Shannon Miller: My Child, My Hero by Claudia Miller

[rlayt]

USAG just seems so useless sometimes.

 

[Aeris]

"we weren't told anything about the code of points or whatever" is such an iconic quote.

 

[eanda]

USAG makes it bloody impossible for an American to take the brevet exam. At this point, if you weren't a national team member, there's almost no path to being a FIG judge.

I don't know what prompted that change, as it was not the case in the past.

It’s frustrating. I judged JO for a while, and while not having the option to be a FIG judge is the reason I quit, i don’t know that I would have quit when I did if it had been a possibility down the road.

Speaking of coaching education -or lack of - in the U.S., even as JO judges we were required to have a certain number of continuing education hours each year (maybe just to test the next level? But i think each year). Have coaches ever had any such requirements, or just the tests RedBirfie mentioned.

To make this all somewhat on topic, I had completely forgotten until writing this that I was once an aux judge at NCAA regionals when Nunno was at Oklahoma. Details escape me now, other than nothing happened, but I didn’t want to be the one that brought on one of his fits!

 

[RichardL]

I took a job as a rec coach at a gym with an elite gymnast in 2000, and I was a gym nerd who knew the upcoming COP and saw what utterly worthless things she was training, so I drew up a plan that they followed without question. I was literally sixteen years old and only knew about these things because of the old versions of this message board. This was a top contender who became a major NCAA gymnast and they were listening to a closeted gay kid for their whole training regime.