Overview

8-hour session / $250

Spend eight quality hours at New Species CrossFit with Coach Carl Paoli and learn how to apply gymnastics 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 workshop for you! This is an 8-hour session with lunch and breaks taken as needed.

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 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 key cues and drills to achieve Handstand Push Ups and Muscle Ups, and time permitting, 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 strength & conditioning, skill training, and personal development for Action Sports athletes. 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.

Coach Carl also runs GymnasticsWOD.com, offering gymnastics-based workouts and progression tutorials to trainers and athletes in the athletic community.

About New Species CrossFit

The premise for New Species CrossFit was born of a lecture given at a Crossfit Level I certification by Tony Budding. In this lecture he cited a study showing the fit of our population as being a phenotypically different species than the unfit. From this thought, New Species was born. Our driving force is to be a stimulus inspiring our athletes and ourselves to evolve into something faster, stronger, more powerful…something better. We strive to unleash the athlete living within each one of us, whether it be a 74 year old grandmother or a professional boxer. This evolution isn’t a theory; this is an evolution one can see, feel and measure. There is something greater in all of us waiting to get out. Our dragons are intertwined in a double helix to represent what is in each of our DNA, waiting to get out.

Testimonials

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

• Spartan Performance / CrossFit Suffolk blog - January 24, 2012
• Invictus Athletes' Training Camp Report, CrossFit Invictus blog - January 24, 2012
• Gymnastics Seminar + New PR, John McEvoy blog - January 21, 2012
• 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

"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

"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