The James Hall Story | EP 88

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🇬🇧 In 2015 James Hall qualified for the Great Britain men's gymnastics team as the travelling reserve that went on to win a historic silver medal at the World championships. Since that senior team selection he has become one of the most consistent athletes within the British team, winning eleven major championships medals in the process. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games James achieved a top 8 finish in the all around event which puts him in a very exclusive club of British men. He was an anchor for the British team that finished fourth at those Games and narrowly missed out on making a second Olympics this summer in Paris. Like a true professional, James showed incredible character in response to the disappointment of missing out on his Olympic aspirations and wholeheartedly supported the team as a reserve. Alongside his team mates Jake Jarmin and Samuel Gingham they have just launched a sports clothing brand called Satus. In 2017 James won the all round bronze medal at the European championships in Romania the home country of his longterm coach Ionut Trandaburu. And this is his story 📚

[timothyhawken]

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.