368: No-No-Nunnoisms (Commissioned)
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 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?
FURTHER READING
- Things Are Happening – June 14, 2019
- I Don't Like Sheep – The Downgraded Elements
- American Classic Rosters
- The Japan Problem
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| 0:55.1 | 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 |
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| 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. |
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