Author: Rick Mc

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

Shane Wiskus documentary

This documentary has been playing in a series of film festivals.

Leave a comment if you know when it will be available to stream online.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

All-Japan Championships AA results

Sadly, both Yamada Chiharu and Yamaguchi Sara left the competition with what looked like serious knee injuries.

🥇 Watanabe Hazuki 106.963 (53.598, 53.365)
🥈 Miyata Shoko 106.797 (53.198, 53.599)
🥉 Kishi Rina 106.764 (53.032, 53.732)

Kishi is a first-year senior. As a junior last year, she placed 12th at the NHK Trophy. #THE #DEPTH

Kishi had a solid Yurchenko double last year but it looks like she’s improved across the board on her other events. Japanese WAG is becoming like MAG where they are just churning out SO many athletes at ridiculously high levels, it’s almost impossible to guess who can make teams!

Rounding out the top eight here are…

4. Fukasawa Kokoro 106.664
5. Hatakeda Chiaki 105.498
6. Sakaguchi Ayaka 105.032
7. Okamura Mana 104.663
8. Nakamura Haruka 103.664

Ashikawa Urara is 14th but put up the top beam score of 14.166. Yamaguchi Sara didn’t compete floor today.

Originally tweeted by The Gymternet (@thegymterdotnet) on April 22, 2023.

NCAA Coaches Well-Being Study

In Women’s Artistic Gymnastics, being a full-time NCAA coach is just about the best job in the world.

KJ Kindler makes about $555,000+ / year, for example.

I doubt she’d leave NCAA coaching for any other job. 😀

A study published January 2023 looks at how NCAA coaches are supporting student-athletes … while also caring for their own mental health.

What impact do changes in recruiting and roster management during the pandemic have on their jobs?

What support is desired by coaches to help them navigate the challenges they and the athletes on their teams face?

Over 6,000 head and assistant coaches across all three NCAA divisions answered a short survey …

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Kim Bui autobiography

The legend — Kim Bui — represented Germany from 2004 until the 2022 European Championships in Munich. Three Olympics. Six World Championships. Always a fan favourite.

Though reluctant at first to write a career retrospective, she decided to go ahead hoping that sharing her story will help others.

“The hardest chapter to write was the one on eating disorders,” she said. “I had never talked about it until then. …”

Kim Bui on her battle with bulimia: “I want to say that you… are not alone”

WAG competing Circles & Flairs

This direction still has plenty of potential.

I suspect we’ll see WAG competing Air Flair on Floor within the next 5 years.

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MOST of the Artistic Gymnastics competitors in this video learned those skills first at Seneca Gymnastics in Canada. Peng-Peng Lee is the most famous.

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Zsófia Kovács – EU silver AA routines

Zsófia Kovács is now age-23. The 2017 and 2023 European all-around silver medalist, the 2020 European champion on uneven bars, as well as the 2020 and 2022 European champion on vault.

Click PLAY or watch all 4 apparatus in the 2023 AA on YouTube.

Asher Hong – Ri Se Gwang

Looks like something between Ri Se Gwang and Dragulescu, to me.

Judges don’t seem to care.