Recent content by dweiss324

I don't think she should have been forced to compete the second vault, but from her account, it's clear she was gonna do it regardless, thought she needed to, didn't even think she was seriously injured after the second vault let alone before (just a numb leg with a foot you can't feel), and she...

It definitely reads like a diary with no removed sense of perspective, and is painful to read at times. Obviously the diet and injuries and schedule demands are rough, but also listening to a 14 year old kid lament not being the best in the world / make AA even though she "tries real hard", is...

I didn't even recognize her! Was stranger things THAT long ago?? She's married?!?!? ETA: But you know what, I just watched some Barcelona team footage bc of the on going book summary, and my literal first thought when seeing Kerri was "oh my gosh that girl looks like Eleven from Stranger...

Somebody get me in touch with suni immediately: "Hmong the best: Gold when you least expected it". I have time

Wow seeing all these titles in one place has to be one of the cheesiest lists I've ever seen 🤣

I think short tumbling can be impressive, staying in bounds when veering off line can be impressive, big tumbling can be impressive, tall people tumbling in confined spaces can be impressive... But they don't reward the same thing. That can be conflicting.. Simone's double double, a great...

Here I am like "wow the 2008 team really was great, wow the 2012 really was amazing, wow the 2024 team really was stacked, wow the 1996 team you raise a good point." Lol. Every time I go back and see the routines of not as famous teammates I'm like "damn, they were really good"

Champion of terror sounds like they asked my kids to pick a pro wrestling name

Imagine what aly could have done with 8 more feet! Imagine what countless others could build off of her pass with a little more room! I'm not taking anything away from gymnasts who performed impressive passes with a confined diagonal limitation. But that still doesn't answer the question "why...

The code doesn't reward a gymnast for doing a skill in 50 feet rather than 55. Floor isn't "who can do it the shortest". Simone didn't get bonus for landing her double double in the middle of the floor. I don't know, to me, there are way more examples of the diagonal limiting otherwise cool...

I just don't see it as coddling, at all. The vault oob lines widen with distance. The apparatus encourages distance and forgives deviation from center accordingly. The vaulting horse was replaced to accommodate safety and increasing difficulty. The bars were widened to accommodate increasing...

@Matilda23 I think he means that a lot of oob infractions are not because the gymnast went longer than the diagonal, but because they were slightly offline trying to work into a corner, meaning they stepped oob on a side line, not past the actual corner itself. This means you only get 56 feet if...

Not really. It's maybe like saying the beam should be longer, but it's more like saying "let's move the bars farther apart now that giants are expected and hip beats are out". Since competitors are taller on average and the difficulty expectations have increased, I don't have a problem with...

I'm with Denn. Dancing in a square is dumb, and tumbling into a corner is dumber. I don't think focus would go to tumbling, unless it was more complicated connection passes because there's more room, and more latitude for being slightly off direction. Its not like people are gonna start whipping...

What's the CV for acro to bear crawl? Also, I can't help but laugh that SCS's routine is basically "I can do a full in, bitch". Good for her, if you got it...!!