December 2016 Volume 2, Issue 12 Inside this issue: Feature Coach 2 Feature Gymnasts 3 Save the Date 4 Meet Scores 5-6 Reminders, GFD, Homeschool 9 Powerhouse Gymnastics News Bring your kids to our Gymnastics Camp December 19th - 23rd. It’s a great way for kids to be active and have a blast. From beginners to advanced, your child will have a ton of fun while learning balance and gross motor skills; acquire strength, flexibility, coordination, body awareness, and increase mental focus. Gymnastics Camp is for boys and girls ages 5-13 years old. The price is $40 per day for 9am-3pm, or $50 for 7am-6:30pm. There will be group games and open gym time. Our coaches will teach basic gymnastics. ~Gymnastics on the balance beam, vault, bars, spring floor ~Trampoline & Double Mini—-tuck, pike, straddle, front flips! ~Tumbling—forward & backward rolls, cartwheels, round-offs, handstands, and more! ~Aerials, silks, trapeze and hoop. Students will need to wear athletic clothing or a leotard; and bring a sack lunch, snacks and water bottle. There is a concession room to purchase extra snacks and drinks. A pizza and drink combo will be available for purchase ($2.50). Signing up is easy. Reserve your spot online at powerhousegymnastics.com. The class name is December Gymnastics Fun Day. You don’t have to be a member to participate! December Gymnastics Fun Days The Preschool Gym is expanding! They will be moving into the bigger room upstairs, while the homeschool students will be using the old preschool room. We currently have 14 students enrolled in the Powerhouse Expanding homeschool program and are accepting new students. Tuition is only $200 a month. All school age children are welcome to join. Mother’s Day Out has also expanded. We now have three more classes for the MDO program. New classes are available for ages 3 years to 4 years. Be on the look out for new class openings!
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December 2016 Volume 2, Issue 12
Inside this issue:
Feature Coach 2 Feature Gymnasts 3
Save the Date 4
Meet Scores 5-6
Reminders, GFD,
Homeschool 9
Powerhouse Gymnastics News
Bring your kids to our
G y m n a s t i c s C a m p
December 19th - 23rd. It’s
a great way for kids to be
active and have a blast.
F r o m b e g i n n e r s t o
advanced, your child will
have a ton of fun while
learning balance and gross
motor skil ls; acquire
s t r e n g t h , f l e x i b i l i t y ,
c o o r d i n a t i o n , b o d y
awareness, and increase
mental focus.
Gymnastics Camp is for
boys and girls ages 5-13
years old. The price is $40
per day for 9am-3pm, or
$50 for 7am-6:30pm.
There will be group games
and open gym time. Our
coaches will teach basic
gymnastics.
~Gymnastics on the balance
beam, vault, bars, spring
floor
~Trampoline & Double
Mini—-tuck, pike, straddle,
front flips!
~Tumbling—forward &
backward rolls, cartwheels,
round-offs, handstands, and
more!
~Aerials, silks, trapeze and
hoop.
Students will need to wear
athletic clothing or a
leotard; and bring a sack
lunch, snacks and water
bot t l e . There i s a
concess ion room to
purchase extra snacks and
drinks. A pizza and drink
combo will be available for
purchase ($2.50).
Signing up is easy. Reserve
your spot online at
powerhousegymnastics.com.
The class name is December
Gymnastics Fun Day.
You don’t have to be a
member to participate!
December Gymnastics Fun Days
The Preschool Gym is
expanding! They will be
moving into the bigger
room upstairs, while the
homeschool students will be
using the old preschool
room. We currently have
14 students enrolled in the
Powerhouse Expanding homeschool program and
are accepting new students.
Tuition is only $200 a
month. All school age
children are welcome to
join.
Mother’s Day Out has also
expanded. We now have
three more classes for the
MDO program. New classes
are available for ages 3 years
to 4 years.
Be on the look out for new
class openings!
The December
Coach of the
M o n t h i s
Carlos Arroyo.
He is a team
coach. Coach
Carlos has
been coaching
at Powerhouse Gymnastics
for 8 months, and has been
coaching a total of 31 years.
He’s come a long way since
being bitten by the gymnastics
bug after watching the 1976
Summer Olympics, He
started classes early, took
until 8th grade, and tumbled
in high school.
Coach Carlos has a BA in
Anthropology from the
University of Texas at San
Antonio and an Instructor
cer t i f i c a te f rom USA
Gymnastics University. He
also has U101: Safety and Risk
Management and Professional
Deve lopment Leve l 1
certificates, and is first aid
certified.
Born in September, Coach
Carlos is a Virgo. He
considers himself an Army
brat and has lived in Japan and
Panama. In 1980, and in 8th
grade, he moved with his
family to San Antonio. Coach
Carlos graduated from
Winston Churchill High
School in 1985 and enlisted in
the United States Air Force in
1 9 8 6 . H i s b i g g e s t
accomplishment was being
commissioned as an USAF
officer after completing
ROTC.
In addition to serving in three
wars, he lived and visited over
30 countries, including: Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Italy,
Spain, France, Romania,
Russia, Austria, Greece,
Korea and Japan. During his
tour in Germany, he was the
Consultant to the US Embassy
to NATO. He confidently can
speak two languages and
understand five.
In 1995, Coach Carlos
married his long-lost 8th
grade sweetheart, Michelle.
They have two children:
Kendall, a junior at Angelo
State University, and Ethan, a
Senior at O’Connor High
School.
As a coach, he loves all the
events equally, but if he had to
pick one event, it would be
bars. It is the first event he
felt comfortable coaching, and
Feature Coach—Carlos Arroyo
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Powerhouse Gymnastics News
Coach Carlos
is the event he has had the
most success. “Getting a
gymnast to overcome their
fears in swinging the bars, and
then to see them have success
on them motivates me to teach
them more.” Coach Carlos also
enjoys the progressions of skills
on bars and how you can visibly
see the gymnast transform and
increase their capacity to learn
new skills.
Coach Car lo s be l i e ves
gymnastics is “the ability to
make an impact on young lives.
As coaches, we have the honor
o f t e a c h i n g y o u n g ,
impressionable, and amazing
kids life skills that will stay with
them into the future. Teaching
kids to face their fears and
overcome obstacles with hard
w o r k , i n t e g r i t y a n d
perseverance is what I live for. I
believe a coach/gymnast
relationship is one of the
strongest in the sporting world.
I have had the privilege of
keeping in contact with the
majority of the girls I have
coached throughout the years.
Because of my military career
I’ve coached in Texas, New
Mexico, Washington and
Germany.”
Gymnastics Jokes What do gymnasts, acrobats, and bananas have in common? They can all do the splits.
Why do choreographers charge so much for their music and work? Because the musical scale
begins and ends with ‘dough.’
How long does it take for the gymnast to get to class? A split second!
Where do bad gymnasts go? Behind parallel bar!
What is a gym coach’s favorite color? Yeller
A pommel horse walks into a parallel bar. The barman says, “Is this a joke about gymnastics?”
The horse beams.
“A gymnast walks into a bar. She gets a two-point deduction and ruins her chances of a medal.”
My coach is the most even-tempered man in the world – he’s always mad.
Feature Gymnasts/Cheer Athlete of the Month
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Parker Nutt, 9 years old, is in Coach Ryan’s Level 5 Boys Artistic team. He has been in gymnastics for 5
years. His favorite foods are pizza, lasagna, fruit, chicken and broccoli. His favorite subject is math. He loves
gymnastics, basketball and baseball.
Alyssa Williams, 6 years old, is in Coach Karine and Coach Saul’s TNT Rising Stars team. Alyssa’s favorite event
is trampoline because she likes to bounce high and practice her skills. Her biggest accomplishment is learning to
read. Alyssa often corrects her older sister with things she’s learned at school. Her favorite book is Fancy
Nancy; favorite food is mac & cheese; and her favorite animal is the butterfly. Her favorite things to do are
gymnastics, arts & crafts, and she enjoys family road trips. She wants to be a gymnast because she loves
tumbling! Spending time with her friends is what she likes most about gymnastics. Alyssa just recently learned to
ride her bike without training wheels and has her first loose tooth!
Kaylee Abing, 8 years old, is in Coach Karine’s Super Stars TNT team. She has been in gymnastics for about 3
years. Her favorite event is trampoline because she likes jumping. Her biggest accomplishment is winning a 1st
place medal at competition. A fun fact about Kaylee is she likes to dance. Kaylee’s favorite book is the Judy
Moody series; favorite food is bean and cheese tacos; favorite dessert is ice cream; and favorite animal is the
panda. Some of her favorite things to do are play with her friends and face time with her them. She wants to be
a gymnast because she enjoys tumbling and jumping on trampolines. Learning news skills with Coach Karine
and meeting new friends is what she likes most about gymnastics.
Puzzles
ACROSS
3 Good in all events
5 Hole full of foam
9 Cartwheel's cousin
11 Highest level
13 Pulled off skin
14 Has the famous ranch
16 1st place
17 How you learn giants
19 Flip between the bars
20 Help
DOWN
1 Say hi to judges
2 Back Handspring
4 Food for p-bars
6 Competition
7 Teacher
8 Test-run
10 How to get flexible
12 Flip from bars
15 Flip
16 "Got _____?"
18 Short for leotard
Answers on last page.
Powerhouse Gymnastics News SAVE the DATE
Annual Recital “Class Meet”
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Powerhouse Gymnastics will be having its annual Meet/Recitals
for class kids. Please make sure your child comes to class and
arrives on time. Students will be practicing for their upcoming
Meet/Recital.
Each child will receive an individual participation medal at the
end of the competition and will earn ribbons for each event.
We are trying something a little different this year. Each
program will have a different date. The cost for the Meet/
Recital is $25 per child per program. The fee includes 3
admission wrist bands. Additional wristbands will be $10 each.
“Shout Outs” will be available for purchase.
Powerhouse will have a shuttle bus going to and from the Wal-
Mart parking lot. Drop off your athletes in front of Powerhouse
and park at the Wal-Mart down the street and we will bring
you back to Powerhouse. The shuttle will start 45 minutes
before each session and 20 minutes after the session ends.
Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016
Super Stars Girls Art. Team & Girls Team Level 1 ½ Team Session 1 2:00pm
