I’ve only once had the chance to have a conversation with Marvin, and I was mightily impressed. One of the best coaches in the world, I reckon.
Jen posted a great profile of him on her Full In Full Out blog:
… Sharp began coaching in Oregon in the late eighties at the National Academy of Artistic Gymnastics. In 1988, he was put in the position of Junior Elite Head Coach. From there, he gym-hopped for a few years, finally settling in Indiana in 1994 as the head coach at the Indy School of Gymnastics.
For seven years, he remained head coach and at times, gym manager, of the successful program. But when the program began to crumble and it became clear that an earlier agreement that he would eventually take over ownership of the gym would not come to fruition, Sharp packed up and opened Sharp’s Gymnastics Academy in 2001. He didn’t leave empty handed, however; five coaches and over fifty team members followed him, and the dream was born. …
… While most noted for his success as coach of 2008 Olympic Team Silver Medalist and current National Champion Bridget Sloan, Sharp has coached athletes who have gone on to compete at UCLA, Utah and Alabama, to name a few. A few months after the Olympics, he also welcomed Sloan’s teammate and co-silver medalist from the 2008 Beijing squad, Samantha Peszek, to Sharp’s after her long-time coach moved home to China.
On a separate but related note, Sharp also fancies himself a gymnastics photographer, a little known but very cool fact. You can see his work here.
read the entire profile – Know a Coach – Marvin Sharp
Will his gymnast, Bridget Sloan, win the World Championships?
I’ve linked to Full In Full Out from the right hand navigation under BLOGS.
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Just a spelling comment – you mention “will Bridget will the World Championships” – I believe you intended to write ‘win’.
There was a series of fantastic response to questions IG2 posed to Marvin a few weeks back. He’s really level headed and well thought out in all of his preparations and philosophies.
Thanks anna. Made the fix. … My software “corrects” a typo for me. Sometimes it guesses wrong. Sometimes I don’t notice the “correction”.
I was did gymnastics for aprox. ten years, from about the age of 3 -13. I am now 27 and have not done much in the way of gymnastics in the last 14 years, I figured this would be as good a place as any to get some tips/workout routines to get me back into it, not on competitive level, just to get back into proper shape and ability to show of a little here and there.
thank you for your time
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