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2023-02-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Gymnastics coach accused of separating girls as young as nine into a 'fat group', forcing gymnasts to hold 10-minute handstands and pushing them off high bars is finally barred from training without supervision

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Posted by Anomalous Sources 2023-02-25 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 These people haven't been among Tiger Moms.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-02-25 08:08|| 2023-02-25 08:08|| Front Page Top

#2 I know we've gone soft, but credit to the parents not putting their kid in groomer+ competitive cheer.

Finally? Get Good or Stop Wasting My Time.

I actually had a gymnastics teacher with that line of thinking. He had the Next Chapter of my Gymnastics and Us Tourists separated within five minutes. He made it clear Get Good or Get Out in the next five minutes. Then he put our asses to work.

By the end of semester, I could hold a v seat and hand-over-hand climb a 20 some foot rope. Had to to pass the class.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 11:49|| 2023-02-25 11:49|| Front Page Top

#3 "I'm 40 and can still work the rings, so I don't want to hear you 18 year olds crying."

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 11:51|| 2023-02-25 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Scott Adams lover tells the rest of us to straighten up.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 11:52|| 2023-02-25 11:52|| Front Page Top

#5 For getting good?

Like to hear how unprepared I'd have been for my interior fire attack instructor without such previous life experience?

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 12:38|| 2023-02-25 12:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd wager the regulars who contribute to Rantburg have had in their life people who pushed them past their conceived limits.

Daily Mother doesn't get that.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 13:04|| 2023-02-25 13:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Old school coaching by Olympic Athletes capable of teaching in a foreign language vs. Teen Grrrrl Power and Hover Moms?

Every. Time.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 14:11|| 2023-02-25 14:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Old school coaching by Olympic Athletes capable of teaching in a foreign language vs. Teen Grrrrl Power and Hover Moms?

Every. Time.
Posted by: swksvolFF

If you bothered to read the article you'd know among his many accusers are two Olympians and a professional dancer. The guy is a dick.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2023-02-25 16:54|| 2023-02-25 16:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Guys coaching young girls are automatically suspect.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 16:56|| 2023-02-25 16:56|| Front Page Top

#10 One of my kids was treated for an eating disorder years ago. There was a gymnast in her group. The little girl grew 6 inches in 9 months. I have refused to watch gymnastics since. The guy should have been banned. There should be a jerk registry to keep him and every other Bella Karolyi wannabe away from kids.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-25 17:25|| 2023-02-25 17:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah. He's a dick. Those are results. Not my style.

If he is following them home on social media, that would be too far.

Back in the day, I'd have hell practice, and that was it. Girls softball practice they got the same from their coach as we got from ours. When I was Ass. Coach recently, head coach told 2nd base she better start paying attention or she will be eating softball for dinner. Nothing cruel. She never came back.

I am convinced the difference today is these kids never get to leave, have their own time. Go to school, get home media posts about today's losers in school. Go to practice, get sports stuff from coach (I never did that, Head did). Have an off night on a date, dog piled before they even leave the prom.

Music handing out awards about loose sex. Screen playing Go Gay! 24/7. Teachers not able to teach or even control their classrooms. Its a far cry from "Run the fences. Lost one home drinks first from the hose." being the one and potentially only tough moment of the day.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 19:08|| 2023-02-25 19:08|| Front Page Top

#12 To be fair, I thought the rapey coach was overblown...until it became much, much worse than reported.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 19:57|| 2023-02-25 19:57|| Front Page Top

#13 There’s a difference between being a tough, demanding coach, which is necessary to achieve top level success, and being abusive — and it’s not a fine line. Nor is fat-shaming to the point fo driving kids into eating disorders exclusive to girls’ gymnastics and dance. I ran into one of the boys I ‘d gone to school with at a high school reunion — he was in the popular/wrestling/student council crowd while I was theater/music/honours classes (and gymnastics, but I always was eclectic), but all the popular boys had been kind to me in elementary school, so I remembered him fondly. At the reunion he related how he’d reluctantly had to quit wrestling because the coach deliberately made them bulimic so they’d drop into lower weight classes for meets, which eventually started endangering his health. This would have been in the latter half of the 1970s.

And even that kind of abuse is a large step away from Olympic team doctor who treated the girls on the team as his personal harem for several decades before some of the girls spoke up about it.

If the kids are feeling suicidal, the coach should readdress his tactics. There are ways to get the kids to feel good about driving themselves, instead of feeling bad about being driven. And those who can’t or won’t work to that level should be encouraged to go somewhere else, where they are better suited.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-25 21:54|| 2023-02-25 21:54|| Front Page Top

#14 An example of coaching done right. The Cheetahs. This weekend.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpGKZiYruOm/?igshid=OTRmMjhlYjM%3D

Posted by Mad Eye Omeretch7959 2023-02-25 22:13|| 2023-02-25 22:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Battle Royal
For The Championship

Simone Biles
vs.
Mitt Romney

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 23:12|| 2023-02-25 23:12|| Front Page Top

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