190: Part 2 of 3 Maroney's Coaches Respond and Gymnix Recap
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 16 March 2016
⏱️ 13 minutes
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We are trying something new this week. The show has been broken into three parts for your enjoyment; Netflix binge style. Listen to all the three parts sequentially or pick the subject you want to start with first. Tell us what you think of this experiment.
In the news, Uncle Tim, Spencer, Lauren, Spanny, and Jessica chat about:
Part Two of Three podcasts:
- McKayla Maroney's coaches, Artur and Galina, responded to her interview with us. See the photos they sent with their response here.
- Gymnix (5:00):
- Mini-World Championships level gymnastics; better than junior Euros; hands-down the best Gymnix ever.
- Varvara Zubova (RUS): Her form isn't perfect yet, but the 1970's Soviet-esque pixie sent to the future with junior Komova-ish difficulty and Eythora fluidity turned heads. Watch her beam here.
- Onysko leading Canada and the Belgian seniors team win
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| 0:00.0 | Got a response from Arthur and Galena who are Michaela's coaches. They |
| 0:06.1 | responded to us after her interview. So let's hear from them now. |
| 0:10.8 | So I'll read the questions that I asked them |
| 0:12.9 | and then what they wrote in response. |
| 0:14.6 | Number one, in a few sentences, |
| 0:16.3 | can you please give a brief summary of your backgrounds |
| 0:19.1 | on how you got started coaching? |
| 0:20.4 | Arthur, I competed for the former Soviet Union. I was the first male gymnast who |
| 0:24.6 | executed a Succahara vault with a double twist which was not accomplished in the |
| 0:28.4 | next few years. I scored three perfect tens during the world championships. |
| 0:32.3 | I started coaching in Russia and was involved with the three Perfect Tens during the World Championships. |
| 0:33.0 | I started coaching in Russia and was involved with the junior national team boys program |
| 0:37.4 | and then moved to the United States where I continued to search for a coaching position. |
| 0:42.0 | I became a national coach for the US national team and |
| 0:44.8 | continued coaching for the next 20 years. During that time I became partners with |
| 0:47.8 | all Olympia Gymnastics Center. In 2003 we opened our second location in Calabassas, Galena. I competed for the |
| 0:55.4 | Bulgarian national team at the 7981 World Championships and made the all-around |
| 0:59.6 | finals. I also was an all-around finalists at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow and I competed in the |
| 1:05.0 | LA Olympics test event in 1984 after which Russia and Bulgaria demonstrated a boycott of |
| 1:09.6 | the Olympics. This led me not to compete at the particular Olympic Games. |
| 1:13.0 | However, I made up my mind to come back and live and work in LA. |
| 1:16.0 | After I arrived in Los Angeles, I began to work as a gymnastics coach in 2000, |
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