This video is 9min long. But well worth watching. Another terrific peek into a top American Gym from Gymnastike.
NCAA Gymnastics is a totally different sport than club gymnastics.
Auburn Facility Tour, part 3: The Gym
Head Coach Jeff Thompson gave me a tour …
Auburn’s old gym, aka “The Barn” burned down in a large fire in 1996 and left the Tigers without a facility for a few years. Jeff told me that when he came in as head coach 10 years ago, the old coach had already planned the layout for the new facility to be built with everything going into one large pit in the center of the gym, but he was not satisfied with those plans. He was given three days to refigure the layout and draw it out to scale. He managed to get it done and this beautiful facility is the result. …
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I like that “trench pit”. It’s probably even better than the Forster Sliding Platform bar at Georgia.
Even with this unbelievably great gym, Auburn is “only” ranked 15th in the NCAA Preseason Coaches Poll.
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