69: World Champ Kayla Williams with her Alabama coach Sarah Patterson
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 8 January 2014
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The pride of West Virginia, 2009 World Vault Champion and member of the 2012 Alabama NCAA Championship team, Kayla Williams. We discuss:
- The unusual origins of her triple full side-pass
- Her climb from the JO ranks to World Champion in just months
- Why she chose to move to Mary Lee Tracy's gym.
- "Chuck and go" elite-gymnastics versus college requirements
- Her plans for the future
Next we chat with Kayla's coach, arch-enemy of Georgia's Suzanne Youclan, wearer of sequin gowns, University of Alabama's six-time NCAA Championship winning coach Sarah Patterson. We discuss:
- Handling fear in adult athletes
- Her opinion on early recruiting
- Injuries the elite code could cause for NCAA athletes now
- Routine strategy: reward versus short landings
- If Sarah DeMeo be the first ever to compete an arabian double pike in college
- The role athletic directors have played in NCAA parity
- Advice for Men's Gymnastics - no fans means no institutional support
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| 0:00.0 | It was never really my goal. My triple didn't start as a side pass, but at our gym we had kind of like an older floor and we had so many holes in the floor that when I would tumble for my triple I would hit the hole and you know it would send me |
| 0:15.0 | spinning cricket or over-rotating or something like that so my coach would just take out a step |
| 0:20.0 | like avoid the hole and so finally like I took out a couple steps and I was |
| 0:24.4 | finishing my triple in the middle of the floor so we just choreographed it to go |
| 0:28.0 | sideways. |
| 0:31.0 | This week Kayla Williams from Alabama and her coach Sarah Patterson. |
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| 0:58.0 | This is episode 69 for Wednesday, January 8th, 2014. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Jessica for Master Gymnastics. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Bla from the Gymnastics Examiner. |
| 1:08.0 | This is the number one Gymnastics podcast in the world, |
| 1:12.0 | bringing you all the most fascinating people from around the |
| 1:14.5 | Jimtronet. Today we're bringing you an all-interview show and before we get to that I want to give you |
| 1:19.3 | you guys a couple quick reminders and that is that we have our listener survey up so make sure to stop by the |
| 1:24.6 | website and give us your opinion so we can make the show better for you. |
| 1:29.0 | We ask you about all kinds of things but it's really quick survey. |
| 1:31.2 | It'll take you three minutes unless you write like an essay like some people have and we are totally open for that so give us all your suggestions and your ideas. |
| 1:40.0 | Also, NCA season starts in earnest this weekend. |
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