98: Eddie Penev

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🗓️ 11 June 2014

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Eddie Penev competing for Bulgaria at the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam.

The US is lucky enough to have a World floor finalist, Stanford alum and Nissen-Emery Award winner Eddie Penev back on their team. With dual-citizenship, he used to compete for Bulgaria but now he's alllll ours again. He just won floor and vault at Anadia and has basically has every skill in the book on floor. This week he chats with Blythe and Jessica. We discuss:

Why he switched from Bulgaria to the United States even though the US is so much more competitive and will be harder for him to make a World team.
What he learned from teammate Jordan Jovtchev.
Standardizing equipment for international competitions.
The current state of Bulgarian gymnastics.
The biggest party animals and goofballs on the US men's team.
Growing up in New York with gymnastics parents.
How he can help the US with our pommel horse deficit.
Presentation and artistry work at US training camps.

Remember to call in and leave a voicemail question or topic for debate on the GymCastic hotline for our 100th episode.

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0:00.0	that maybe just going down to eight counting skills as opposed to ten would be better because then you can see more artistry on each of the events I think
0:10.1	or most of the events. Because right now, Gymnastics have become just a little bit of a cram festival.
0:17.0	Eddie Penave tells us what he learned from training with Jordan Jotup, why he's competing for the
0:26.8	U.S. now, and what he's got up his sleeve for championships this year.
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0:50.0	This is episode 98 for June 11, 2014. I'm Jessica from Masters Gymnastics.
0:55.0	I'm Blight from the Gymnastics Examiner.
0:57.6	And this is the best Gymnastics podcast of all time, bringing you all the news from around the Jimternet.
1:03.4	Today it's an all interview show with the Bulgarian American Bullet Eddie Penev.
1:08.4	We are really excited because we are coming up on our 100th episode and I want you guys
1:14.7	to keep your voicemails coming. Keep sending in voicemails. I'm so excited to get
1:18.9	those voicemails. You guys are awesome. And we are going to answer on that 100th episode all of your questions
1:25.3	and we're also going to tell you some of our favorite behind the scenes moments or
1:29.7	maybe not all our favorite because a lot of mine just involved me sticking my foot in my mouth
1:34.8	or doing something I totally shouldn't do which happens to me a lot so yes those will
1:40.8	be all coming up on our 100 episodes.
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