178: Eythora Thorsdottir and Coach Patrick Kiens

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🗓️ 9 December 2015

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Kiens and Eythora Thorsdottir at the European Youth Olympic Festival in 2013 where she won silver on beam.

This week the girl who's name we have been mispronouncing for years, the magical ethnically Icelandic sprite from the Netherlands, her Dutch majesty, the crown jewel of Holland who makes fans cry with her performance art known as gymnastics, Eythora Thorsdottir is here! (It's pronounced AYE-tora Thor-s-DOT-er by the way.) The Ljubljana World Cup beam champion and her coach, Patrick Kiens, who's musical theater background and genius strategy got Eythora to beam finals in her first world championship talk about:

Eythora:

What kind of attention the Dutch team has received since returning from Glasgow as a Rio qualified team!
Her future career plans in the performing arts and if college gymnastics in the United States is a possibility.
Did she notice the positive response from fans during her coming out party at European Youth Olympic Festival?
Upgrades, Rio plans and her unique style and routine construction on beam.
On being compared to Princess Catherine Lyons.
Does it surprise her that fans cry during her performances?
Training with and learning from the American team, especially Simone (who she adorably calls See-mo-nah)
Was she surprised to make it to the World Beam final in Glasgow?
The advice her coach, Patrick, gave her after her beam final fall.
What she has learned from both the positive and negative experience in the sport so far.

Patrick:

Why one size does not fit: how the Dutch program has changed, why that change was necessary with a small population and how Holland's strategy proves that the code is for everyone.
Lack of depth and limited gymnasts, "Everyone can stretch their knees but not everyone can do a double layout"
Personal taste vs. artistry
Why Simon Bile's Amanar is artistic
The arm swing rule at Worlds, was it enforced?
Acting classes, smart routine construction and ballet on the beam
We debate -- can bars be artistic?!
How college style artistry can be applied to elite gymnastics.
Backstage shenanigan tories from his glory days on the stage.

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Here is a link to the Dutch gymnastics scandal that changed the system in the Netherlands. Much like the 2000 US women's Olympic team, their experiences changed the system and ousted a coach.

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0:00.0	Well, the code is for everyone really because in that way it's a good code because you can get still high start values or like
0:09.1	Quite a hard start value if you choose differently you don't have to choose the most difficult
0:14.8	tumbling to get your start value up. You don't have to choose a double flick layout
0:19.9	on beam, B B E combination in order to get your start value up. There are other ways to do that.
0:27.0	This week, N. A Torah daughter is here with her coach Patrick Keynes.
0:37.8	They talk about strategy, performance, artistry, acting classes, musical theater.
0:44.1	It's very exciting and we have a full-on debate
0:46.8	about whether or not bars can be artistic.
0:49.2	This is episode 178 for December 9th, 2015.
0:53.9	And this is the best gymnastics podcast in the Galaxy, bringing you all the most fascinating
0:59.2	people from around the Jimternet.
1:00.9	I'm Jessica and I'm here with Emma Bailey and I hope you guys enjoyed my
1:04.6	chat with Stella Ume last week. I really enjoyed talking to her and getting the
1:08.5	perspective of someone who's been an active gymnast acrobat, all that stuff for so long.
1:13.4	It was really interesting to me.
1:15.1	Thanks to everyone who has joined Club Gym nerd.
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1:32.2	We have a new ugly Christmas sweater out. It's an
1:34.4	ode to Chris Brooks and his now famous speech that he gave to the US team before they
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