Archive for July, 2006
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Friday, July 28th, 2006I’m at Borders Blogging finally.
I gotta get going with my business plan for Chumblers. com to see if it’s worth my time.
But I’ve been encouraged lately to go through with it from the comments I have gotten on
You Tube for my BackHandspring video with Dominique.
The viewer said: “you go coach that actually really helped […]
Well, I made it. From Movable Type to WordPress
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006Phew.
I copied and pasted every post. That was brutal. Give me a couple of days to post the videos and pics and I’ll start blogging again.
Thank you for your patience.
Coach Mack
Moving out of Movable Type
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006June 23, 2006
Moving out of Movable Type….
…and moving into WordPress blogging platform.
Movable Type is too hard for me.
I won’t be blogging much this week. I’ll be trying to migrate everything to WordPress.
If you would like, email me if you want to be notified of updates on this site.
Coach Mack
Posted by coachmack at 08:19 PM
Video: Going Long and creating targets for better back-handsprings
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006“Look between your hands”: Mack’s “Default Settings” for teaching the backhandpsring
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006June 14, 2006
Look between your hands: My “Default Settings” for backhandpsrings
Yesterday, I got into a conversation on tumble trak with an ex gymnast/ex college cheerleader and currently a cheer coach. I noticed immediately that she keeps her head in on her tumbling pass on tumble trak during her backhandsprings. I asked her where […]
Monetizing Coach Mack.com
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006June 13, 2006
Monetizing Coach Mack.com
I’m at Subway blogging. Starbucks is next door where my T Mobile internet access is coming from.
I was just thinking today about how to go about my websites coachmack.com, chumblers.com, and gymers.com. I haven’t been writing my business plan like I should have. Too many things going on.
I’m […]
Video: Mack’s Hollow Layout Drill
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006June 09, 2006
Video: Mack’s Hollow Layout Drill
The most common technique for doing the lay-out is to bring arms up on rebound and then bring it down in front of the hips keeping arms straight, fingers extended. And it’s how I teach it.
When you bring your arms down fast when in the air, at […]
Half- Rudi: Coach Mack’s Preferred Double Full Method
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006May 31, 2006
Half- Rudi: Coach Mack’s Preferred Double Full Method
For Cheerleaders:
Ok, so you have your full and now you want to step it up to a double full and impress your friends. What do you do? Just “pull harder” like everyone else says?
Well, there is a method….many methods, approaches, drills, and progressions that […]
Video: Keeping your head neutral to gain maximum height.
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006May 27, 2006
Video: Keeping your head neutral to gain maximum height.
When first learning to do the back tuck, many coaches agree that it’s best to just bring it over; To just get it done.
I’m a little different. I like to program good habits from the very beginning. I don’t always succeed but I […]
Going Long on the back tuck
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006May 25, 2006
Going Long on the back tuck
I experienced one of those moments again. The Magic; the astonished facial expressions that cheerleaders can’t seem to hide.
She had been doing two back handsprings in a row to a back tuck. She asked me to spot the first few because she said that “sometimes, I […]
Personal Training and The Coaching Revolution
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006Personal Training and The Coaching Revolution
I was listening to an audio interview on the subscription website, sportspecific.com. (By the way, Sport Specific.com is one of the websites that I want to model Chumblers and Gymers.com after). And the guy he was interviewing on there said that in the future, we might not […]
Spotting Deceptions
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006May 24, 2006
I was talking to Jason, a coach at a cheerleading gym. We were talking at Wendy’s and we got into the subject of how parents think that just because they see that their kid is being spotted lightly on a back handspring, they start thinking that their kid can do it by […]
