Gym Chat – online Gymnastics community

Social networking for the MySpace generation.

Fluorescent colours, jammed with options. I don’t know where to start. You’ll have to see it for yourself.

Roxanna Ehsanipour from Gym Chat tells me they are getting a great response to the free gymnast websites offer:

They are packed with features: upload pictures/videos, post youtube videos, blog, message, connect with friends, organize schedule and competitions/results, custom design or use templates, plus more.

Also, we have a lot of privacy / security options in place, such as choosing friends only/public/all public view settings, friends only/members/all message post settings, and choosing how your gymnast web is indexed in the Find Member search.

… No web design or programming experience necessary!

I am surprised more competitive athletes don’t have their own websites. This may be a better option than MySpace or FaceBook.

Clubs can use an easy web builder to upload new schedules, results, pictures, videos, etc. and design their own teams web and build on their team community.

No more waiting for the web designer to make updates or high maintenance fees. Also on Gym Chat, check out pictures, news, videos, post/rate your gymnastics club, chat on our gymnastics message board, plus more!

Essential for this old blogger, however, are RSS feeds which can tell me when something new goes up on the site.

So far you can subscribe by RSS from these pages:

Gym Chat Message Boards

Gym Chat Classifieds

More feeds will be added.

Though it’s not geared at my generation, I have a feeling Gym Chat will be popular with female gymnasts.

Leave a comment if you’ve have some feedback on the service.