Eric Helms
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1,154 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Eric Helms’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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we're going to see more than just a new two-man race.
We might see multiple-person races here moving forward, and this might be another class where we will have battles, not just a standout.
Okay, let me hear it.
I think when you start pushing people because it's a weight class restricted sport, they may not be done maturing and early specialization and early peaks can be a potential thing.
And when you take someone who is not fully developed emotionally, socially or physically, but happens to be at the world class level, you might be constraining their own personal development or forcing them to get burned out and not actually develop a true intrinsic motivation to do it.
Just because we want to see a 16 year old who blows our socks off, we may be missing out on them personally.
being 20 and being 30 kilos heavier and being a six-time world champion just versus that one time a 16-year-old won worlds.
Oh, wow.
Now we have an adult.
Yeah.
Well, to that point, Ryan, that if you're 16 and you're a 59, when you're done maturing, you probably should be a 66, right?
Another reason not to cap them in the weight class that they are currently at.
Um, so no one's capping them in the weight class.
Well, I'm just saying, I've, I've seen it happen in other, other sports where, uh, that, that has occurred.
And if you look at the, a lot of the research on, on long-term athlete development or youth athlete development, there, there are things to consider before, uh, you make a rule.
But anyway, um,
Yeah, I don't see anyone waiting in the wings right now.
I mean, obviously, like you said, anyone can emerge who is really threatening Chell.
So I think that's kind of the story here is, is he really that far ahead of everyone else?
And it seems like he is, which is kind of interesting.
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