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…
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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Most people think gymnastics belongs to kids. Jenny Woudenberg and Hugh Smith are proving otherwise. In Episode 232 of the GymnasticsVille Podcast, we sit down with the co-founders of Adult Gymnastics Retreats to talk about the booming adult gymnastics movement, how they built a business combining gymnastics, wellness, and adventure travel, and why it's never too late to step back into the gym.…
Sophia Campana joins Mubarak Simmons and Taqiy Simmons on the GymnasticsVille Podcast for one of our most powerful episodes yet. Sophia is an elite gymnast with dual American and Italian citizenship, 2021 Italian National Bars Champion, MTV Italy reality star, bestselling author, and empowerment coach with nearly one million followers on both Instagram and YouTube. This summer she is taking her…
Kevin Mazeika — USA Gymnastics Hall of Famer and three-time U.S. Olympic Men's Team Head Coach — sits down for his first-ever long-form podcast interview on GymnasticsVille Podcast Episode 2. Kevin has coached Team USA to back-to-back Olympic medals, including the 2004 Athens silver medal (the first non-boycotted Olympic team medal since 1932) and the 2008 Beijing bronze. Today he leads EVO…
Olympic gymnast Yul Moldauer sits down for an unfiltered conversation about his comeback journey after 16 months away from the sport. In this episode, Yul discusses: - His emotional return at Rocky Mountain Open - Starting on pommel horse - the most nerve-wracking event - Event-by-event breakdown of his first competition back - Why love for gymnastics is what truly drives his comeback -…
Yul Moldauer discusses Arthur Gander Memorial, Swiss Cup, and the Bundesliga League. Yul interview guest 2007 NCAA all-around champion Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons. Yul Moldauer is a US Olympian, World Medalist, and a 7-Time NCAA Champion who trains at 5280 Gymnastics in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
Yul Moldauer discusses World Team Trials, World Championships, & the Bundesliga League. Yul Moldauer is a US Olympian, World Medalist, and a 7-Time NCAA Champion who trains at 5280 Gymnastics in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
Yul Moldauer discusses the US National team bonus scoring, college gymnastics, and more with his former 5280 Gymnastics teammates Taylor Burkhart (Stanford/US Senior National Team member) and Zak Johnson (Rocky Mountain Pride). Yul Moldauer is a US Olympian, World Medalist, and a 7-Time NCAA Champion who trains at 5280 Gymnastics in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
Yul Moldauer talks about US Gymnastics Championships, US Classics, Bundesliga League, & Pan American Championships. Yul Moldauer is a US Olympian, World Medalist, and a 7-Time NCAA Champion who trains at 5280 Gymnastics in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
Midknight Robin discusses top gymnastics we will miss at 2022 Winter Cup Challenge, NCAA Women's Gymnastics perfect 10 club, at the Cottbus Cup.
Rio Rossoni interviews National Champion Oklahoma gymnast Matt Wenske. Wenske discusses his career in gymnastics, his recruitment to Oklahoma, and his experience at the 2021Olympic Trials.
Gio interviews Midknight Robin to discuss tops news in the gymnastics world. GymCrew Talent Management, Tokyo Olympics, Yul Moldauer, Simone Biles, Professional Gymnastics.
At The Bucket with Gio. Ruben Padilla 3-time world medalist, talks about his rise in Trampoline.
At The Bucket with Gio interviews Gage Dyer and Matt Wenske about the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Dyer and Wenske have just finished up their senior years at the University of Oklahoma. Wenke will be competing in the all-around. Gage will be competing on floor and vault.
At The Bucket with Gio interviews Uche Eke. Eke is Nigeria's first African games gold medalist in gymnastics. He also just became the first Nigerian to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics at the African Championships recently held in Cairo, Egypt.
GymnasticsVille's Gio Prossoni interviews University of Michigan gymnast Paul Juda. On Friday June 4 Juda finished second in the all-around at the 2021 Senior Pan American Championships. His all-around placement claimed the final +1 spot for the Tokyo Olympic Games available for the U.S. men's program. Team USA will now be able to send 5 gymnasts to compete in Tokyo. Juda discusses the closing of…
Giovanni Prossoni interviews Kanji Oyama about his gymnastics career. Kanji Oyama, who trains at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic training center in Colorado Springs retired from gymnastics one week prior to the U.S. Gymnastics Championships.
GymnasticsVille Gio Prossoni interviews Olympic hopeful. Stephen Nedoroscik. Nedoroscik posts top score on pommel horse on Day 1 at U.S. Gymnastics Championships with a 15.1
GymnasticsVille Gio Prossoni interviews Yul Moldauer
GymnasticsVille Gio Prossoni interviews Team USA's Allan Bower. They discuss life, gymnastics, and more.
The wait is finally over, well at least in about two weeks it will be. The senior elite men's gymnastics season will kick off on Saturday January 16th at 7:30 pm cst in Texas at the Galveston Island Winter Beach Classic. This event will be the first in time since last February that the best gymnasts in the world will compete to kickoff the 2021 Olympic year. The line-up is stacked with world team…
The Best Gymnastics moments of 2020 ranked by Midknight Robin. So what are some of the most notable moments in one of the most unpredictable, disrupted year in gymnastics history? As gyms shut down when Covid-19 hit around mid-March, the new normal continues to refine itself with the ongoing pandemic. Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons and Kerry Adderly joins today's New Years Eve show to discuss 2020.
Gio Prossoni talked with William & Mary gymnast Christian Marsh on WM dropping men's gymnastics. William & Mary to drop seven varsity sports after the 2020-21 academic year comes to an end. Men's and women's gymnastics, men's and women's swimming, men's indoor and outdoor track and field, and volleyball.
Sam Zakutney won gold in all-around, vault, parallel bars, and horizontal bar, and finished second on floor exercise at the 2019 Canadian Championships. Hear what Zakutney, a 2-time World Team member, has to say about his career at Penn State and competing internationally for Canada.
"The Last Dance" follows the Bulls' 1997-98 season from start to finish, while also covering the rest of the chapters in Jordan's remarkable career. The 10-part docuseries follows the Jordan timeline from when he was an emerging star on his high school team to becoming a worldwide marketing force and cultural figure. Hear what Midknight Robin, Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons, and Kerry Adderly have to say…
Penn State's Stephen Nedoroscik received the highest honor in college men's gymnastics was announced by the College Gymnastics Association (CGA) as the Nissen-Emery Award winner. He is the seventh gymnast in program history and the first specialist from any school to win the award.
USA Gymnastics cancels 2020 events, which included U.S. Classic and the national championships because of the coronavirus pandemic. Hear what Midknight Robin, Kerry Adderly, and Jeffrey Brown have to say.
Gymnastics is one of the most difficult sports to master. There are six events in men's gymnastics. Hear what Midknight Robin, Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons, and Kerry Adderly have to say about which event is the hardest to master.
GymnasticsVille interviews Nicole Langevin, owner of Precision Choreography. Midknight Robin and Kerry Adderly discuss the current state of gymnastics, women's college gymnastics postseason awards, ways to improve the marketability to men's gymnastics.
GymnasticsVille Ultimate Line-Up debate series. Midknight Robin versus Penn State Men's Gymnastics assistant coach Tony Beck. They discuss the best pommel horse line-ups of all-time. Kerry Adderly is the moderator for today's show.
GymnasticsVille Ultimate Line-Up debate series. Midknight Robin versus film director Hisonni Johnson. They discuss the best floor line-ups of all-time. Kerry Adderly and Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons are the moderators for today's show.
GymnasticsVille interviews Heather Hammond program manager from Magnitude 10.0 Gymnastics located in Nashville, Tennessee. The gym was destroyed by a tornado on Tuesday March 3, 2020. The gym is owned and operating by Maggie Nelson. She brings 20 years of gymnastics experience as both a coach & competitor. Since opening the gym in March, 2005, she has coached several state and regional…
As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the globe it has postponed the sports world dramatically. The International Gymnastics Federation, NCAA, and USA Gymnastics have either canceled or postponed events due to COVID-19. Midknight Robin, Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons, and Kerry Adderly discuss the impact the virus is having on the gymnastics community.
GymnasticsVille correspondent Gio Prossoni interviews Stephen Nedoroscik, Penn State head coach Randy Jepson, and assistant coach Tony Beck. Midknight Robin talks about this weekend's American Cup predictions and the tri-meet with Michigan, Penn State, at Illinois.
Stephen Nedroscik captures the gold medal on pommel horse with a sensational routine during event finals at the Melbourne World Cup. Midknight Robin and Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons breakdown the competition highlights and Winter Cup Challenge.
The best gymnasts in the nation competed this past weekend at the Winter Cup Challenge in Las Vegas. This is first national qualifying meet during this Olympic year. USA Gymnastics had an error with the senior all-around awards. Midknight Robin discusses this and more on today's show.
Minnesota gymnastics head coach Mike Burns joins today's show to talk about his program hosting "Flashback Friday" 10.0 Meet today. The Gophers will host the Washington Huskies tonight with the meet operating on a 10.0 scoring system. Burns, who is also the President of the CGA discussed the outlook of Shane Wiskus and the rest of the team.
Region 3 Director Jerit Pogues joins today's show to continue the conversation about the pros and cons with College Gymnastics Association (CGA) changing their scoring system to a 10.0. Pogue who is also a member of the USA Gymnastics Junior Olympic Program Committee (JOPC) talks about the growth of the men's program and the Elite Team Cup which will be held in Las Vegas in conjunction with the…
The 10.0 conversion is bringing back to college men's gymnastics. During week 4 action there were 5 perfect routines: Shane Wiskus (Minnesota), Blake Sun (Stanford), Vitaliy Guimaraes (Oklahoma), Gage Dyer (Oklahoma), Stephen Nedoroscik (Penn State). Stanford blows out Oklahoma at home and pulls in the highest team score of the season.
Kobe Bryant, an American icon whose cultural impact went far beyond the NBA, was killed along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people in a helicopter crash Sunday northwest of Los Angeles. Bryant was 41 years old.
We are now into week 3 of the college gymnastics season. The biggest surprise so far is Oklahoma quick start to take the lead in the rankings and Nebraska rounding out the top 3. Midknight Robin and Kerry Adderly discuss highlights of the first two weeks of the season, the 10.0 scoring conversion and why it is better than the FIG open ended scoring.
USA Gymnastics hired Jason Woodnick as their next men's program Vice President. Midknight Robin, Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons, and Kerry Adderly discuss the hire and impact it has on gymnastics in America. They also review the highlights of the 2019 season. New Years Eve Show.
GymnasticsVille correspondent, Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons talks about the Olympic Hopes Cup that was held in the Czech Republic and men's gymnastics in Europe. Midknight and Kerry discuss the College Men's Gymnastics coaches preseason rankings. Taqiy breaks down top Australian junior national team members.
USA Gymnastics is in the final stages of choosing the next vice president for the men's program and per industry sources JD Reive from Iowa Gymnastics men's program is the front runner. Midknight Robin and Kerry Adderly discuss other top candidates.
