Friday, January 18, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
Blog 12: Third Interview Questions
Questions for Interview 3
1. What is the best way to prevent injury in an All-Star Cheerleading team?
2. How would you prepare your athletes in a way that would lessen injuries?
3. How would having a certified coach bring more safety into a gym's atmosphere?
4. How can fear, and mistrust introduce sources of danger?
5. Why should a gym hold safety workshops?
6. What role does stretching play in the preparation of an athlete?
7. What role does technique play in an athlete's preparation?
8. What role does strength play in an athlete's prep?
9. How would the surface cheerleaders use affect the safety of the athlete's?
10. What role does trust play in the athlete's performance?
2. How would you prepare your athletes in a way that would lessen injuries?
3. How would having a certified coach bring more safety into a gym's atmosphere?
4. How can fear, and mistrust introduce sources of danger?
5. Why should a gym hold safety workshops?
6. What role does stretching play in the preparation of an athlete?
7. What role does technique play in an athlete's preparation?
Follow up: How does one teach proper technique?
8. What role does strength play in an athlete's prep?
9. How would the surface cheerleaders use affect the safety of the athlete's?
10. What role does trust play in the athlete's performance?
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Blog 11: Mentorship 10 hours check
1. I am doing my mentorship hours at Starlite All-Stars Cheer and Dance Company in the city of Industry.
2. My contact is Grace Contreras, owner of the gym.
3. I have a total of 45 hours, with more to come as the season goes on. I will make more of a dedication to go, I missed 4 weeks due to work and other engagements with school.
4. The last 10 hours of service I did, I helped the girls clean up their motions, choreographed a dance for the boys on our team, I helped a stunt group learn and understand how to do a show and go, and I helped a girl on team black make progress in her back-handspring. I learned from my coaches that you have to be stern with the athletes to get things through their head, but you also have to be compassionate, supportive and relentless. Effective coaches never give up on their athletes, they possess an undying love for each and every one of them, as well as a huge amount of trust for them. These traits make an effective team atmosphere and a potentially successful outcome.
Mentorship Log
2. My contact is Grace Contreras, owner of the gym.
3. I have a total of 45 hours, with more to come as the season goes on. I will make more of a dedication to go, I missed 4 weeks due to work and other engagements with school.
4. The last 10 hours of service I did, I helped the girls clean up their motions, choreographed a dance for the boys on our team, I helped a stunt group learn and understand how to do a show and go, and I helped a girl on team black make progress in her back-handspring. I learned from my coaches that you have to be stern with the athletes to get things through their head, but you also have to be compassionate, supportive and relentless. Effective coaches never give up on their athletes, they possess an undying love for each and every one of them, as well as a huge amount of trust for them. These traits make an effective team atmosphere and a potentially successful outcome.
Mentorship Log
Saturday, December 1, 2012
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.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Senior Project Update.
MENTORSHIP
I have been looking into the way my coaches have been coaching and seeing the different ways to deal with athletes. I missed about three weeks of practice due to illness and various other things that took precedence. However, I was with the team before and on their first competition day November 17th. I was with the girls and two boys who are knew for the whole day. The competition lasted 8 hours. When it was time to warm up Anthony(teammate and fellow coach) took the team to go stretch and warm up before going on stage. The athletes were really nervous so we had numerous huddles with them to calm them down and pep them up. It was exciting to be a coach waiting for my team to go out there and leave everything on the mat. They got third place which the coaching staff knew would happen since we didn't push them to learn harder skills. After that day we decided they were ready for harder stunts and tougher handling.
I have been looking into the way my coaches have been coaching and seeing the different ways to deal with athletes. I missed about three weeks of practice due to illness and various other things that took precedence. However, I was with the team before and on their first competition day November 17th. I was with the girls and two boys who are knew for the whole day. The competition lasted 8 hours. When it was time to warm up Anthony(teammate and fellow coach) took the team to go stretch and warm up before going on stage. The athletes were really nervous so we had numerous huddles with them to calm them down and pep them up. It was exciting to be a coach waiting for my team to go out there and leave everything on the mat. They got third place which the coaching staff knew would happen since we didn't push them to learn harder skills. After that day we decided they were ready for harder stunts and tougher handling.
INDEPENDENT COMPONENT
After talking with one of my mentors, I have found out that the number of hours required before you can apply for USASF certification is well over 250 and I won't be able to complete that during this year. I will continue my mentorship which will help me work towards it and do whatever I can to get closer to being certified like first aid certification and possibly going through other companies to get certified to coach a highschool team by chance.
SCIENCE FAIR
I am going to begin conducting my experiment soon to start retrieving data and begin writing out my lab report. I will receive the Vernier force plate and all requirements from Pittman this week.
Friday, November 9, 2012
Science Fair Proposal
1. All-Star Cheerleading
2. Most athletes do not demonstrate proper technique or strength, usually resulting in injury.
"Some days in tumbling, we do not even do the skill they are working on. For instance, a back handspring requires strength in plyometrics, core, shoulders, hamstrings, and glutes, and the athlete also must know how to engage her head, core, and power bases. I have seen many people spend thousands of dollars on a back handspring when all they needed to do was strengthen their body appropriately and the skill would have been easy.
Athletes must follow progressions from A to Z to learn well and completely. Plus, it will keep them injury-free and psychologically relaxed. Conditioning is extremely important, so do not neglect it."
Love, Debbie. "Help! I'm A Cheer Parent!" Fortheloveoftumbling.com. N.p., 4 July 2010. Web. <http://fortheloveoftumbling.com/2010/07/help-i%E2%80%99m-a-cheer-parent/#>.
3. My Hypothesis:
If a spring floor is used, a cheerleader falling from 10 ft would not break their bones, contrary to on other surfaces.
4. I plan on testing the critical heights of surfaces used by cheerleaders in order to find the potential of bone breakage that would occur at or above those critical heights. I plan to use the vernier force plate to measure the force exerted by the collision of a weight and the surface I'm testing. I will take into account the height at which the weight is dropped, the velocity of the object before it hits the surface, the work done on the object, and the impulse, deformity or energy lost in the resulting impact. The tools I will use will be a meter stick for height, scale for weight, equations to find work done and impulse.By finding this data I can compare it to data found in different studies that give numbers for the force required to break bone and critical heights of certain surfaces.
5. Select one of the following Project Categories for your experiment:
Pharmacology
Physics
2. Most athletes do not demonstrate proper technique or strength, usually resulting in injury.
"Some days in tumbling, we do not even do the skill they are working on. For instance, a back handspring requires strength in plyometrics, core, shoulders, hamstrings, and glutes, and the athlete also must know how to engage her head, core, and power bases. I have seen many people spend thousands of dollars on a back handspring when all they needed to do was strengthen their body appropriately and the skill would have been easy.
Athletes must follow progressions from A to Z to learn well and completely. Plus, it will keep them injury-free and psychologically relaxed. Conditioning is extremely important, so do not neglect it."
Love, Debbie. "Help! I'm A Cheer Parent!" Fortheloveoftumbling.com. N.p., 4 July 2010. Web. <http://fortheloveoftumbling.com/2010/07/help-i%E2%80%99m-a-cheer-parent/#>.
3. My Hypothesis:
If a spring floor is used, a cheerleader falling from 10 ft would not break their bones, contrary to on other surfaces.
4. I plan on testing the critical heights of surfaces used by cheerleaders in order to find the potential of bone breakage that would occur at or above those critical heights. I plan to use the vernier force plate to measure the force exerted by the collision of a weight and the surface I'm testing. I will take into account the height at which the weight is dropped, the velocity of the object before it hits the surface, the work done on the object, and the impulse, deformity or energy lost in the resulting impact. The tools I will use will be a meter stick for height, scale for weight, equations to find work done and impulse.By finding this data I can compare it to data found in different studies that give numbers for the force required to break bone and critical heights of certain surfaces.
5. Select one of the following Project Categories for your experiment:
Pharmacology
Physics
Saturday, November 3, 2012
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.
(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.
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