tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Yahoo! Beauty:
You focus on the positives. What are good things you concentrate on?
Aly: Instead of waking up in the morning and picking out things I don’t like about myself, in the mirror, I focus on the positive and not the negative.
On most days, I’m sweating in the gym and leave with messy hair, not wearing makeup. I think it’s really important for me to be comfortable with that. I try to say nice things. … I try to focus more on being fit and not tell myself that I need to be skinny. …
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Several new elements.
Years ago, legendary basketball coach John Wooden told people that he didn’t see himself as a coach as much as a teacher. He referred to himself as an educator, and the game of basketball was merely a platform to instruct his athletes about winning in life. He succeeded profoundly. …
Traditional Coach Teacher One-way communication. Two-way interaction. Yells orders. Facilitates learning. Confronts mistakes by shouting. Confronts mistakes with listening. Focuses on what needs to be done. Explains how and why it must be done. It’s about telling. It’s about teaching.
Great article. 🙂
Sudden victory Final/Medal Round goes Sunday night.
Despite Trampoline being one of Canada’s strongest Olympic sports the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation seems to have decided to not cover it on TV. 😦
THE CANADIAN TRAMPOLINE TEAM IS IN GOOD POSITION AHEAD OF THE FINAL ROUNDAfter the Preliminary Round of the Toronto…
Posted by Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique on Saturday, 18 July 2015
Congratulations to Lauren Hopkins and all the other contributors who make thegymter.net essential reading for fans of women’s Gymnastics.
Canada added both UCLA’s Peng Peng Lee and Georgia’s Brittany Rogers to the list of gymnasts eligible to try out for Rio. Brittany has been training Elite this summer at Calgary Gymnastics Centre with David Kenwright and Janna Ball.
Looks like she’s enjoying it. 🙂
(via College Gymnastics Board)
Translator: Lauren Cammenga
Article Author: Natalia Plekhanovaya, All Sport:
“I injured my knee at the end of February during the verification training before the Russian championship,” said Anastasia Grishina. “I was executing my vault, a double-twisting Yurchenko, underrotated, and landed badly. My kneecap was dislocated …
At the Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics (CITO) I was told that I had a an anterior cruciate ligament tear and would require surgery. My operation was on April 6th at CITO. I was in the hospital for two weeks. …
Today, July 13th, I will already be able to jump and slowly begin working on the apparatus. I’ll be able to load my knee, but not fanatically …
Anastasia Grishina: Despite everything, I’m going to try to make a second Olympics!
It sounds very much like what happened to Peng Peng Lee just before the 2012 Olympics. Same apparatus. Same skill. Competition landing mats.
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