JOHANNA GORING

I started working with Hugo after I found myself in a pretty tough season. I had a lot of technical problems and couldn’t get the jump together. No matter how fit you are, in the end it’s the technical execution that counts.

My coach from home gave me the opportunity to train with Hugo for a week to get a different, new input. A change of scenery, so to speak, to get the best out of the current season shortly before the U20 World Championships.

So I trained with Hugo for a week and probably challenged him quite a bit with the short time we had to work on a lot of things. But what can I say, he took on this task with joy and I came out of the week with a new approach, technical reinvention and, above all, new self-confidence. He is a true master at making big changes in a short space of time.

He has helped me to find myself again as a jumper by being very sensitive to what strengths I bring to the table as an athlete and at the same time what the biggest problems are at the moment. He simply has an eye for what the athlete needs, technically and mentally, to produce the best jump.

His expertise always gave me as an athlete the feeling that I was in safe hands. He has a very large base of knowledge and always has the big picture in mind, he immediately sees why a jump is not working well. At the same time, he has an incredible gift for conveying technical information to the athlete in a thousand different ways and is indispensable until you really understand it. His energy is incredible.

In this one week, he not only helped me to rediscover and reproduce the feeling of a good jump, giving me back the “feeling of flying” for which I love high jumping so much, but above all he gave me back my self-confidence. A self-confidence that I can really use now, just before the U20 World Championships. I am incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him and have learned so much from it. I know that he will continue to support me and that I can always get new input from him if I need help. It was wonderful to get to know such a special coach. Anyone who has the opportunity to work with him should definitely take it and feel the magic!

NOTE: To see Johanna’s (at the KTC training camp in Bilbao, Spain (08/15/24) before and after video please click HERE