Raw Video: Watch Janice as she trains with former Olympican Peter Kormann at Chelsea Piers!
By Janice Huff
Okay so I had my day of training in gymnastics at the field house at Chelsea Piers and as you’ll notice from the snapshots, I’m a bit rusty! Okay, REALLY RUSTY!!!…There are lots of muscles I forgot I had, but believe me, they are talking to me now. But I have to admit, I had a lot of fun with some of the girls from the team at Chelsea, and I had the most awesome coach, Peter Kormann, an Olympian himself!
Kormann won bronze in the floor exercise at the 1976 games in Montréal, the first gymnast to do so since 1932. He’s currently the gymnastics director at Chelsea Piers, and I have to say, he really challenged me!
I tried everything—uneven parallel bars, balance beam, floor exercise (no vault!), and he had great advice and fabulous coaching skills.
It’s no wonder—he’s coached 2 US Olympic teams and on the college level, too!…I cant thank him enough for all his help in making me better…
I may not be an Olympian, but everyone at the field house at Chelsea Piers made me feel like a champion!…Now where’s the ben-gay???
