Category: books & manuals

parent – coach – athlete relationship

I find many coaches — especially young coaches — not particularly skilled at dealing with the parents of their athletes.

Progress is much easier when parents are 100% on board your training plan.

You could forward Makenna’s post on the role of the sport parent:

HOMEWORK FOR GYMNASTICS PARENTS

As a follow-up, three books are recommended for parents:

(1) Positive Sports Parenting – quick read and easy application.

(2) Changing the Game – thorough and action oriented.

(3) How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk – advice and assignments that apply not just to sports but parent-child communication in general.

Young Adult fiction: When it Counts

Just in time for Christmas the second book in a three-part series by Lauren Hopkins is available in digital formats.

A year ago, 15-year-old Amalia Blanchard failed to qualify to nationals, but now with less than two months until the 2016 Olympic Games, she’s the United States beam champion on her way to fight for a spot on the Olympic team. Gymnastics is Amalia’s life and she’s sacrificed everything to get this far, but she still has to prove she has what it takes …

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Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength

Six years after first publication, a second edition of Steven Low’s manual is available.

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You can purchase the second edition of Overcoming Gravity on US Amazon. CA Amazon. UK Amazon. DE Amazon. FR Amazon. 

Leave a comment if you’ve got a copy.

Golden Era of Gymnastics 1980-84

golden-eraby Karen Louise Hollis

This is a memoir of a young gymnast growing up in England in the 1980s and falling in love with the sport of gymnastics after watching the 1980 Olympics.

$24.87

double amputee gymnast

Watch 7-year old Autumn Fought walk in handstand. #impressed

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She must meet Jennifer Bricker one day.

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new Gymnastics novel by Lauren Hopkins

The sequel to Finding Our Balance (2015) drops December 13, 2016. A Young Adult novel.

https://twitter.com/LaurenHopkins96/status/793968976846090243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Laurie Hernandez – new book

In between celebrating her Olympic triumph, becoming a front-runner on the current season of Dancing with the Stars and continuing her high school education, gymnast Laurie Hernandez has written a book!

 “I hope I can help inspire people to go for their dreams,” the gold medalist, 16, tells PEOPLE of why she wanted to chronicle her journey from New Jersey to the Rio Olympics. “It was really fun to go down memory lane and reflect on how I got to where I am.”

The memoir, I Got This: To Gold and Beyond, won’t be released until January, but PEOPLE has an exclusive First Look at the book’s cover.

People

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BMPYQ_4FPik/

via Gymternet Clan