He spent his childhood in Happy Valley, a suburb of Adelaide[2] and started getting involved in gymnastics at the age of five.

Remkes also went to Hamilton Secondary College before moving to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra in 2015.

He managed to win a gold for Australia, ending a 24-year Commonwealth Games drought for his adopted nation in the event since Bret Hudson won a gold in the vault event For Australia at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.

[4] After his Commonwealth stint, Remkes has expressed his goal of competing in the 2020 Summer Olympics.

[2] However, he tore his ACL at the 2019 World Cup competition in Doha[5] and although he was recovered enough to be on Australia's 2020 World Cup Team,[6] he was not chosen for the Olympics team, which had only one slot for Men's Artistic Gymnastics.