Author: Rick Mc

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

Elite Ranking – November 2023

GymCastic put together a ranking of the top elite AA gymnasts in the world — as of NOW.

It’s largely influenced by Worlds 2023 results.

  1. SIMONE BILES
  2. REBECA ANDRADE
  3. SHILESE JONES
  4. QIU QIYUAN
  5. MELANIE DE JESUS DOS SANTOS
  6. KAYLIA NEMOUR
  7. ZHOU YAQIN
  8. MANILA ESPOSITO
  9. FLAVIA SARAIVA
  10. JESSICA GADIROVA

Click through for more on the list. Plus VIDEOS of each.

World Elite Power Ranking – November 28, 2023

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Takaaki Sugino – H Bar

David Phillips – Head of Gymnastics New Zealand

Congratulations.

June Preisser – acrobatic dance

June Preisser was an American actress, popular in musical films during the late 1930s and through the 1940s, many of which capitalized on her skills as an acrobat.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Elizabeth Reid appreciation

Excellent and unique choreography.

“Ryan” – new H Bar dismount

Triple back with 2/1 twist.  Yeesh. 

Kellen Ryan. 

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The Teenage Brain

Recommended for coaches is a 2016 book looking at the latest research in brain development.

The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults – by Frances E Jensen & Amy Ellis Nutt 

For those of us who have forgotten 😀, teenagers are capable of incredibly bad decisions.

There’s a reason for that.

The teenage brain is not yet fully developed.

Click PLAY or watch an interview with one of the authors on YouTube.

Kenzo – H Bar

Now retired. And age-27.

Kenzo still has one of the best Tak 1/1s in the world.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

Mishel Echeverría – 1/1 on Beam

Mishel is age-14.