Praise the Process: How to Support Your Child's Gymnastics Journey
Imagine for months you work on a presentation at work. It's a big presentation. People you know and don’t know will be coming to watch you present it. You work for multiple hours a day, multiple days a week. You tweak little things and add big things. You put consistent effort into making it great by taking feedback from your leaders and input from your team. You are nervous the night before. What if you fail? What if you mess up? What if it doesn’t go as planned? You show up
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Making the Most of Summer Training
The Summer season is upon us and with it comes the excitement of upgrades, new friendships and dreams for the competitive season filling the air. Our girls have been focused, brave and ready to take on new challenges. It is so wonderful to witness each of them settle into their new teams and launch another season. Without the stress of school and homework, our gymnasts have more mental and physical energy to spend in practice. They are able to absorb concepts quicker and they
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Gap vs. Gain Mindset
The end of the competitive season presents an incredible opportunity to introduce our athletes to the concept of Gap vs. Gain mindsets, which are detailed in the book “Gap vs. Gain” by Dan Sullivan. Our athletes have accomplished so much over the course of the competitive season. They have succeeded, struggled, cried, laughed, fallen, stuck landings and learned so much along the way. Oftentimes, we hear from our athletes about the things they still need to achieve, the places
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