130: Mary Anne Mez Monckton

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2014

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Mary-Anne Monckton doing her aerial layout series on beam. Photo by Nadia Boyce.

The 20 year-old is a student of the sport, should probably be a in the next episode of The Hard Way To Success, she still loves gymnastics despite seven surgeries, she gym nerded-out because she made a beam final with Catalina Ponor, is inspired by the number of women (20 and older) who held their own in the all-around final in Nanning -- she is Australia's Mary-Anne Monckton! Emma and Jessica discuss the following gymnerdery with Miss Mez:

Why she hated gymnastics at first and being chosen like Nadia at age 7.
Surviving seven surgeries with her love for gymnastics intact!
Trying not to freak out while competing in beam finals with her gymnastics idol, Catalina Ponor.
Thinking the wrong score was posted when she placed second to Larissa Iordache on beam in Doha.
Her description of the beloved post-beam finals celebration with Ellie at the Commonwealth Games.
Tales from Nanning, food report, her favorite competitors there and her opinion on the tie-breaking procedures for finals.
Being coached by the infamous, Ju-Ping Tian.
Explaining her desire to do American NCAA gymnastics to her Australian mother.
Why she became a student of the sport (AKA super gym nerd), not just an athlete.
Jet lag tips everyone can use.
Her thoughts on Australian Gymnastics Jail and how the team Glasgow Commonwealth Games were chosen.
She tells the most endearing Peggy Liddick story you will ever hear and shares Peggy's sage advice.

Follow Mez on Twitter, her YouTube channel for progress videos or Instagram.

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0:00.0	The results like the team silver was completely unexpected like Peggy was packing her back. It's ready to leave because she thought we came forth and we were like Oh my God! This is episode 130 for December 17, 2014,
0:19.0	and this is the best gymnastics podcast ever bringing you all the most fascinating people from around the
0:25.0	gym internet.
0:26.0	Today Marian Monckton is here from Australia.
0:29.2	Mess this story is really special because of her will to persevere through, are you guys ready for this, seven
0:35.8	surgeries including two ankle reconstructions and yet somehow she still has this like undying
0:41.2	love for gymnastics. She also must be superhuman because
0:45.2	she had stomach surgery and then competed successfully I might add three weeks
0:49.8	later at her national championships. If you watched her rehab videos on
0:54.4	YouTube you know how she just you can see how she loves gymnastics and she like
0:58.9	plays at gymnastics like a kid. She truly truly still has a love for it despite all these setbacks and it's
1:05.3	not just injuries that she's had to overcome but personal disappointment. She
1:09.7	helped Australia qualify to the London Olympics at the Tokyo Worlds only to be
1:14.6	named alternate in 2012 even though she was third all-round and second on bars at
1:19.5	Australian Nationals but we know how that goes here too. But that had to be really hard to deal with.
1:25.0	So she talks about that in the interview. And then now she's a defending national champ on Beam in
1:29.5	Australia. She has a World Cup medal, and she's also a huge gym nerd just like us and she talks about what it was like to compete with people like
1:37.8	Pinor in finals and totally geek out about being around Pinor but having to compete at the same time.
1:44.2	So before we get to Mez, I want to just remind you guys to check out our gym nerd gift guide on the
1:49.2	website, gymcastic.com.
1:51.1	If you have any holiday shopping left to do use our Amazon link on Gymcastic a little portion of what you spend goes back to supporting the show.
1:59.0	We also you guys we only need six more ratings to get to 100 on iTunes. We only need six more.
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