Singapore Gymnastics is always on the lookout for great articles that aims to create awareness and drive thoughts about the issues that matters to coaches and administrators in our current climate. Click on the links or pictures to link to the full articles.

Discussing A New Model of Gymnastics Part 1 - Global Values

We are living through one of the most chaotic eras of gymnastics. In light of recent scandals, hundreds of gymnasts have spoken up saying they did not have good experience for a variety of reasons. This has been an international movement, with multiple countries and levels of gymnasts saying change is essential for the future of our sport.

Dave have taken the last 3 months to create a 4 part lecture sharing his thoughts on the harder conversations we need to have, and bigger systematic issues that are in need of being addressed. Within the lecture, he has framed the conversation around what our gym is doing to change following Athlete A, the #GymnasticsAlliance movement, and COVID19.

It is titled “Discussion a New Model for Gymnastics: A Collaborative Effort To Maximize Health, Happiness, and High Performance”

It is broken up into 4 parts, and one will be released each week for the next month. They are

• Part 1 – Global Values
• Part 2 – Macro Principles
• Part 3 – Micro Principles
• Part 4 – Competitive Planning

"My hope is that the gymnastics community listens, gives feedback, and then it can be a group effort to find the best methods and principles that work. This is in an effort to make athletes, coaches, parents, and anyone else involved happier with the sport we work in."

Part 1 is now available in podcast form, or if you would like to see all 4 parts in video form with PDF slides and the bonus material, you can join our monthly group The Hero Lab.

Full article via https://shiftmovementscience.com/newmodelgymnasticspart1/

Coaching girls in sport: What the research says

*Hint, they don't leave because they don't win. hey leave because they don't enjoy it or because of injuries. 

Active for Life is a Canadian not-for-profit social initiative founded by B2ten. They are a national initiative created to help parents give their children the right start in life through the development of physical literacy and they wrote a fascinating article on why girls leave sports at the age of about 13/14 and how to stop it. Hint, they don't leave because they don't win. They leave because they don't enjoy it or because of injuries. 

Full article via https://activeforlife.com/coaching-girls-in-sport-research/

What is Competitiveness?

Great article around some misconception on competitiveness. There was an interesting video posted recently where a coach makes the point that hard work is not the same as competitiveness, which is a really good point. Here is the video:

Link to full article via http://www.coachescorner.net.au/2020/09/what-is-competitiveness.html