Danish badminton player Astralis, two new entries in the technical staff of the CS:GO team”>Jan Østergaard Jørgensen will be the new athletic trainer and mental coach of the entire Astralis roster.
According to the statement released by the Danish club Jan Ø. Jørgensen will join the Astralis Performance Team, led by Mikkel Hjuler and Signe Find, along with team doctor Nikolaj Rindom, Body SDS therapist Erling Andersen and reflex zone therapist Søren Malling. The new coach has already started working on the organization’s Fortnite star, “Th0masHD”.
Kasper Hvidt, Director of Sport, said: “We had a long dialogue with Jan Ø. Jørgensen who brings with him invaluable experience from his professional career in badminton. He is part of our performance team, focusing on individual players, where he initially focuses on Fortnite and ThomasHD, which is not far from the absolute top “.
Please welcome the legendary Jan Ø. Jørgensen to the performance team!
Jan has already started focusing on the our Fortnite star, @Th0masHD who aims to become the world’s best player.#AstralisFamily pic.twitter.com/X5URBi12Nl
— Astralis (@Astralisgg) January 18, 2022
Jan Ø. Jørgensen, athletic trainer said: “I have followed Astralis on the sidelines for several years and have seen how the organization has shifted an entire industry in terms of how they think about performance and culture. Their work deeply fascinates me and, through our ongoing dialogue, I can see myself thinking in a very similar way to how Kasper Hvidt thinks and works ”.
Th0masHD Høxbro Davidsen, Astralis player in Fortnite. “I have already started training with Jan, and although we come from very different worlds, I am sure that he, with his experience and a more structured approach to training and life as a player, will give me a lot.”
