72: John Orozco

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Gymnast and ninja prodigy, John Orozco

We all know the story of his parents struggle to pay for his gymnastics lessons, his unlikely start in a borough of New York City, his meteoric rise to three-time, consecutive, junior national champion, senior national champion, Olympian and World Medalist; but what has it been like to be favored for Olympic glory only to fall short of your and seemingly, your country's goal? John speaks frankly about the highs and lows since the Olympics, and the struggle to regain his mojo. We discuss:

The pressure he put on himself to support his family.
How his "failure" (his words, not ours) in London changed him.
Being labeled, "The Kid From The Bronx."
He gymnerds-out with us about vault, vault, more vault.
The cruelty of social media and how to stay positive when in the public eye.
His advice and drills for being proficient on the dreaded pommel horse.
The reason for his angry tweets after tearing his ACL on the post-Olympic tour.
Public nudity
Which meets have the best after parties!

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0:00.0	I try to, every time I do interviews or anything, everyone's on the best behavior and they're trying to, you know, just give off this great buys, like, you know, we're all perfect. I always do well in the gym and everything is going great, you know? It's not always like that, know people should know about the the struggle
0:16.7	that we have you know and the mental pressures and everything that goes with it. Hey gymnast, elite sports band is a cutting edge compression backwormer that can protect
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0:47.8	This is episode 72 for January 24th, 2014. I'm Jessica from Masters Gym. I'm Bla from the Gymnastics examiner. I'm Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim Talks Men's Gym.
0:54.0	This is the number one gymnastics podcast in the world bringing you the most
0:58.7	fascinating people from around the Jimternet. Today it is an all-interview episode with Ninja Prodigy John
1:06.0	and Roscoe. Remember that next week is the final week to submit your responses
1:10.9	for the listener survey. Please help us make the show better for you and take five minutes to do the survey.
1:16.0	We really, really care about what you guys think and really want to make the show better for you.
1:20.0	I want to give a special shout out this week to Haley who recently suffered a concussion.
1:25.0	I want you to get well soon.
1:27.0	We recommend since concussion sucks so bad that you should lay on the couch and watch stick it a hundred times.
1:34.0	That is our special prescription for recovery from concussions.
1:38.0	So feel better, Haley.
1:39.0	If you guys like the interview with John Roscoe, please let him know. You guys know that
1:44.0	elites have precious little personal time and so for him to take a whole hour
1:48.7	just to hang out with us and chat is was just really gracious.
1:53.2	So tweet at him, leave him a Facebook message.
1:56.1	Just let him know if you like this interview.
1:58.5	So now, in the words of Blythe Lawrence,
2:01.1	prepare to fall in love with John Roscoe.
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