I realize there's some irony in what I'm about to say coming from a former elite gymnast and coach of ~23 years who spends his off hours moderating a gymnastics forum, but
There's more to life than gymnastics. Not only that, but most of it is far more important than gymnastics.
Family time is...
I grew up in the Raleigh area, though I moved away for 15 years and only just moved back a few months ago; I don't have an up-to-date complete knowledge of gyms in the area, but there are a few I can recommend and a few I can suggest steering clear of.
Triumph Gymnastics in Cary is the gym I'm...
Different people have differently shaped knees and ankles.
I've seen elites with knees that naturally bow in so their feet are never together, I've seen elites with knees that naturally bow out so their knees can never get together. As far as I'm aware, there's no "remedy," per se.
*shrug*...
99.9% percent of layout problems occur before the feet leave the floor; If the entry and the takeoff are efficient and provide enough power for a proper layout, then actually doing the layout becomes trivially easy and intuitive.
So in order to give helpful advice, I'll need to know the...
Gotta be honest: I've never understood why women's programs tend put so much emphasis on presses at a young age. It would make more sense for men's programs, since MAG uses presses on every event except vault. But for women, the only place you really need it is for cast handstands on bars, and a...
Is this the track you're talking about?
And you're looking for something with a similar feel but more energetic that you may be able to splice in?
The first songs that jump to my mind are The Usurper Queen by djpretzel, Sturm Und Kong (also by djpretzel), and maybe Calamitous Judgement by...
Step 1: get documentation from your doctor about these injuries. A note signed by your doc confirming your injuries and resulting limitations is all you need.
Step 2: talk to the head coach, with documentation in hand, about this issue.
Step 3: If that doesn't work, escalate it to the owner...
I'm gonna assume you're referring to an uprise on bars (as opposed to rings or p-bars), let me know if I'm wrong about that.
Anyway, I can 100% promise that the problem isn't with the uprise, but the tap swing. 95% chance it's with the swing itself, and 5% chance it's with your grip.
If you...
Agreed
BUT
In most cases with safe and patient progressions, you should rarely need to put yourself in harm's way to keep a kid safe.
Like, yeah, if a kid pings off a bar and you have to catch them, you do what you gotta do in the moment, but you also figure out why they pinged off and modify...
Oof, yeah, massive overstep.
Raise hell about it, or leave. Either's reasonable imo.
(Being the snarky troll I am, I'd probably hide a note in the athlete's bag giving the coach a piece of your mind, but that's just me)
To expand on this: I had a head coach in my teens who was similar. Never gave substantive feedback to me, just insults, and seemed determined to interpret everything I did as some sort of disrespect, and it was specifically targeted at me. As soon as I left, suddenly one of my teammates was the...