The problem with Traditionitis
Ok. Just venting. I am appalled at somethings I see things in the children’s activity industry and I wonder what the heck is going on. Case in point: I see an advertisement for a local children’s activity franchise that shows a child doing a back bend, or what in gymnastics or yoga is known as…
History Tuesday: vaulting
Now this is an event I could sink my teeth into. In fact, I did. When I was a vaulter we had the old vaulting horse and for one vault my hands slipped and I hit my face on the horse. It loosened a couple of teeth but I did conquer the vault on the next try. …
Gymnastics Makes Smarter Kids
Today we are pretty comfortable knowing that a child’s success is based off of good health and education. That seems like something we could all agree on, right? Right. Yet we see disturbing trends in child obesity still on the up-swing. This is particularly disturbing because obesity and lethargy go hand in hand and as…
A comment on culture
This weekend we held our annual gymnastics meet here at Gymfinity. We had 450 gymnasts and we ran it over 25 hours in 2 days. It is a monumental task and the planning for next year started today. We have the same two goals every year: 1. to host a great event where everyone is…
Eliminate gymnastics judging and we all win
A few years back Gymnastics regrettably went to a new scoring system. The idea was to eliminate any chance that judges could sway a result by skewing scores one way or the other. Gone was the concept of the “Perfect 10” and in came scoring for difficulty and execution and the provision of confusion. Meets…
History Tuesday: Uneven Bars
As far back as 1830 the French teacher Amoros wrote of “uneven” or Asymetrical” bars in his Manuel d’education physique et morale. But back then the women and the men did not participate together and women did not own the bar until long after this period. Wommen’s gymnastics was very similar to men’s gymnastics. As…