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Yes, indeed, it’s May and it’s fi nally spring. The scent of fl owers is in the air, the sounds of lawnmowers fi ll the neighborhoods, sports activities fi ll our playing fi elds, and the playgrounds and trails in our Town parks are in full use. The greens and fairways at western Turnpike are fi lled with golfers. Yes, it’s spring, a season that the people of Guilderland really love.

The walking trails at Tawasentha Park have benefi ted signifi cantly over the past seven years from the efforts of local Boy Scouts, who do a service day project at the park each year. Shrubbery is trimmed back, stone and wood chips spread to make walking and running easier, and trails are re-routed when necessary. This year, Scouts and adult leaders from Troops 24,50, 83, and 264 sent a total of 75 people out onto the trails to maintain and upgrade the recreational environment in our parks. We really appreciate their efforts!

Guilderland’s Spring Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day will be held from 8:00A.M. until 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, May 11 at the Town Highway Department Garage on French’s Mill Road in Guilderland Center. A listing of materials that can be disposed of at the event is available at www.townofguilderland.org. You must present a coupon verifying Guilderland residency to participate in the event. These coupons are available free of charge at either the Guilderland Transfer station or at the Town Clerk’s Offi ce in Town Hall during normal business hours. Simply load all your materials for disposal into your vehicle and come to the Highway Garage, where your vehicle will be unloaded for you and all materials disposed of in a safe and environmentally sound manner. Please contact the Transfer Station at 861-6776 if you have questions about this event.

Registration is open and ongoing for Guilderland’s popular summer camp and recreation programs, with openings still available for both the half-day camp program at Tawasentha Park, and for a broad range of sports and enrichment camps throughout the summer season. Program details are available on-line at www.guilderlandrec.com. Program brochures are also available at the Parks Offi ce on Route 146 across from Tawasentha Park and at Town Hall. Registrations are accepted in person at the Parks Offi ce, by mail, or on-line at www.guilderlandrec.com.

The Guilderland Performing Arts Center’s 34th summer concert series will begin in June. The fi rst event of the summer will be the “Nervosity” show, featuring local high school bands, on Friday,

June 14. The Thursday Evening Concert Series will open with a performance by the Guilderland Town Band on Thursday, June 27. A full listing of concerts and plays can be found on the Town website.

The third annual “Mud Mania” event will be held at Tawasentha Park on Saturday, June 15. This family-friendly event will include races for various age groups and “skill levels” throughout the day, along with music, food, and family activities. More information and on-line registration is available at www.guilderlandrec.com. We cannot promise sunshine for the day of the event, but we do guarantee that there will be plenty of mud!

Golf season is in full swing at Guilderland’s Western Turnpike Golf Course. The course is in good shape thanks to another relatively mild winter and the hard work of our groundskeeping staff. Town residents can obtain discounts on greens fees with presentation of a resident ID card. If you don’t have a card, you can obtain one at the golf course by presenting proof of residency. Call the Pro Shop at 456-0786 for information on spring specials or to book a tee time.

Travel safely around Guilderland, and enjoy the season.

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When you read the Our Towne letter from the Supervisor, the Library news, and business news from the chamber, I hope you all think we have it pretty good here in Guilderland. We have 7 parks, an active recreation program, a nature preserve and 2 museums, 2 premiere shopping center, movies, and several fantastic restaurants and golf courses. We have a wonderful school district that deals with 5,000 kids daily, and a library that sees 300,000 people a year.

In the almost 6 years I have been with the chamber, this community has also come together to help so many families, from the Plants, the Kimmerer’s, the Rodino’s, Titolo’s, Lare’s, and more. People always say to me that Guilderland has such great community spirit and helps our own.

I just want everyone to think of all the good things we have as summer begins here. The chamber will be doing just that at our annual awards dinner on Wed. June 12, 5:30 pm at Mallozzis Clubhouse at Western Turnpike Golf Course, with the following businesses/organizations chosen by their peers as outstanding ones here in Guilderland, Altamont and Voorheesville! Please congratulate the winners on a job well done! They help make this town a great place.

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Margaret C. Tabak is a partner at Tabak & Kiosse, LLP, a law fi rm located in Great Oaks Offi ce Park (near Crossgates Mall). Along with her partner (Leyla A. Kiosse), Attorney Tabak counsels clients on all matters related to matrimonial and family law. A resident of Guilderland for more than 20 years, Margaret received her undergraduate degree from SUNY Albany and her law degree from Albany Law School. If you have questions about a matrimonial or family law issue, contact Attorney Tabak for a consultation by calling 464-4095 or visiting the fi rm’s website, www.tklawllp.com.

CAN I PACK THE KIDS?by Margaret C. Tabak

When you look around at your friends and co-workers, how many people grew up in the Capital District, and how many have moved here from somewhere else? How many people meet romantic inter-ests on-line who live in a different part of the country (or world!)? While we live in a mobile and transient society, this does not apply when parents are apart.

Traditionally, in order to move a parent had to prove “exceptional circumstances” such as economic necessity or serious health issues. This standard was revolutionized in 1996 when the Court of Ap-peals moved the standard to a “best interest” test1. The Court held that the factors that must be looked at include, but are not limited to:

* each parent’s reasons for seeking or opposing the move* the quality of the relationships between the child and the custodial and noncustodial parents* the impact of the move on the quantity and quality of the child’s future contact with the noncustodial parent* the degree to which the custodial parent’s and child’s life may be enhanced economically, emotionally and educationally by the move, and * the feasibility of preserving the relationship between the noncustodial parent and the child through suitable visitation arrangements.

“In the end, it is for the Court to determine, based on all of the proof, whether it has been established by a preponderance of the evidence that a proposed relocation would serve the child’s best interests.”2

Relocation cases are the most diffi cult to settle as there is no com-promise. If one parent wants to move to California from Albany, you cannot simply meet half way and agree that they will both move to Chicago! The case law in the years since Tropea is far reaching

and extremely subjective as each judge must determine what is in the child’s best interest, while trying to provide the custodial parent a “fresh start,” and preserve the relationship between the child and the non-moving parent.

Since 1996 custody arrangements have changed dramatically and more families have an equal (or close to it) sharing of time. An established arrangement where the non-moving parent spends signifi cant time with the child will make it more diffi cult for the moving parent to go. Recently, the Third Department3 denied the mother’s request to move from Montgomery County to Kentucky to live with her new husband, even though she was expecting his child. The Court reasoned that since the father spent 6 out of 14 days with the child, had stable housing and employment, and was an involved and devoted parent, that “trumps” the mother’s desire to start a new life.

In summary, if you want to move it needs to be for a reason other than warm weather, a change of pace, or you want to try something new. On the other hand, if a parent wants to move without a child, you can’t stop him or her.1 Tropea v. Tropea 87 NY2d 727 (1996)2 See above3 Rose v. Buck 103 AD3d 957 (3dDept 2013)

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and Sports”. In the fi rst part, I talked about chiropractic benefi ts for children. In this article I wanted to focus on kids in sports. Now heading into the summer, most of us have camps picked out for our school aged kids. If you have middle school and high school kids, they may already be setting goals for next year’s sports season. If so, then you probably are looking into off season strength and conditioning programs or skill training. I often get asked lots of question about kids in sports and should they be lifting weights, how much protein should they have and how to manage the overuse injuries from year around competition. Hopefully I can give you a little insight to give your athletes the support they need.

MOTOR DEVELOPMENT IN KIDSIt seems like there are more and more sports starting for kids at younger ages. For me, growing up in a rural area in Wisconsin, the sports offered were very limited. For the high school girls there was volleyball, basketball, gymnastics and track and for the boys were football, basketball, wrestling, track and baseball. We did not have any organized sports until 7th grade. Life is so different now. The minute our kids come out of the womb; we are enrolling them in swimming lessons and soccer. There is so much available in terms of sports opportunities and the competition is getting tougher.

There are basic phases or categories of motor and athletic development. Here is a general overview of the movements that develop with age and how to tailor sports programs with athletes. The Refl exive and Rudimentary Movement Phase is from ages 0-2. During this phase, the infant learns basic movements such as picking up their head, rolling over, grasping and crawling. The Fundamental Movement Phase is from ages 2-7. The children gain more motor control and learn skills such as bending, twisting, running, throwing, control objects and combining movement patterns. The primary goal for children participating in sports at this young age is developing interest in activity, refi ning motor skill and most importantly, fun. Next is the Initiation Movement Phase from ages 7-10. Here the large muscle groups are more developed than the smaller one. The anaerobic capacities are limited and children have low tolerance to lactic acid accumulation. Thus training programs should focus on overall athletic development and not sport specifi c development. Your little athlete will be more diverse if strength and conditioning is focused on large muscle groups, coordination of movements, quickness and reaction times. Taking growing tissues into consideration, ligaments are getting stronger but the bony end plates are still mostly cartilage and vulnerable to repetitive overuse injuries. The Athletic Formation Phase is from ages 11-14. During this phase the cardiorespiratory system is more developed

and children can tolerate more lactic acid accumulation. Now it would be appropriate to increase training intensity to a moderate level but continue on a multisport approach keeping the athlete well rounded. There should be emphasis on sport specifi c skill development, drills for game strategy, build fl exibility, coordination and balance. Continue global strength training for core, low back, hips and shoulders. Athletes should use body weight, medicine balls and light dumbbells. The Specialization Phase is from ages 15-18. The most signifi cant changes take place during this phase. Athletes wanting to specialize in one sport should begin training for high-performance development. Athletes have most likely gone through major growth spurs so less emphasis needs to be placed on technical movements and more emphasis on training intensity and competition. The fi nal phase is the called the High Performance Phase for individuals 19 years and older. Here athletes continue on their specialization in one sport with aspirations for collegiate or profession competition.

Q & A:There are so many topics that I wanted to cover in this article because I get asked these question quite frequently. I thought one of the best ways to cover some of them was in this format of question and answers.

When should my athlete focus on sport specifi c training? It is important for children to develop a variety of fundamental athletic skills before they begin a sport specifi c training program. These fundamentals include running form, agility, quickness, hand-eye coordination, balance, reaction time, kicking, throwing, dribbling and catching. Studies show that children that specialize in one sport too early leads to quick performance improvement but are often get overpassed by peers peaking during the varsity level. They can be inconsistent during competitions, have more injuries and many athletes burn out before age 18. Athletes that are in multiple sports tend to have slower improvement but their best performances are around age 18 when seeking college level of competition, have a longer athletic journey with less injuries.

When should athletes start lifting weights?This is a loaded question. Technically, it is not recommended for athletes to start lifting weights until after puberty or around age 13-15. However, your body does not know the difference between a push up and a bench press. Your body recognizes that there is a physiologic stress and responds by building stronger muscle tissue to be able to do more push up the next time there is an effort. Most of our kids are doing push-ups and sit-ups in kindergarten. These are strength training exercises. Now do I take my kids to the gym to lift weights? No, but I will give my 6 year old water bottles to hold for shoulder press exercises or squats. I will let my

kids use therabands and medicine balls for light general strength exercises. My goal and emphasis is placed on technique and biomechanics, not on the amount of resistance.

Olympic lifts such as a snatch, hang clean, push press and push jerk take years to perfect the technique. Athletes can start to perform the movements at any age without weight or while holding a stick. Again, emphasis should be placed on form and technique. Weight should only be added with a trained adult present and if cleared by the athlete’s doctor.

Youth weight training guidelines: according to the American College of Sports Medicine• 1-3 sets of 6-15 repetitions• Multi-joint exercises can be used with

proper form• 2-3 sessions per week• Must have adult supervision

When should my athlete start plyometrics?For those of you who do not know, plyometrics are jump training and the goal for doing it is to increase speed and power. When should your little athlete start? Well, they already are doing light forms of plyometrics when they are jumping off playground equipment, jumping rope, playing hop scotch, skipping. When trained athletes do them, they are doing them with more intensity, higher challenges and deeper depths. Again, with the little athletes, focus is on form and technique.

How can I prevent overuse injuries with my kids?The number one reason for overuse injuries is tissue fatigue. If you watch kids play, they will stop when they get tired and get something to drink when they get thirsty. It is when adults start to intervene that overuse injuries happen. Be smart about intensity and repetitions. This has become such a problem with youth sports over recent years with kids playing one sport all year long. Follow guidelines set in your sport to prevent injuries, such as limiting pitches in baseball and encourage multiple sports.

What about sports nutrition? Does my child need protein or energy drinks? Yes, athletes need to monitor their nutrition more than non-athletes. Yes, depending on their sport and level, athletes may need more protein. No, I do not recommend energy drinks for athletes. My favorite post-event drink for young athletes is chocolate milk. I will be covering this topic in great detail on June 27th. You can sign up for this class through Guilderland Community Education. It is called Sports Nutrition for Young Athletes.

Additional training tips Never underestimate the warm-up.

You will know that you are properly warmed up when you begin to sweat.

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Athletes need sleep! This is when your body rebuilds your tissues that they have just spent hours breaking down. Most bodybuilders and Olympians try to get 9 hours of sleep each night.

When an athlete needs to change a major motor pattern, such as running form, baseball swing, tennis serve, etc. it is best to do it during the off season. It takes 10,000 repetitions for your brain to remember a well-trained motor pattern or engram. This can take years to perfect. Often times the pattern will get worse before it gets better which can be discouraging to the athletes.

OLYMPIC INSIGHTSo if you haven’t fi gured it out by now, I’m a little bit of an Olympic fan. A few weeks ago, I attended the annual Sports Chiropractic Symposium held by the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians. I have attended this event in the past but this year was special since it was held in Colorado Springs at the Olympic Training Center. Most of the presenters were the medical professionals such as physical therapists, sports chiropractors, the sports psychologist and the high performance director. This team of professionals is an integral part of the Olympic athlete’s success. The last speaker of the symposium was Jenny Simpson. She is a World Champion runner and Olympian. It was so exciting for me to be able to hear about everything that goes into training, psychology, injuries and treatment of these amazing athletes.

Some common themes among all the speakers, that were key factors to the Olympic athlete’s success, were mental focus, create a routine and checklist and have a deep love of the sport. Dr. Peter Haberl, the sport psychologist for the Olympic Training Center (OTC), spoke about the intense pressure these athletes can be under during fi nal events. And in those fi nal moments all the thoughts that go through the athlete’s mind. If the athlete is thinking about winning or losing, basically they are not able to focus on the skill they are there to perform. He talked about how important it is for athletes to bring their focus back to their fi ve senses. For example, if the athlete is a target shooter, have the athlete look at their targets, feel their equipment in their hand, feel their breathing and the mind will focus on the task.

Another speaker, Dr. Peter Vint, stressed how important it was to create a routine and a checklist. This helps to reduce the amount of errors that could cost the athlete a metal. The athletes are trained to have the same routine and checklist on race days, such as, eat the same breakfast at the same time, pack their bags the exact same way every time so that equipment is not missing, they put their bib numbers in the same place so they do not get lost, they listen to the same music and they do the same warm up, etc. For some of these athletes, this process race/game day prep can be 5 hours. And all the speakers talked about how all these Olympic athletes love the sports they play. Whenever they are asked why they put so much time into training and dedicate their lives to this level of competition, the answer is always the same, “I love this sport”.

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