SRBIC Tin

General
OVERCOMING FEAR
When he was age six he suffered a double arm fracture, and as a result he developed a fear of horizontal bar as a child. However, after injuring his elbow at age 13, for a period it was the only apparatus he could use, so horizontal bar became his main focus. "When I came back [from the first injury], I had a big fear of horizontal bar. I needed quite a bit of time to get rid of that fear. [After the second injury] I had really bad pain for a year and a half and I couldn't do all the other stuff, but for some reason I could do the horizontal bar. It was the only time where I felt less pain." He also says he believes he has less fear of landing than other artistic gymnasts because he has trained extensively in a gym without a landing pit. "When you do that you fall a lot of times, so you learn how to land. Then you don't have fear when it comes to competitions. I have seen a lot of gymnasts do all their stuff in pits, but then when it comes to hard landings it's more difficult for them because they get scared." (fig-gymnastics.com, 23 May 2018)

He became the first Croatian artistic gymnast of either gender to win a gold medal at the world championships when he won gold on horizontal bar at the 2017 edition in Montreal, QC, Canada. (SportsDeskOnline, 27 Oct 2017; fig-gymnastics.com, 09 Oct 2017)