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This organization has been around since 2015.
From injury prevention lectures at clubs, it’s evolved into gymnastics-specific movement screenings and full on symposiums.
To provide gymnastics professionals and athletes with the tools and knowledge to prevent gymnastics-related injuries.
To promote the concept that physical and mental wellness are vital components of gymnastics excellence.
Check it out at discovergymsafe.org
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Betsy McNally Laouar just published her 4th book.
You Can’t Flip on Empty: Fueling the Fifth Event of Gymnastics.
Through powerful stories from nearly 300 clubs, backed by current sports science and her own lived experience as an athlete, mother of two special needs children, and coach, Betsy reveals why athletes stall, parents struggle, and coaches feel stuck when fueling is left out of the training plan.
… Betsy McNally Laouar is a NSCA-certified personal trainer, certified sports nutritionist, professional bodybuilder, author, podcaster, and former gymnast.
Mom Kris Ann Valdez explains why they did not continue our sport with their talented daughter.
Gymnastics is her favorite sport (so far), and I believe she has what it takes to be on the competition team, but why spend the next 10 or so years investing in this sport at significant financial and, to her, likely, physical and emotional costs?
Most competition teams practically live at the gym; their families must sacrifice weekends for tournaments and performances.
And more money. The class fees are just the beginning. There are also costumes, travel and competition fees.
Ask any gymnastics parent what they’ve invested in the sport, and they’ll shake their head or stutter through an answer. It ain’t cheap.
Then ask the parent if it was worth it. They often say yes. One mother told me she even took a second job to help pay for the $800+ monthly expenses …
A Gymnastics Coach’s Request For My Daughter Seemed Harmless — But What I Learned Deeply Worried Me
Having been to that nation for MAG Gymnastics courses, I’m thrilled to see female gymnasts representing The Kingdom internationally.
This cannot have been easy for these young women and their families.
Coach Elena Eremina, bronze AA at the 2017 Worlds, posted a behind the scenes vlog from Pharoah’s Cup in Egypt. Abumansoor won Saudi’s 1st ever international WAG medals.
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I certainly respect the FIG president for making the extra journey on behalf of the worldwide Gymnastics community.
Level 10 gymnast Cody Bennett was injured when he landed on the edge of the foam pit training H Bar at Evolution Gymnastics Academy during an open gym, according to a $350M lawsuit.
Attorneys for the family of the Chesapeake teen are alleging a “loose foam pit” caused the boy to sustain a major spinal cord injury in 2024, resulting in his quadriplegia.
The lawsuit alleges that the gymnastics foam pit was too shallow and did not have enough foam cubes, which resulted in Cody Bennett, then 16 years old, sustaining a spinal cord injury.
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Adidas posted a charming mini-documentary of the great Rebeca Andrade’s relationship with her life long coach, Xico Porath.
He’s been coach and father figure through her long career — including 3 major knee injuries.
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Emma trained at the Olga club in England, coached by Monica & Brian Phelps.
Coach Brian Phelps was jailed in 2008, aged 64, after admitting a string of historical indecent assaults against three children aged between six and 15, in the 1970s and 1980s.
The rapist later escaped to France. Whereabouts unknown.
Emma’s e-book comes out worldwide on Sept 2nd, paperback on the 9th.
If interested in knowing more, register interest here.
I’ve signed up.
Thanks Jess.
… young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions.
Liang “Chow” Qiao, the owner of Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, thought highly enough of his new hire, Sean Gardner, to put him in charge of the club’s premier junior event and to coach some of its most promising girls. …
Last week, more than three years after being suspended from coaching, the FBI arrested Gardner, 38, on a federal child sexual abuse images charge. But his disciplinary case has still not been resolved by SafeSport, which handles sex-abuse cases in Olympic sports.
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