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From September 2023.
Bisons football coach Brian Dobie shares his message on the pressure Maya Turner was under as the first woman to ever play, and score, in a U SPORTS football game.
Oh yeah, she kicked the game winner too.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Coach has some words of wisdom for the young men.
Recommended for coaches is a 2016 book looking at the latest research in brain development.
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults – by Frances E Jensen & Amy Ellis Nutt
For those of us who have forgotten 😀, teenagers are capable of incredibly bad decisions.
There’s a reason for that.
The teenage brain is not yet fully developed.
Click PLAY or watch an interview with one of the authors on YouTube.
One of the most important representatives of our sport, even when she was a gymnast.
This from 1982 US v JPN.
Kathy had not the interview until recently.
A good overview on Active for Life:
From a sporting standpoint, the thing I enjoy most about coaching girls is the fact that they listen. …
By age 14, girls are dropping out of sports at approximately twice the rate of boys. According to data from a study published by the Women’s Sports Foundation, the dropout rate for girls sharply increases between grades 6-8. The dropout rates equalize again for boys and girls afterwards, …
According to Keeping Girls in Sport, the four main reasons that girls leave sports are the time commitment, cost, injuries, and not having fun. …
As reported in the Keeping Girls in Sport program, the top three factors that make sport fun for girls are positive team dynamics, trying hard, and positive coaching. Winning hardly rates. …
Read more – Coaching girls in sport: What the research says
Page was roared to victory … in front of a home crowd in Birmingham as she repeated her 2021 title and is now eyeing a gold medal at next year’s Paris Olympics.
The 32-year-old has been bouncing on trampolines most of her life and she makes soaring 10 metres into the air to complete complex moves look as natural as walking.
But it has not always been so.
The Sheffield-based athlete’s trampoline career almost fizzled out in her teenaged years as she suffered “lost move syndrome” and became frightened to try a basic front somersault. …
“It doesn’t happen very often but when it does it’s really scary. Everything started to spiral down. Instead of being just scared of that one skill I then got scared of another skill.
Page, who likens the syndrome to the “twisties” experienced by American gymnast Simone Biles, became depressed and could have walked away but eventually she overcame her demons. …
read more on Reuters
Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.
Sam Peszek was the 2011 and 2015 NCAA balance beam champion. A legend on the apparatus.
After retirement in 2017, she launched Beam Queen Bootcamp.
Despite her successful gymnastics career, she struggled with fears on beam majority of her career.
We had the opportunity to get insight into how she dealt with fear and ultimately overcame it.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
A powerful moment.
The Heisman Trophy winner 2022 was devastated after a 52–42 loss.
He went directly to the stands to sob in his mother’s arms.
Asked about his reaction after the Washington loss, Williams said it’s important to be himself.
“I’ve been an advocate for mental health, trying to show your emotions and express yourself, things like that,” Williams said to the Orange County Register’s Luca Evans.
“It’s something I’ve been doing since I was young and now, being on the national level, being able to try and share that awareness with the public.” …
Sports Illustrated
Concussion Ball is rife with toxic masculinity.
Caleb Williams is the opposite. Confident enough not to hide his emotions.
He was criticized by some dinosaurs. But I call Caleb a winner. Like Simone in Tokyo.
Movember is an annual event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men’s suicide.
It is a portmanteau of the Australian-English diminutive word for moustache, “mo”, and “November”. …
One spokesperson for men’s mental health is our own Nile Wilson.
He’s been very open about his own personal struggles with mental health issues and gambling addiction.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (2022)
The happiest team in Antwerp was France, finishing 3rd.
It reminded me of Canada finishing 3rd in 2022 Liverpool.
Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos was a rock.
Click PLAY or watch all 4 routines on YouTube.
A new book by Dr. Dave Tilley, CEO/Founder of SHIFT Movement Science, is now available.
My goal with it is simple – help you learn ways to improve your happiness and performance in gymnastics.
Toxic gymnastics cultures, when left unchecked, erode everyone inside making a massive negative impact on their health and performance while healthy gymnastics cultures, when nourished, elevate everyone to their highest levels of enjoyment in the sport.
… I summarize the best tools, strategies, and exercises that I see in gyms with incredible cultures full of happy, healthy, high performing people.
It has 90+ pages over 5 chapters, and 25 hands on exercises for you to do using templates and worksheets.
Click HERE for details.
The launch price is $39.99.
That includes the eBook and some additional benefits:
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