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Blog 19: Senior Project and ESLR's

1. I would have to say I have excelled at the autonomy ESLRs

2. I constantly take responisibilty of my own learning when it comes to my topic. I have spent an immense amounts of hours at my gym learning from my coaches/mentors, and actually coaching one of the teams! I am very proud of myself for taking over responsibilities like this and I know that they will pay off in my Senior Project.

 3. Proof:

Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. What is the best way to prevent injury as an All-Star Cheerleader?

2. One of the best ways to prevent injury as an All-Star Cheerleader is to demonstrate proper technique.

3.  

1. Technique is how your muscles learn a skill so well that the athlete will be able to perform it without thinking.
2. Having technique drilled upon training, an athlete will perform a skill correctly, absent mistakes, meaning that injury potential will seriously be reduced.
3. When an athlete is fatigued in their routine and can hardly think of what they are doing next, technique carries them through it and allows them to perform everything correctly and safely due to muscle memory.

4. My mentor Jason Brandt and readings from Debbie Love. Debbie love is one of the most decorated Cheer/ Gymnastic coaches because of her strive for perfect technique.

5. I plan to study the effectiveness of coaching technique, and different ways to teach it, also ways to absorb the information.


MAXIMUM TIME FOR EACH PRESENTATION IS 2 MINUTES.

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1.  What is the best way to prevent injury as an All-Star Cheerleader?
2.  Another way to prevent injury as an All-Star Cheerleader is to make sure you possess the strength to perform the tasks you are asked to do.
3.

1. If you are not strong enough to support your body weight, you will fall in your tumbling and get hurt. 
2. If you do not have enough stamina to hold your stunt in the air you can drop your flyer and she can get hurt. 
3. If your muscles are not strong enough and you overwork them you can produce long term damage to the fibers. 

4.  My mentor and Coach Jason Brandt help me come to this answer from the lectures he has given during practice.

5.  I plan to further my study of my answer two by understanding how to increase muscle strength, stamina and resistance to injury through workout and eating right. I plan to look into how specific workouts can increase large muscle groups.

Blog 10 Senior Project Update

(1) Currently I am doing the only thing I can do for my independent component and that is continuing my mentorship and coaching a team. I have been looking up courses I can take along with my mentorship to become safety certified and they are very expensive. The one I need is $110 and it it only 3 and a half hours long. I found another course that is 45 dollars and it is a certification through the National Federation of State High School Associations. It too is online and only requires a couple hours. I need some consulting, I'll set up a meeting with Pittman this week.

(2) (Sticks and Stones Will Break That Bone! - Activity - www.TeachEngineering.org) I found this project and it interested me quite a bit, I might add this to my science fair to test bones. I'll go to a butcher's shop and ask for some pig bones since their physiology is closest to a human's. I will apply pressure and test the bones to their breaking points and record the amount of force it took. This lesson as given me new ideas of how to use the force plate to get even more data. I am very excited to begin my procedures.

(3) This is my team, Starz Pink. I coach them nearly every Friday and Saturday for about 2-3 hours. This team has improved so much since they started and we got two boys! I'm very excited for the rest of the season and I already love every one of them. I have learned ways to connect with the team and communicate with them properly. Through my research I have become a better coach and I have actually helped some of them!

Blog 9

(1) What is the best way to prevent injury in an All-Star Cheerleading team?
(2) I am not going to revise my EQ at this time
(3) Possible answers are stretching, strengthening, proper technique, safe environment, and certified coaches with experience.

Allstar Cheerleading

A.

 My topic is Allstar Cheerleading, but more specifically it is getting your team to have the work ethic of champions. After a lot of thought and time, I figured it would provide me with a wide enough scope for research as well as interviews. I would like to use the team I am currently on as an example, because of how far we have come in the past 2 seasons. Ever since our current coaches started we have become one of the greatest teams in our area. I truly believe that the team has developed a champion's work ethic is due to the coaches influence. I believe understanding how this happens, will make not only my work ethic, but the work ethic of any teams I coach in the future.

B.

iPoly Citizen:  I plan to understand the way the coaches expect constant attendance, as well as the athletes being on time as there is always a constant deadline approaching for when certain skills need to be achieved. I plan to show how the coaches require everyone to be respectful to one another and maintain a team environment to ensure success. Learning these things will improve the way I interact with people at iPoly and make sure I maintain attendance as well as adherence to deadlines. Which will make me a better iPoly citizen.

Effective Communicator:  I plan to observe the way the coaches speak to the athletes, taking into account their diction as well as the changes in tone. I will strive to understand the way they listen to the athletes to better understand the issues presented. I will examine the way the coaches inspire the team to work interdependently at every aspect of the routine to present an astonishing product. This will make me more effective as a learner because it will allow me to apply these things in my own actions and severely improve the way I handle things, rely on people, and speak to them.

Effective Learner:  I plan to observe the way the athletes take it upon themselves to learn the things they need to without being instructed, and I will pay attention to how the coaches encourage that. I will also watch the coaches as they express their creativity when teaching choreography to the athletes and asking us what should be in the routine. This will make me a better learner because it will instill in me the will to learn the things I don't already know and ask for help when it is needed. It will also help me release the creativity within myself which will allow me to present products I am proud of.

Effective User of Technology: I plan to observe the coaches' and athletes' use of technology to study their sport and learn new skills. I will use technology to present the skills I can't show and techniques which will help me coach. I will find ways of coaching, or teaching athletes vital skills using technology that will open their eyes in a new way. This will make me a better learner because I will be able to show new ways of learning and coaching using technology.