Shout out to my first assistant coach Greg Kolodziejzyk. In the early 1980s, he and I once taught every Rec class in a club of 300 kids.
Greg is still the best Recreation gymnastics coach I’ve ever known. An imaginative genius … who rarely stuck to the rotation schedule.
A guy this talented did not stay in coaching. He made a fortune in the early days of the internet selling fonts to Adobe. Went on to more successful business ventures.
But these days his passion is extreme adventure. He wants “To conquer the world by human power.”
He has several sites including these two:
Adventures of Greg Pedal the Ocean
Here’s a Discovery Channel interview describing Greg’s world record attempt to cross the Atlantic by pedal power.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
You’ll see he’s still in the testing phase of the home-made craft. Greg’s trip is scheduled to start in December this year, and is expected to take around 40 days.
UPDATE: Just talked to Greg. He is looking at other itineraries, perhaps even Canada to Hawaii. (Much better weather. I’m just saying …)
Good luck buddy!
(via Straight to the Bar)
One more thing about Greg Kolodziejzyk. He had the worst “hands” of any gymnast I’ve ever known. Good on horizontal bar, he could rarely train more than 2 or 3 turns in sequence. For competition he psyched up, hit a good routine invariably, and walked away with both hands streaming blood.
We tried everything to protect them. Or toughen them up. But nothing ever worked.
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