UK Coach Nick Blanton from the UK is looking forward to a Canada-England-Japan Junior training camp. IIt’s scheduled over Jan. 19-31, 2009 at the fantastic Lilleshall training centre.
Confirmed Canadian athletes and coaches are Jayd Lukenchuk, Jackson Payne, Max Vacca, Robert Watson, Anderson Loran, Jaylan Birl, Kevin Lytwyn, John Hall, Edouard Iarov, Carlo Pacella, Markos Biakas, Liang Cheng, Chris Foo and Masaki Naosaki.
A Japanese Junior team arrives Wednesday.
I hope that our young gymnasts and coaches will take this opportunity to learn and rise to the occasionâ€, said the British Gymnastic Men’s Technical Director Eddie Van Hoof.
(Eddie is the husband of Canadian WAG coach Carol Orchard, incidentally.)
Leading up to the Beijing Olympics, Canada spent a lot of time in China. I expect the Canucks will do the same in the UK leading up to London 2012.
Certainly England has an exciting up-and-coming young Men’s Artistic Gymnastic team right now.
Canada has good Juniors. But there’s a big gap between them and the strong Senior Team that qualified for Beijing.
Esteemed Canadian coach Masaki Naosaki has signed on to help the Men’s Program by acting as National Team Coordinator, assisting National Coach Edouard Iarov. This should help. Nao is a great influence.
==== related:
The Canadian Men’s National Team Selection Meet has been moved from December to a much-more-reasonable month of the year.
The guys are very happy with the change.
Vancouver, Surrey, BC on February 24-26, 2009.
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