Tweet Char wrote a nice piece on Aerial Skiier Ashley Caldwell
Your chair is your enemy -  a piece from The New York Times
Aileen Gallagher of NY Magazine on Why figure skating is so much better than gymnastics
Blythe has a response to Aileen Gallagher’s article from a gymnastics point of view
Ross Tucker on The mental edge or physiology – what separates champions from contenders?

Tweet The fourth section displayed a model of a rugby player diving for the ball.  This was really something else.  The women beside me asking “How did they get it into that position?” and “How can they move it if the body goes into rigormortis? Maybe it doesn’t last that long?”. These questions still remained unanswered. I walked right around the specimen viewing every part I could in detail. As with the “runner” it was easier for me to see what is going on when an athlete is performing and …

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When I think about my role as a gymnastics coach, many thoughts and images come to mind. When people I meet for the first time ask me what I do and I tell them I’m a gymnastics coach, they ask me to tell them all about it and have many questions. I tend to give a brief outline, similar to what is written on my CV , simply because I could talk about my role as a coach all day!
 
My main role as a gymnastics coach is to teach …