I think the difficulty demands are so high now.

I think we have entered an era now where you have to get the unique physical

specimen on each apparatus. This week on the show, Brave level judge, coach, clinician for the International Gymnastics Federation and professional passport stamp collector,

Rick McCharls.

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This is episode 34 from May 22nd, 2013.

I'm Jessica from Masters hyphen gymnastics.com.

I'm Blaith from from the gymnastics examiner and I'm

Rick McCharls from gymnastics coaching dot com. And because it's a proven fact that

Canadians are the nicest people on the planet.

This is the world famous and only gymnastics podcast ever starting with the top news

stories from around the Jimternet.

And today we have a special Canadian with us and Canadian championships are happening.

So we have Rick from gymnastics coaching and will you just start by telling our listeners

a little bit about yourself and how you started in gymnastics what your gymnastics

background is and about your site?

Sure, Jess. I was a late starter, about age 12 and quite a crappy gymnast I would say in back in the day.

Quite quickly I gravitated to coaching.

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