Author: Rick Mc

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

Paris McGee can dance

The former Ohio State gymnast emulated some of the top WAG routines in 2016.

Click PLAY or watch Simone’s Floor on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Laurie’s on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch Gabby’s on Instagram.

Watch a 2018 interview during Paris’ final season following ACL surgery.

related – Men’s Gymnastics Better With Music, And This Guy Proves It (2006)

Taylor Lawson – Arabian

Watch it on Tumblr.

https://www.tumblr.com/irishdaniel/182322017748/taylor-lawson-of-stanford-nails-her-arabian-on

USAG membership is up

Despite bad publicity, CEO turnover and the U.S. Olympic Committee’s threat to decertify it, USA Gymnastics membership has risen

USA Gymnastics increased its athlete membership more than 8% from 2016 to 2018, according to data that the group has not posted publicly. … …

WSJ – Gymnastics Scandal’s Surprise Aftermath: More Gymnasts

H Bar / Trampoline stunt

I’m intrigued with this combination of apparatus.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

action sports acrobatics training

See an amazing facility. Sponsored by Bänfer, Germany.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

emotional abuse in Gymnastics

In this post a former British national squad gymnast reflects on her former coach.

The under-reported risk for competitive gymnasts is psychological abuse.

Anonymous:

Looking back over my time with Coach is something I find difficult. I know not all my memories are bad but those are the ones that most easily come to mind. …

But, at this point the good days for me far outweighed the not so good days and I enjoyed being there, I enjoyed working with Coach, in fact I would go as far as to say I loved her. …

… after a while no matter what I did it just wasn’t good enough, my name was now added to the blacklist. It became a matter of survival, be the one who least upset Coach during a session, praying Coach would take her wrath out on anyone but me. …

It was only Coach’s talent that would get me to the Olympics, not my own and if I moved to another coach my Olympic dream would be over. In retrospect, I can see how naïve I was to believe this, yet this haunted me throughout my career and I gave up on myself once I left coach, believing my dreams and goals were shattered.

Warriors in Leotards

Click through to read the whole story.

coach Elizabeth Brubaker suspended

I’m surprised to hear that coach Elizabeth Brubaker has been suspended by Gymnastics Canada after receiving “a number of written formal complaints… that outlined alleged violations of Gymnastics Canada’s ethics and code of conduct policies over an extended period of time a number of years ago.”