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Registration now open!

Register here:

https://www.singaporegymnastics.org.sg/events/302616

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Overview schedule

See all daily workshop offerings from 9am - 1:30pm at a glance!

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RG apparatus workshop focus will be revealed after 17 Aug - have you voted yet?

For details about each individual workshops, scroll down below.

Got a question? Email in to sgoffice@singaporegymnastics.org.sg

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Sports Taping Fundamentals – A Coach’s Introduction

This beginner-friendly workshop introduces coaches and trainers to the essentials of sports taping, guided by a practising physiotherapist. Discover the different types of tape available, their uses, and how to decide when taping is appropriate, and when medical referral is needed.

Get hands-on experience applying tape to two common joint areas often prone to pain or injury, applicable across all disciplines. This practical session builds your confidence with basic taping techniques while emphasising safety and understanding your professional limits. Perfect for those wanting to add essential taping skills to their coaching toolkit.

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This year's theme:

Coaching for Impact, with a focus on building pathways through participant-centred practices.

Our themes over the 3 days revolve around:

Setting the Stage - Mindsets, Culture & Coaching Environment

Tools & Tactics - Coaching Skills in Action

Integration & Innovation - From Ideas to Implementation

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Developing quality pivots

Building on the insights from the balance lecture and grounded in ballet principles, this session will focus on turning ability and exercises designed to enhance pirouette technique.

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Meet our featured speakers for SG Coaches Congress 2025

https://padlet.com/sgoffice/2025-sg-coaches-congress-speakers-sd1zo0rfrdy0mqbf

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Training Progression for Dismount on High Bar: Flyaway to Double Salto

This workshop explores effective training strategies for male gymnasts aiming to progress from a flyaway dismount to a double salto on the high bar. Using video demonstrations and slow-motion analysis, the presenter will break down the key technical elements, common challenges, and step-by-step progression drills. Participants will gain insights into body position, timing, and rotational mechanics, as well as practical coaching cues to safely guide athletes toward mastering the double salto dismount. The session combines theory and visual examples to provide actionable tools for enhancing skill acquisition and performance.

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Tuning the coach’s eye and language through cross-sport practice

Led by an experienced coach developer, this session invites coaches to break out of routine, explore new approaches, and return to athletes with practical insights. Through hands-on activities and fresh perspectives, coaches will sharpen coaching skills that go beyond any single sport:

Observe movement with precision

Turn “feel” into clear, actionable cues

Experiment with feedback styles to empower athlete ownership

Reflect on your own coaching approach in a new way

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Self Determination Theory in action

The self-determination theory is a theory of motivation. This session will introduce participants to the self-determination theory and provide tools to help them apply the theoretical concepts to their unique training environments.

At the end of the session, participants will:

1. Know what the self-determination theory is

2. Understand how to enhance intrinsic motivation

3. Experience applying concepts from the self-determination theory into their own training environments

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Kicking off with Warm ups across all disciplines

This session will present warm-up ideas for recreational and elite gymnastics, tailored to age, ability, and goals. Recreational warm-ups will be fun, dynamic, and inclusive, promoting equipment familiarity, teamwork, and coordination for safe, effective training. In contrast, elite gymnastics warm-ups will be more structured and purposeful, designed to mentally and physically prepare athletes for performance training. These will include activities such as landing preparation, plyometric exercises, and full-body conditioning.

This workshop will present different ideas from the various disciplines and workshop participants, prepare to get involved!

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Expand your learning while banking CCE hours

(Up to 10 CCE hours when attending all 3 days)

Step 1: Join the action – register and be part of the SG Coaches Congress 2025!

Step 2: Check in at the event and share your thoughts through the post-workshop survey.

Step 3: Look out for an email from SG confirming your CCE hours (this will be sent after the Congress has ended – please give the team some time to verify attendance and tabulate the hours).

Step 4: Upload your CCE confirmation email to SportSync.

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Getting Started to Coach Online 1. Guides for Online Coaching Practice A. Quick-Starter Guide on Using Video-Conferencing Tools for E-Coaching
CoachSG has compiled a quick starter guide on available video-conferencing platforms that you can use to conduct your coaching online. Included in this guide are quick starter videos, features of the respective platforms and also price plans. Most of the mentioned platforms provide free features that are sufficient to kickstart online coaching sessions: Quick Starter Online Video Conferencing Resource for Your Coaching (A video on how to use the various e-coaching platforms can be viewed here)
B. Coaches Digital Curriculum Design Capabilities
Bringing our coaching online may seem foreign to most but it has many similar principles as coaching physically. This guide will enable you to prepare your online coaching sessions through step-by-step guidance and provides questions that you can ask yourself to ensure an enjoyable and effective coaching experience both for you and your athletes: Design eCoaching Session (A video on how to design e-coaching sessions can be viewed here)
C. Designing a Word Up Challenge
CoachSG shares the ways to record your videos and how to convert them into gifs so that you will be able to create your own Word Up Challenge:
Designing a Word Up Challenge (A video on how to design Word Up Challenges can be viewed here)
2. Online Materials to Supplement Your E-Coaching CoachSG YouTube Channel: Subscribe to us for an array of coaching videos that you can adapt for your online coaching needs
Follow CoachSG on Facebook & Instagram @coachsgofficial for educational posts and updates
Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) Online Resources for Coaches: There is a vast array of articles and videos that you can leverage for content to enhance your coaching and interaction with your athletes.
CoachSG Home-Based Learning (HBL) Videos: Each set of learning package for the various sport / activities contains a wide range of movements / skills that are building blocks for complex and advanced sport skills. They can be used individually or strung together in a pre-determined set or sequence. Engaging in the various sport/activities promotes cross-sport learning and training for all-round physical literacy. CoachSG HBL Videos Directory
Online Continuing Coach Education (CCE) Resources
NROC coaches may consider attending the following online courses to accumulate Continuing Coach Education (CCE) hours.
After completing each course, please upload (a) your e-certificate (if any) or (b) screenshot(s) showing that you have completed the course onto your SportSync account to claim CCE hours for the course.
For more queries, please e-mail sport_coaching@sport.gov.sg
Online Learning Resources
WADA CoachTrue User Guide
Other Resources
Workshop Videos and Presentation Materials from Past Continuing Coach Education (CCE) Workshops
Research Articles
Does Smoking Affect Exercise Performance?
Smoking’s detrimental effects on performance is well documented and we would like to share with you an article written by Dr Frankie Tan and Dr Abdul Rashid Aziz (Team Lead & Senior Sport Physiologist) entitled ‘Does Smoking Affect Exercise Performance’. The article pulls together the numerous research evidence showing the negative effects of smoking on sports performance, both acute and chronic.

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Developing Yuchenko on vault

This session covers effective methods to teach and refine the Yurchenko vault. Participants will explore step-by-step progressions, essential drills, and safety protocols to help gymnasts develop power, technique, and confidence. The workshop highlights common challenges and solutions to prepare athletes for successful and consistent vault performances.

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Athlete-centred Coaching

As gymnasts compete into adulthood, athlete-centred coaching is increasingly valued in gymnastics, with strong coach-athlete relationships and positive environments linked to long-term success. This workshop will explore the principles and benefits of athlete-centred coaching, personal stories and topics including age-appropriate communication, athlete autonomy, and building trust and respect to support long-term goals.

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Psychological Safety

What does psychological safety look like in sport and coaching? Through real-life scenarios, interactive discussion, and practical tools, this workshop expands on the understanding of athlete-centred coaching within the local context and how psychological safety isn’t just a “nice to have,” but the foundation for sustained performance, motivation, and wellbeing.

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Ballet techniques & artistry

Ballet training can enhance gymnastics performances by improving components such as artistry, flexibility, and control, which is especially important on events like floor and beam. Ballet training is renowned for supporting alignment and posture, key details that are often overlooked within the day to day of gymnastics training, yet especially important on events like floor and beam.

The workshop will provide practical examples and implementable ideas of core ballet techniques that can be used to encourage artistry, flexibility. The workshop will also focus on drills to support leaps, jumps, spins, and overall postural presentation.

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Core stability and balance training techniques

Rooted in ballet technique, current trends in Rhythmic Gymnastics, and a progressive approach to learning body difficulties, this workshop will focus on floor work, targeted physical preparation for balances both on the barre and in the center, and explore effective methods for developing balance skills.

The workshop will also address when and how to incorporate training tools—such as weights, elastic bands, balance boards, and other equipment—into daily preparation routines.

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Starting strength and weightlifting for growing WAG gymnasts

For novice gymnasts, maintaining a certain body posture (known as 'shaping') is a significant achievement in itself. From there, the athlete's body is slowly but surely prepared to withstand greater loads. The next step is to incorporate weightlifting into the weekly programme.

In this workshop, the pros and cons will be discussed and to ensure the added training supports long-term athlete development without compromising safety.

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Strength training for growing MAG gymnasts

This session will present evidence-based methods to introduce and progress strength training for boys aged 10–12 in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics. Participants will learn about different types of muscular strength, key neural and muscular adaptations, and how to align training loads with the athlete’s growth and maturation. The session highlights safe progression, long-term athlete development, and how to maximise performance without compromising safety.

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Periodisation for every gymnast

This workshop introduces coaches to the principles of athletic periodisation tailored to gymnastics, covering skill/motor-control progression, coordinated strength and conditioning, and age‑appropriate planning.

This session is applicable to all disciplines and coaches will be provided practical examples and collaborative work to design a 4-week training block for athletes ranging from developmental to senior levels.

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Beam 'complex' ideas & sets

In this session, Kelly and Claudia will share practical examples of their experience of complex work with the aim of building stability and confidence on beam. The session will concentrate on elements that support improving body posture, hip alignment and ankle stability. They will also share drill sets for leaps, dance elements and acrobatic series.

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We will be bringing in this big red thing aka The Rig to congress!

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Trampoline Rig for Coaches

Boost your coaching toolkit with the skills and safety know-how to work confidently with trampoline rigs. Learn essential do’s and don’ts, understand safe rig operation, and discover how rig use can enhance athlete training and progression.

Then, experience the rig yourself—securely harnessed and guided by experts.

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RG Apparatus workshop #1 - HOOP

This is a BYO (Bring-Your-Own) apparatus workshop!

Workshop details coming soon!

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Pressure training ideas

Effective competition prep is key to helping gymnasts feel confident and ready to perform. This session explores strategies like pressure training and team-based activities, with Kelly and Claudia sharing personal examples of what boosted or hindered their performance. Besides providing examples of positive preparation, as well as instances of negative build-ups that could impact competition experience. They'll also discuss the differences in their individual approaches, highlighting what worked for one did not necessarily work for the other.

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MAG CoP 2025-2028 - Changes that impact daily training and performance

From old code to new cycle, the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Code of Points (CoP) has undergone notable updates. While the overall framework remains familiar to coaches, several key adjustments for the 2025–2028 cycle will influence how routines are built, judged, and trained. In this focused sharing session, attendees will gain clarity on what’s new, why it matters, and how to adapt coaching strategies to maximise scoring potential under the updated rules.

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Rhythmic Gymnastics Skills from a Judging Perspective

Gain insider insights into rhythmic gymnastics difficulty skills in this practical workshop led by our FIG Brevet Judge. Discover what international judges look for during competitions and learn practical tips to refine techniques and enhance performance.

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Working on Bars

This practical session will focus on providing targeted strength and conditioning exercises and skill specific drills to support the progression of giant half turns, full turns and front giants, as well as toe-on shoots to the high bar.

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Coaching Doubles & Twists – Trampoline Techniques for All Coaches

Take a deep dive into doubles and twisting skills with guidance from a performance trampoline coach. This interactive workshop covers key mechanics, progressive drills, safety best practice, and common error fixes, giving you practical tools to develop athletes at any stage. Whether you’re from artistic gymnastics, trampoline, or another acrobatic discipline, you’ll leave with adaptable techniques to sharpen performance and build confidence in complex rotations.

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RG Apparatus workshop #2 - RIBBON

This is a BYO (Bring-Your-Own) apparatus workshop!

Workshop details coming soon

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Pommel Horse Development: Foundation to Performance

This session guides coaches through the pathway of Pommel Horse development, from establishing strong foundational skills to achieving high-level performance. Participants will explore key physical preparation, shaping, and technical drills that build efficiency, rhythm, and confidence. The workshop will address common errors, strategic progressions, and conditioning elements specific to Pommel Horse, ensuring athletes develop the strength, coordination, and endurance required for consistent, world-class routines.

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