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Two quick-tip sheets to teach and learn gross motor development skills
Print, laminate, and keep close at hand for a quick reference.
Bike Trainers
Are you an enthusiastic cyclist looking for a way to keep training, even on days when the weather doesn’t want to cooperate? If so, a bike trainer might be just the thing for you! Bike trainers are specifically-designed frames that turn regular bicycles into stationary ones. There are several types of trainers,Opens a new window each with different resistance mechanisms, from the most basic wind trainers to the more expensive and complex flywheel models. There is a trainer to suit just about every type of bicycle, including road, mountain, BMX, and even tandem. “Smart” trainers have the capability to sync to third-party cycling apps such as StravaOpens a new window, ZwiftOpens a new window, and TrainerRoadOpens a new window; the voice-over feature on a smartphone or tablet makes this workout option completely accessible by reading stats such as distance, speed, heart rate, and calories burned.
Links:
Introduction to Bicycle Trainers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEsFmYms5NU
Smart Trainers
Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind
Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind,Opens a new window by David Wanczyk, is the first book published about this remarkable sport. The book illuminates the sport of blind baseball to show us a remarkable version of America’s pastime. With balls tricked out to squeal three times per second, and with bases that buzz, this game of baseball for the blind is both innovative and intense. And when the best beep baseball team in America, the Austin Blackhawks, takes on its international rival, Taiwan Homerun, no one’s thinking about disability. What we find are athletes playing their hearts out for a championship.
Track & Field Video for Coaching Students with Visual Impairments and Blindness
Including Young Athletes with Visual Impairment in Track & Field is the third in a series of videos designed to help coaches, sports assistants, and parents with teaching strategies, modifications, and equipment adaptations.
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- Swimming Coaching VI
- Cross Country Coaching VI/
- Equipment Modification: Hurdles
- The “I Am” Challenge: Olympics/Paralympics
- The Current Status of Physical Education at Schools for the Blind in the USA
- Common Core Through Recreational Physical Activities and Poetry
- Team USA Mobile Coach App
- First International Blind Tennis Congress
- Teach Nutrition and Food Safety!
- Partners PE
- The Development of Blind Tennis
- The Importance of Sports Camps for Youth who Have Visual Impairment and Blindness
- Tactile Yoga Mat!
- Riding a unicycle!
- Tennis
- Yoga
- Conversational Jogging
- 30-Love
- PowerShowdown
- Adapted Obstacle Course!
- Adaptive Rock Wall Climbing