Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

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 …

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Buckeye coach Kittia Carpenter is on the USAG CEO core search committee along with Justin Spring and others.

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.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Contact David_C_Frison (a) yahoo.com if you want to know more.

Kitazono leads P Bar qualifications

This kid is amazing.

YOG in Argentina.

1 Takeru Kitazono Japan 5.5 8.766 14.266
2 Sergei Naidin Russia 5.1 8.833 13.933
3 Nazar Chepurnyi Ukraine 5.2 8.633 13.833
4 Yin Dehang China 5.2 8.366 13.566
5 Krisztian Balazs Hungary 4.8 8.600 13.400
6 Ayan Moldagaliyev Kazakhstan 4.4 8.966 13.366
7 Adam Tobin Great Britain 4.5 8.841 13.341
8 Nguyen Van Khanh Phong Vietnam 4.5 8.833 13.333

Full results.

Simone Biles: speaking out empowered me

So … the criminal doctor is in prison for hundreds of years.

What’s changed?

Will more girls and young women be willing to call out sexual assault and harassment? Are women more empowered in 2018?

I hope so.

Simone’s on prime time BBC TV news in the U.K.

But at the same time the President of the United States has been accused by at least nineteen women since the 1980s. He’s paid women hush money too.

Though initially calling testimony under oath by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford “very credible”, Trump later ridiculed her.

Young women who watched that harsh attack might be less willing to come forward. ☹️

Miss Val is another UCLA coaching legend

I’m listening to the audio book now.

It’s always best when the author reads. It makes the content come alive.

Life Is Short, Don’t Wait to Dance

Advice and Inspiration from the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame Coach of 7 NCAA Championship Teams

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

(via Ashley)

Gymnastics obstacle course

In a mini-Gym.