GymnasticsVille Podcast

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GymnasticsVille Podcast features in-depth, unfiltered conversations with the athletes, coaches, and leaders shaping competitive gymnastics. From Olympic comebacks to coaching philosophy, mental training to life after elite competition — if it matters to the gymnastics community, we talk about it. Hosted by Mubarak Simmons, co-founder of GymCrew Talent Management, alongside co-hosts Taqiy Simmons and Kerry Adderly. This isn't highlight reels or quick takes. These are real, long-form conversations about the sport we love — the struggles, the triumphs, the lessons learned, and the stories that don't make it to the competition floor. New episodes monthly. Produced by GymCrew Talent Management. --- CONNECT WITH US: Instagram: @gymnasticsville YouTube: GymnasticsVille Podcast Website: gymnasticsville.com Email: admin@gym-crew.com --- TOPICS COVERED: Olympic gymnastics, NCAA gymnastics, elite competition, coaching, mental training, athlete comebacks, retirement and transition, gymnastics training, USA Gymnastics, college gymnastics, club coaching, sports psychology, gymnastics careers --- FOR SPONSORSHIP INQUIRIES: Contact: admin@gym-crew.com

  1. 1d ago

    How Adult Gymnastics Brought Her Back | Mary-Anne "Mez" Monckton

    Two Commonwealth Games silver medals. Three World Championships. A skill in the FIG Code of Points with her name on it. And then Mary-Anne "Mez" Monckton walked away from gymnastics entirely. This week on Back to Basics by GymnasticsVille, Mez joins the show to talk about the full arc: getting talent-ID'd by the Australian Institute of Sport at age 7, moving to Melbourne alone at 15, silver at Glasgow 2014, the ACL tear training for the Rio test event, retirement in 2017, and the night at a Calgary gym in 2023 when a coach's words made her cry on the floor and brought her back to the sport. Today Mez runs CAPTivate Adult Gymnastics in her hometown of Newcastle, Australia. In one year she has grown it from 20 athletes to more than 85, trained 10 coaches, and built a program proving it's never too late to fall back in love with gymnastics. Find CAPTivate: https://captivategymnastics.com.au Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fuaM0dju-yk Follow GymnasticsVille: Instagram: @gymnasticsville TikTok: @gymnasticsvillehq X: @gymnasticsville Host: Mubarak Simmons, GymnasticsVille Host

  2. Aug 6

    Back to Basics EP 238 | 2026 U.S. Gymnastics Championships Preview with Sean Townsend

    World Champion Sean Townsend joins GymnasticsVille Host Mubarak Simmons to preview the 2026 U.S. Gymnastics Championships. Townsend won a World title on parallel bars in 2001, the first American man on a Worlds podium in 22 years, and trained alongside Mubarak at Houston Gymnastics Academy under coach Kevin Mazeika. Today he's the head coach there, with two of his own athletes competing in Phoenix this week. With Asher Hong, Brody Malone, and Donnell Whittenburg all out of the field, Townsend breaks down why he thinks Malone is playing the long game, names his five-man pick for the World team in Rotterdam, and explains why he believes the 2032 Olympic team could be the best in U.S. history. He also shares the untold story of competing at the 2001 World Championships in the weeks after 9/11, when his team was told they weren't going, then found out two weeks later that they were. This is the second of two GymnasticsVille previews ahead of Phoenix. Listen to the first, with Highland Park ISD Gymnastics Coach Justin James, wherever you get your podcasts. Read the full article: https://gymnasticsville.com/sean-townsend-2026-us-championships-preview/  Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gymnasticsville-podcast/id1236969576  Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3EZvLhd543Iw0YlwlkhBds?si=kURxLtagT2S98aqLTYOQkA&utm_source=sms  Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwVx7oVvYug  Follow GymnasticsVille: Instagram | TikTok @gymnasticsvillehq | X (GCTM)

  3. Aug 5

    Angela Fuller's 27-Year Gymnastics Comeback Will Give You Chills

    She was told her athletic career was over. Nearly three decades later, Angela Fuller walked back into a gym and did something she had only ever done in her dreams. On this episode of Back to Basics, adult gymnast and NAIGC competitor Angela Fuller joins Mubarak Simmons to talk about the wake-up call that sent her back to the sport, what it takes to complete the grueling 14-event Omnithon, and why adult gymnastics is growing faster than most people realize. In this episode: The wake-up call that changed everything Discovering adult gymnastics through Chellsie Memmel Purpose over podium, and why competing as an adult feels so different What the Omnithon actually is, and what it takes to finish all 14 events Visualizing a skill for 27 years, then landing it on the first try back Why participation in adult gymnastics doubled this year Her trip to American Ninja Warrior Why it is never too late to go back Follow Angela Fuller on Instagram at @colofitnesschick and on TikTok at @thehappydanceninja. Follow GymnasticsVille on Instagram at @gymnasticsville TikTok @gymnasticsvillehq, and at gymnasticsville.com.

  4. Aug 4

    Back to Basics EP 237 | 2026 U.S. Gymnastics Championships Preview

    Three reigning champions are missing from the U.S. Championships entry list, and the men's World Championships team gets decided in Phoenix with no selection camp afterward. Host Mubarak Simmons is joined by Justin James, Highland Park ISD Gymnastics Coach, to preview everything happening at the 2026 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships, August 6-9. In this episode: why Asher Hong, Brody Malone, and Donnell Whittenburg are not competing, the three-way pommel horse battle between Stephen Nedoroscik, Patrick Hoopes, and Brandon Dang, the all-around favorites, why EVO Gymnastics is sending 16 athletes to Phoenix, rising names to watch, and what it will take for Team USA to qualify for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Predictions on the record from both hosts. Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gymnasticsville-podcast/id1236969576  Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3EZvLhd543Iw0YlwlkhBds?si=kURxLtagT2S98aqLTYOQkA&utm_source=sms  Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zyDxnn9f-3s  Follow GymnasticsVille: Instagram: @gymnasticsville | TikTok @gymnasticsvillehq | X (GCTM) @gymcrewtalent

  5. Aug 2

    World Gymnaestrada: Bigger Than the Olympics? (with Hayley Silberg)

    By numbers, World Gymnaestrada is the biggest gymnastics event on the planet, bigger than the Olympics, bigger than every sport at the Olympics combined. Most gymnastics fans have never heard of it. On this episode of Back to Basics, Mubarak Simmons sits down with Hayley Silberg, founder of CAPTivate Adult Gymnastics, one of Canada's only all-adult gymnastics clubs, with roughly 300 athletes training across multiple provinces. Hayley breaks down what World Gymnaestrada actually is: a non-competitive gymnastics festival held every four years that draws more than 20,000 participants from over 50 countries. No judges. No scores. Just gymnastics for the love of it, with performers ranging from toddlers to athletes in their 90s. We also get into how Hayley built CAPTivate from a single weekly performance team into a full club, why adult gymnastics is one of the fastest-growing corners of the sport, and why she believes it might be one of the best things you can do for your mental health. Plus: World Gymnaestrada is coming to North America for the first time ever. Lisbon, Portugal hosts in 2027, and Las Vegas makes history in 2031 as the first edition held outside Europe. Connect with CAPTivate: Instagram: @captivate.gymnastics Website: captivategymnastics.com Follow GymnasticsVille: Instagram: @gymnasticsville Website: gymnasticsville.com Subscribe to Back to Basics for more conversations with the coaches, athletes, and builders shaping the sport.

  6. Jul 24

    Yul Moldauer on His Comeback Season, Returning to Oklahoma, and Why LA 2028 Gives Him Goosebumps

    The Yul Moldauer comeback is no longer a question. It is a season, and it is going well. The 2020 Olympian and two-time World Championships bronze medalist joins GymnasticsVille for his second sit-down of 2026. Since we last spoke, Yul has won silver in the all-around and gold on parallel bars at Winter Cup, competed at the American Cup, and taken parallel bars gold at the Pan American Championships while helping Team USA punch its ticket to the 2026 World Championships. He is also back training at the University of Oklahoma under coach Mark Williams. In this episode, Yul talks about the wave of comebacks sweeping the sport, including Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Katelyn Ohashi, and Marvin Kimble, and why he was excited but not surprised by any of them. He gets into what an Olympic Games on home soil in Los Angeles would mean to him, builds his dream comeback roster on the men's side, and explains what pulled him back to Norman. He also breaks down the upgrades he is bringing to the Xfinity US Gymnastics Championships in Phoenix, August 6 to 9, and the mindset behind his 12 for 12 goal. In this episode: Reaction to the Suni Lee, Jade Carey, and Katelyn Ohashi comebacks Marvin Kimble's return and the bet with Asher Hong What LA 2028 on home soil would mean Yul's dream comeback team The move back to Oklahoma under Mark Williams New upgrades and the road to Rotterdam Follow Yul Moldauer at yulmoldauer.com and on Instagram @yul_moldauer Read the full article at gymnasticsville.com

  7. Jul 17

    Texas Finally Has D1 Gymnastics: Inside Texas State's Historic Program w/ Justin James

    Texas produces roughly a quarter of the nation's elite gymnasts. Until this year, it had zero Division I women's gymnastics programs. That just changed. On this episode, Texas coach and judge Justin James joins GymnasticsVille to break down Texas State University's historic launch of the first D1 women's gymnastics program in state history. Justin is the Head Girls Gymnastics Coach at Highland Park ISD, Director of Recruiting for the Texas Armadillos GymACT team, and a member of the Texas and National Gymnastics Judges Associations, with nearly 14 years as gymnastics director at Kingwood High School before that. We get into: - The Oklahoma connection behind Texas State's decision, and why the school's president credits OU head coach K.J. Kindler with helping him see it through - Why it took 40 years for a Texas school to go D1, from football economics to Title IX - Inside the Aggie Ascension, the group working to bring a varsity program to Texas A&M - Why Texas State's location makes it a recruiting goldmine - McMurry's surprise new program and the murky history of Houston Christian's old varsity status - Justin's read on the men's gymnastics scene heading into the Xfinity U.S. Championships and LA 2028 Read more at gymnasticsville.com  Watch the full video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gKQSq5vRzU8  Follow Justin James: Instagram: @justinwjames X: @TheJustinJames Follow GymnasticsVille: Instagram: @gymnasticsville TikTok: @gymnasticsvillehq

  8. Jul 10

    DeShaun Holden on Gymnastics Comebacks, NIL, and Building a Championship Gym

    Most coaches see gymnastics from one side of the table. DeShaun Holden has seen it from all of them. He competed. He judged. He coached. And now his gym, Top Notch Training, just took home NGA Club of the Year at the 2026 Georgia State Championships. In this episode, Mubarak Simmons and Kerry Adderly sit down with DeShaun Holden, owner and head coach of Top Notch Training Gym in Georgia, for a wide-ranging conversation covering the biggest storylines in gymnastics right now and DeShaun's own remarkable journey through the sport. Topics include: Reactions to the wave of elite comebacks from Katelyn Ohashi, Jade Carey, Marvin Kimble, and Stephen Nedoroscik DeShaun's path from athlete to certified judge at age 16, to Elite-level coach Navigating the NIL recruiting process as a parent, with his son signing to play D1 football The new NCAA five-year eligibility rule and what it means for athletes Results and takeaways from the 2026 Pan American Championships DeShaun's coaching philosophy and what he looks for in developing athletes The transition to the new 2026-2030 USAG Developmental Code of Points Building Top Notch Training from 19 kids and three months of rent money to NGA Club of the Year Follow DeShaun Holden and Top Notch Training Gym on Instagram at @tntgymnasticsatl and @coach_deshaun_top_notch_. Subscribe to GymnasticsVille for more conversations with the biggest names in NCAA and elite gymnastics.

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GymnasticsVille Podcast features in-depth, unfiltered conversations with the athletes, coaches, and leaders shaping competitive gymnastics. From Olympic comebacks to coaching philosophy, mental training to life after elite competition — if it matters to the gymnastics community, we talk about it. Hosted by Mubarak Simmons, co-founder of GymCrew Talent Management, alongside co-hosts Taqiy Simmons and Kerry Adderly. This isn't highlight reels or quick takes. These are real, long-form conversations about the sport we love — the struggles, the triumphs, the lessons learned, and the stories that don't make it to the competition floor. New episodes monthly. Produced by GymCrew Talent Management. --- CONNECT WITH US: Instagram: @gymnasticsville YouTube: GymnasticsVille Podcast Website: gymnasticsville.com Email: admin@gym-crew.com --- TOPICS COVERED: Olympic gymnastics, NCAA gymnastics, elite competition, coaching, mental training, athlete comebacks, retirement and transition, gymnastics training, USA Gymnastics, college gymnastics, club coaching, sports psychology, gymnastics careers --- FOR SPONSORSHIP INQUIRIES: Contact: admin@gym-crew.com

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  • Creator
    GymnasticsVille
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Clean
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    ©2026 GymnasticsVille
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