Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Korean style

The New Edge in SLC has a new coach and mostly the same skaters as before except for one. We have a Korean coach and it's been cool to train "Korean style". We have a skater here for a month (Yun-Jae Kim). He is the World JR ST champ from 2008. It's unreal watching him skate and skating behind him. I've seen lots of great skaters but never have skated with a high level Korean. His left push is absolutely incredible. I didn't need to even see who was who in this video I could just see it in his technique. Not bad a 2 second world record on the 1000m at 1:25 with two arms on your back for 8 laps! Crazy stuff.




This morning bright and early we were doing 4 lappers. Not very fast since everyone is pretty fried from all the training. Low 9s. Yun-Jae is just chillin at that speed and he rides his left around the apex block. I've never seen such a great left leg push. It blows my mind to think that he isn't on the team. I heard he was hurt earlier this season. They have such a deep deep well of incredible ST skaters in Korea.

6 comments:

Liz said...

THEY WERE NOOOOT LOW 9S!!!!!! Try low 10s at best!!

Boudie said...

first set was i know that.

Anonymous said...

HAHAHA LIz you guys were doing low 10's we were doing low 9's thank you very much. ms. 9.4 over here

Liz said...

Ya the girls were doing 10s. I musta been on roids that day...lol

Anonymous said...

brian i posted a video of one of our relays if u want to link to it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pipxSgMBeGk&fmt=22

Anonymous said...

well now you have to give props for the new jr. world record to jr. celski. the record is 1:25.304.