Sweet.
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She trains at East London with coach Lorraine Atkinson.
Thanks Ashley.
interview with Max Whitlock
The temptation you wish you could resist… Trainers. I designed some when I was sponsored by Adidas and it became a passion. I have 80-100 pairs.
The piece of wisdom you would pass on to a child… Set yourself goals. My mother and father, Madeleine and Brian, taught me that.
The book that holds an everlasting resonance… Achieve The Impossible by Professor Greg Whyte. It teaches you how to achieve by setting targets and believing in yourself.
The priority activity if you were the Invisible Man for a day… Japan’s Kohei Uchimura is the greatest gymnast of all time, but he’s secretive, so I’d watch him train. …
I don’t often link to that rag. But this interview was too good to pass up.
A Canadian coach recently visited Japan and had a chance to see Kohei training alone. He’s being coached by a former teammate.
They keep the Gym temperature high as Kohei likes to train in a warm environment.
Flanders International Team Challenge
Mixed Seniors & Juniors.
- Italy 212.062
- France 208.064
- Belgium 202.128
Rune Hermans won the AA.
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related – Belgian Gymnastics – 2017 FIT Challenge: Team Belgium wins bronze, Italy in gold
downhill Parkour
Even more dangerous than regular Parkour.
Alex Schauer on Tianmen Mountain, Zangjiajie, China.
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(via Valentin-Angelo)
Nadalie Walsh to Illinois
Nadalie Walsh moves to Champaign-Urbana after four years at the helm of Utah State, where she guided the Aggies to four-consecutive NCAA Regional appearances. …
Samantha Snider to Pitt
Samantha Snider has been named the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh gymnastics team …
Snider becomes the third head coach in the history of the gymnastics program at Pitt, stepping into her first head coaching role after spending the previous nine seasons at the University of Arkansas. …
Gymnastics coach using medical marijuana
You probably know coaches who use marijuana medically or recreationally.
Is marijuana worse than alcohol?
Personally, I feel the safety of children is more often endangered by tipsy / hungover parents or coaches. I worry most about parents who have been drinking driving kids home from Gym.
If marijuana is banned, alcohol should be banned as well.
If your club has a “zero tolerance” policy for employees using illegal drugs click through to this article about a Canadian coach suspended 2015 for using medical marijuana. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal is hearing the appeal.
It’s a more complicated issue than you might think at first glance. Especially with the laws changing in Canada and other parts of the world.
Employers need to ‘start treating [medical marijuana] as if it is a pharmaceutical,’ expert says
(via Grace Chiu)
NCAA still hiring coaches
Terri Laymon posted an update.
Carlotta Ferlito Beam mount
I’d still love to see FIG count the mount as one of the 8 skills.
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Russian “Recovery Camps”
Russian gymnasts returned from their training camps in Cyprus (MAG) and Spain (WAG). …
Elena Eremina:
“Recovery camps are different from the regular training camps because there’s a lesser training load. Of course, we tried to rest more – we played beach volleyball, rode bikes a lot, swam, sunbathed. But, at the same time, we still had one full training session each day. …
