Скачать или смотреть Ryan Shimabukuro - US Speedskating Sprint Team Coach | Lead up to the Olympic Games, Beijing 2022

Coach Ryan Shimabukuro discusses his personal history in Speedskating, the current state of the sport and his thoughts as a coach leading up to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Ryan is the Sprint Team Coach for US Speedskating and was a US National Team athlete himself. Eric St.Pierre was the Trainer for the Short Track team at Vancouver, 2010 and Sochi, 2014 Olympic Games. Eric assisted the US Sprint and Long Distance teams in Calgary, Canada during the Long Track World Cup #4 just the week prior to this interview.

Topics include:
0:00 - Intro
2:39 - Ryan's Personal History in Speedskating
12:51 - How Pneumonia ended his 1998 Nagano Olympic attempt
15:02 - COVID and the risk before the Games
18:22 - US Olympics Trials and Beijing, China Bubble
21:49 - Speedskating Training Principles
26:58 - Speedskater Body Type Changes over the Decades
29:45 - Physiological Influences on Athlete Performance, High Altitude
31:22 - Mass Start Event
36:19 - Appreciating Speedskating as a Casual Fan
39:10 - Differences of the Long Track Events
39:47 - Anaerobic Lactate Threshold
41:08 - Inline Skating vs Ice Transition
41:53 - 1500 and 5000 Distances
43:36 - Eric Heiden, 5 Gold Medals
46:41 - Fikre Wondafrash
49:47 - The Role of the Team Trainer
54:32 - Ryan and Eric Goodbyes

Learn more about US Speedskating, here: https://www.teamusa.org/US-Speedskating

Learn more about Eric St.Pierre DC, here: https://espsportsmedicine.com/eric-st...