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I’ll be in Doha covering the competition — and human rights issues — starting Oct 21st.
Month: October 2018
2019 Europeans in Szczecin, Poland
10–14 April 2019. MAG and WAG.
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Located near the Baltic Sea, Szczecin is a major seaport and Poland’s seventh-largest city. As of June 2011, the population was 407,811. …
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Shawn Johnson went to regular school
Shawn on Freakonomics:
… My coach was Chinese, born and raised Chinese. When he was three years old, living in China, he was taken away from his family and actually put into their Olympic system. And raised to be an Olympic gymnast in China. And he kind of had this career within the gymnastics world in China that I would say almost traumatized him. He lost his childhood. He kind of lost his family in this trend. This crazy career.
So when he was 21 years old he actually left China, came to the United States, opened a gym in West Des Moines, Iowa, of all places. And had this dream, this American dream, to raise an Olympian or Olympians that were also children and how to balance in life and were fun loving and had a true childhood.
And I was really really blessed to fall under his guidance and his coaching because he let me go to school. I mean not even let me. He kind of demanded that we go to a full day of school. He encouraged us to go to school dances, to go to Dairy Queen after practice. He incentivized us by letting us sleep over at the gym and have popcorn and ice cream. And he just was this fun loving guy.
And I think because he let us have fun as children, but yet pushed us and challenged us at the same time, it challenged us and encouraged us to go farther in the sport. And I feel the intensity of elite athletics, you weed out a lot of people just because you burn them out so quickly. So no, I don’t think the intensity is necessary. I think you need intense training but in small doses, not the 80 hours a week people think. …
(via Steve Arkell)
YOG Beam qualifiers
1. Tang Xijing CHN 13.800
2. Bachynska Anastasiia UKR 13.400
3. Klimenko Kseniia RUS 13.100
4. Slevin Emma IRL 12.433
5. Spence Emma CAN 12.433
6. Puiu Ana-Maria ROU 12.366
7. Villa Giorgia ITA 12.333
8. Morgan Amelie GBR 12.233
YOG H Bar qualifiers
1 Kitazono Takeru JPN 13.600
2 Balazs Krisztian HUN 13.366
3 Soares Diogo BRA 13.300
4 Naidin Sergei RUS 13.300
5 Dolci Felix CAN 13.233
6 Briones Brandon USA 13.000
7 Giannini Lay ITA 12.933
8 Ivanovs Olegs LAT 12.733
In the meet that never ends, Artistic qualifiers have all been decided.
That silly interdisciplinary team thing is finished too. Team Simone Biles was the winner. Congratulations to those who were somehow placed on that squad. 😀
Focused and Inspired by Lisa Mitzel
If you liked her first book — “Focused and On Fire” — as I did, you’ll want to check out #2 “Focused and Inspired“.
Keeping Our Athletes Safe in a Win-at-All-Costs World
The book identifies verbal and emotional abuse and shares methods to prevent it in sport.
It’s still a “positive coaching” approach helping coaches optimize the experience for their athletes.
You can order it from her publisher. $16.95 or less.
A Sport Psychologist, Lisa will be working TOPS Camps for USAG.
men’s training montage
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Buckeye Gymnastics update
Founder and Owner David Holcomb:
… it was encouraging when team auditions and registrations reached an all-time high last spring …
While our recreation enrollment has been soft our competition team hours have grown significantly. Preschool enrollment, particularly day-time preschool enrollment, is down. School-age recreational programs are flat.
The bright spot for us has been our competition programs. We have always fielded a large team with competitors at levels 2 through elite. We have also fielded Xcel teams at the recreation level for over a decade in a league involving other gyms in Central Ohio. This year we started offering Xcel as part of our competition program and the huge response has been something of a surprise. Those gymnasts are excited and ready to begin competition within the USA Gymnastics Xcel program.
Our new and still growing Xcel team will encourage us to expand the Buckeye Classic to include additional sessions at all Xcel levels. …
We have expanded Buckeye Warriors with more space and exciting new equipment with an emphasis on obstacle courses that is attracting a lot of boys new to the gym. …
Buckeye Gymnastics has gone green. We have generated over 75,000 kWt hours since we added solar and replaced our fluorescent lights with LED lights saving significantly on the electric bills. We should break even on this investment within five years …
Buckeye coach Kittia Carpenter is on the USAG CEO core search committee along with Justin Spring and others.
Artur Dalaloyan – P Bars
At the Russian Men’s Worlds team camp.
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California Muscle Beach documentary
Have you been there?
A film is currently being planned by stuntman David Frison. He’s looking for support for the project. And would like us to spread the word.
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Contact David_C_Frison (a) yahoo.com if you want to know more.
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