My name is (obviously) AnnSofie Svensson, but you can call me Anso! I've loved training ever since I was a child, you can probably say that training is the centre of my life. At this site I'm going to write about my own training, about coaching and different thoughts I've got about those kind of things. I hope you will enjoy it!
TRACK AND FIELD
I started training track and field events when I was about 7 years old or so, and the love for it growed stronger every year. My best fields were high jump and pole vault, even though I also loved triple jump, hurdle and throwing the javelin. I lived in a small town at that time so there was barely any coach to help me to be great, I had to figure out most things on my own.
In 2004 I injured my knee in a soccer match, badly, and in the following year I had two surgeries. I quitted with high jump and decided to concentrate to the field I loved the most - pole vault. The last time I trained high jump I was able to jump over my own hight, 1,60m, so it was a satisfied time to stop. Sadly my knee never recovered as I had hoped, and a problem in the back of my head that I've had since I was 8 years old started to became very bad. I could barely keep up in school because of the intence pain.
When I moved from home to a bigger city in 2007 I still wanted to continue with my pole vaulting career, but at this time the pain was even worse and I begun to realize that I couldn't train pole vault anymore. That fact was a hard thing to accept, and I still have problem with it now two years later.
PARKOUR
Anyway, some time around the year 2007 and 2008 I was introduced to le parkour. I begun to train with Umeå Parkour Association with the thought I could use the things I learned there to in the end be a better pole vaulter. After only a few weeks I was helping the parkour guys with their training! My background as an independent athlete became a very good compliment to their qualifications in training.
COACHING
I've been a coach in track and field from time to time for a couple of years, have also been educated in that area specialized in the jumping fields. At the time being I'm a coach for Umeå Parkour Association, mostly for children and the womens classes. I'm also a childrens coach for Sweden Sport Academy in Umeå.
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Except for the things I've written this far I also played soccer for many years in my childhood, but I quitted with that after my knee injury. I've also had a big love for dancing, and I started to take lessons when I was 10 or so and continued to dance at upper secondary school. I still love to dance, but now it's just something I do from time to time for fun.
Welcome to my site!