The Kangoo Jumps® Instructor Adventure Continues

If a passion for something were enough to accomplish it, I would be a Kangoo Jumps® instructor by now. Instead, it's been almost a year since I took the initial course in August 2012. I just learned this week that the video that has held me up did not need to be as complicated as I was making it. Plus, my horoscope this morning said I should just get out of my own way and most of my obstacles would disappear.

But enough about me. Here is an opportunity for YOU to become a Kangoo Jumps instructor.  On August 18, 2013, in Franconia, Virginia, there will be a one-day workshop to start the licensing process. That's the blue flyer.  This is the course I took last year. Once you take the course, there are three other requirements. One, you have to be certified as a group fitness instructor (GFI) by an accredited certifying organization, like AFAA or ACE. Two, to be certified as a GFI, you need to be CPR-certified. Third, of course, is the video showing you actually instructing (very specific criteria). Of course, if you are GFI-certified and teaching something else already, that shortens the process.



But wait, there's more! If you want to really sharpen your skills at instructing a music-based Kangoo Jumps class, Chakaboom Fitness is offering a six-week course for exactly that (the pink flyer). Six Saturday morning classes, four hours each, will take you step-by-step (pun intended) toward becoming an excellent Kangoo Jumps instructor. Many of the skills will come in handy for any other music-based fitness class you happen to teach. For more information about the two courses, email kathchakaboom@gmail.com.

The catch? In order to take the six-week course, you have to take the one-day course first. Never tried a Kangoo Jumps class before? No problem. Check out the schedule of regular classes at Chakaboom Fitness, the Franconia location, either on Facebook or at ChakaboomFitness.com. There are classes four days a week where you can rent boots and try it for yourself.


As for me, I am going to listen to my horoscope, and a piece of advice from back in the late 1970s. "You get what you resist," so I am going to get out of my own way and stop resisting the obstacles to getting my video done. You know I'll keep you posted on how that works out.