A Unique Approach to Having Your Floor Exercise and Balance Beam Routines Choreographed

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     Some gymnasts have it harder than others do when they want to have a quality floor exercise routine choreographed.

Sometimes you may be the only one who doesn't know where to get your routine choreographed.

Local dance teachers, local choreographers don't know anything about gymnastics or routine requirements.

Even former gymnasts may not know the current routine requirements. 

Some gyms have only male coaches who don't do choreography and parents have to scramble to find someone to choreograph their daughter's routines.

The quality of choreographers varies greatly and the level and detail of the choreography can be spotty.  The fine details of the choreography that make all the difference in the scores received may not be present in the routine.

Often when choreographers come in and do all of the routines for a particular gym, after a while the routines begin to look more and more similar.

Not all gymnasts learn routines quickly.  Gymnasts who tend to learn routines more slowly may not get as detailed a routine due to the time constraints of the choreographer's visit.

Avoid Rushed Routines
Choreographers usually spend only a few hours choreographing and teaching the gymnast the routine.  After they are done and leave, the gymnast may or may not remember all of the finer details of the choreography, like hand and head positions and the angle of the body, arms and legs.  Critical and helpful advice given during the routine choreography session is often forgotten.  Weeks and months later, the quality of the original choreography may have been irretrievably lost.

What's the True Cost of Your Routine?
Great choreographers do not come cheap and are often not locally available.  Usually, in addition to the cost of choreographing the routine, you have to pay at least a share of the travel expenses to bring the choreographer to your gym or to go to her gym.  If you are the only one or there are only a few of you to split the choreographer's expenses, this can double or triple the actual cost of the routine's price.

Do You Want to Sell the Routine Later?
Some parents and gymnasts try to make up for the high cost of the routine by selling the routine (usually to another lower level gymnast in their own gym) when they are ready to switch to a new routine.  But the fine details of the original choreography have often been lost or at best there is a long jumbled video of the choreography session, which may or may not be useful and certainly isn't organized for learning the routine from scratch.  So what is being sold is usually a pale version of the original routine taught by another young gymnast, not a professional choreographer. 

So Why Haven't These Problems Been Solved?
Choreographers are often full-time coaches who do this part-time around the side just to earn a little extra money.  Often they do not have the audio/video computer editing knowledge, experience and software to produce a professional routine choreography and training video product. So they do things the way they have always been done.

What Would a Solution to these Problems Be Like?
You get an Elite quality floor or beam routine choreographed exclusively for your gymnast.

You are assured that all of the routine requirements have been met and put into the routine by an Elite professional coach and choreographer.

The quality and detail of the routine and the choreography are of the highest artistic level.

Have a Unique and Exclusive Routine
The routine is exclusively for your use and the choreography style is not only excellent, but won't look like any other routine on your team or in your state of region.

Learn Routine Step-by-Step
You have a video-training tool that not only allows you to review the choreography of the whole routine but teaches you step-by-step each skill and then combination in the routine.

Learn At Your Own Pace
The gymnast watches the video, right there in your own gym and practices and watches and practices and watches and learns each skill and combination fully and completely at their own pace.

Review the Routine at Any Time
This video is always available for your gymnast brush up on and review to make sure their execution is not slipping. 
Parents or coaches can video the gymnast doing the routine and then gymnasts can compare themselves to the routine training video and see what they need to work on at any time of the year.

Get your Money Back 
by Reselling the Routne to Another Gymnast
The routine can easily be sold the next year to another gymnast recouping most of the cost of the original choreography. They literally have everything on video that your daughter had to learn and perfect the routine. 

Use the Floor Exercise and Beam
VIDEO CHOREOGRAPHY SOLUTION!
Now you can have a unique floor and/or beam routine custom choreographed by an Elite Level coach and choreographer without having to pay for them to have to come to your gym.

Now you can have a video choreographer who never tires of teaching you all the finer points of your gymnast's routine

Your daughter can take as much time as necessary to learn and perfect the routine step by step, skill by skill, combination by combination. 

The video choreographer is always available any time and anywhere to demonstrate the finest details of the choreography during the learning process or to refine the routine over and over again as the season progresses.

There are video choreography sessions for every phase of the learning process - learning skills, learning combinations, putting the whole routine together, and refining sections of the routine.

You are licensed to sell the floor routine and/or a beam routine choreography package after you have used it for 1 - 3 years and you are through with that routine.

What Do You Have To Do To Order a Video Choreography Package?

1. Order and Pay for the floor exercise choreography video.
Order and Pay for floor music if you don't wish to provide it.
Order and Pay for the beam choreography video if you also want your beam routine choreographed.

2. Send Video
You need to send us a recent video of the gymnast performing on floor and/or beam so that the choreographer can see the way they move and what their level and style is.  The routine(s) performed may be Compulsory routines but they should be from no more than  six months old and preferably done within one to three months.

3. Fill Out a Gymnast Choreography Information Sheet
You may send us a list of skills or a short video of skills that you do well that might be fit into your routine.  You may also send a list of skills that you don't do well or don't want to include in the routine for some other reason. None of this is a requirement for you to do.  You may do it or not do it as you wish.

4. Arrange for Music
You can choose your own music and send it to us (1:10 - 1:30 in length with no vocals allowed) or we can provide you with music and the routine.

5. Watch the Video and Practice
Wait for the video routine choreography to arrive and then watch and practice, practice and watch and watch and practice.
 

What is Included in a Video Choreography Package?

You receive a floor and/or beam choreography video that demonstrates each skill in the routine that need to be learned and mastered first without the music. Verbal tips and hints are provided.

The video then has skill combinations and sections that need to be learned and mastered without the music.  Verbal tips and hints are provided. 

Then the video has skill combinations and sections that need to be learned and mastered with that particular section of the music.

The video has the choreography of the complete floor routine with the music.

Special FREE Bonus: 
Secrets to Gymnastics Choreography e-Book
A retail  value of $39.95

This e-Book presents a unique, comprehensive approach to floor exercise choreography for beginner and intermediate optional gymnasts, beginner optional coaches and coaches who are not professional choreographers. 

If you wish to test yourself or have your coach test you to provide the choreographer with a suggested list of skills that you do well, the following skill checklists that are in the Secrets to Gymnastics Choreography e-Book can give you a great head start on that process:

Routine Skill Lists
Interesting Skills List
Dance Skills List
Acro Skill List
10.0 Floor Skills List

In particular, the following chapters in the Secrets to Gymnastics Choreography e-Book may also help you in learning, practicing and preparing your routine for competition:

Music Selection
Custom or Canned Music
Test Skills and Combinations
Motor Learning Theory – Whole, Part, Whole
Skill and Combinational Requirements

Guide to Learning and Mastering the Routine
Master Single Skills
Master 2 Skill Combinations
Master 3 - 4 Skill Combinations
Practice with Music in Sections

Floor Dance Drills
Drills For Floor Dance
Print Out Sheet of Floor Dance Drills

Floor Pattern Diagram

You receive a five year license to use and sell the Video Choreography Package in accordance with our standard licensing procedures and copyright law.

Who Does the Choreography?
Our choreographer is Erin Carter from Carter's Gymnastics Academy, Inc. in Mesa, Arizona.  You can see her bio and her current list of Level 10 and Elite athletes for whom she does the choreography.

What Do Routines of This Quality Normally Cost?
A floor routine of this level and quality usually costs between $300.00 - $750.00 or more.
A beam routine of this level and quality usually costs between $100.00 - $450.00 or more.
Travel expenses to bring a choreographer to your gym usually costs $600.00 - $1500.00

Travel expenses to bring a choreographer to your gym now costs you nothing. 

What Else Do You Need to Know?
To maintain a high level of quality for the choreography, we can only schedule a VERY LIMITED number of routines per month.

Routines are choreographed in the order payment (and the gymnast videos are received) is made.

Routines will normally be delivered within four to six weeks of ordering.  You will be notified if the number of routines for the current month has been exceeded

Only one CD of the floor music is provided if we provide the music. We recommend you save it as a master back-up copy and make a practice CD to use at the gym and a meet CD to take to meets.

Because we need to make sure that no gymnast ever goes to a meet and sees another gymnast doing their same routine, you are only licensed to sell this routine to another gymnast once.  As part of your agreement when you sell the routine, the gymnast you sell the routine to must also agree to sell the routine only once. 

Carter's Gymastics Academy, Inc. provides you with the rights to sell any music that we provide.  Copyright law provides that if purchase the music elsewhere, anyone you sell the Video Choreography Package to will likely have to repurchase the music from the same source that you did to be in compliance with copyright laws.

If your Video Choreography Package or music CD is damaged through use, we can replace it for $9.95 including shipping and handling.

The scheduling and completion dates and shipping for all Video Choreography Packages is the sole responsibility of Erin Carter of Carter's Gymastics Academy, Inc. and not GymnasticsZone.com or Business Solutions, Inc. For any problems or questions regarding the Video Choreography Packages or music, you must contact Erin Carter at 
Carters Gymnastics.

Because GymnasticsZone.com and Business Solutions, Inc does not do the choreography or provide the music, GymnasticsZone.com and Business Solutions, Inc do not provide any guarantees for any aspect of the choreography or the music in the Video Choreography Packages and/or music CDs.  For any problems or questions regarding the Video Choreography Packages or music, you must contact Erin Carter at Carters Gymnastics.

Ordering From Overseas
NOTE: Skills are valued differently in different countries at the beginner and intermediate optional levels.  Contact Erin Carter at Carters Gymnastics to make sure that all skill difficulty requirements specific to your country and level are met in their routine composition.