Dec 01
229: Lessons & Anti-Lessons from Gymnastics —
Being an elite gymnast instilled several great lessons on high performance, and a few bad ones too
Apr 05
Gymnastics Lessons: Performing Under Pressure —
Gymnastics is a sport about delivering under pressure. Even though you can make
it a team sport by aggregating scores and swapping out players, there is
actually not interaction between your teammates outside of them cheering for you
and helping you prepare for your performance, or even between you and
Mar 29
What Gymnastics Taught Me About Facing Fear —
Most competitive gymnasts would consider pain and fear our twin companions. I
certainly did. Gymnastics requires that athletes constantly challenge themselves
to do more, much more. Routines that were performed in the Olympics in 2000 are
being done by 15 year-olds in 2011. To learn new skills, you have to
Mar 15
What Gymnastics Taught Me About Acquiring and Mastering Skills —
In 1996, Men’s Health published an article
[https://web.archive.org/web/20161016033530/http://www.stickitmedia.com/mens-gymnastics-the-worlds-toughest-sport/]
where they used some ridiculous mathematical formula using variables such as
fitness, skill, pain, brains, etc to figure out the toughest sport in the world.
Gymnastics came up number one. Here’
Jan 19
How I Blew Out My Knee and Came Back to Win a National Championship —
On January 19th, 2007, while competing for Stanford Men’s Gymnastics at the UC Berkeley, I suffered a total knee dislocation while performing a double-twisting Yurchenko. My ACL, PCL, MCL, LCL and meniscus were instantly torn. It hurt a lot.
I underwent multiple surgeries, required the use of crutches for