On December 28, we had an exclusive interview with Yin Álvarez, United States Olympic coach, who in recent years had a radical change in his life, new goals, new projects.
Watch this interesting interview about his Professional League where everyone has benefits, and now he is looking to train judges www.pylsport.org
Japanese gymnast Kaito Imabayashi confirmed his retirement from the Japanese gymnastics team, very close to the Tokyo Olympics. Maybe he saw that he couldn’t get a spot on the team and didn’t want to fight for him anymore. It’s just our imagination or he decided to quit for no reason.
6 months before Tokyo the Japanese Imabayashi apparently wants an honorable retirement “I know they will not select me, so I am leaving earlier.” He commented in an interview for the local Japanese press. It is a very Japanese approach what he commented.
Belonging to the national team in Japan is very tough. Let’s remember that Mai Murakami was injured in 2019 and since she had not recovered in October, she did not participate. But there was no recourse. Outside.
Imabayashi with only 26 years of age and a native of Yamagata, was a star, achieved a medal in the World Cup in Brazil and Germany throughout his career, being a specialist in Pommel Horse.
Paola Marano, gymnastics coach and head of the ASD Piemme Gym club in Nocera Superiore in the province of Salerno, puts all her potential to expand the new structure of our acrobatic sport in Italy and all Europe.
The purpose of expanding our game is underway, and we are very proud that they are valuing all the main objectives that we have for the main protagonists, the athletes.
This week we saw the note that the local Nouvo Nocera newspaper made to Paola in which she expressed her joy at being able to be part of this project that was born in the USA and is spreading throughout America and reaches Europe in the best way.
PYL is programming all the actions and the main event is the preparation of referees that will take place at the end of February (more information)
On the weekend of December 11 to 13, the President of PYL, Yin Alvarez, was holding a training camp in San Salvador – El Salvador, which had a large attendance of gymnasts of all ages and categories, an event which even included important personalities in the field of Salvadoran and continental gymnastics.
Yin’s knowledge was distributed to all attendees, in which they felt satisfied with their visit to the Central American country.
Likewise, this trip helped to expand the brand in the Latin American country for the better organization of the next events that we are going to have in the Professional League, which for the moment we will have the PYL arbitration course.
Upon his return to Miami – USA, Yin began to plan actions with the work team for what will be the referees course and the next Yinastic events that will take place in 2021.
I had a very bad two years after I retired. Because you stay, suddenly, one day being an Olympic champion.
The next day, “What do I do with my life?
I mean, now I have to work? I have to train? I have to?
That I have to do? A bit disoriented right?
Then when I returned to Barcelona it was difficult.
It was quite complicated. Is what i say.
Until I find my place, a year and a half, two years.
And making mistakes and learning more every day.
We are not yet prepared as a country to take on this challenge of helping athletes when they are retiring.
I have managed to have this gym in the neighborhood. What or wanted.
But not everyone is Gervasio Deferr and has the chance or the luck to throw away the resources that I have thrown away.
And yet they have left their life the same.
They have made the same or more effort than me.
And yet those are ignored as much.
And they were also members of the Spanish team.
Not the best, but without those we don’t make a team.
I mean…
You have to understand the value of each of the team members. Not only the one who wins is worth it.
I chose this project in the La Mina neighborhood because I come from a family without resources. And through sports my life changed.
I thought that where better than where there are fewer resources.
I have people from the neighborhood with few resources. And People from other parts of Barcelona, who have nothing to do with La Mina and also have few resources.
Or there are people from La Mina who have resources and who are doing well. I mean, it’s not that all those who are bad are from here, and all those who are good are from there. That is not like that.
Simply once they pass that door, they are all the same for me.
Even me.
I am the teacher, but I am not more than them.
It is true that many times they listen to me more or pay attention to me than to parents or teachers.
But it’s because we are doing something that is fun for them all the time.
They see that, instead of telling him, like all children, they are always told “don’t put you up here, be careful there”
I tell them: “Get on, get on, get on everything”
And then like: “FUCK THAT GUAY !!”
And they let me do everything, but with control, because if we can’t, we can hurt ourselves a lot.
And then I explain very much from my experience and my empirical knowledge the damage that I did to myself as a child by not having someone aware of what. “Be careful with that, you can hurt yourself a lot.”
And in the end they understand, they are not stupid, they are children.
But they have an incredible capacity
Everything I’ve been through has been worth it to be able to be like this today.
And knowing myself as I know myself and being able to have learned everything I have learned and change my life in some aspects.
Nothing happens, it would happen again. The same I say when I was an athlete. When I tested positive for marijuana in 2002, at the world championship, it would happen again. Because there I realized that I was making a mistake and that I had to change.
I changed.
It also showed me who was unconditionally by my side. And who only put himself in the photo when he won.
I was 19 years old and I was a child and I didn’t know anything.
If we start to make the right decisions, it will be easy to see clearly.
