I have a Romanian coach at my gym still learning the differences between the gym cultures in Canada and his homeland. It’s a challenge.
Here Latvian coach Sergei Pakanich, who coaches the excellent men’s team at WOGA in Texas, “talks about the differences in the Soviet system he grew up in versus coaching in America”.
Now working with his 4th generation of American gymnasts, he’s much more “laid back”.
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