Overview

Sat, Nov.20, 2010 @ 9:00am / CrossFit Santa Clara / $100

Spend four quality hours at CrossFit Santa Clara with Coach Carl Paoli by learning how to apply basic gymnastics, acrobatic and freestyle movement to your CrossFit training program. If you want to increase your agility, mobility, and the versatility in your CrossFit WODs, then this is the perfect seminar for you!

This seminar is appropriate for athletes, coaches, and fitness enthusiasts at any skill level. You'll learn how to safely perform, coach and correct basic gymnastic movements in order to enhance your performance and reach your personal goals.

Learning Process

This seminar will be organized to deliver both lectures and practical sessions. Not only will you learn learn the foundational theories, but you will also get a chance to visualize and apply these concepts through active demonstrations. You will learn new skills from this seminar that are scalable and progressive, and Coach Carl will demonstrate these skills with safe, simple and easy-to-follow progressions that can be applied by anyone at any given level.

To get a feel of Coach Carl's instruction, check out his latest feature in the CrossFit Journal: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

Benefits

The goal with this seminar is to introduce you to the world of gymnastics and freestyle movement, and help to make it relevant to your individual training program. By understanding the foundation of basic body mechanics and applying these concepts to all aspects your life, you will noticeably enhance your performance at any given level.

Takeaways

You will be taught a wide variety of movements and techniques, including these and others:

• Strength and conditioning
• Hand balancing
• Rings
• Bar
• Basic rolls and tumbling
• Freestyle movement
• Trampolining

About Coach Carl

Carl Paoli is the owner and founder of Naka Athletics, based in San Francisco, CA. Naka is a company designed and created to specialize in Action Sports coaching. Naka focuses on helping freestyle athletes excel in everything from core basics to expert movements.

As a former competitive elite gymnast, Carl Paoli leverages his knowledge, experience, and expertise to invigorate the world of Action Sports coaching and athletic development around the world.

About CrossFit Santa Clara

Crossfit Santa Clara and Crossfit Mountain View are both owned and operated by Khalipa Inc. As a member of one you have the opportunity to workout at both.

Our goal is simple:

Develop and maintain the best possible training staff, facilities and programs available for those looking to increase their fitness and perform better.

For the last few years we have been working daily with hundreds of member’s, helping them to improve their fitness. Our member’s vary in type from those who have sat behind a desk for 30 years to active duty military about to deploy. We vary the workouts by degree but not type. The demands you have and the demands of a police officer do not change; everyone needs to be able to perform tasks. Our goal with these tasks, aka “work”, is to increase your ability to perform these tasks given any time frame and any type of task required of you.

Testimonials

"Had the pleasure of learning from Carl last weekend during the Mobility Cert. w/Kstar. I can't describe how beneficial it was to furthering my coaching knowledge. I didn't think I could learn so much about executing and teaching 'basic' moves like pushups and pullups much less stuff like freestanding handstand pushups." - Rob Mcbee

"Inspiring... Please bring in some more of the 'FUN PART'" - Andreas Diwald

"Wow - so excited I was nearly rendered incontinent

Starrett - Mobility - Maximizing available mechanics

Romanov - Skilled motion - Using available mechanics with assistance from natural world

Crossfit - Fitness - Training skilled functional motion over broad t&md's

Paoli - Transitioning - Projecting skilled functional motion into ADL's

I think I just pissed my pants...and love it! Can anyone say 'full circle'." - Jared Van Anne