YOUR JOB

Your job right now is to be an athlete. Be single-minded. You have all the tools you need.

Read your notes, rest, do your work, watch a movie. Prepare, then clear your head.

You have to approach this tournament like you're starting from scratch, have nothing to lose, have nowhere to go but up.
You have to conjure the feeling of little lindsay kicking the butts of unsuspecting students from John Carroll on a random weekend in Cleveland circa 1990.
You can't control the chance events that impact your results - other peoples' performance, a chance draw.
You have to prepare yourself with the knowhow that you have and imagine that you have a coach, a doppleganger, shouting at you and supporting you from the sidelines with a confident LOUD voice. YOU CAN DO THIS.

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JOHN OROZCO: GET TO WORK

"Orozco is 5 feet 4 inches, maybe a smidge more, and weighs 160 pounds — “a little muscle ball,” he said. In a world where gymnasts teeter on that beam between strength and agility, Orozco is a rare combination of power and grace.

“He does things that are, like, physically impossible,” Hebert said. “He’ll just defy gravity and all laws of gymnastics.”

Led by Hebert and coach Carl Schrade, Orozco flew through the junior ranks, winning three consecutive national titles in the all-around before tearing his right Achilles’ tendon on a dismount during the 2010 meet in Hartford. On the mend a few months later, he moved to Colorado Springs to live and train.

Under the tutelage of Vitaly Marinitch, a Ukrainian who was part of the 1989 world champion Soviet Union team, Orozco has fine-tuned his technique and improved his strength and diet.

“I was a pizza monster,” Orozco admitted.

His Achilles’ tendon is still tender, and Orozco feels it during floor routines and on landings from the high bar. But something positive came from the injury, too. During the early months of rehabilitation, limited by what he could do on his feet, Orozco turned the pommel horse from his worst event to one of his best."

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/sports/john-orozco-from-the-bronx-to-london-as-a-top-gymnastic-hopeful.html?_r=1

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