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Savannah, GA, USA. William Wayne Evans

A veteran coach in the world of Gymnastics, Tumbling, and Cheerleading, CoachWayne has taught private lessons, camps, and clinics in both the United States and Europe. Among his accolades, CoachWayne has produced eight instructional video-format books: the top-selling Better Back Handsprings (7 volume collection) and Basic Handstand Position. His Tumbling Tips articles have been read by hundreds of thousands of students and teachers worldwide since 1999. He was Executive Coach of Olympic gymnast Zuzana Sekerova, and Master Coach for more than 150 instructors of cheerleading, tumbling, and gymnastics.

CoachWayne has consulted as an expert witness on gymnastics, cheerleading, and related recreational activities involving foam pits, trampolines, and impact attenuation devices. Since 2019, he has served the justice system as a neutral expert witness in personal injury cases involving gymnastics, cheerleading, trampoline parks, foam pits, and other recreational or athletic environments. He has been retained by both plaintiffs and defendants to provide objective analysis and expert opinions on standard of care, injury mechanisms, and safety practices. His work includes written preliminary opinions, formal reports, site inspections, and the production of 3D forensic models, as well as sworn testimony in both depositions and trials in state and federal courts across the country.

CoachWayne's forensic orientation was shaped in part through early collaboration with the late Dr. Gerald S. George of Louisiana, a globally respected authority in sports biomechanics, longtime professor of kinesiology, and senior editor of widely used safety manuals for both gymnastics and cheerleading. The two worked together on one of CoachWayne's first litigation cases and later served jointly on ASTM Subcommittee F24.61 on Adventure Attractions, contributing to the task group responsible for ASTM Standard F2970. Dr. George was also an early reviewer and advisor of CoachWayne's gymnastics training software. He consistently emphasized that a credible expert must reach exactly the same conclusion, regardless of which side retains them, and must always tell the truth. After Dr. George's passing, legal teams turned to CoachWayne to continue related casework, recognizing a shared standard of clarity, neutrality, and ethical rigor.

CoachWayne's broader coaching lineage traces back to his longtime mentor, Ronald Eugene ("Coach O") Oertley, former head coach of Georgia Southern College's men's and women's (WAG/MAG) gymnastics teams. Oertley and Dr. George were mutually respected peers and colleagues. Following seven years of coaching and apprenticeship, Oertley bestowed the moniker "CoachWayne" a professional title that has remained ever since.

~CoachWayne! Gymnastics Skill Evaluation Program (GSEP) Overview

Before writing, before cities, before formal law, there was the body.
Across civilizations, movement encoded meaning. Gymnastics, like ritual dance and martial form, functioned as a cultural signal of discipline, growth, and passage. The Gymnastics Skill Evaluation Program (GSEP) was built to continue that lineage beyond the event horizon. If we must digitize, if human civilization is to survive its own acceleration, we must embed the right things like integrity, ritual, tradition, moral scaffolding, peer mentorship. We must embed this into the very code that will outlive us, or we lose what made the in-person lineage meaningful in the first place.

A Structured Transmission System

Originally authored in 2008 as a paper-based codex for instructor training and student progression, GSEP captures the eye and logic of an expert coach in a system designed for replication and continuity.

Now Digitized. Still Doctrinal.

Select portions of the original GSEP, including nine core evaluation exercises and detailed rubrics, have been transformed into a gamified software-as-a-service platform now deployed in gymnastics and cheerleading facilities across the United States.

Engineered for Outcomes

Accelerates student progress
Improves retention and public relations
Makes coaches look like heroes
Standardizes best practices and safety protocols
Embeds peer leadership, honesty, and ethical awareness

Culturally Anchored. Intergenerational by Design.

This is not just software. It is a training lattice, structured to preserve meaning alongside movement.
It does not simply revive the ancient lineage. It continues it, and perhaps the digital version will carry it long past the event horizon.

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Ms. Zuzana Sekerova
Trnava, Slovakia.

Ms. Sekerova has had a lifetime of achievement in Women's Artistic Gymnastics. She was the only member of the Slovakian Team (SVK - The Republic of Slovakia) to compete in Women's Artistic Gymnastics at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, in 2000. In her second Olympic Games Zuzana ranked 47th as an all-arounder, in Athens, Greece, 2004.  Among her many accolades as Elite Gymnast (FIG) Zu also competed at the World Cup in La Serena, Chile in 2004, winning the gold medal on Balance Beam. She retired from competition in 2007.

With the support and sacrifice of her family and community, Zu launched herself from her home in Slovakia with bold determination. She arrived in the US at the Atlanta airport, facing the unfolding adventure. Although she considered herself "retired" from competitive gymnastics when she arrived, she had the courage, discipline, and determination of a world-traveled, seasoned Olympian.

Zuzana quickly became a valuable demonstrator and instructor for the ~CoachWayne! Tumbling Instructor Skill Certification Programs. She taught private lessons to young, local competitive gymnasts at the Islands YMCA in Savannah where she also trained, often at the same time as the SCAD Cheerleading Team. In due course, she renewed her passion for Elite Gymnastics with all the training, travel, and commitments that international Elite competitions required.

As part of her commitments, Zu also worked for ~CoachWayne! Gymnastics, LLC. First, as an administrative assistant, handling mail-order fulfillment. As her business, teaching, digital, and artistic skills grew, she played a pivotal role in the development of the ~CoachWayne! Gymnastics Skill Evaluation Program, and the "2Go Mobile Gymnastics" businesses and the larger gyms that evolved into.

After completing her GED, completed her Associate Degree in Business Adminstration from South University in 2006. With a significant portfolio of works developed since arriving in Savannah, she was awarded a scholarship to attend Savannah College of Art and Design. She graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Game and Interactive Media Design in 2011. Ms. Sekerova now has a successful career in technology and competes in cycling.

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