tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
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
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. 🙂
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. 😦
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
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.
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.
… the performance which gave White the incredible score of 48.4 at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
This photograph of the ruined QEII complex taken in June 2011 shows the gymnastic buildings in the foreground that are OK and still in use:
I coached there for the 2001-02 season. That’s the Christchurch School of Gymnastics. 🙂
The Gymnastics Gyms are the only facilities left open in the massive QEII sports complex damaged in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
A recent news report:
‘You’re at QEII Park? I thought that was all closed?”
People working at the Christchurch School of Gymnastics hear this a lot. …
During 2011, the gym lost about 35 per cent of its members, says school chief executive Avril Enslow. But numbers are building back up now as homes in the area are repaired and people become more confident about where they’re going to live. …
Enslow is proud of the achievements of her competitive gymnasts. Seven of the school’s members are on the long list for the Commonwealth Games so they’ll be going to trial later this year and early next for the New Zealand team. …
World bronze medalist Larisa Iordache and rising Swiss star Pablo Bragger took the titles at the 30th annual Arthur Gander Memorial Wednesday night in Morges, Switzerland. …
… a modified all-around competition. Women’s gymnasts choose their best three events, while the men compete on four. …
Arthur Gander traditionally serves as a kind of warmup to the Swiss Cup, gymnastics’ most popular mixed pairs competition, which will be held in Zurich next weekend and feature many of the same athletes. …
read more – Larisa Iordache, Pablo Bragger win 30th Arthur Gander Memorial
Gymnastike:
Of the thousands of still shots taken by Gymnastike photographer Melissa Perenson during the 2013 World Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp, one athlete stood out to us as “most photogenic“. That athlete is the one and only Kyla Ross of Team USA. …
See more on Gymnastike.
That links to an entire Kyla gallery.
Kyla and Kohei were the most elegant. The most photogenic at Worlds.
related – Kyla’s choreography:
Gymnastics Coaching.com 