{"id":3158,"date":"2013-07-17T16:21:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2013-07-17T16:21:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:21:22","slug":"breakfast-of-champions-spotlight-portrait-of-a-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/breakfast-of-champions-spotlight-portrait-of-a-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast of Champions Spotlight: Portrait of a Champ"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sarah Smith
\nEvolution Gymnastics<\/strong><\/p>\n

This summer, Evolution Gymnastics Aurora Men\u2019s Artistic (MAG) gymnast Brendan Canning is training twelve hours a week in preparation for the next season of Provincial-level competition. \"2013-07-17-13\"<\/p>\n

Just shy of his 15th birthday and six years into his gymnastics career, Brendan is riding a wave of physical maturation that is helping him succeed in a sport that requires above-average strength, power, flexibility, agility, spacial awareness, and balance. Now that\u2019s cross-training!<\/p>\n

Brendan says he was attracted to gymnastics because of the increasingly difficult progression of the skills. In gymnastics, it\u2019s never boring, because once you master one skill, there\u2019s a more complex version waiting. Plus MAG athletes train & compete on six different apparatus: Floor Exercise, Parallel Bars, High Bar, Rings, Vault & Pommel Horse. <\/p>\n

Brendan credits his \u201cexcellent & knowledgeable\u201d coaches (currently Sean Heaslip and Warren Bisbee) for teaching him the benefits of constructive criticism, and as the current \u201csenior\u201d in his program, he now provides this same kind of feedback to the younger boys training with him.<\/p>\n

During the 2012\/2013 season, Brendan earned medals at every competition he attended, including a gold medal on Rings & a silver medal All-Around. At Ontario Championships, Brendan was awarded the silver medal on High Bar & Rings, and a bronze medal on Parallel Bars. <\/p>\n

Even so, his favourite event is Floor, where he is now conquering a variety of complex tumbling lines, including saltos (somersaults in the air).
\nFollowing in the footsteps of Alex Pritchard-Oh & Kieran Sutch, it\u2019s now Brendan\u2019s turn to lead and inspire Evolution\u2019s growing team of MAG athletes. <\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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