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Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
unicorn Bars routine goes viral
Georgia Elite Gymnastics coach Janessa Davis is everywhere.
Click PLAY or watch the ESPN opening on YouTube.
Here’s another clip from one of her gymnasts.
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USAG still searching for new CEO
While it might be rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, no doubt some future organization replacing USAG can use some of the existing policies and procedures.
USA Gymnastics Karen Golz, Board chair:
Top Priorities for the next CEO:
- Work to ensure the safety of athletes.
- Lead an organizational transformation to rebuild trust and move the organization forward in a positive and inclusive manner.
- Ensure transparency in USA Gymnastics operations to build organizational and public trust.
Key Experience
- Experience leading cultural change, organizational transformation or turnaround in a complex setting.
- Experience in gymnastics, either as an athlete, coach, parent or administrator.
- Proven stakeholder management skills; history of working effectively with a board and a diverse constituent base or membership organization.
Personal Characteristics
- Unquestioned integrity, credibility and character.
- Strong, transparent communicator and motivator.
- Knowledgeable about gymnastics and USA Gymnastics as an organization.
- Team-oriented and collaborative.
Read the full statement.
when girls lose confidence
In their tween and teenage years, girls become dramatically less self-assured—a feeling that often lasts through adulthood.
On the upside, girls who play sports are more successful in later life. …
The habit of what psychologists call rumination—essentially, dwelling extensively on negative feelings—is more prevalent in women than in men, and often starts at puberty. …
Our poll shows that from ages 8 to 14 boys are more likely than girls to describe themselves as confident, strong, adventurous, and fearless. …
Social media doesn’t help either, and its ill effects might hit girls harder than boys. …
There’s evidence that tweaking the status quo, and acclimating girls at this critical age to more risk taking and failure, makes a difference. Some of the most compelling data links participation in sports to professional success. …
It’s not only through athletics that young girls can gain confidence; sport is simply an organized and easily available opportunity to experience loss, failure, and resilience. But the same skills can be acquired by participating on a debate team, learning to cook, or speaking up on behalf of a cause like animal welfare
Worlds montage
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Men’s 2019 NCAA Championships Champaign, Illinois
Ravil Adeev 1982 Pommels
No skew. Flair through handstand.
Flairs were still a fairly new innovation in 1982.
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how the criminal doctor was finally caught
… the beginning of the end comes in the summer of 2016, thanks to three things: a tough police detective, a dedicated team of journalists in Indiana, and a homeschooling mom from Kentucky.
That mom is Rachael Denhollander. She’s also a lawyer and a devout Christian. …
Believed – How He Got Caught
I’m still astonished that American medical associations took so little of the blame. ☹️
UIC needs $25.2 million by March 15th
“The athletic administration has given us a number to raise in order to fully endow the men’s and women’s programs with full scholarships and that number is $25.2 million,” Marden said. …
in defence of icing injuries
#StandUp4Ice
I’ve read the articles. But still recommend ice to athletes in most of the same situations we did in the past. It often helps.
Dr. Dave Tilley is still proscribing ice.
He links to this article by Mike Reinold:
… Ice isn’t the bad guy. Yes, we tend to apply ice in some situations that probably doesn’t help and claim we do so for the wrong reasons. But the bottom line is that there are several benefits to ice, and ice has not been proven to impede the healing process as many claim. …
Is Icing an Injury Really Bad for You? What the Science Says
Ice plunge?
At University of Saskatchewan we would use it for a new strain / sprain, but never full body.
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