- There are three flavors of German Wheel.
There's straight line,
where you're rolling back and forth in a line.
There's spiral,
where you're going in a circle on the wheel.
And then there's vault,
where you set the wheel in motion and you run after it,
get yourself to the top of the wheel
and do some type of flip off the wheel.
- So this guy named Wolfgang Beintzle moved to Chicago
from Germany probably fifteen years ago.
He is an eight-time German Wheel World Champion.
So he kind of brought German Wheel to the U.S.
He was a German Wheel performer with Cirque Du Soleil
for some time.
And he started training kids in Chicago.
So he came to visit us in Madison.
We were just kind of rocking back and forth.
And Wolfgang came and taught us a whole bunch of stuff.
Like my mind was just blown.
I was hooked--
I mean I had already been hooked,
but I was even more hooked from that point forward.
So I started training with Wolfgang
and going to Chicago every so often to get better at wheel.
I've competed in Japan.
I won a competition there.
I've traveled to Germany to an elite training camp
to do German Wheel.
Yeah, I've traveled the country and all over the world.
Honestly, it's a very expensive apparatus
and you need a lot of space to train.
And you need a lot of time to train.
And you need a spotter to train.
So, I'm very lucky to have my boyfriend,
who is my dedicated spotter,
and my co-coach, who trains with me all the time.
Like, he works a 9 to 5 job,
and then, he comes home in the evening,
and he just, like, spots me for hours.