Great episode Sam and James. I am really gonna take a lot of that advice and passion back into the gym for my own athletes in the future. Especially the parts about enjoying the competitions and the leadups and training as if you are going to be selected instead of starting the hard training afterwards because it will never happen in that case. It is a good acknowledgement that it would have been nice to have your own coach out there with you for an Olympic games but the amount that you have both grown in the gym together over the past many years is more important that one competition. That is a good relationship that will continue after this one competition. I particularly liked when you were talking about skills that Sergei had not even taught before and how the coach had to let go of their ego and embrace working together with your athletes to outsource the knowledge of how to teach the skills but working with the gymnast was the most important thing. when the coach and the athlete have an equal relationship to each other than they can actually develop much faster. That is so important. Definitely going to give this one another listen. It had so many good tips in it. Excited to watch the next one.
Hey Timothy, It's great to hear from you and thanks for supporting the podcast. I loved reading your takeaways from this episode with James as it was one of my personal favourites. A few people have said they are going to listen to it again because there is so much value in the stories James shares. Thanks for listening. Sam
Great episode Sam and James. I am really gonna take a lot of that advice and passion back into the gym for my own athletes in the future. Especially the parts about enjoying the competitions and the leadups and training as if you are going to be selected instead of starting the hard training afterwards because it will never happen in that case. It is a good acknowledgement that it would have been nice to have your own coach out there with you for an Olympic games but the amount that you have both grown in the gym together over the past many years is more important that one competition. That is a good relationship that will continue after this one competition. I particularly liked when you were talking about skills that Sergei had not even taught before and how the coach had to let go of their ego and embrace working together with your athletes to outsource the knowledge of how to teach the skills but working with the gymnast was the most important thing. when the coach and the athlete have an equal relationship to each other than they can actually develop much faster. That is so important. Definitely going to give this one another listen. It had so many good tips in it. Excited to watch the next one.
Hey Timothy, It's great to hear from you and thanks for supporting the podcast. I loved reading your takeaways from this episode with James as it was one of my personal favourites. A few people have said they are going to listen to it again because there is so much value in the stories James shares. Thanks for listening. Sam