This might be good. 🙂
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LSU over Florida
LSU 196.875 – Florida 196.575
Upset. 🙂
@LSUgym:
FX: Dickson 9.825, Jordan 9.80, Savona 9.25, Mathis 9.85, Courville 9.90, Hall 9.95. #LSURoar
Florida’s Bridget Sloan and Marissa King fell on Beam.
Gator Zone – No. 3 Florida Gymnastics Drop SEC Opener at No. 8 LSU; Kytra Hunter Wins All-Around
P Bars double twisting double back
Florida workout
During the preseason, Gymnastike filmed a workout in Gainesville with the #3 ranked Florida Gators. The 2013 season is underway and the 2012 SEC Champions are training hard in hopes of winning their first-ever NCAA team title after finishing a close second in 2012. …
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Men’s NCCA begins …
watching your gymnast compete
Rita Wieber:
When watching your daughter compete on beam in a gymnastics meet you are:
A) trying to hide the fact that you actually have your eyes closed…
B) holding your breath for the entire routine…
C) jiggling in your seat to the point where those sitting with you are giving you dirty looks…
D) saying prayers repeatedly in your mind..
E) all of the above
Gym Mom’s Blog – How to enjoy watching your daughter compete….
Here’s Mom Damaris Orozco at the Olympics. Son John was having problems.
Last year in Japan we were chatting with Uchimura’s Mom at a competition. She was intensely nervous when her daughter Haruhi was competing Beam. But while Kohei was winning the Horizontal Bar final, she casually took a phone call.
🙂
quick link
Tony Smith – Nat Team Director
Gymnastics Canada is very pleased to announce the appointment of Tony Smith as the new national team director – men’s artistic gymnastics.
… Olympic Games (3) and world championships (7) …
… As the MAG national team director, Smith will be responsible for the leadership, direction and management of the senior, junior and age groups national team programs, within a club-based system. …
He started his new full time duties on January 7, 2013.
read more on Gymnastics B.C.
Jason Woodnick will take over as Head Coach at University of Calgary.
But Tony will stay at his gym too. This is no “office” job.
🙂
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters is a 1995 nonfiction book by San Francisco Chronicle sports writer Joan Ryan detailing the difficult training regimens endured by young women in competitive sports such as gymnastics and ice skating …
Ryan’s material was largely derived from personal interviews with nearly 100 former gymnasts and figure skaters as well as trainers, sports psychologists, physiologists and other experts, focusing on the physical and emotional hardships young women endured …
While it was noted that Ryan presented a relatively one-sided, bleak view of the sport, ignoring successes like Mary Lou Retton, and also appeared to save particular vitriol for Bela Karolyi, Ryan’s general points have some support by medical experts, as in the New England Journal of Medicine’s 1996 report that described emotional and physical harm suffered by elite female gymnasts. …
I recall the media hyperbole well.
Friends called asking whether they should withdraw their daughters from Recreational Gymnastics.
That book and the 2003 CNN documentary about Parkettes — Achieving the Perfect 10 — stirred a lot of controversy and debate amongst gymnastics coaches.
Many, including me, felt both exaggerated some problems, ignoring the many benefits of elite sport training.
I found nothing inaccurate in Joan Ryan’s book, much as I tried. She’s a skilled and careful writer. Yet the message received by the general public was skewed.
“The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. A lie may be told by silence, by equivocation, by the accent on a syllable, by a glance of the eye attaching a peculiar significance to a sentence. All these kinds of lies are worse and baser by many degrees than a lie plainly worded. No form of blinded conscience is so far sunk as that which comforts itself for having deceived because the deception was by gesture or silence, instead of utterance.”
– John Ruskin
Fact is, gymnasts, even Elite gymnasts, are disproportionately healthy (overall) and successful in life.
Compare female gymnasts with their same age non-gymnast peers. At all ages.
Joan Ryan exaggerated the risk of eating disorders, in my opinion. To sell books.
Crotch shot on the cover. Surprise. Surprise. That’s a tell that that publisher is more interested in sales than accuracy.
She didn’t interview Rhythmic gymnasts about disordered eating. That book wouldn’t sell.
Ryan did not exaggerate, however, the risk of psychological abuse by elite coaches. In the era of Steve Nunno and Bela Karolyi, American coaches were too severe. Ryan’s book may have had some real impact in improving the gym culture.
Gymnastics Canada, for example, added an ethics module to all our coach education courses. Coaching ethics are far better now than they were in the early 1990s.
In 2013, I’ve got mixed feelings about Little Girls in Pretty Boxes.
Joan Ryan was interviewed in this week’s episode of GymCastic. I didn’t learn anything new from the author. But the podcast commentary was interesting.
GymCastic has a number of good links on that post including part of an Oprah episode: Kathy Johnson, Betty Okino, Kristie Phillips and parents of Julissa Gomez and Christy Henrich with Joan Ryan.
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Tas Hajdu – USAG L5 Floor
West Coast Team Challenge Floor Champion 2013
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Tas is the son of Uldi Hajdu, former Hungarian National Team gymnast. Coach. Circus acrobat. Actor.
You know Uldi if you’ve seen the 2006 film White Palms.
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