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We were waiting on Uchimura’s attempt to add Bretschneider to his H Bar routine in finals of the All Japan Apparatus Championships.
Unfortunately he fell in prelims and didn’t make the final.
A very weird fall, in fact. One hand slipped during his “Tong Fei” tap accelerator Giant right before dismount.
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Parents from North America are sharing their stories on the Chalk Bucket forum:
Level 3 over $5000 / year for tuition/comp fees/leo/etc. (not including travel expenses, spectator entry fees, practice leos, medical fees if she happens to get injured, and thousands of hair ties).
Level 3 $3000 / year. Same girl by level 7 $7000 / year.
Level 4. $7,000 / year. That does not include travel expenses, leotards, grips, etc….
$7-10,000 / year everything included.
Level 7-8. $7500-8000/year. This excludes any entrance fees or meet travel fees, etc. …
At level 9/10 it is very easy to spend above $20k a year
Level 10 around $25k / year
A mom at our gym put it succinctly – if you just put the money you spend on gymnastics from pre-team to Level 10/Elite, your son or daughter would have more than enough money to go to any college or university in the country by the time they turned 18. It is definitely a labor of love, there is very little ROI, even for those who get recruited to compete in college.
Read more – Give it to me straight!
One coach showed me a budget for the career of an Olympian. Cost was over a million dollars thought the parents only paid a small percentage of that.
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Oklahoma’s just retired Senior Natalie Brown throws out the first pitch. She trained at WOGA.
Congratulations to the 19 coaches who successfully completed our 5 day Competitive 2 at Phoenix Gymnastics, Vancouver.
Personal shout out to Kyna Fletcher from Phoenix who helped teach the course as well as hosting. A big booster of coach eduction nationally.
The three other clinicians: Rick McCharles, Bobbie Worrall and John Carroll from Gymnastics B.C.
At Phoenix the ladies all coach Bars. #respect 
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Trinity is keeping an open mind regarding trying out for Worlds 2018. And even Tokyo.
But she’s also planning to head to Florida early out of High School.
(via GymCastic)
Tony Retrosi is on the road. A long series of Congress events, Camps and competitions.
Talking to many coaches here’s one of his observations:
Because of the current climate of fear within the gymnastics community many new coaches with energy and ideas are NOT getting involved and many experienced coaches are getting out of the sport early.
Read more on GymMomentum.
I’m sensing some of that same doom and gloom in western Canada regarding the future of our sport, but it’s not nearly as severe.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 