Beyond proud of my friend and fellow adult gymnast Lori Lien Vollkommer! This short film is about her gymnastics comeback and about how my Facebook Group for Adult Gymnasts “Just Like Fine Wine” has helped her find her tribe. Lori has defied the odds by returning to gymnastics 30 years after a doctor told herContinue reading “Adult Gymnast Defies Doctor’s Claim that she Could Never Do Gymnastics Again”
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Part 2 of Lori Vollkommer’s gymnastics story is up on the TrainLikeAGymnast blog.
It was November 16, 1983. The conference championships were held at Copiague High School. I was warming up uneven bars. In those days, it was the “belly beats”. Each athlete had their own setting, but for warm-ups they put the bars on the farthest and highest setting. This meant accommodating for the distance in transitioningContinue reading “Part 2 of Lori Vollkommer’s gymnastics story is up on the TrainLikeAGymnast blog.”
Adult Gymnastics 