Focused Courses Created just for you!
Skill Specific Courses
Tower Hill Primary School, Witney, OX28 6NB
Focused Courses Created just for you!
Skill Specific Courses
Tower Hill Primary School, Witney, OX28 6NB
At North Oxford Gymnastics Club, we have created a number of skill specific courses to help gymnasts achieve and focus on specific goals. Meaning they can add extra attention or focus onto the specific skills or interests they are currently aiming to achieve. These courses are ideal to go alongside their current classes either at our club or another local one.
Summer Term Part 1 Courses
Selection of 3-6 week courses • Limited spaces available • from 17th April - 25th May 2023
All Ages Flexibility Course – Tuesdays 7.15-8.15pm
- 6 Weeks in this course
- Focuses on Increasing all around flexibility
- Level: Beginner, intermediate & Advanced
- Most suitable from age 7+
- Coaches: Coach Sammy, Coach Lily & Coach Mel
- Requirements: There are no specific minimum requirements for this course it is open to all levels and abilities from beginner to advanced.
Dates
- 20th April 2023 (Thurs)
- 27th April 2023 (Thurs)
- 04th May 2023 (Thurs)
- 11th May 2023 (Thurs)
- 18th May 2023 (Thurs)
- 25th May 2023 (Thurs)
Handstand Technique and variations course – Thursdays 7.15-8.15pm
- 6 Weeks in this course
- Focuses on teaching the correct technique and building strength and awareness of the correct muscle groups and flexibility ranges in order to perform handstands well.
- Level: Beginner, intermediate & Advanced
- Most suitable from age 7+
- Coaches: Coach Sammy, Coach Lily & Coach Mel
- Requirements: This course is ideal for those who can already weight bear on their hands are are working towards one of the following goals:
- Kick up to handstand (perhaps you are struggling to reach the full handstand)
- Wanting to balance longer in your handstand
- Wanting to hold your handstand consistently and securely
- Wanting to develop and work on new handstand shapes
Dates
- 20th April 2023 (Thurs)
- 27th April 2023 (Thurs)
- 04th May 2023 (Thurs)
- 11th May 2023 (Thurs)
- 18th May 2023 (Thurs)
- 25th May 2023 (Thurs)
Back Handsprings Course- Saturdays 1-3pm
- 6 Weeks in this course
- Focuses on skills and drills to assist achieving the back handspring. the course will include conditioning and shaping to help achieve the correct technique for safe back handsprings. Or to encourage and teach better technique and shaping for those wishing to improve on their current back handspring
- Level: intermediate & Advanced
- Most suitable from age 7+
- Coaches: Coach Alex & Coach Lucy
- Requirements:
- You must already be training this skill within your current gymnastics setting.
- Have a good understanding of Dish and Arch shaping
- Already be able to bridge kick over or backwards walkover
Dates
- 22nd April 2023 (Sat)
- 29th April 2023 (Sat)
- 06th May 2023 (Sat)
- 13th May 2023 (Sat)
- 20th May 2023 (Sat)
- 27th May 2023 (Sat)
Blox and Hand Balancing course – Sundays 2.15-4pm
- 3 Weeks in this course (Due to lots of bank holiday weekends
- Straddle lever
- Pike Lever
- Russian lever
- Crocodile
- 2 on 2 Levers
- Straddle ups
- HandstandsThis course is ideal for Gymnasts wishing to work on developing their strength and flexibility to help them gain stronger and easier hand balancing and Blox skills, the course will help develop a range of hand balancing skills on the floor and blox such as;
- Level: Intermediate & Advanced
- Most suitable from age 7+ (& any members of our Mini talent teem)
- Coaches: Coach Sammy, Coach Lily & Coach Mel
Dates
- 23rd April 2023 (Sun)
- 14th May 2023 (Sun)
- 21st May 2023 (Sun)
Summer Term Part 2 Courses
Selection of 6-7 week courses • Limited spaces available • from 5th June - 23rd July 2023
All Ages Flexibility Course – Tuesdays 7.15-8.15pm
- 7 Weeks in this course
- Focuses on Increasing all around flexibility
- Level: Beginner, intermediate & Advanced
- Most suitable from age 7+ (& under 7’s in our Mini talent /squad teams)
- Coaches: Coach Sammy, Coach Lily & Coach Mel
- Requirements: There are no specific minimum requirements for this course it is open to all levels and abilities from beginner to advanced.
Dates
- 6th June 2023 (Tues)
- 13th June 2023 (Tues)
- 20th June 2023 (Tues)
- 27th June 2023 (Tues)
- 4th July 2023 (Tues)
- 11th July 2023 (Tues)
- 18th July 2023 (Tues)
Handstand Technique and variations course – Thursdays 7.15-8.15pm
- 7 Weeks in this course
- Focuses on teaching the correct technique and building strength and awareness of the correct muscle groups and flexibility ranges in order to perform handstands well.
- Level: Beginner, intermediate & Advanced
- Most suitable from age 7+ (& under 7’s in our Mini talent /squad teams)
- Coaches: Coach Sammy, Coach Lily & Coach Mel
- Requirements: This course is ideal for those who can already weight bear on their hands are are working towards one of the following goals:
- Kick up to handstand (perhaps you are struggling to reach the full handstand)
- Wanting to balance longer in your handstand
- Wanting to hold your handstand consistently and securely
- Wanting to develop and work on new handstand shapes
Dates
- 8th June 2023 (Thurs)
- 15th June 2023 (Thurs)
- 22nd June 2023 (Thurs)
- 29th June 2023 (Thurs)
- 6th July 2023 (Thurs)
- 13th July 2023 (Thurs)
- 20th July 2023 (Thurs)
Back Handsprings Course- Saturdays 1-3pm
- 6 Weeks in this course
- Focuses on skills and drills to assist achieving the back handspring. the course will include conditioning and shaping to help achieve the correct technique for safe back handsprings. Or to encourage and teach better technique and shaping for those wishing to improve on their current back handspring
- Level: intermediate & Advanced
- Most suitable from age 7+ (& under 7’s in our Mini talent /squad teams)
- Coaches: Coach Alex & Coach Lucy
- Requirements:
- You must already be training this skill within your current gymnastics setting.
- Have a good understanding of Dish and Arch shaping
- Already be able to bridge kick over or backwards walkover
Dates
- 10th June 2023 (Sat)
- 17th June 2023 (Sat)
- 24th June 2023 (Sat)
- 1st July 2023 (Sat)
- 8th July 2023 (Sat)
- 22nd July 2023(Sat)
NO SESSION ON 15TH JULY 2023
Bars specific skills Course- Saturdays 3-4.30pm
- 6 Weeks in this course
- Our Gymnasts are always asking for more time on Bars, So we have created its own programme to allow those students that LOVE bars to have some additional time to focus on these apparatus offering a course specific to this, 1.5 hours a week for 6 weeks, helping them move more skills onto this apparatus faster.
- Level: Beginner, intermediate & Advanced
- Most suitable from age 7+ (& under 7’s in our Mini talent /squad teams)
- Coaches: Coach Alex & Coach Lucy
Dates
- 10th June 2023 (Sat)
- 17th June 2023 (Sat)
- 24th June 2023 (Sat)
- 1st July 2023 (Sat)
- 8th July 2023 (Sat)
- 22nd July 2023(Sat)
NO SESSION ON 15TH JULY 2023
Blox and Hand Balancing course – Sundays 2.15-4pm
- 7 Weeks in this course (Due to lots of bank holiday weekends
- Straddle lever
- Pike Lever
- Russian lever
- Crocodile
- 2 on 2 Levers
- Straddle ups
- HandstandsThis course is ideal for Gymnasts wishing to work on developing their strength and flexibility to help them gain stronger and easier hand balancing and Blox skills, the course will help develop a range of hand balancing skills on the floor and blox such as;
- Level: Intermediate & Advanced
- Most suitable from age 7+ (& under 7’s in our Mini talent /squad teams)
- Coaches: Coach Sammy, Coach Lily & Coach Mel
Dates
- 11th June 2023 (Sun)
- 18th June 2023 (Sun)
- 25th June 2023 (Sun)
- 2nd July 2023 (Sun)
- 9th July 2023 (Sun)
- 16th July 2023 (Sun)
- 23rd July 2023 (Sun)
Spring Half-Term Camp
Date: 13-16th February 2023
Time: 9am – 3pm
Coaches: Coach Sammy & Coach Lily
