WOGA gym at 7:30 am. We get to see part of Nastia’s training and lots of cheesy commentary from Dione himself, but really, the whole thing is very cute and my gymnast daughter loves it. It is almost worth watching just to see the gorgeous house Nastia lives in.

Another feature of the Blueroom is the Behind the Team series. The first episode is on TEAM USA Gymnastics and is called Heart of a Champion. It features some of the more well know faces of USA Gymnastics such as Mary Lou Retton, Marta and Bela Karolyi, John Roethlisberger and gymnasts like Nastia, Jana Bieger, Chelsea Memmel, Shawn Johnson and more.

I’m sure as we get closer to the Olympics we will get to see more athletes in action and more behind the scenes action.

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June 5, 2007 1 Comment

UK Athletics Kids Zone

I found a really neat site for kids who love sports today – UK Athletics Kids Zone. The zone is part of the UK Athletics site – the governing body for athletics (that’s track and field for those of us in the US) in the United Kingdom.

UK Athletics Kids Zone

Kids can play games like Long Jump, 200m Spring, and more. There are also screen savers and desktop art to download, athlete profiles, a quiz and more great resources. Check it out today!

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May 31, 2007 Leave a Comment

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