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SUMMER CAMP!
DANCERS & ICE SKATERS WELCOME!
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FULL DAY CAMP WEEK (9am-5pm) only $350!
$300 per week if you sign up for all 5 weeks!
$25 off per week if you sign up by 5/15.
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HALF DAY CAMP WEEK (9am-1pm) only $250!
$200 per week if you sign up for all 5 weeks!
$15 off per week if you sign up by 5/15.
Free Camp Shirt Included!
MASHA WEITZ
CAMP PROGRAM
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Two time Russian
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Coach of the Year!
ELITE BALLET INSTRUCTOR
TAMARA MANUKOVSKAYA
MEXICO NATIONAL
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OLGA LEBEDYANSKAYA
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JULIE ZETLIN
U.S. NATIONAL CHAMPION
SHELBY KISIE
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CHAMPION RHYTHMICS SUMMER INTENSIVE PROGRAM
9am-5pm Monday-Friday (half day 9am-1pm)
ABOUT RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS
Rhythmic gymnastics is a beautiful Olympic sport that is often called “The Princess of
All Sports” for its grace and elegance. It combines elements of ballet and dance with
acrobatic skills and apparatus manipulation. Girls perform routines choreographed
to music and accompanied by one of the five apparatuses: rope, hoop, ball, clubs
and ribbon.
This unique sport combines elegance and beauty of a dancer with strength and
coordination of an athlete.
Rhythmic Gymnastics is the best sport for girls! While being a moderately physical
sport, it also teaches girls flexibility, balance, coordination, agility as well as developing
beautiful body lines and gracefulness. Plus it’s fun!
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Our Summer Intensive Program is designed to provide in depth training for ALL aspects
of the sport to help competitive athletes prepare for the competition season, to become
stronger, improve their body skill technique, learn new apparatus skills as well as new
rhythmic acrobatics skills, become a better dancer and overall a more knowledgeable
gymnast. To achieve these goals we developed a program with these
components outlined below:
Body Skills Technique Rhythmic gymnastics has three groups of
body skills: turns, balances and leaps. This part of the program
will focus on improving basic technique of all those skills as well
as learning new body skills gymnasts will need in their competitive
routines. Girls will be challenged to try new exciting skills used by
super star Russian, Ukrainian and Belarus teams.
Flexibility It is one of the main components of rhythmic gymnastics. It is necessary
to be flexible to learn most interesting and exciting rhythmic gymnastics body skills.
Stretching techniques and secrets used by Russian rhythmic gymnastics stars will be
used to take every gymnast’s flexibility to the next level.
Ballet Ballet is essential for gymnasts just like it is for dancers. Our experiences ballet
teachers (as well as invited guests) will provide the training and technique of the highest
caliber to achieve our goals of:
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Developing technique, proper placement, strength and poise necessary to
successfully learn rhythmic gymnastics body skills (turns, leaps and balances).
Perfecting arms, core and legs positions to develop correct execution of those
body skills.
Learning to use correct muscle groups, “feeling” your entire body during body skills.
Creating the quality of movement. Musicality.
Dance and Choreography Rhythmic gymnasts use many
different styles of dance in their routines. Girls will learn folk,
jazz, contemporary, ballroom and more dance styles that they
will be able to use for their routines in the upcoming competition
season. Character dance and creative choreography will help
them develop their own unique styles in rhythmic gymnastics.
Strength and Conditioning Gymnasts need to be strong and
develop all muscle groups to perform rhythmic body skills successfully and with ease.
This portion of our training will concentrate on legs, arms and core
training to make it easier to hold correct body positions during
skills and will make gymnasts more powerful and explosive in
their performances.
Apparatus Technique There is no rhythmic without rope, hoop,
ball, clubs and ribbon! It is important to learn proper technique of
handling the apparatus to be able to do most fun and interesting
apparatus tricks. Our superstar coaches will provide the highest quality of apparatus
training to learn most amazing and breathtaking rhythmic tricks.
Rhythmic Acrobatics and Tricks – besides the basic cartwheels, walkovers and rolls
rhythmic gymnastics has the most exciting and interesting acrobatic tricks. Girls will
learn such things as “flying bridge”, “fish flop”, “dive roll” and more things only known
in rhythmic gymnasts.
CHAMPION RHYTHMICS COACHES AND INSTRUCTORS
Masha Kaluzhskaya Weitz is the Head Coach and Program Director at
Champion Rhythmics. She’s a two time Russian National Champion and 2014
Coach of the Year. With over 10 years of coaching experience Masha continues to
work hard to raise champions and to bring the best training possible to her gym.
Shelby Kisiel is U.S. National Team Member and 2011 U.S. Senior National
Champion in rhythmic gymnastics. Shelby started her rhythmic career in the
age of 10, but her hard work and dedication paid off when she made National
Team just a few years later. Shelby currently lives in Houston, Texas where
she’s coaching young generation of future champions.
Tamara Manukovskaya is an instructor of ballet and character dance with
more than sixteen years of professional dance teaching experience as well as
extensive experience with staging and choreography. Tamara is originally from
Russia where she graduated from Saratov Dance Academy and later performed
with the Grigorovich Ballet Theatre (Krasnodar, Russia) in numerous roles
including solos in such works as The Nutcracker, Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty,
Swan Lake and more. Tamara currently lives in Washington DC and teaches
ballet at Columbia Institute of Fine Arts. Her impressive resume also includes
working at Carolina Youth Ballet and Kirov Academy of Ballet. Tamara has been working with USA
gymnastics for several years now teaching ballet at National Team camps as well as Future Stars,
Elite and Pre-Elite squad camps.
Frederique Rosse is a former Swiss National Team rhythmic gymnast with
extensive experience in development and teaching of Rhythmic Gymnastics
programs. Frederique is a two time Swiss National Champion who also received
the highest degree of coaching certification from the Swiss National Sport
Center. Under her coaching guidance, many individual gymnasts and groups
won Swiss national titles. She is proud of several of her gymnasts advancing
into the Swiss Rhythmic Gymnastics National Team.
Olga Lebedyanskaya is former Russian National Team coach who currently
lives in Mexico working with Mexico National Team in Rhythmic Gymnastics.
Olga has over 30 years of coaching experience and raising champions of
Olympic caliber first in Russia and now in Mexico. One of Olga’s gymnasts from
Moscow Russia became an Olympic Champion in 2000 Olympics in Group
Event. Olga’s amazing gymnasts will be coming to train with us to show great
example and share experience with our gymnasts.
Galina Bakaeva is an Honored Russian National Team Coach who has been
raising champions for more than 30 years. She currently has 2 gymnasts on
the Russian National Team and 2 gymnasts in the top 20 in Russia. Galina’s
amazing gymnasts will be also coming to train with us.
Julie Zetlin is a veteran Elite Rhythmic Gymnast who is 2010 U.S. Senior
National Champion in Rhythmic Gymnastics. Julie represented USA in 2012
Olympic Games in London, England. Julie currently coaches in Los Angeles,
California where she continues to share her passion and knowledge of rhythmic
gymnastics with young gymnasts.
Michael Blyumin is our ballroom dance teacher who also works with Level
3 gymnasts. Michael works to improve the beginning technique of rhythmic
gymnastics to an intermediate competitive level, as well as to use ballroom to
improve the dance technique and overall performance of the team girls.
As a ballroom dancer Michael has competed in more than 100 competitions,
often placing in the top 5, including being the 2010 Southwest United States
Junior Latin 4-dance Champion.
Sonya Stepacheva is a former Champion Rhythmics gymnast who currently
works with Level 3 and 4 gymnasts. Sonya competed for almost 10 years
in rhythmic gymnastics earning medals at State, Regional and National
Championships. She retired as a Level 9 gymnast and is now an assistant
coach working closely with coach Masha to help raise future champions.