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A Fitness and Sport-Specific Resource That Enhances your Agency’s Health and Wellness Component

Skillastics® is a fitness resource for park and recreation profession that implements best practices and techniques to enhance your agency’s health and fitness component.  Skillastics® can be used in any community event, afterschool, camp, pre-school, special activity (birthday party packages), or sport programs for youth ages 3-18 years old. Skillastics® help children achieve optimal fitness performance benefits while making exercise and fitness fun.

It’s simple.  It takes 30 seconds to set up, and one game allows 1 to 100 children of varying ages and fitness levels to participate and enjoy being active at one time.  Skillastics® can be played outdoors at a park or open space, a basketball court, a tennis courts, etc., if a gymnasium or multipurpose room is not available. Skillastics® is ideal for non-profit organizations such as sport groups, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, 4-H Clubs, YMCA,  Boys and Girls Clubs, etc.

These unique activity kits fulfill the National Physical Education Standards and NASPE Physical Activity Guidelines. 

 So why is this important?

  •  You don’t need a fitness expert to implement Skillastics®
  •  Allows your staff to perform proficiently and effectively with a large amount of children at one time
  •  You, your staff, coaches (paid or volunteer) do not have to do research to find age-appropriate physical activity or sports skills – Skillastics® has done that for you
  •  Skillastics® allow you, as a recreation professional, to fulfill your responsibility of keeping current on social issues affecting your community
  •  Skillastics® reinforce the teachings of the academic -reading, math, health, spelling and physical education in your school district. 
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“…The great thing about our initial session with Basketball Skillastics® is that it gave the average and below average kids a chance to shine because the Skillastics® method allowed an overweight girl to excel because she could count out her number of dribbles with confidence and also receive exercise in a fun way.”

Mac Stephens, Euclid Parks and Recreation