About Coach Manny

Manuel Antonio Rojas Basan – World citizen

Born in Quito, Ecuador – South America
US citizen by naturalization

I began with an interest in movement and motor intelligence.
Since 1945, the SportsART system has evolved. Today with the legacy I want to help you relearn the principles of health in four ways:

  • Proper breathing
  • Connecting with all 6 senses
  • Adequate rest
  • Motor intelligence

My philosophy

Everything started in 1963, when my dad discovered that sports and movement are a medicine. He taught me that fitness is a medicine and cure and, if not properly used, can cause catastrophic damage which must be properly prescribed, personalized, adapted and every day recreated.

  • To facilitate, your own sports and movement perspective
  • To promote an individual construction of physical activity considering particular needs and  characteristics
  • To create a Renaissance sports and movement concept supported by unbreakable Christian values and virtues.
  • To discover the best of the best from your inside out, building a path where your dreams come true.
  • To motivate my disciples to have a consciousness about the importance of their holistic fitness level to live in batter world.

My Résumé

Professional Expertise

Master national and international coach of artistic & acrobatic gymnastics/ male and/ or female. Tumbling & trampoline for recreational, developmental, compulsory, optional and elite gymnast.
Master Personal fitness’s  trainer for all.
Instructor for all free style acrobatic activities and contemporary tendencies, exercising and sports.

Clinician

  • WINSTARS GYMNASTICS/ WINDSOR CANADA Team/ September 2015
  • JO GYMNASTICS TEAM in MEADOW GYMNASTICS, NJ/ October 2015
  • Clinician and technical interpreter of INTERNATIONAL GYMNASTICS AND ACROBATICS CLINIC LEADED by  US  coach GARY GOODSON/ Ecuador- February 2016.
  • Head at female gymnastics clinician in KGA Lousvile Kentucky/ March 2016
  • Gymnastics HEAD SPECIALIST at KENMONT & KENWWOOD  2016-2017 SUMMER CAMP at CT.
  • HEAD CLINICIAN ON HAND STAND CLINICS at ROOTS FITNESS, SA TX August 2016
  • National gymnastics workshop for GYMNASTICS’S  coaches from Bermuda/2019

Education and Safety:

  • USA GYMNASTICS, PRO MEMBERSHIP # 409982, since 2000
  • ATTENDANT TO NATIONAL COACHES WORKSHOP, UPDATE OF W. JO CODE OF POINTS/ ORLANDO FLA 2103.
  • GYMNASTICS’ FEMALE TEAM AND BOYS’ PRE TEAM head coach and recreational gymnastics coach/ FLIP CITY GYMNASTICS-EXPORT-PA/ 2012-2013.
  • Coach of Ava Krehlih, level 5/2013/9 Y.O/  Vault state champion/PA and medalist on her level-division.
  • Founder member of GYMCA (gymnastics coaches association – USA leaded by coach Steve Nunno)/ since 2019
  • Individual ambassador member of IACDP (international association of children development programs)/USA 2020

Skills:

  • Owner- ROJAS GYMNASTICS AND CIRCUS ARTS TRAINING SCHOOL/ Ecuador, since 2000
  • Superior studies of: theology, education, governance, political management and foreign languages (Italian, Spanish, and English/ Proficiency; basic studies of German and French)
  • Diploma in TEFL (teaching English as foreign language) AND TESOL (teaching English as second language)/ I-TO-I/ UK., 2013
  • General director and owner of MAROJAS SPORTARTS CULTURAL AND MOTOR INTELLIGENCE CENTER / Ecuador.
  • World AMBASSADOR COORDINATOR of AUFFF’S international ambassadors./Ecuador 2020.

Posts Current and Held:

  • FIG T&T continental  AGE-GROUP- camp and clinic for coaches/ participant / April 2017- Guayaquil- Ecuador.
  • OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE AND SPOKEMAN FOR AND IN ECUADOR OF THE NATIONAL ÉLITE GYMNASTICS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, LEADED     and owned by the olympian Coach GARY GOODSON, 2016 – since 2002.
  • Director of NATIONAL-INTERNATIONAL GYMNASTICS CLINIC in Quito-Ecuador, oriented to elite gymnastics, circus’ and ice     skating coaches. Partnership with USA Olympian coach Gary Goodson/ March 2014.
  • Assistant coach, spoke man, assistant spotter of Olympian coach Gary Goodson in national-international workshops, clinics and certifications. since 2002.
  •  20 years experience in USA-G industry and JO program
  • AUFFF’S theater cast, acrobatics coach/2020
  • Head Coach of Carlos (8 Y.O) and Sebastian (5 Y.O)/ Rojas, members of a FUTURE STARS WORLD’S TRAMPOLINE TEAM, supported by the private &  non profit initiative MAROJAS SPORTARTS since 2015

Gymnastics Experience:

  • Owner, manager, competitor, monitor, instructor, asistant coach, coach, head     coach, assessor, international consultant, instructor, elite competitor= 30 years
  • Former elite coach of elite  female artistic  gymnasts, competitors in INTERNATIONAL YOUTH’S  FESTIVAL ( Ecuador/ Johana Cobo/11 Y.O) AND WORLD CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP (Chile/ Soledad Torres/ 9 Y.O)
  • NATIONAL JUDGE / ECUADOREAN GYMNASTICS FEDERATION/ since 1980.
  • ECUADOREAN NATIONAL ELITE ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS TEAM, Former member
  • SOUTHAMERICAN- BOLIVARIAN/ GAMES AND CHAMPIONSHIPS/ 15 consecutive years, competitor and medalist
  • Former world class artistic gymnastics’s competitor. 1992, 1993/ Chile, United kingdom.
  • Member of WAS/ WORLD ACROBATIC SOCIETY-since 2014/ representing ROJAS’ SPORTS PROJECT.
  • Member of WSWCF/ WORLD STREET AND WORKOUT CALISTENICS FEDERATION-since 2014/ as representative and founder of the AKROJAS PROJECT.
  • Master in personal Fitness Trainer, 2013
  • Author of articles about sports and health and author of the book The Christian and the sports (Spanish).
  • Author of several e-books/ monographies related with circus arts, sport’s sciences trampoline/ e. published in the site MONOGRAFIAS.COM.
  • National head gymnastics’s coach of BERMUDA/ 2019

Remember:

Keep an open and tolerant mind; do your personal homework and consider new things to see what works & applies best for you and your paradigms, principles and perspectives.

If you are not agree with a subject; to be against, it is not the most positive way of buildings better, friendly and healthier society & world.

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– Coach Manny Rojas Basan