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Gerard Neesham

Gerard Neesham

Coach

Aug 15, 2026

31:07
Is it true that you didn't really believe in weights training back in the day?
31:12
No.
31:15
I appear to be the sort of coach that gets a lot of myths attached to him, which that's absolutely a nonsense.
31:25
I got a Chinese water polo player, Olympic water polo player, who was at our club in Victon to do the weights because my brother David, who went to four Olympics, and Tom Hode, who went to eight Olympics, said by far the best – People with regards to weights and flexibility were the Eastern Bloc.
31:46
So here's guys who traveled to 12 Olympics, if you figure that out, and who have been exposed to the best weights and gymnastics people in the world, and they all came from the Eastern Bloc.
32:00
the communist side of the, of the wall.
32:03
And they were strongly recommended that I, if I could get someone and Yang was sitting there.

8 MINS LATER

40:28
Can you actually do that now, do you think, to come up with an idea like that?

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