Viktor Ahn, the Korean-born Russian short-track speed-skater.
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Canadian Coach Education revision
The change from textbook to digital media is nearly complete. A big improvement.
Digital media can be easily revised in future.
Click through to see a diagram showing the OLD requirements at the top for Gymnastics Alberta and the NEW structure in the graphic.
NCCP Summary – Revised September 6, 2017
Left to finalize are the Evaluation components of Comp 2 and Comp 3.
petition demanding change at USAG
By any standards, response by USA Gymnastics to the Nassar scandal has been slow at best. I assume their lawyers are advising foot dragging in hopes of reducing the number of liability suits.
Three of Nassar’s victims ask you to sign a petition:
Jamie Dantzscher – 2000 Olympic Bronze Medalist, Artistic Gymnastic
Jessica Howard – 3 Time National Champion, Rhythmic Gymnastics
Jeanette Antolin – Former USA National Team Member, Artistic Gymnastics
Change USA Gymnastics Leadership in Wake of Sex Abuse Scandal
People hoped that the forced resignation of President Steve Penny in March 2017 would make a difference.
Has it?
Penny got a $1 million severance package from an organization with annual revenue of about $23.7 million (2015).
If USA Gymnastics Chairman Paul Parilla resigns tomorrow, will USAG athletes be safer?
I’m not so sure.
But lacking any other way to pressure a monopoly like USA Gymnastics, I signed.
safe, ethical spotting
In Canada we’ve long told coaches when spotting not to touch any part of the body covered by a bikini bathing suit. (Hips are an occasional exception.)
One gymnast messaged me to speak of her personal experience.
The Gym was her second home. As a little girl it was common for the coach to spot touching the buttocks of kids in her group.
By age 16 she became very uncomfortable with her coach spotting this way. She told him repeatedly to cut it out. He seemed unable to spot using any other technique.
Finally a less experience female coach was able to spot without grabbing the buttocks.
Here’s her message:
“… It is difficult to write about things that have become so normal and were never perceived as “wrong” by me. Coaches spot small girls on their bottoms from the very beginning, and this goes on as they get older. Almost maybe unaware of their own physical change and the innocence that goes paired with a coach following the way he spotted you from the very beginning. But the coach is the adult and especially at a higher level strong power relations can be involved.
Then suddenly you move to a new gym with new coaches and your eyes are opened. opening change… Something you thought to be impossible is suddenly is so easy. … the realization of the past kicks in. …
This is one of the many unintended consequences of spotting. The less spotting the better.
Youth Olympic Games, Buenos Aires 2018
… the third edition of the Summer Youth Olympics, a major international sports in which culture and education are also of great importance, are due to be celebrated in the tradition of the Summer Olympic Games on 1–12 October 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Click PLAY or see the venues on YouTube.
Jaques Rogges and the IOC are still 100% behind the Youth Olympic Games concept.
Note that YOG 2018 is scheduled immediately before Worlds Doha, Qatar.
related – President Of Rio’s 2016 Olympic Bid Is Charged With Corruption
harassment & abuse have no place in sport
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creating a tunnel for Beam skills
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“Stranger Danger” – tips for kids
Badass Woman clothing
2018 Canadian Championships
May 22-27, 2018 – Waterloo, Ontario
