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...
View ArticleWhat Gymnastics Taught Me About Acquiring and Mastering Skills
In 1996, Men’s Health published an article 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....
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleGymnastics 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...
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