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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

358: Regionals Preview, Shire Brown, Olivera, Ruddock

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 151 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

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Regionals Preview (3:30)

NCAA Regional Championships begin this Thursday with the new play-in meets and end on Saturday, when the 8 teams advancing to nationals will be decided. Spencer gives the rundown of what to expect—while trying to fit in as many SYTYCD, Madonna, and Laura Linney references as possible. You know, gymnastics content.  Schedule here. 

Interviews Galore!

Sarah (of the Shire) Brown (8:12) In her second season as head coach at Penn State, Sarah Brown joins us to talk about her time at GAGE, what it's really like there, and what happens if you're not turned out in the airport. Plus, the changes she tried to institute at Penn State after taking over at a program in turmoil, how transferring during her own college career informs her perspective on the athlete experience now, when we're going to see a four-element beam series in the Penn State lineup (spoiler: it's never), and whether Jessica is still allowed to call her Sarah of the Shire.  Lieve Olivera (49:31) Lieve Olivera was a Brevet judge from 1985 to 1996. She judged at world championships and world cups, has owned her own gym, was the media liaison at the 2000 Olympics, and has authored articles and given presentations on controversies in judging. So we obviously need to talk a lot about college gymnastics—the differences between college and international, how judges go about trying to reconcile their deductions with the need to rank routines, how best to improve college gymnastics judging, and the deductions she would have for an example routine. PLUS, behind the scenes stories about what happened in 2000 after the vault debacle and after Raducan was stripped of her medal. Nick Ruddock (1:19:36) Nick was a national coach for British Gymnastics who worked with everyone fro Ellie Downie to Amy Tinkler. He is now a consultant who has worked with 18 federations around the world, including Japan and the Netherlands (drink!). He emphasizes an athlete centered approach for longevity and high performance. Each year he shares his knowledge via GymCon which you've heard Jessica talk about one million times. Jessica asked him all of her burning technical, cultural and code questions.

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Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two.

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But my parents remind me all the time that Al told us that if I was going to go the elite track

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that I was going to be an alien and a freak of nature.

0:14.0

And my parents have used those things all the time growing up.

0:18.0

Or one Eastern Bloc judge would work together or against another Eastern Bloc judge so that another country would be favored in the

0:26.9

judging and as one of the judges I was so aware that that was happening that sometimes I would give a score that was not

0:37.6

exactly the score that I you know after doing all my deductions and adding everything up

0:42.4

let's say I'd give a 9.65, but I gave a 965 because I was

0:48.8

counteracting the other judges and had to make sure my score was going to come because I knew how they were playing the game.

1:00.0

And again I think of my time in the Netherlands and Germany because I probably prime examples in my head and perhaps because I'm closer to those nations particularly Germany I've spent a lot of time there but but it's very much about the journey with the athlete and what's not not coincidental here.

1:14.6

Think about the average age of the kids on sorry not the kids but the ladies, the women on those teams.

1:20.7

They are they are older they are in their 20s upper 20s. You know Kim Bowie's 29 years old still going strong.

1:27.2

Ellie Sights just won her first world medal, which was fantastic and you know she's mid-20s and

1:35.6

there's a reason behind that because they've got a very caring environment and when you create an environment which is caring you nurture athletes they stick around for

1:40.9

longer and actually they can excel and thrive later on in their development.

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