Author: Rick Mc

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

about that ‘Coaching Shortage’

Tony Retrosi:

Gymnasts who could choose to become coaches are choosing not to. …

As gym owners we need to make coaching a profession. Educate our staff. Make them proud of what they do. We need to charge for classes and team enough to pay our staff a sustainable wage. If we do that we will see the ranks of coaches grow. Making coaching and teaching gymnastics a competitive profession.

Make Coaching A Profession

Men qualified to Tokyo Olympics (so far)

Click PLAY or see the teams on YouTube.

Click PLAY or see the individuals on YouTube.

There are a few more to be named.

Ivan Stretovich training for Tokyo

… Surgeries, growth spurt and coaching issues were among the obstacles he had to overcome to become a part of the gold-winning Russian team in Stuttgart. …

… I changed coaches, that was the most important thing. … now I’m with Vitaly Nikolayevich Bubnovsky [who coached Aleksander Balandin]. He believed in me, he got me to such a place where I’m ready to go out and compete at any moment. …

Under his coaching, only after a month of training, I went to the Universiade in Naples and won four medals. After that, there was the training camp in Japan and right after, the Russian Cup and the second place in the all-around. …

… We started working together in June, only four months have passed, but the work has changed radically, from warming up to the second practice. I started paying attention to every little thing …

STRETOVICH: I NEEDED TO FALL INTO A WASTE PIT TO BECOME A WORLD CHAMPION

Ivan Stretovich 2016

outdoor playground trampolines

Here’s something I’d never seen before.

Small, tight trampolines built into the dirt. Kids love them. And they looked surprisingly safe. (Too tight to flip from.)

Budapest close to the Liberty Statue

understanding Max Whitlock’s routine

Again World Champion, Max won in 2019 because he had by far the highest start score.

Note – Max does Magyar travel with the wrong hand forward, to have less skew.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.