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Weighs 350 pounds and knocks him unconscious for about 30 seconds. >> i just remember hitting the horse, being in a huge amount of pain and just having this confusion of why am i on this side of the horse still? im supposed to be over there. >> the impact is tremendous so its fortunate brian only suffers a stress fracture in his sternum. hes back at the gym a week later but obviously not in top form. after the accident brian eventually begins competing seriously again. >> i was really lucky. aga...

Watching it. >> i was competing in the 1981 national sports festival. >> 21-year-old brian makes the finals. his first vault goes without a hitch. >> for my second vault -- and you can see i actually look down, im always at 65 feet, 7 inches. thats you start from. when you run for the vault, you want to be at the end of the board. you always check the spring boards. its almost like a ritual thing you do. i always had my board 1 1/2 feet away from where the horse is. you want it to be exactly the...

>> in his heyday, brian meeker was a champion gymnast. now hes doing what he loves most, teaching kids to become superathletes. >> give me five. that a girl. >> meeker has competed as a big ten champion. was an ncaa all-american, and a member of the 1984 olympic team. more than two decades later, he co-owns kenwood gymnastic center in minneapolis. >> gymnastics is a very unique sport. knowing your body in space, being able to stand up and do a flip at any time is kind of cool, too. >> while bria...

He is hurt. >> ooh, its one of those videos that makes you wince every time you see it, but you cant stop watching it. >> i was competing in the 1981 national sports festival. >> 21-year-old brian makes the finals. his first vault goes without a hitch. >> for my second vault -- and you can see i actually look down, im always at 65 feet, 7 inches. thats you start from. when you run for the vault, you want to be at the end of the board. theres the most spring at the end of the board. you always ch...

Encounter with the vault. >> oh, good heavens. oh. >> in his heyday, brian meeker was a champion gymnast. now hes doing what he loves most, teaching kids to become superathletes. >> give me five. at ta girl. >> meeker has competed as a big ten champion. was an ncaa all-american, and a member of the 1984 olympic team. more than two decades later, he co-owns kenwood gymnastic center in minneapolis. >> gymnastics is a very unique sport. knowing your body in space, being able to stand up and do a fl...

My right foot, if you look at my right foot, just oversteps the board just a little bit and slides off. so i wind up just piling into the vault. >> that horse brian slams into weighs 350 pounds and knocks him unconscious for about 30 seconds. >> i just remember hitting the horse, being in a huge amount of pain and just having this confusion of why am i on this side of the horse still? im supposed to be over there. >> the impact is tremendous so its fortunate brian only suffers a stress fracture ...

If you look at my right foot oversteps the board just a little and slides off so i wind up just piling into the vault. >> that horse brian slams into weighs 350 pounds and knocks him unconscious for about 30 seconds. >> i just remember hitting the horse, being in a huge amount of pain and just having this confusion of why am i on this side of the horse still? im supposed to be over there. >> the impact is tremendous so its fortunate brian only suffers a stress fracture in his sternum. hes back a...

>> ooh, its one of those videos that makes you wince every time you see it, but you cant stop watching it. >> i was competing in the 1981 national sports festival. >> 21-year-old brian makes the finals. his first vault goes without a hitch. >> for my second vault -- and you can see i actually look down, im always at 65 feet, 7 inches. thats where i start from. when you run for the vault, you want to be at the end of the board. you always check the spring boards. its almost like a ritual thing yo...

Encounter with the vault. >> oh, good heavens. oh. >> in his heyday, brian meeker was a champion gymnast. now hes doing what he loves most, teaching kids to become super athletes. >> give me five. that a girl. >> meeker has competed as a big ten champion. was an ncaa all-american, and a member of the 1984 olympic team. more than two decades later, he co-owns kenwood gymnastic center in minneapolis. >> gymnastics is a very unique sport. knowing your body in space, being able to stand up and do a ...

Little bit further. my left foot was fine. if you look at my right foot oversteps the board just a little and slides off so i wind up just piling into the vault. >> that horse brian slams into weighs 350 pounds and knocks him unconscious for about 30 seconds. >> i just remember hitting the horse, being in a huge amount of pain and just having this confusion of why am i on this side of the horse still? im supposed to be over there. >> the impact is tremendous so its fortunate brian only suffers a...