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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

368: No-No-Nunnoisms (Commissioned)

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

This episode has been commissioned by Club Gym Nerd members The Participation Sisters, who requested an episode called No-No Nunnoisms: The Era of Larger-Than-Life Coaches (and why it needed to end). Disclaimer: We're going to laugh about some of this stuff, and we also know Bela is horrible.

  • Is Bela Karolyi patient zero for this kind of gymnastics coaching?
  • Inside the belief that you needed an impassioned man to coach you to Olympic success (barf barf barf barf barf), and then the times when that was (sigh) actually true. 
  • NBC's obsession with Bela Karolyi 
    • That horrific 1996 fluff piece on Kerri Strug — His defeat? The only man who could make her dreams come true? That boat-rowing methodology? OH HELL NO.
    • "Bela's girls"
    • Obviously, Spencer can't resist talking about that creep-burger 1995 Moceanu fluff or crazy 1992 articles
  • Exaggerating the important of coaches by minimizing the athletes as "little girls," even when they're adults
  • Bela and Nunno and the 1992 Trials war of words
  • What have we (or should we have) learned from that era about the culture of the sport
  • Have we come out of the era of larger-than-life coaches?

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Today, no-known Nuneuisms, the era of larger-than-life coaches and why it needed to end.

1:05.0

This is episode 368 for June 19th 2019 and welcome to the number one gymnastics

1:11.6

podcast in the galaxy.

1:13.3

I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam situation and I want to tell you guys about something

1:19.0

that's happening next week. We are going to try something new next week. We are going to do two podcasts in one week.

1:24.7

We're trying to create more content and be able to go into more depth on things, but also because

1:31.5

the advertising market is like very wishy-washy and it's something that we don't want to have to depend on.

1:37.0

And so we need to know from you guys how to grow club gym nerd and we need to also figure out ways to give

1:44.7

you guys more of what you want for Club Gym nerd. So if that means more podcast per week,

1:49.5

live video recording, podcasts with different content than we've been able to do in the past.

1:55.0

So look for a content survey email to Club Gymnard members and the show notes for non-members.

2:00.6

And that's your homework.

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