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Podcast: Alumni Conversation- Kaia Tanskanen, Part 1 “The Gymlife Balance” Mizzou

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We had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Missouri sophomore Kaia Tanskanen after long season and balancing both college gymnastics and elite gymnastics representing Finland. In this part 1 of our two part podcast with Kaia, we talk all about Mizzou and the moments that stood out from her freshman year and how she balanced competing in college while still maintaining her elite routines. She gives some BTS insights to the teams and her thoughts during the crazy NCAA Regionals and Nationals experience and of course we take her back to memories of being part of Region 5. That and more in this Part 1 with Kaia.

Part 2 – Finland: Competing in elite while in college, Europeans, the first for a Finnish Women on floor and 3 time is a charge at Worlds. 

Podcast Highlights

  • Reflecting on Region 5 and how being part of the Region prepared her for NCAA Gymnastics
  • Top 3 Memories of her time in Region 5
  • Thoughts on being coached by your Mom and Dad
  • Competing in Stegman Coliseum and around the SEC
  • 2025 NCAA Championships Experience – Link to her mom’s Instagram GRWE Post
  • Youtuber and how that relates to her degree (also a funny apartment move-in story)
  • Roll on the GymDawgs team and what we can expect from Georgia in 2026

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All Access: Olympia Gymnastics, Finding the Good in Everything

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New All Access with Olympia Gymnastics in Shelby Township Michigan. This workout was recorded back in September a few days before our Region 5 High Tech Camp. In this workout, Owner and Head Coach, Jordyn Childers focus on the positive. She says Find the good in everything and put energy into what you want more of. She also makes sure she has a drill after most turns to reinforce what the focus at the current training stage. The athletes are at different stages in their bars training and you see that in the workout. Coach Deanna Sigler (coaches beam and floor) has a yearly plan that she sticks to that helps prep the athletes for success. The floor circuit in this workout is a pre-routine stage mixing uphill work with drills and tumble sets on the rod floor. Beam is Deanna’s speciality and her complexes are always very good plus she has some drills that help focus on consistency in dismounts that are a must see.

** Lot more of the drills in the Full Members Workout

Training Thursday: Building Stability in Beam Series Landings | Gymnastics Training

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Training Thursday brings you this beam side station that can help with the stability of the landing of flight series and step out skills on beam. You need panel mat, 1/2 of a roller, and a bosu ball and you are good to go. EuroStars team director Anna breaks down the drill and shows some of the fixes that can be helpful when taking the landing up to the balance beam

All Access: EuroStars Gymnastics, Perfecting the Skills while Building Routines

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We went All Access for the first time with EuroStars Gymnastics in Plymouth Michigan. This workout features their Level 8-10’s from back in the middle of September in their transition from summer training into fall preseason training. We get some basic tumbling, beam basics and skill routines, a cool vault running drill from my former club teammate and fellow Michigan gymnastics Jamie Hertza. EuroStars has all the forms of vaults and it’s interesting to listen to the different types of corrections (even more in the members full version of this workout). The workout finishes with some spotted bar basics and a skill perfection training day that coach Anna has them due at least once a week while building those competition routines.

Full Workout (37+ minutes) and a soon to come bonus Conditioning and Body Shaping Video only for our Patreon and YouTube All Access Members

Podcast: Alumni Conversation- Ady Wahl, GymDawg All American Youtuber

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I remember her BHS Arabian on beam at the Region 5 training camp at the University of Michigan and saying who is that kid! Well she went on to win many state and regional titles and become one of our Region 5 Dream Team stand outs! She now is living her best life in Athens Georgia as a Gym Dawg. She is an All American a Youtuber and one of the leaders of the GymDawgs. We welcome Georgia Junior Ady Wahl to the show. She talks about her decision to go to college early out of high school, reflects on her first two years at Georgia, the 2025 NCAA Nationals experience and insights to the 2026 Gym Dawgs.

Podcast Highlights

  • Reflecting on Region 5 and how being part of the Region prepared her for NCAA Gymnastics
  • Top 3 Memories of her time in Region 5
  • Coaching change at Georgia during her Sophomore Year
  • Competing in Stegman Coliseum and around the SEC
  • 2025 NCAA Championships Experience
  • Youtuber and how that relates to her degree (also a funny apartment move-in story)
  • Roll on the GymDawgs team and what we can expect from Georgia in 2026

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