Recent content by flappergirl

No people hope, but just don’t expect to have that hope fulfilled. It feels unrealistic to say our hopes out loud.

Didn’t dominique dawes win a silver on bars because of improvising? And also Suni Lee. It depends on the gymnast and how she is coached.

That’s one movie I won’t be watching. If it was realistic, Kerri wouldn’t sign off on it…

What I’d like to see was a understandable separation between gymnasts. But little tiny errors are so visible to judges when the gymnast is super clean, whereas ugly routines have too many to count

This is scary. When my younger self was a preschool teacher, it was awful to see other teachers on their petty power trips. Nothing abusive by some standards, but it felt abusive when I watched the effect on the children

I thought that the reason for hidden scoring is so that judge’s country peopled don’t pressure them to score unfairly. Fairness may be better served by releasing the score breakdowns without the names of the judges attached. Then some kind of neutral oversight committee to police fairness.

It’s not that I don’t understand the social media culture or appreciate how hard the gymnasts work and how amazing they are, I love gymnastics. When I put myself in their shoes, however, I would hate it. It’s cringy to me and I would not be able to handle it. It feels fake to me.

Yes, a lot of the NCAA culture rubs me the wrong way.

I absolutely love these plant creatures!

This happened to me too. I was so good at math in fifth grade. But then when training for the GED, when I had lost my edge, they expected the opposite. I was dinged twice.

Yeah, you know so much more about the reality of gymnastics, even in the US. But, I was thinking of the system in place at whatever gym, Steve Nunno visited, have no idea about the what he actually learned

I remember hearing that Nunno coached at Karolyi’s and that he modeled his coaching after him and the Soviets.

I agree. Although I don’t like parkour in the fig, I am happy to see Shang Chunsong having success and hopefully fulfillment

I agree, Parkour is for movies and the outdoors. Break dancing doesn’t seem right for the Olympics either. In both cases, the essence is lost

In my opinion, it’s fine for Frederick to miss this WC. He can fully absorb everything he learned and adjust for the future