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UCLA at Regionals
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that George Washington Leo
Like many who heard about it on GymCastic #299, I was wondering what the suit of armour leotard looked like at Regionals.
elite gymnasts successful in NCAA
Kyla Ross, Madison Kocian, Maggie Nichols, Katelyn Ohashi, Brenna Dowell, Felicia Hano, Peng Peng Lee, MyKayla Skinner
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National Gymnastics Teal Day
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Monika Míčková on eating disorders in Rhythmic
Monika Míčková is a retired Czech rhythmic gymnast. She competed Worlds 6 times.
She posted an awful retrospective of her long career. It begins with …
You’re fat.
You are lazy.
You are incompetent.
You are stupid.
From the mouth of the coaches I heard these words almost every day and took them as a normal part of the drill. They also behaved equally to other girls, regardless of age and performance. No one imagined something strange going on, everyone accepted that it was supposed to be. …
You can read it here. (Czech)
I used Google Translate.
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Laurie Hernandez – picture book
Laurie’s second book drops Oct. 9th. In time for Christmas.
animated humanoids self-taught Gymnastics
You can tell they are self-taught. 😀
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… Learning from scratch, and with limited human intervention, the digital characters learned how to kick, jump, and flip their way to success. What’s more, they even learned how to interact with objects in their environment, such as barriers placed in their way or objects hurled directly at them.
Gizmodo – After Millions of Trials, These Simulated Humans Learned to Do Perfect Backflips and Cartwheels
on emotional abuse in coaching
In a recent Q&A session Gretchen Kerr, vice-dean of academic affairs at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education talks about her role as a volunteer athlete welfare officer with Gymnastics Canada and her views regarding emotional abuse.
As a psychologist Kerr’s field of expertise is the emotional abuse of athletes which she is using to advocate policy change and influence coach education. …
There is a fine line between pushing an athlete to be their best and maltreatment. That line is crossed when the athlete performs through fear and intimidation rather than their desire to achieve.
In their paper Stirling and Kerr (2008) report that emotional abuse takes the form of physical behaviours, verbal behaviours and the denial of attention and support – bullying, berating, humiliating, degrading and intimidating/threatening are all forms of emotional abuse. …
read more on Warriors In Leotards
Emotional abuse has been little documented compared against sexual abuse.
FloGymnastics at Jesolo
Coverage for paid PRO members only.
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related – Inside Gymnastics – PREVIEW: 2018 JESOLO TROPHY
Forster / Resnick Bars Boot Camps
BOOT CAMPS IN 2018
May 25-27- FULL Phoenix, AZ Arizona Sunrays (full)
June 8-10 – Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy
June 15-17 – Colorado Springs, CO Aerials Gymnastics
Cost $800.
