Denelle Pedrick interview

It’s been a long, strange journey for Denelle Pedrick from age-14 little-bit-of-a-train-wreck to Worlds medalist for Canada, qualifying the team to the Paris Olympics.

Listen to part 1 of the interview on Nicole Langevin’s podcast – What Makes DENELLE PEDRICK Think…” pt. 1

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She details how she learned the Pedrick by accident when Ellie and her coach were at the Tokyo Olympics. It started by working the Hecht back tuck dismount.

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LSU – NCAA Champs @ social media

These LSU videos are best in College Gymnastics right now.

Sam Oldham on coach Sergey Sizhanov

Sergey coached Olympic medalist Sam Oldham for 15 years. They are now friends for life.

This from The Sam Oldham Podcast.

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Alabama season high 198

impossible Judging scores

Yurchenko 1/1 is out of 9.5 in NCAA.

When a judge deems that vault has no deductions — with this landing — that judge should be reprimanded and lose future assignments.

Lara Mori retired

Tokyo Olympian Lara Mori, age-24, was the 2018 Mediterranean Games champion in the all-around.

Oklahoma upsets #1 Stanford

Game on.

Oklahoma 418.900 – Stanford 413.800

In a year where Stanford could compete as their own nation — and be competitive — they got beat by Oklahoma.

Mark Williams credits his Pommels and H Bar line-ups.

nature + nurture = performance

Where do top athletes come from?

The town of Belle Glade FL (“Muck City“), population 20,000, has produced an extraordinary number of NFL players. It’s a hotbed for American football.   

Indian Table Tennis star, Rajul Sheth, immigrated to the USA for University, and established the most successful program in the USA at the India Community Center in California. Rajul finds he needs to start 400 recreational players to end up with 1 National Team member at the end.

For any activity, you need some genetic aptitude. A work ethic. After that there are a number of factors that contribute to building top athletes.

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