Author: Rick Mc

Lisa Adlard at IEGA had trouble scheduling coaching meetings. As do we all. 😦

It’s difficult to get your staff together and free at the same time ANYTIME during the week.

Instead, Lisa schedules coaching “huddles”. These are very brief get-togethers (15min or so) inside the gym. With very few talking points.

The week I was there:

• Weekly Focus …
• Certificates …
• Thanking volunteers …
• Customer service … smile, greet parents and inform them of something their child did well that day
• Keep the Front Office clear

Lisa schedules 2 each week. Every coach must attend one or the other.

In the U.K.

Bob Bellew, 66, has published books on gymnastics, taught at schools across the UK and was a former Community Coach of the Year. …

… he admitted a string of sexual abuse charges, spanning 40 years, against girls he was tutoring.

He was today spared jail at Snaresbrook Crown Court by a judge who said he had demonstrated ‘genuine remorse’.

His outraged victims slammed the justice system in a statement after the pervert was handed a suspended sentence.

They said: ‘This sentence says you are allowed to go into a primary school and touch young girls and you will not be punished for it. …

read more in the Daily Mail

Cirque Du Soleil La Nouba Harlem Shake TRAPEZE STYLE

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Thanks Matt.

(via Jürgen Haßdenteufel on Facebook)

Vanessa Zamarripa fell on her beam dismount at Regionals last weekend, and we asked Miss Val about the injury.

Valorie Kondos-Field of UCLA:

“Vanessa has a sprain in her foot/ankle, between the fourth and fifth metatarsus of her foot, and it’s all along that side of her foot and into her ankle. So, she’s not training yet. She just got out of a boot. She’s got a steel plate in her tennis shoe, and she said, ‘I’ll be fine.’ So [sigh] she’ll be fine.”

After uncharacteristic mistakes from seniors Vanessa Zamarripa and Monique de la Torre, we were curious whether there would be any changes to UCLA’s lineup.

Valorie Kondos-Field of UCLA: “No, hopefully not. We don’t have anyone else to put in. No, we’re planning on going with the same team, and they’re actually training really well.” …

read more on GymCastic – 9 Quotes from Today’s NCAA Press Conference

Greek gymnasts Vasiliki Millousi, Eleftherios Kosmidis and Eleftherios Petrounias in a magazine photo shoot.

See more on Vasiliki Millousi’s blog.

(via Gymnastics Examiner on Facebook)

Denis Vachon on Facebook:

I definitely put being an athlete first! My priority is to as healthy and clean as possible in my diet in order to be able to deliver the best performance in the gym everyday. I’m an athlete 24/7 not just when my shorts are on. I believe that is the reason I’ve been so successful!

Happy Eating 🙂

Chellsie Memmel:

Healthy lifestyle choices, particularly nutrition, are very important as an athlete (and beyond, too). I like routine in my life (no pun intended) so I tend to stick to them. …

Preparing for an Important Meet

Dove Canada is distributing a Photoshop action that attempts to un-airbrush altered images of models.

Click PLAY or see how it works on YouTube.

The message coaches want to get out to girls and women is that a good body is one that can get the job done.

related – If Barbie was Human

Not bad, in this case.

(via Reiko Beach on Facebook)

Can you cartoon Soviet and Russian gymnastics in two comic, profane pages using mainly .gifs?

You can try.

Tumblr – Because FAN is short for FANatic – A (NOT SO) BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN GYMNASTICS SAGA AS IT RELATES TO THE FIRING OF ALEXANDER ALEXANDROV

PART 1 – The demise

PART 2 – The Resurgence.

hmm …

I’m feeling .gif fatigue. 😦

And it seems Tumblr has grown increasingly negative. A place where haters try outdoing each other. I won’t link so often.