Chalked Up: My Life in Elite Gymnastics, (Paperback)

from dearheart

This is the story of Jennifer Sey, the 1986 U S National Gymnastic Champion. The book tells us of her mindset, what drove her to compete and what it took for her to reach that level of competition. It begins at the age of 3 when she learned her first cartwheel, and takes us through to the present...

from sophiea

There is so many issues/problems/situations that athletes face that we do not always think about. This book seems like it would be a great read to understand the world of competitive gymnastics. All the details and training regiment would be awesome for students to expereience. They can see how h...

from sophiea

There is so many issues/problems/situations that athletes face that we do not always think about. This book seems like it would be a great read to understand the world of competitive gymnastics. All the details and training regiment would be awesome for students to expereience. They can see how h...

from Meggo

This is the autobiography of Jennifer Sey, an elite-level American gymnast who had the misfortune to be peaking in between Olympics years. Similar in subject matter and tone to the autobiography of Dominique Moceanu, Sey's book also highlights the intense physical toll that elite gymnastics takes...

from jen.e.moore

More a direct memoir than I expected from the subtitle (my fault for not reading the description before I picked it up), I found this kind of mesmerisingly horrible. I was a gymnast as a kid but stopped when my coach made it clear that the fact that I was approaching puberty was unacceptable; I n...