Welcome to The Game of Gymnastics podcast, where we dive deep into the world of elite gymnastics. Join us as we explore how top gymnasts, coaches, and judges optimize training and performance to achieve peak results. We'll look into the scoring system, revealing how athletes strategically use the Code of Points to their advantage. Discover how gymnasts manage recovery and cope with the inevitable injuries that come with the sport. We’ll also explore how these athletes handle the intense pressure of competing at the highest levels, from the Olympics to the Commonwealth Games and beyond. Whether you're a gymnast, coach, or fan, this podcast offers valuable insights into how the best in the world play the game to win when it matters most.
The Game of Gymnastics
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Welcome to The Game of Gymnastics podcast, where we dive deep into the world of elite gymnastics. Join us as we explore how top gymnasts, coaches, and judges optimize training and performance to achieve peak results. We'll look into the scoring system, revealing how athletes strategically use the Code of Points to their advantage. Discover how gymnasts manage recovery and cope with the inevitable injuries that come with the sport. We’ll also explore how these athletes handle the intense pressure of competing at the highest levels, from the Olympics to the Commonwealth Games and beyond. Whether you're a gymnast, coach, or fan, this podcast offers valuable insights into how the best in the world play the game to win when it matters most.
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July 13, 2026
Inside a National Gymnastics Training Camp
ABOUT THE EPISODE: Host Winston Powell takes listeners inside a full week at a British Gymnastics national training camp. He explains what the squad system is, why it matters, and how it plugs into the wider national programme, before walking through his own week day by day, including two big wipeouts, a hard fought new high bar connection, and a neck injury that ended his squad early. It's a rare, honest look at what actually happens behind the scenes of an elite gymnastics camp. KEY TAKEAWAYS: National squads bring together the top gymnasts and coaches in each age and level group for four to five days of focused training, testing, and development. The setup pools coaching knowledge, so a skill a gymnast has been stuck on for months might click when a different coach offers a new perspective. Profiling and strength testing at the start of camp are used to spot imbalances that could lead to overuse injuries, and to guide future strength and prehab work. Being surrounded by other elite gymnasts is a huge motivator. Seeing what your peers are doing pushes the level of everyone in the room. Some of the most valuable training moments come from odd challenges, like handstand switches on a single parallette, that push technique in ways normal training does not. Progress is not linear. Winston chased a squat half Kolman for over an hour, took a hard fall on high bar, and still walked away with a new connection: Tkatchev to Geinger. Injuries in elite gymnastics are often small movements, not big crashes. Winston's neck went during a routine conditioning exercise, not during a scary skill. The risk reward ratio matters. If a skill is very hard for you and not worth much in the code, there is usually an alternative that gets you to a similar place with less cost. BEST MOMENTS: "There's always a reason behind what you're doing, and there's always a reward behind what you're putting your time and effort into." "Sometimes it's worth it, but it's a risk reward ratio that you're working at." "Squads really do push you to try and learn new things and think outside the box." "As gymnasts, you're constantly growing. And even the coaches are constantly growing." "I felt like I couldn't really move my head at all." "I was like, is there going to be a third?" LINKS: Website: https://winstonpowell.co.uk/ Email: info@winstonpowell.co.uk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wpowell05/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@winstonpowell5 E-book: https://payhip.com/b/f6RjV ABOUT THE HOST: As a member of the Senior Great Britain Squad, Winston Powell brings firsthand experience to every episode. His achievements include being the Under 18 English Champion in 2023 and reaching the finals in three events at the Junior World Championships the same year: the All-Around, Parallel Bars, and Horizontal Bar finals, qualifying 7th for the All-Around. With five international appearances as a GB gymnast, he has gained invaluable insights into the sport's highest levels. His passion for gymnastics, combined with his deep understanding of the challenges and triumphs faced by elite athletes, makes him the perfect guide to exploring the strategies and stories behind gymnastics success.
July 6, 2026
The Code Decoder | UpGrade Gymnastics | John Scallon
ABOUT THE EPISODE: Host Winston Powell sits down with John Scallon, a former NCAA Division 1 pommel horse specialist at the University of Minnesota turned high school coach and app builder. John walks through his unusual path through the sport, the corporate detour that pulled him out of it, the moment that pulled him back in, and how all of that led to him building two gymnastics apps: First, a morning routine app for athletes, and Upgrade, a video library for the Code of Points. KEY TAKEAWAYS: John only started gymnastics as a sophomore in high school, became a pommel specialist, and earned a Division 1 scholarship in two and a half years without ever doing a backflip or holding a handstand. Years in corporate website optimisation taught him how to read user intent and build experiences that feel like the product is reading your mind, exactly the lens he now uses to design tools for gymnasts. Coming home after a relationship ended reconnected him to his old coach and the sport, and a chance gym visit turned into a high school coaching role that became central to his life again. His app First reframes a science-backed morning routine as a seventh men's artistic event, scored out of 10, with each habit weighted by how much it supports circadian rhythm and athletic performance. His core insight: the day circle works exactly like a pommel circle. Pike it, cut a corner, and you pay for it on the other side. Flatten it and every other skill becomes easier. Upgrade is his Code of Points video library app, pulling the best YouTube footage of every skill into one organised, browsable home so gymnasts and coaches can see what skills actually look like at the top level. The vision goes beyond skills. Eventually it could host drills, progressions, and elite-coached courses, becoming an online academy for anyone in a gym without access to high level coaching. Gymnastics is shrinking at the grassroots and the NCAA level. John's bigger dream is reviving community spaces like old YMCAs and borrowing entertainment lessons from things like Savannah Bananas style baseball to grow audiences and make the sport sustainable. BEST MOMENTS: "I learned the circle, and then learning the skills is just putting your hands in different places." "The day circle functions the same as pommel horse. If you cut a part of the circle short, you have a debt that pays for it on the opposite side." "What sports are so dedicated to being aesthetically pleasing? Gymnastics is a really bizarre union of strength and grace." "Sleep is the biggest performance enhancing drug." "If you're really a gymnast at heart, watching these videos is going to completely change your life." "The kid is motivated, you show them the path, you get them excited about it. That can all happen in a year." JOHN'S LINKS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/first-morning-routine/id6757344123 https://www.upgradegymnastics.com LINKS: Website: https://winstonpowell.co.uk/ Email: info@winstonpowell.co.uk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wpowell05/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@winstonpowell5 E-book: https://payhip.com/b/f6RjV ABOUT THE HOST: As a member of the Senior Great Britain Squad, Winston Powell brings firsthand experience to every episode. His achievements include being the Under 18 English Champion in 2023 and reaching the finals in three events at the Junior World Championships the same year: the All-Around, Parallel Bars, and Horizontal Bar finals, qualifying 7th for the All-Around. With five international appearances as a GB gymnast, he has gained invaluable insights into the sport's highest levels. His passion for gymnastics, combined with his deep understanding of the challenges and triumphs faced by elite athletes, makes him the perfect guide to exploring the strategies and stories behind gymnastics success.
June 29, 2026
Omo on DMT, World Medals and Almost Joining Cirque du Soleil
ABOUT THE EPISODE: Host Winston Powell sits down with Omo, three time world medalist in DMT, World Games silver medalist in 2025, and the freshly crowned European Champion. Omo breaks down what DMT actually is, how he progressed from Acro at seven to the world stage by twelve, and how a last minute Cirque du Soleil setback ended up shaping his strongest competition to date. The conversation also dives into the inconsistency of the discipline, the tactical side of knowing the code, and why DMT deserves more visibility than it currently gets. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Omo started in Acro at seven before moving into DMT around 2016, making his first World Championships at just twelve years old in 2017. Going to a world stage so young taught him early on to expect the unexpected, and that not every competition is going to go to plan no matter how well training has gone. His 2025 World Games silver in Chengdu was a long awaited redemption after the previous edition in 2022 went badly for him. A Cirque du Soleil contract fell through just before Euros 2025, which left him in a strange headspace going in, lower pressure, less peaking, and ultimately a gold medal performance. DMT is one of the most inconsistent disciplines in gymnastics because the trampoline is small, the skills are huge, and there is no room to save yourself between elements. Knowing the code matters. At Euros, his coaches changed his first pass mid competition based on the scores ahead of him, and understanding why made him a better collaborator in those decisions. DMT needs to become more viewer friendly. Long waits between scores hurt the spectator experience, and formats like Faceoff show what the sport could borrow. Adversity really is a superpower. The hard volume blocks of training and the disappointment of the Cirque decision both fed directly into the form he showed at Euros. BEST MOMENTS: "I just keep doing it and see what happens. If I get good results, cool, but at least I get to flip." "It taught me, going forward, to expect the unexpected." "You run up, you do two flips, and then land. Hopefully on your feet, not your face." "I was kind of just there, doing my flips, see what happens. And it just worked out." "Everything happens for a reason. A couple of weeks later, I go out to Euros and get a gold medal." "I literally just enjoy it. Go with the flow." LINKS: Website: https://winstonpowell.co.uk/ Email: info@winstonpowell.co.uk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wpowell05/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@winstonpowell5 E-book: https://payhip.com/b/f6RjV ABOUT THE HOST: As a member of the Senior Great Britain Squad, Winston Powell brings firsthand experience to every episode. His achievements include being the Under 18 English Champion in 2023 and reaching the finals in three events at the Junior World Championships the same year: the All-Around, Parallel Bars, and Horizontal Bar finals, qualifying 7th for the All-Around. With five international appearances as a GB gymnast, he has gained invaluable insights into the sport's highest levels. His passion for gymnastics, combined with his deep understanding of the challenges and triumphs faced by elite athletes, makes him the perfect guide to exploring the strategies and stories behind gymnastics success.
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