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    Gymnast's Memoir Books

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

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

    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...
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    Rewind WEEK TEN 25/11 : 2016 US gymnastics championship

    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"
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    Melnikova Among Russians Approved for Neutral Status, Viktoria Listunova, denied from Lauren Hopkins

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

    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...
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    Random gymnastics questions

    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...
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    Random gymnastics questions

    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...
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    Random gymnastics questions

    @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...
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    Random gymnastics questions

    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...
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    Random gymnastics questions

    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...
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    Shang Chunsong is World Games Champion

    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...!!
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    Event 2025 US Nationals Senior Women Day 1 (Friday, August 8, 2025)

    I think I've put my finger on what bothers me about the commentary (besides it being out of touch). It's too positive, which lowers the stakes of the comp. I get not being harsh, but they treat full on falls like "it's okay, remember, they're not supposed to be peaking now anyways". It just...
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    Event 2025 US Nationals Senior Women Day 1 (Friday, August 8, 2025)

    Those head on leaps from Pease made me scream lol
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    Event 2025 US Nationals Senior Women Day 1 (Friday, August 8, 2025)

    Laurie's commentary and I are just not on the same page

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