Parents of recreation gymnast needed to be educated about “spotting“, of course.
Category: parents
“It’s the Hard Knock Life”
Nobody knows better than gymnasts how to fall safely. And get back up.
It’s not the falls that stop girls from training sport.
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Rachael Denhollander – What Is a Girl Worth?
Available in hardcover, Kindle and audio.
Recommended children’s book – How Much Is a Little Girl Worth?
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gymnasts are incredible
This is from the private Cognition Coaching – Conscious Growth Facebook page.
The benefits of training acrobatic sports are incredible. These are super humans.
Age Falsification in Chinese Gymnastics
Dr. Uncle Tim has taken a deep dive into age falsification in women’s gymnastics on his excellent site ➙ Gymnastics-History.com.
Age falsification was quite common back in the bad, old days. Especially in China and Romania.
In fact, we even had cases of falsification in lower levels of Gymnastics competition where I coached.
Check out the important post:
Who Bears the Responsibility for Age Falsification in Chinese Gymnastics?
benefits of Gymnastics
There are many.
Click over to GymnasticsHQ to see more like this.
(via Tony Retrosi)
Feeding the Young Athlete
what keeps kids in Gymnastics?
Gymnastics Ireland interviewed some young ladies.
Everyone has ups and downs. The coach needs to step in when one of their gymnasts is in a down phase.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Video by Georgianna Scurfield (Women in Sport UK).
Teenage dropout amongst girls is a widespread issue in sport and in gymnastics, which if tackled, can support lifelong involvement in sport and physical activity to improve the lives of women & girls.
As a predominantly youth sport, Gymnastics presents a unique and powerful opportunity to help girls develop a strong love of sport and physical activity from a young age to nurture continued participation through adolescence and beyond to support their health, happiness and wellbeing into later life.
Through our research and beyond, we asked girls and women involved in our sport “What keeps you here?” – because what keeps you here matters to us.
Trent Milligan – Gymnastics Spiderman
Trent Milligan is an elite Canadian gymnast — and Spiderman.
You can hire Spiderman for your child’s birthday — or Bachelorette party. 😀
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Cal parents supporting their gymnast daughters 😀
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