Gymnastics Mom & Gymnastics Dad Hats

Gymnastics parents hold their breath for a living. At the 2012 London Olympics and again in Rio in 2016, Aly Raisman's parents went viral for covering their eyes through her routines, and her mother Lynn said she could not control it: a beam routine is about a minute and a half, and the whole time she was thinking, get through this, hurry up. Most parents are in the same seat at far smaller meets. They have made meet hair tornado-proof, spent an absurd amount on leotards, and carry thousands of bobby pins and pony holders. The phrase butt glue is a common one in their house. Optional-level season (levels 7 to 10) runs January to April with a meet almost every weekend, and a Mother's Day tribute from Gymnastics HQ calls these moms coffee-fueled superheroes who arrive early with folding chairs and a backpack that could double as an emergency kit. These gymnastics mom and gymnastics dad hats put those details on a dad hat. The badges name the parent, and the longer designs carry chalk and coffee, thousands of cartwheels in the living room, a bun tight enough to count as a facelift, the dad whose flexibility skipped a generation, buying butt glue in bulk, and the breath you do not take during beam. No gymnastics page exists yet; this is the first. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. The chalk-and-coffee line and the beam line each come in a second colorway.