Category: Gymnastics

Letter To A New Gymnastics Dad

Dear New Team Dad,

How excited are you for your little gymnast right now? She was asked to become a member of the team and she cannot stop smiling or stop jumping with joy! …

I am going to be completely honest with you; gymnastics is not an easy sport. Many hours, sore muscles, falls, tears and fears are involved but the more your little gymnast practices, the braver and stronger she will become.

You will be nervous at first, especially since you do not know what to expect- but I promise you that you will be blown away when you see her perform at her first competition …

All Gymnasts

Horizontal Bar on a solid rail

Do gymnasts need a flexible rail for BIG skills?

It helps. But the answer is no.

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L10 Bar highlights

This montage includes 4 Region 5 national bar champions; Kai Rivers (Twistars), Alyssa Al-Ashari (Twistars), Colby Miller (Perfection) and Ella Cesario (Legacy Elite).

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Canadian Men invited to Worlds Camp

Via Gymnastics Canada.

Thierry Pellerin is the current Canadian Pommel Champ — 14.700 in the Final. He’s got a very good shot at competing Worlds Montreal.

The National Coach remarked that Pommels is Canada’s best apparatus right now. That’s a first all time. 🙂

Canadian athletes invited to Worlds Camp

Gymnastics Canada posted the names of those invited.

I would not be surprised if other athletes were added before July 2nd.

Josh Overton to Georgia

Josh Overton, a 19-year coaching veteran most recently overseeing the women’s team at Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in Iowa, has been named an assistant for the Georgia Gym Dogs, according to an announcement Wednesday by Coach Courtney Kupets Carter. …

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With Charlie Tamayo and volunteer Suzanne Yoculan Leebern, I think the team is in great shape for next season.

Some are a little worried:

… the Gym Dogs’ entire paid coaching staff has a combined 1 year of college coaching experience, and exactly 0 (zero, zip, nil) years of women’s college coaching experience. …

Brittany Rogers – Bars

Brit’s new 6.0 routine. Fall on dismount. (She competed only double layout in the Final.)

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The top difficulty routines so far in 2017 are 6.2.