For the past few months I have been sending out a weekly e-mail/ newsletter to Gym Momentum Camp Attendees, Gym Momentum Camp Staff as well as friends and those who have expressed interest in the Gym Momentum Community and/ or camp. Yesterday someone asked me, “Why don’t you also post those on line?”
Thinking about it- I really should. So here is GYM MOMENTUM MONDAY for the week of February 12, 2018.
I will continue to be sending out the e-mail on Monday and will be posting here Monday Night or Tuesday. If you are interested in receiving the e-mail let me know.
Happy Monday Everyone!
From everything I saw on Social Media over the weekend it looked like lots of great things going on at competitions.
Last week I took my mom on a cruise. Something you may not know about my mother is that she was also my first coach.
As I was packing for my cruise I was thinking about all coaches who I had an opportunity to learn from.
My mother, Denise Edmonds, who gave me the love of the sport.
Coach Bean, who challenged me to work harder than the next guy.
Don Tonry, who taught me the science behind the sport.
Kip Reed, who made practice fun.
With them in mind I started the Facebook Community – Thank You to My Gymnastics Coach and the #thankscoach on twitter. There was even a small article written about it in International Gymnast
Without taking anything away from the victims who were abused in our sport or ANY sport- I want to take some time to say THANKS to the great coaches out there. Whether it is a class coach, a developmental team coach, JO, USAIGC, Xcel or Elite Coach- THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO!
You are the first ones in and the last ones out of the gym on a daily basis. You plan your classes or practices. You schedule competitions. You spend weekends on the road in hotels at competitions. You are a role model for al those around you. I know you take all these duties seriously and I know very often parents will NOT thank you. So the least I can do is to recognize your efforts and Thank You.
At Gym Momentum Camp– all the staff takes their duties very seriously. We know that in the course of a long weekend we are not going to teach every gymnast a new skill. Our goal is to work with each coach so that they learn not just the technique but also the progression and plan. The hardest thing for a coach to know is, “what’s next?”. Gym Momentum staff have been their before! We want you to learn from our mistakes and our successes.
Last week I took my mom on a cruise. Something you may not know about my mother is that she was also my first coach.
As I was packing for my cruise I was thinking about all coaches who I had an opportunity to learn from.
My mother, Denise Edmonds, who gave me the love of the sport.
Coach Bean, who challenged me to work harder than the next guy.
Don Tonry, who taught me the science behind the sport.
Kip Reed, who made practice fun.
With them in mind I started the Facebook Community – Thank You to My Gymnastics Coach and the #thankscoach on twitter. There was even a small article written about it in International Gymnast
Without taking anything away from the victims who were abused in our sport or ANY sport- I want to take some time to say THANKS to the great coaches out there. Whether it is a class coach, a developmental team coach, JO, USAIGC, Xcel or Elite Coach- THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO!
You are the first ones in and the last ones out of the gym on a daily basis. You plan your classes or practices. You schedule competitions. You spend weekends on the road in hotels at competitions. You are a role model for al those around you. I know you take all these duties seriously and I know very often parents will NOT thank you. So the least I can do is to recognize your efforts and Thank You.
At Gym Momentum Camp– all the staff takes their duties very seriously. We know that in the course of a long weekend we are not going to teach every gymnast a new skill. Our goal is to work with each coach so that they learn not just the technique but also the progression and plan. The hardest thing for a coach to know is, “what’s next?”. Gym Momentum staff have been their before! We want you to learn from our mistakes and our successes.
Now that I am getting all the entries in for Gym Momentum Camp, I get to pick out leotards and T-shirts. I always try to get a good motivational saying on the back for the gymnasts. The coaches I can have a bit more fun with.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what you would like on the back of shirts this year? Shoot me an e-mail. Let me know.
My next e-mail should have a photo of what the leos will look like this year. There will be order forms for the leos and T-shirts on the website at that time. Since every gymnast and coach gets a shirt- the T-shirt form is already up.
I was down at Yellowjackets the week before last and I know their gymnasts are looking pretty good! I’d love to hear from the rest of you.
Some of you may know that I have taken on a position with USAIGC / IIAGC. I will be their Education Committee Chairman. Organizing weekends for clinics and running clinics through out the North America, The Caribbean and into Europe. I have preliminary dates in June in NY, and NH and looking at the fall in Germany and possibly Italy.
If this is something you are interested in- please let me know. Chris Lakeman- I already signed you up for the one in Germany.
In NO WAY am I giving up on USA Gymnastics. Paul Spadaro, the president of USAIGC, is a lifelong friend. He wants to grow the organization and needed an educational coordinator. I will ALWAYS work to make gymnastics (and coaches) better, smarter and safer. Regardless of the organization.
Paraphrasing from Hiram Johnson, a politician from California in 1917, “The first casualty of war is TRUTH”. USA Gymnastics is at war. And Truth has been a casualty. Nothing is ever as BAD (or as good) as it seems. Although I do not agree with everything he says, Mike Jacki posted something on Facebook the other day and I reposted it in Gym Momentum. It’s long but worth the read.
DON MCPHERSON- Any insight on this?
Enjoy your week. Check and double check your schedules so I know I will have you at camp!
Have a good week! Good luck at your remaining competitions.
Tony
