One of the top AA gymnasts at #WChAntwerp.
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FIG YouTube channel
During the 44th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp (BEL), the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has surpassed 20 million views on its YouTube channel, a figure that is rising rapidly on a daily basis. On 30 September alone, the channel attracted 233,844 viewers, their interest sparked largely by the extraordinary Floor routine performed by Japan’s Kenzo Shirai in Antwerp.
As spectacular as these figures are, they do need to be put into some context. While 20 million views is considerably higher than the numbers achieved by the federations of many other Olympic sports, it still represents less than half of the level generated by USA Gymnastics (55 million!). …
Both organizations are doing an excellent job of online video. As is GBR.
USA Senior Elites
@Ashley_Flipper:
Montage of most of the gymnasts who competed at the 2013 US National Championships. …
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Ekaterina Kurbatova – 2009 Bars
56.6% of NCAA athletes are male
Multi-sport.
• more than 463,000 student-athletes in NCAA 2012-13
• 9 women’s teams for every 8 men’s teams
• Lacrosse the fastest-growing sport in 2012-13
• There are more women’s basketball teams (1,090) than teams in any other women’s sport, but outdoor track and field boasts the largest number of female student-athletes with 27,127.
NCAA – Participation rates continue to rise
via NCAA Men’s Gymnastics on Facebook
worst Gymnastics books ever?
Dvora Meyers of Unorthodox Gymnastics is researching that topic.
She send me a link to (genius) David Foster Wallace’s take on ““breathtakingly insipid” sports-star-with-somebody autobiographies.
Hey
Turns out there’s a book titled …
That one looks pretty good. 🙂
the internet was made for cats
Bross, Memmel – PBS Wilder
2005 World all-around champion Chellsie Memmel and six-time World medalist Rebecca Bross were featured in the Oct. 23 episode of NOVA on PBS.
The episode, titled “Making Stuff Wilder,” is in a four-part series about biologically inspired inventions and engineering. …
The ladies do not appear in the show’s promo video. 😦
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Mike Morgan – Proactive Coaching
This past summer Mike Morgan from Proactive Coaching led sessions at Avant Coeur Gymnastics.
Here are a few of my notes:
DEFINE – MODEL – SHAPE
BEFORE the first game ask your athletes …
1) why gymnastics?
2) what is success?
3) what’s your role on this club Team?
4) what are your goals?
THEN … ask yourself the same questions
Drop your answers. Accept theirs.
• old school DINOSAUR coaching (yelling, demanding) … was WRONG
• Coaches Can Influence and Change Peoples Lives with their Words
• how are your athletes going to remember you 20 years from now?
• sport is a short number of years in a person’s life
• young coaches need to decide what they stand for. What are your standards? What’s allowed, what’s not?
Coach it. Or let it happen.
• how will you react when your athletes make mistakes?
• when things get tense and emotional, how will you react?
• look for and speak to the good for every child. Catch kids doing good. Children want attention.
• CHOOSE how much time you will give to kids deliberately misbehaving. Don’t over-coach the misbehaving child, nor the STAR of the team.
Take care of problems quickly and calmly. Practice your response to misbehavior.
• coaching staff needs to be consistent in discipline, expectations. Teams of coaches break-up if there’s no clear and consistent line.
• honour your profession.
• be on your game every single day. Be your best.
• as a coach, are you a confidence builder? Or a confidence cutter?
What will the LAST day of your athlete’s sports career look like?
• very few athletes win the BIG prize
• some have career ending injuries
• what’s the best case scenario retirement plan?
Proactive Coaching has surveyed many, many athletes and former athletes. TOP 3 reasons they love sport:
FUN – JOY – FRIENDS
Not the medals.
LIKE Proactive Coaching on Facebook. They post several times a day.
Gymnastics Chalk Eater
I saw this $1750 device at Emerald City Gymnastics.
Do they work?
DGS:
Benefits of the chalk eater unit:
Healthier environment for coaches and athletes
Extends the life of heating an air conditioning filters
Circulates the air in the gym
Reduces cleaning time and cleaning expenses
You replace the Chalk Eater Filters.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 