Author: Rick Mc

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

Maggie & Kyla – College Coaches

An excellent interview.

Maggie:

I really didn’t know what to expect and how I would feel. But I think it’s such a great experience and I feel like I’m still a part of the team.

I’m really enjoying the experience and I feel like I have a different perspective than the coaches, because I just did gymnastics last year and so I feel like I can give different corrections and things like that. I just love still being a part of this sport in some way. …

Kyla:

I want to take this year and gain as much experience as I can to see if I potentially want to coach in the future, so I think just observing how the other coaches are interacting with the girls is something that I’ve tried to focus on a lot. …

ROC (Russian Olympic Committee)

Due to state-backed doping, approved by Putin (I assume), “Russia” will not be competing in Tokyo.

I am happy the athletes were not banned outright as, of course, many did not dope.

… a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling from December which barred Russia’s name, flag, anthem and other national symbols in a package of sanctions over what it deemed Russia’s failure to turn over accurate data from the Moscow drug-testing laboratory.

The team in Tokyo will be officially known not as “Russia,” but as “ROC”, for Russian Olympic Committee. …

Russian athletes had similar limits on their uniforms and symbols at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang …

Russia’s flag banned but national colors on Olympic uniforms

Canada’s denim Olympic jacket

OK.

I guess I’m too old to appreciate this look.

Twitter pokes fun at Canada’s denim Olympic closing ceremony look

Shane Wiskus wins Nissen-Emery

Congratulations.

Listen to his acceptance speech.

NCAA team final 2021 is competitive

Listen to Bart.

All-Japan qualifications

  1. Murakami Mai 56.266
  2. Hatakeda Hitomi 55.099
  3. Hiraiwa Yuna 54.132
  4. Teramoto Asuka 53.998
  5. Soma Ui 53.932
  6. Hatakeda Chiaki 53.565
  7. Sugihara Aiko 53.432
  8. Yamada Chiharu 52.966

via theGymter.net

timeline of NCAA Championships

Thanks Greg.

perfectionism is on the rise

Thomas Curran and Andrew Hill’s meta-analysis of rates of perfectionism from 1989 to 2016, the first study to compare perfectionism across generations, found significant increases among more recent undergraduates in the US, UK and Canada.

In other words, the average college student last year was much more likely to have perfectionistic tendencies than a student in the 1990s or early 2000s. …

The Dangerous Downsides of Perfectionism

Perfectionistic tendencies have been linked to clinical issues: depression and anxiety (even in children), self-harm, social anxiety disorder and agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, binge eating, anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, insomnia, hoarding, dyspepsia, chronic headaches, and, most damning of all, even early mortality and suicide.

Social media has likely compounded some of those problems.

SO — coaches should not encourage kids to be perfect.

Thanks Steve.