99: Princess Catherine Lyons and Coach Rochelle Douglas

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🗓️ 18 June 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Princess Catherine Lyons and her coach, former international elite, Rochelle Douglas have been together since Catherine was six!

Princess Catherine Lyons of Europa and her coach, former international elite gymnast, Rochelle Douglas, are here! We noticed these two in the very popular YouTube series called Team Sparkle. Princess Catherine is known for her exquisite form, her elegance, her uncommon maturity, making audiences cry with her expressive melancholy and angst-filled modern dance choreography. She's on a major winning streak, in 2012 she won the all-around at the British Espoir Championships; in 2013 she swept it, winning all-around and all four event finals; and this year she’s won gold on floor in every meet she entered, including the English Championships and British Championships; and finally she capped off the year by becoming the 2014 Junior European Floor Exercise Champion where she helped the British team take silver. At Euros she also had the highest Execution score of any junior. And you know how we LOVE that. We have her coach, Rochelle Douglas, to thank for this. Rochelle was an International gymnast from 1994 to 2000 and competed at European and World Championships along with Lisa Mason and Holly Murdoch, only just missing out on the 2000 Olympics. She’s passionate about building truly artistisc gymnasts and getting them to the highest level. We discuss:

Achieving such a high level of artistry and execution at such a young age.
The story behind Princess Catherine's floor routine and choreography.
Why having puppy feet can be an adjustment, even for an artistic master.
A typical day in the life of Miss Lyons and her coach who has two jobs!
Why Catherine likes danger and how she mastered her switch split mount.
Creating confidence and commitment to performance in young gymnasts.
Keeping judges attention and drawing them into a routine.
How Rochelle handled the disappointment of not making the 2000 Olympic team.
Shenanigans that Rochelle and teammate, Lisa Mason, got into in their elite days.
Steps the British program has taken to improve their results since Rochelle was competing.
What happens at the Lilleshall National Training Centre training camps and what makes Amanda Reddin a special kind of leader.
What Princess Catherine and her coach think of her nickname.

Full slide show of Rochelle and Catherine since the very beginning on our site here.

Catherine Lyons on Twitter Rochelle Douglas on Twitter Europa Gymnastics Centre website.

Watch it on YouTube here.

Transcript

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0:00.0	One time I took my feet off too late and I did like I don't even know like I just I just went straight up and then landed back onto the low bar and
0:09.8	I'm walking I don't even know I just couldn't get over it.
0:15.0	It would be months and months to learn it.
0:18.0	This week, Princess Catherine of Europa is here, and her coach Queen Rochelle
0:29.0	Douglas of Europa talks about creating artistic gymnasts and her shenanigans with Lisa Mason when she was a gymnast.
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0:56.2	This is episode 99 for June 18 at 2014.
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1:02.0	and this is the best gymnastics podcast ever
1:06.0	bringing you all the most fascinating people from around the Jimternets.
1:10.0	I have a very serious question for you guys to start this week before we get to the interviews.
1:14.0	Have you ever had an encounter with wildlife in your gym? Like insects or animals?
1:22.0	Have you had like bats in the rafters or mice in the pit or a beehive in the storage closet or like a stray dog running to the gym?
1:31.0	Giant butterflies landing on the beam? Like they had a Commonwealth game that was in India,
1:35.5	a snake hiding under the mat, call us, call us and leave a message, leave a voicemail,
1:42.1	and tell us about your gymnastics wildlife encounter.
1:44.8	Remember next week is our 100th episode so keep sending in your voicemail
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