book – gymnastics – Leonid Arkaev

Coach Mack gives a strong recommendation for How to Create Champions: The Theory and Methodology of Training Top-Class Gymnasts (Hardcover – Oct 2004):

Awesome book. Not for beginners. A background in biomechanics, kinesiology, helpful.

The Russian authors are N. G. Suchilin and L. I. Arkaev. Arkaev is oft called the most successful gymnastics coach in history, many years the Russian and Soviet National coach. He has finally retired — presumably to write this book.

Arkaev in a 1999 interview was asked to name the best ever Soviet athetes. He replied, “Dina Kochetkova and Nikolai Andrianov”.