Category: books & manuals

NEW Pommel Book by Miguel Costante 

Amazon for Kindle or Paperback:

The English translation has just been released. Miguel has coached in Canada for decades and is completely bilingual.

Miguel is widely recognized one of the best MAG age-group coaches.

He’s available as a consultant for any club worldwide.

Happily, Miguel also has a lot of FREE content on his site in both English & Spanish so you can check out his coaching philosophy first.

The NEW website is Evolve-Gymnastic.com (no S at the end of Gymnastic)

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”

Chellsie’s Challenges – by Chellsie Memmel

Life Lessons Learned From an Olympic Gymnast Paperback – March 5, 2023

.. Follow along with Chellsie as she takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of her elite gymnastics career and the lessons she learned along the way.

Amazon

From reviews I’ve read, it sounds an inspiring read for adults, appropriate for teens and tweens, as well.

The title reminded me of Chellsie’s YouTube challenges. 😀

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott

You Will Know Me (2016) is worth reading.

It’s an adult murder mystery not appropriate for children.

The Gymnastics coming-of-age story is incidental to the plot.

Author Megan Abbott was not a gymnast — but does a very credible job of writing from the perspective of a Gym Mom at BelStars Gymnastics.

She joined Gymnastics parent forums to listen to what they talked about.

You Will Know Me, follows a tight-knit gymnastics community as a brutal death sends shockwaves through everyone.

Parents Katie and Eric Knox have a 15-year-old daughter, Devon, who is both a gymnastics prodigy and an Olympic hopeful — but now, they worry that everything they’ve sacrificed for her might be at risk.

Can Katie hold her family together even as she’s distracted by and drawn into the crime itself?

Click PLAY or watch an author interview on YouTube.

Gymneo coaching manuals

I’d say the most complete coaching video tutorials online are those available via Gymneo subscription.

AND you can also purchase companion BOOKS that compliment the videos.

Floor 1 • Shoulder stand • Forward and backward rolls • Handstand • Forward lunge • Bridges •

Floor 2 • Cartwheel • Handspring • Run-up hurdle • Headspring • Flyspring •

Beam • Back walkover • Flic-flac step-out • Layout step-out • Tuck back •

Vault 1 • Tuck jump • Handspring • Round-off • Half-on Half-off •

Vault 2 • Handspring front • Tsukahara tuck • Yurchenko •

→ 906 exercises – 5 books

Details 164,50€

Nile Wilson – ‘My Story’

I’m looking forward to Nile’s autobiography.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Confessions of a Division 1 Athlete

By Jim Karas and Olivia Karas

A Dad and Daughter’s Guide to Survival.

Order here.

Olivia was a star with Michigan.

Listen to a charming and entertaining interview on the All Things Gymnastics podcast.

Degrees of Difficulty by Georgia Cervin

How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace

How the Cold War era changed the trajectory of women’s gymnastics

Georgia Cervin is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and a former international gymnast.

Electrifying athletes like Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci helped make women’s artistic gymnastics one of the most popular events in the Olympic Games.

But the transition of gymnastics from a women’s sport to a girl’s sport in the 1970s also laid the foundation for a system of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of gymnasts around the world.

Georgia Cervin offers a unique history of women’s gymnastics, examining how the high-stakes diplomatic rivalry of the Cold War created a breeding ground for exploitation. …

Cervin also charts the changes in style, equipment, training, and participants that transformed the sport, as explosive athleticism replaced balletic grace and gymnastics dominance shifted from East to West. …

Buy it here.

Olivia Karas has a book

She wrote it with her father.

Confessions of a Division 1 Athlete

A Dad and Daughter’s Guide to Survival