Category: Gymnastics

Northwest Gymnastics Academy is sold

UPDATE – I’ve heard the Gym in Spokane will be kept open by the new owners. Great news for their membership. 

But how many Gymnastics Clubs will shut down permanently?

Nancy Armstrong:

IDEAS on reopening Gymnastics Clubs

If and when you can reopen, it would be best to start with Competitive.

Phase in other groups over time.

One club plans to use a Wall-Mounted Infrared Forehead Thermometer Non-Contact Digital Temperature Thermometer with Fever Alarm to allow entry.

That’s not foolproof, of course. Some positives don’t have fever.

Chalk Bucket forum is compiling suggestions.

Here are a few:

  • Initial opening with small groups of 10 or less
  • Following social distancing guidelines (6+ feet) with stations / drills
  • Wiping down equipment after each use
  • Masks (entering and exiting the Gym)
  • Hand sanitizing before each event
  • Starting up with basics and conditioning so there will be no need to spot
  • Each athlete will have their own chalk block kept in a Ziploc bag
  • Each athlete will have their own spray bottle for water
  • Cameras with login for parents to watch from outside the facility
  • Stagger workout times
  • Stagger break times (or if practice short enough no break to limit congregating)
  • One way traffic as much as possible
  • Nightly equipment cleaning of high touch surfaces such as tables, chairs, doorknobs, light switches, countertops, handles, desks, phones, keyboards, toilets, faucets, sinks with EPA registered household disinfectant per CDC guidance
Wearing masks to prevent the H1N1 influenza virus at the venue of the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Japan September 11, 2009.

Morgan, Yile, Angelina – episode 10

What’s one more year?

Episodes 9 and 10 were released simultaneously.

Click PLAY or watch the #9 & #10 trailer on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/olympicchannel/status/1254002324932042753

The Olympics are postponed and sport competitions are put on pause. Angelina, Morgan and Yile reflect on a new reality in the world of sport and remain determined to chase that Olympic dream.

Only Chen Yile is training right now. At a Provincial Gym, not Beijing. Angelina and Morgan at home.

Actually, Angelina wanted 2-3 weeks break to recharge motivation.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (12min). Subtitles in many languages.

Jamie Dantzscher interview

One of GymCastic’s best yet. 

Jamie Dantzscher was a 2000 Olympic medalist, at the end of the darkest era of USA Gymnastics in my opinion.

She went on to a fantastic career at UCLA. One of the greats of all time. She led UCLA to 3 NCAA Championships in four years.

But we know Jamie best as one of the most vocal critics of the Karoli years. And her February 2017 60 Minutes interview alongside  Jeanette Antolin and Jessica Howard accusing the USAG criminal doctor.

What makes this interview so winning is Jamie’s blunt honesty. Down to earth. Saying what she thinks.

I was totally won over. Let’s all wish Jamie Dantzscher well.

You can listen online or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

IT’S JAMIE DANTZSCHER YOU GUYS

Morgan, Yile, Angelina – episode 9

Morgan comes back from winning American Cup 2020 to see Delaware under lockdown and her gym closed; Yile and the Chinese gymnastics team continue training in isolation under the lockdown; And Angelina is having trouble focusing on her training in the light of competitions being cancelled.

Click PLAY or watch the #9 & #10 trailer on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/olympicchannel/status/1254002324932042753

Watch episode 9 on The Olympic Channel. (10min)

Subtitles in many languages.

Belgium WAG resume training

Valentina Rodionenko said the team should go back to Round Lake and be quarantined there, so that they would be able to train.

She cited the example of the Chinese national team that kept training … throughout the quarantine ….

Some other national teams (at least partially) kept training and some are gradually returning to the gyms now. For example, the Belgian WAG team has been allowed to resume training recently. …

At the moment, however, Round Lake is serving as a quarantine center for Russian athletes who were evacuated from abroad.

The Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin said that next week, the Ministry will be discussing plans for elite athletes to start training but did not commit to any specific date and said that quarantine limitations would have to be lifted first.

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Wendy Bruce Martin on coaching

I can’t think of any developed nation that doesn’t require training and certification to become a coach.

None — that is — aside from the USA.

With lack of mandatory minimum standards you’ll find some of the least expert coaches working in the States. AND some of the most original thinkers.

From Dvora’s interview of Wendy Bruce Martin:

… I think coaching needs to be a profession, where the people who are responsible for the well-being of our children are taught how to teach them.

Gymnastics coaches (or many other coaches) don’t need an education, license, or certification to teach. They don’t have to know anything about child development, psychology, or physiology. They don’t need to have any mandatory training or governing body to uphold them to any standards. Yet, we leave them with our children during their most influential developmental stages of life and “hope” they know what they’re doing.

Coaches should want to be certified.

First, they should want to be educated in all the areas they will need to coach.

… coaches should also want to have an official licensing board to be able to be held accountable to and be able to monitor and report to. …”

Wendy Bruce Martin On Fear And Moving On

Wendy finished 11th at the 1989 World Championships. Won a bronze medal in team at the 1992 Olympics.

She’s the owner of Get Psyched, a mental toughness training service.

Chellsie not quite ready to win Beam yet

But she’s still doing it for fun.

And she’s being distracted by her two kids: a son born in August 2014 and a daughter born in November 2017.

#respect

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.