226: FIG Regime Change
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🗓️ 26 October 2016
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
IN THE NEWS
In the news, Uncle Tim; Spencer; Jessica; and special guest, Charlie Burrows, acrobatic talent scout for Cirque du Soleil joins us to chat about:
- Romanian juniors are scoring 56's:
- Junior national champion, Olivia Cimpian scored a 56.700
- We kind of love Miss Galota's throwback Geza Pozar floor routine.Â
- Andrea Raducan got married!Â
- British Gymnastics news:
- Georgia May Fenton and Tyesha Mattis are back from injury.Â
- Georgia's bar routine shows shades of Tweddle level potential.Â
- Kelly Simm's beam mount is the kind of mount we long for elites to do!Â
- Louis Smith and Luke Carson did something dumb and may be punished or not. (35:00)
- Charlie tells us what's new with Cirque:
- Casting is happening and they are looking for gymnasts
- Charlie's most embarrassing moments on stage
- His trip to the Japanese Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
- Recruiting in Japan: slippers and bowing and mis-translations
- Can retired gymnasts make successful returns to Cirque? The case of Imogen Cairns.Â
- Would Charlie recruit Laurie Hernandez?
- We improve Simone's Music Video by creating our own scenarios for her. (18:30)
- Charlie explains how trampoline and tumbling have already solved artistic gymnastics Execution vs Difficulty scoring problem. Â (53:30)
- Words of wisdom for anyone considering applying for Cirque du Soleil.
- FIG Regime Change (41:33)
- Reviewing the changes made and guffaws of Bruno Grandi.
- Changes made at the FIG convention and the new Women's Technical Committee Chair (hint, it's NOT Nellie Kim).Â
- What will the first ever, non-European President, Morinari Watanabe (JPN).Â
- Rumors about the future of gymnastics in the Olympics Games. Â
- Why business and gymnastics are a perfect match.Â
- Feedback (58:39)
- Kim Gwan Suk's teeth have been found.
- Who really won 1992 Olympics Trials, Shannon Miller or Kim Zmeskal?Â
- Update on the USA Gymnastics Sex Abuse Cover-Up Investigation by the Indianapolis Star.Â
RELATED LINKS
- Apply for Cirque du Soliel. See casting info for the gymnastics disciplines here.
- Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics push to be recognized by the FIG.Â
- Kenzo's 4.5 to front full , Sam Mikulak's million tkatchev's in a row.Â
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Transcript
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| 0:33.2 | Given a little bit more sass. |
| 0:36.2 | I can imagine I do some kind of pussycat dolls, kind of old school buttons routine. |
| 0:41.0 | I mean, in fact, get the whole final five doing the whole buttons pussycat dogs I think |
| 0:45.6 | that's something that should be incorporated in the Kellogg's tour. Today we have a new president down with Europe up with Asia and there is light at the |
| 1:00.8 | end of the Romanian senior tunnel. |
| 1:03.4 | In Romania there are some amazing juniors. |
| 1:05.9 | We're going to talk about them. |
| 1:06.8 | This is episode 226 for October 26th, 2016. |
| 1:11.6 | Welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the entire world. I'm Jessica and I'm here with Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim Talks Men's Gym. Spencer from the Balance Beam situation and a very special guest hanging out with us here today |
| 1:24.3 | Charlie Burrows Acrobatic Talent Scout from Cirque du Soleil. Can you tell us a little bit about your |
| 1:30.0 | background Charlie? Thank you so much for having me on the show |
| 1:33.0 | Jess. I'm super excited to be here. I was a tumbler for Great Britain and |
| 1:38.2 | competed at the world championships, European Championships and then I joined Sir Disillay in 2011 as a performer |
| 1:46.0 | performed for around four years |
| 1:48.0 | notably at Llanuba in Orlando, Florida, Disney World. |
| 1:52.0 | And then I started this job last year, |
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