Site editor Rick McCharles will be mostly offline well into June 2026. He’s section hiking part of the Pacific Crest Trail in California.
Nathan Roman – NCAA P Bar Champ
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Changing Gymnastics Culture – a review
Dave Tilley’s excellent book, more than 450 pages.
Something for every coach: sports medicine, injury prevention, conditioning, ethics, …
Dave was partly inspired to put his ideas together by the Nassar crimes. He sensed “outdated training methods and a toxic culture can foster abusive practices” in Gym … making it possible for a pedophile to go undetected for decades.
Coaches spent inordinate amounts of time with young children and parents place complete trust in them. Young athletes are taught that their dreams may depend on the approval of a famous trainer or coach. They are also programmed to believe that obeying orders given, without question, is the only path to achieve their dreams.
Together, these truths about certain areas of our sport, while not necessarily inherently malicious in nature, certainly open to the door to abuse and mistreatment of young athletes. …
I certainly recommend you download and check it out for yourself.
Dave’s made his book free. Click through to download.
The book is 3 PDFs.
In addition are two resources: Myofascial Release Checklist and a Splits Complex.
Max Whitlock – Air Flair ON Pommels?
Ke Qinqin – oversplit on Beam
Ke Qinqin’s highest balance beam score to date is 14.900 at 2026 Chinese National Championships.
Amazing flexibility.
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what keeps kids in Gymnastics?
Gymnastics Ireland interviewed some young ladies.
Everyone has ups and downs. The coach needs to step in when one of their gymnasts is in a down phase.
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Teenage dropout amongst girls is a widespread issue in sport and in gymnastics, which if tackled, can support lifelong involvement in sport and physical activity to improve the lives of women & girls.
As a predominantly youth sport, Gymnastics presents a unique and powerful opportunity to help girls develop a strong love of sport and physical activity from a young age to nurture continued participation through adolescence and beyond to support their health, happiness and wellbeing into later life.
Through our research and beyond, we asked girls and women involved in our sport “What keeps you here?” – because what keeps you here matters to us.
that MUST be a gymnast
Kaede Maeda – 15.633 H Bar !
Pegan piked (Maras). Cassina to Kolman.
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