This year’s one-day Conference and AGM will be held on Sunday 7th May at the Basin Reserve, Wellington. Following last year’s format, a one-day national conference will take place prior to the AGM on Sunday 7 May: Part one (morning session) will focus on finance including revenue generation – how to sharpen your approach; where to look; presenting to potential funders and creating a … Read More
New Regional Relationship Structure – February 2017
As the gymsports community will now all be aware, GymSports New Zealand (GymSports NZ) had a community sport funding reduction from Sport NZ last year amounting to $1.6 million through to 2019. This significant funding reduction has meant that GymSports NZ has had to make some changes to the Regional Relationship Manager (RRM) Team structure. Read here about what this … Read More
2017 WAG STEPs Update
The WAG coach/judge workshops will be rolling out across the country in March detailing the new WAG requirements. The aim of these workshops is to upskill Women’s Artistic Gymnastics coaches and judges involved with the WAG STEPs Programme at a lower and intermediate level. There will be two workshop sessions available; STEPs 1-3 and STEPs 4-6. The workshops will cover … Read More
Win a Waitoa Fundraising Pack for your Club
Our like-minded partners at Waitoa Free Range Chicken have $1,000 worth of fundraising meat packs to giveaway.  We are splitting these into 5 x $200 packs full of Waitoa Free Range Chicken product that your club can use as a fundraiser. Because we all love gymnastics and being outdoors, we want to see Instagram and Facebook photos and videos of you … Read More
Community Cabinet – 31 March 2017
In keeping with previous years, there will be two Community Cabinets held this year at two separate locations. The first Cabinet is scheduled to take place in the Midlands region, providing clubs with the opportunity to bring matters of importance to the GymSports NZ Board. The date for the Cabinet is Friday 31 March from 6pm – 7.30pm at Sport … Read More
Coaches Learn from UK’s Best – Eddie Van Hoof
Last month several coaches from around the country had the opportunity to attend a High Performance Sport NZ workshop with the UK’s head MAG coach Eddie Van Hoof.  David Phillips and Jarrod Heriot attended the Auckland workshop, and Toby Levine, Terry Walker and Paddy Kelly attended in Christchurch. An Olympic gymnast and Coach for 20 years, Eddie’s UK programme success was … Read More
2017 Trampoline National Squad Announcement
This year with the appointment of a Trampoline Gymnastics National Coach, we have the opportunity to expand on what trampoline has achieved so far. In developing the role description for the national coach we set a vision to “build a resilient and sustainable high performance program to deliver consistent world class performances”. As part of realising this vision will be … Read More
2017 Education Courses and Workshops
The Education department is humming, organising 2017 education courses and workshops, as coaches and judges start requalifying for the new cycle. The new 2017 Education Handbook and Course Costs have been published and registrations are open for courses.  All registrations must be done online – simply click into the relevant course on the Education calendar (also found as a drop-down along the … Read More
Judges Requalify for New Cycle
Over the past few months judges have been representing New Zealand at Intercontinental and International Judging courses around the world. All judges have to requalify due to changes which FIG makes at the end of each Olympic Cycle (four years). To undertake an international course, judges must have, at minimum, been at the highest level domestically for a number of … Read More
XTND – A Success Story for Clubs
The increasing number of gymsports clubs using the XTND Youth Leadership Programme are developing young people as coaches to support and grow their programmes. A record 245 young coaches were enrolled in the programme in 2016 with two new clusters in Central Otago and Dunedin starting. This number is expected to continue to rise over the coming years as more regions pick … Read More