267: Growing Up In Cuba Charlie Tamayo
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 13 September 2017
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
THIS WEEK'S INTERVIEW
Creator of the laid-out double arabian, Charlie Tamayo, is here. The first male gymnast to win a World medal for Cuba tell us what it was like to grow up in the Cuban gymnastics system. We discuss:
- Being selected for a special sports school
- Daily life at the National School of Gymnastics, including ballet classes
- Conditions in Cuba, from power to food to the politics of getting a phone
- What gymnasts were told when they weren't allowed to compete internationally
- The vault that he thought would change his life
- What happened to his competition and gala earningsÂ
- Learning a full twisting double back vault before it was named for Ri Se-gwang
- Competing with a broken ankle
- Defecting
- Learning to coach in the United States
- Some videos of Charlie Tamayo training the Tamayo and inside his gym in Cuba
WE ARE GIVING AWAY TICKETS TO WORLDS!
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- Prize : One ticket to all four all finals, including the sold out Women's All-Around Final
- Deadline: September 18th at midnight Pacific
- Who Can Enter: Club Gym Nerd members only. Join here.
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- Â Email: gymcastic@gmail.com using the subject line GymCastic Worlds Tickets OR
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- Prize : One ticket to all four all finals, including the sold out Women's All-Around Final
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| 0:00.0 | And again I went back, I always used to go back to how Felix changed my life, how he did what he did for me. |
| 0:06.0 | And it was not by putting fears in my head. |
| 0:10.0 | He was just teaching me how to confront the fears. It's okay to have fears. It's okay because we are humans. How you confront the situation, that's what really make the impact. You know, and people always want to come back to you and if he did something positive you know I always say you know because Felix is to say that you know he say my biggest reward child is seeing you one day with the kids and you bring your kids to me and tell this is coach felli you say one who |
| 0:33.4 | tell me how to do this and that it doesn't really bad about metals but that |
| 0:36.8 | friendship that thing is for life and if you do it right you can have an amazing group of people that you can inflate in the positive ways. |
| 0:47.0 | Today, Georgia's new assistant coach Charlie Tamayo talks about growing up in Cuba, his love |
| 0:58.4 | for his coach Felix, the cafeterias that were segregated by achievement level in Cuba, team politics defecting and learning how to coach Americans. |
| 1:08.0 | This is episode 267 for September 13th, 2017, and welcome to the number one gymnastics |
| 1:16.0 | podcast in the world. I'm Jessica. Before we talk to Charlie, |
| 1:20.6 | Congratulations to Montreal World's Ticket Contest winner and Club Gym nerd member Jennifer Margrave. |
| 1:31.3 | You just won two tickets to every single final at Worlds, including the |
| 1:35.2 | sold-out women's all-around final. Thank you so much for supporting us by being a |
| 1:39.8 | club gimner member. Email us us ASAP with your address and delivery phone |
| 1:44.0 | number so we can send you the tickets right away. There is one more chance to |
| 1:48.5 | win tickets for Club Gymnert members. You're going to win it's one ticket to all four finals including |
| 1:53.7 | Sold Out Women's All-round Final. The deadline is Monday, September 18th at |
| 1:57.3 | midnight Pacific. If you're a club gym nerd member you can enter. Tell us who you want to win worlds. Email, |
| 2:04.8 | Gymkastic at gmail.com using the subject line gymnastic world |
| 2:08.0 | tickets. Or you can enter on Twitter or Instagram using the |
| 2:12.2 | hashtag gymnastic world. can enter on Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag |
| 2:13.2 | gymnastic world tickets. |
| 2:15.8 | Cuban-born Charlie Tamayo is the newest coach added to the legendary University of Georgia Gymnastics program. |
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