Gym Club customer service

In this episode, Nick and his business expert consultant Julie Berry talk about how owners and managers can acquire, communicate with and keep customers.

EP109 Gymnastics Growth Show – Ross Falsetta – Gymnastics Growth Show

Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock. In this podcast, Nick and his guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete, coach and club performance from grass roots to gold standard. Tackling all things gymnastics and performance sport, from physical preparation and psychology, to nutrition and lifestyle, this podcast is a must for any gymnastics coach or leader serious about improving results and furthering their expertise. Nick is recognised as a world leading coach educator and consultant within the international gymnastics community, having provided services to 25 international federations such as the national teams of Brazil, Japan, Canada, Australia, Germany and Netherlands. Nick is also a technical expert for European Gymnastics.  Nick's membership programmes, support and digital services currently reach coaches and leaders in over 60 countries. Nick's exposure to a wide range of clubs, coaches and systems across many countries and continents offers him a unique perspective on the sport, allowing him to soften the learning curve for gymnastics coaches and 'change the way they coach forever.' Visit Nick's website https://www.nickruddock.com Watch this episode on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/nickruddock Take the High Performance Health Check https://nickruddock.com/healthcheck/
  1. EP109 Gymnastics Growth Show – Ross Falsetta
  2. EP108 Gymnastics Growth Show – Barry Collie
  3. EP107 Gymnastics Growth Show – Ross Falsetta, Jack Hedges & Dan Lonsdale
  4. EP106 Gymnastics Growth Show – Luke Sutton
  5. EP105 Gymnastics Growth Show – Reiss Beckford, Jack Hedges & Dan Lonsdale

Jake Jarman AA

Jake is only age-19 but already one of the best in the world on Floor and Vault.

He posted some highlights from his Olympic trials AA competition so we can see how the apparatus are coming along.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

train saltos UP to high, soft mats

Technique developed allows gymnasts to stretch fully — for safest possible landings — when the high mats are removed.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Heath Thorpe – good FORM

One of the cleaner tumblers. And he has some style.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Men’s NCAA week 10

In a year of many firsts, Army had the pleasure of competing against Niigata University in the first ever international virtual dual meet.

Army came away with the win scoring 369.50 to Niigata’s 359.30. Neither team had their best performance, but the allure of an international meet was not lost.

Army was coming off of a quarantine, and Niigata was competing at 9am in order to accommodate the time constraints necessary to allow the meet to happen. …

Power Rankings this week:

Michigan
Stanford
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Iowa

Mahleea Werline – Floor

Wow.

Mahleea‘s choreography makes most of the Elites of the world look like cartoons.

She trains at Salcianu Academy.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter. I believe this was in Level 10.

British Gymnastics delays

A group of 17 former elite gymnasts, including three Olympians, who are pursuing legal action said they were “disappointed but not surprised” that the governing body had failed to reply to a “Letter of Claim” sent on 25 February and said that every day of further delay risks “serious harms” to those still in the sport. …

racial bias in sport

With Simone and Gabby as black Olympic Champions, it’s easy to ASSuME that racial bias in sport is being reduced, at least in Gymnastics.

Not so.

At each step along the athlete’s journey — from youth sports to college to the professional world — there are glaring inequities, often along racial lines. …

Throughout history, white American athletes have been afforded the opportunity to improve unimpeded while minorities have been left to scratch and claw for every inch. …

UNEQUAL PLAYING FIELD
Simone Biles, right, hugs Gabby Douglas after the Secret U.S. Classic