Athlete Course Overview

Spend a full day at CrossFit Verve with Coach Carl Paoli and learn how to apply basic gymnastics, acrobatic and freestyle movement to your CrossFit training program. This will be Carl's second visit to CrossFit Verve! Even if you had attended Carl's first seminar back in July, there is still plenty more to learn as Carl will introduce many more new progressions, and new movements. If you want to increase your agility, mobility, and the versatility in your CrossFit WODs, then this is the perfect seminar for you! This is an 8-hour seminar session, with a half hour lunch break.

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.

Trainer Course Overview

Spend a half day with Carl to learn how to learn all aspects of coaching gymnastics and body-weight training for your CrossFit program. While it is not a requirement to attend the Athlete Course, it is highly recommend you attend both sessions as the material in this Trainer course will compliment material covered on the previous day.

You will get a chance learn how to coach, cue, and spot athletes for a variety of gymnastics movements and body skills, and leverage gymnastics-based training to increase performance across the board. Carl will explain in detail the application of the Position-Movement-Purpose framework, and the important of gymnastics Skill Transfer to all aspects of CrossFit including lifting and endurance components.

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 features in the CrossFit Journal:

• Hollow Body Position: Part 1, Part 2
• Handstand Push-up: Part 1, Part 2, Kipping HSPU
• Skill Transfer: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Backflip Progression: Part 1, Part 2

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 Verve

Our mission is to cultivate a fit community that transforms lives by providing elite functional fitness, so that people may live happier and healthier. We want to inject fitness into people's lives. We want to foster a community that supports each other. We want to increase self esteem by providing a strength and conditioning program that gets people silly strong. CrossFit has become a calling to us. We teach skills on how to move the human body and loco-mot self. We think everyone should be crazy about their fitness. You only have one body, treat it well and it will treat you and your family well.

Testimonials

Check out what others are saying about Coach Carl's Freestyle Connections seminars:

• Freestylin' with Carl Paoli, Gretchen Kittelberger's blog - October 3, 2011
• Interview and Thoughts from Carl Paoli's Gymnastics Seminar, CrossFit Nordic Blog - August 25, 2011
• Gymnastics with Coach Paoli, Sgirl Blog - August 13, 2011
• Blog, CrossFit High Voltage - July 24, 2011
• Blog, PaleOMG - July 11, 2011
• Forum, CrossFit Brand-X - July 14, 2011
• Carl Paoli Gymnastics Training, All That and Dim Sum - May 2, 2011
• Gymnastics seminar with Coach Carl and Naka Athletics, Perfect Mike dot com - January 23, 2011
• CrossFit Fresno Blog - November 21, 2010

"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