Click here to print a copy of the official NCSA log sheet. All Pro Match and Premier Match members should use this form to record up to your best 40 plays.
NCSA compiled the following guidelines after surveying gymnastics coaches at every level of collegiate competition. Your video does not need to be a polished and professionally highlighted reel. Coaches are not interested in match footage for gymnastics; well-shot skills tape will be sufficient.
NCSA strongly recommends that you submit varsity level or equivalent club footage when creating a video. Freshman/Sophomore/JV footage is generally not recommended.
Introduction
Introduce yourself to the coaches. Give your name, high school, graduation year, the name of the gym/club where you train and compete, your coach's name, and your current competition level, as well as how long you have been competing at that level.
Skills Portion
Include only skills you are currently working on for future inclusion in routines. Show only one or two repetitions of each skill. Do not include tumbling on a track or skills you do not intend to use in competition. Skills into a pit with a mat can be included.
Competition Tape
Include only your most recent competitions.
Competition tape should include two routines on the uneven bars, two routines on the vault, one routine on the balance beam and one routine on the floor exercise.
Source: Sarah Carver Mulnes, Gynmastics Coach, Brown University
Note:
• Acceptable Formats: a standard DVD that plays on any external DVD player as well as several digital files sent by way of USB thumb drive, data disc (DVD/CD), or through yousendit.com. (.MPG, .MPEG, .MOV, .WMV) Here is a link describing the structure of a DVD if you wish to electronically send the footage from your standard DVD.( http://club.cdfreaks.com/f72/tutorial-dvd-video-file-structure-77646/)
• Unacceptable formats include: music CD, VHS, HI-8, or Mini DV tape and several digital files (.AVI, .MSWMM, .MP4, .VRO, .WPL, .ASX)
• In addition, after you create your own DVD test it on at least one other computer and a second DVD player before sending it to NCSA. If it does not play you may not have finalized it properly. Some unfinalized DVDs may play on the machine from which it they were burned, but not work in any other machine. It is vital to always double check your DVDs.
We can accept a few alternate formats burned on DVDs as data discs. These include: Windows Media Files (.wmv), Quicktimes (.mov) and MPEGs (.mpg). These are the only acceptable file types. Please do not send .AVI files. Again, if sending a disc burned as a data DVD please check the contents on the disc on a second computer.
• Upon receipt, all DVDs become the property of NCSA.
Upload Your Video
Please use the student-athlete's primary email address when uploading video. The primary email address is the one that appears on your NCSA Scouting Report. Additionally, please include the student-athlete's full name and sport in the message field.
