Recent content by Denn

Those quotes are nefarious. 🤣

Umm.... Why is Zhang Boheng, one of the 2 best gymnasts in the world for about 5 years now, the RESERVE athlete when Yang Haonan, who's really a rings guy, is on the team?!?!! I can understand Shi Cong and Xie Chenyi. PB and HB are their best apparatus, and I think Shi Cong is pretty good on FX.

Oh, I think you might be right. Thanks for pointing that out.

Have you looked at a bunch of videos for inspiration. Here are two of my favorite gainer layouts. Here's a drill done with the security of the floor I like this mat set-up for low beam using panel mats only in certain spots. (I am not totally convinced that the spotting is a good idea...

Amazing how much time and money is being spent on this. I both understand and also think it's just too much cost.

Did you read and write it, or learn it via sound and/or Pinyin? (I have been doing the latter; the Mister is from China.)

Sacramone also missed her floor and her beam at US Nationals once each. Otherwise, she would have been the obvious choice at that point, I think. I do think it's a Janiga vs. Ishino question otherwise.

I like it a lot, and in 2026, it's easier than ever to get good translations with little effort. Thank you for making that point!

Great point about the algorithm. With a forum like this, you don't get fed what it thinks you want based on what you liked. You get fed everything, which means you are always exposed to everything, and you are always able to shift your own patterns if you are open to it. I think that's a good thing.

Hmm makes a lot of sense. I'll think about facepalm and eyeroll, though we already have a couple negative reaction icons. :) Give me a little time.

LOL, yes, but that's partly because you are direct and thorough. :-) I do appreciate that people here tend not to write repetitive posts as responses. I am in a Music Theory group on Facebook that is the total opposite. 100 people all respond to say the same stuff over and over and it's like...

Yep, American threads would have to get a tag like everyone else to decrease the imbalance. ETA: I agree that it's a good goal to be more of a "this is worldwide" place than a "We welcome people worldwide, but American-heavy" place. We can work on that in coming months.

The part about not being able to find these resources in other languages is both a little surprising and quite disappointing. Thanks for sharing that, though. Would it be useful for us to include, say, an Italian language forum about Italian gymnastics specifically even though the rest of the...

That's interesting — I had thought about organization, but I had not thought about how easier searching is a major benefit of forums for some users. Thanks for sharing that everyone.

Changing gears here... Do people imagine that forums will continue to have an important place on the internet or is that something that could change in coming years?