Coach Mack gives a strong recommendation for How to Create Champions: The Theory and Methodology of Training Top-Class Gymnasts (Hardcover – Oct 2004):
Awesome book. Not for beginners. A background in biomechanics, kinesiology, helpful.
The Russian authors are N. G. Suchilin and L. I. Arkaev. Arkaev is oft called the most successful gymnastics coach in history, many years the Russian and Soviet National coach. He has finally retired — presumably to write this book.
Arkaev in a 1999 interview was asked to name the best ever Soviet athetes. He replied, “Dina Kochetkova and Nikolai Andrianov”.
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[...] Hofmann I’ve often called the second most successful coach in history. (After Arkaev.) He was long-time Head Coach of both Men’s and Women’s National Teams in East Germany. At the end of the podium training it certainly can be said that the following teams will qualify for the World Championships 2007: Italy, North Korea, France, Spain, Brazil, Japan, Canada, USA, Australia, Romania, Germany, South Korea, Russia, Great Britain, Ukraine, China and the Netherlands. [...]
I wonder why he identified those two gymnasts as his best.
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