tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Nia and Gabby were teammates at Buckeye.
GABBY DOUGLAS: Iβm so happy for you, Nia! Shout-outs from Michelle Obama, Missy Elliott, and Alicia Keys?
NIA DENNIS: Itβs crazy. This feels like a movie. Itβs surreal. …
Nia Dennis Talks to Gabby Douglas About the Pressure of Being Perfect
Click through to Interview magazine to read the conversation.
Luba says Valentina was atypically nice and lucid during Europeans. π
Of course Russia had a great meet.
Q:Β Did this competition decide the Olympic teamβs roster?
A:Β We have Nagornyy, Belyavskiy, and Kartsev here who will sure be on the team, although no oneβs safe from injuries. But Kartsev for now is among these four, same as Dalaloyan whose recovery weβre counting on. Even if Artur wonβt be able to compete on all six events β his signature events are floor and vault β weβre still take him for four events. …
Q:Β Itβs hard to understand how ready are the American, Japanese, Chinese gymnasts now. There are no competitions and thereβs very little information about the rivals.
A:Β Have you seen Biles? What is there even to say? Sheβs 70% of the American team, you remove her and we will easily beat them. …
RODIONENKO: REMOVE BILES AND WE WILL EASILY BEAT THE US TEAM
In a 3-up, 3-count Olympic team final, consistency could be more important than start score.
USA has been the most consistent under pressure for many years. I don’t see that changing in Tokyo.
Also, every coach knows it’s bad strategy to motivate your competition with statements like this.
Every Olympics … traditional media pays attention to Gymnastics.
Every Olympics you can predict stories from China featuring very young kids crying and being overstretched.
Tokyo is coming up.
Yet this story from the Li Xiaoshuang Gymnastics School says the focus is now on fun for the children — “happy gymnastics” — rather than the medal-obsessed ways of old.
I hope that’s true.
Thomas Curran and Andrew HillβsΒ meta-analysis of rates of perfectionismΒ from 1989 to 2016, the first study to compare perfectionism across generations, found significant increases among more recent undergraduates in the US, UK and Canada.
In other words, the average college student last year was much more likely to have perfectionistic tendencies than a student in the 1990s or early 2000s. …
The Dangerous Downsides of Perfectionism
Perfectionistic tendencies have been linked to clinical issues: depression and anxiety (even in children), self-harm, social anxiety disorder and agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, binge eating, anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, insomnia, hoarding, dyspepsia, chronic headaches, and, most damning of all, even early mortality and suicide.
Social media has likely compounded some of those problems.
SO βΒ coaches should not encourage kids to be perfect.
Thanks Steve.
Great interview.
Maddy recently won her age group at the 2021 Ohio Level 10 State Championships.
Cheer her next season at Ohio State.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
UPDATE – A second webinar with the same speakers has been scheduled for March 25, 2021 at 7:00PM ET. Sign up here β or wait for the podcast version.
Gymnastics Canada hosted an excellent webinar. Dave Tilley posted the audio version to his podcast.
Click through for details.
Gretchen Kerr studies Athlete Maltreatment, a professor at University of Toronto.
Gretchen feels psychological abuse of coaches, parents, officials and athletes is much underreported.
Recall Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida?
TheΒ deadliest high school shooting in United States history.
Iowa gymnast Alex Greenwald was there.
She writes “Just keep swimming” on her hand every competition to honour a childhood friend who was one of the 17 killed.
related – Florida gymnast finds strength, happiness, healing at the University of Iowa
Another excellent and important video from SHIFT Media Intern, Sarah Thirkell.
The unrealistic and often dangerous cultural undertones in gymnastics surrounding this idea of getting the ‘perfect’ gymnast body need to go. It is a toxic illusion, and puts young girls and boys on a treadmill of not ever feeling good enough that may lead to a dark spiral of mental, emotional, and physical health. β¦
The problems range from nutritional information that is not backed by the latest peer reviewed scientific research being given by coaches/parents instead of licensed Registered Dietician Nutritionists all the way to well intentioned coaches who may just make off handed comments or what they perceive as jokes to gymnasts about weight body image, and performance.
Speakers featured:
McKayla Maroney, Former Elite Gymnast via the GymCastic Podcast
Tasia Percevecz, Former NCAA Gymnasts and CrossFit Games Champion
Colin Van Wicklen, Elite Gymnast
Christina Anderson RDN
Jason Machowsky RDN
Ellen Casey MD
Jaime Schehr RDN
Kerry Bair RDN- via Nick Ruddock Gymnastics Growth Show
Joshua Eldridge DC
Courtney McGregor, Former Elite and NCAA Gymnast
Claire Heafford, Co-Founder of Gymnasts For Change
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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