What are some words and phrases that have specific meaning to gymfans?
I’ll start
“Oh, that’s too bad”
“Quitters Try”
“It was a Deltchev!”
“manwipe”
Love the Manwipe!! LOL!
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This ain’t no city championships!
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I don’t know the background to “that’s a deltchev” and “manwipe”, anybody bring me up to par?
In regards to choreography, ‘Butt shelf’ and Chellsie’s famous ‘The Juicer’ or ‘Juicing Lemons.’
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I think the number 8.8 holds a special place in all of our hearts, too.
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The instant I saw that you’d posted on this thread, I knew full well what your contribution was going to be.
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Also, IT’S NOT NABZ. And Mohinimeansillusioninhindi.
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We really don’t discuss this moment enough.
Stoi and davai are also important phrases, meaningless for non Russian speakers
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Romanian Choochoo.
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Deltchev
Man Wipe
People compiled a pretty good dictionary a few years back: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13MbzFxyqXI113idtojsUENl0loaTnXu7snh5GgTbl7M/edit?usp=drivesdk
How many times Alyssa? How many times?
Sticker girlie!
It was a penny!
The beam is only 4 inches wide.
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Like a toothpick in a club sandwich!
Gymnastics 101…
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Ginormous
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“It’s not my favourite element but she makes everything look good”
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But this is more nbc-isms isn’t it? If this is about gym sentences that will mean something else to the casual observer we should we going more the route of: “omg look at those German giants”
Smooooooth
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Omg YES. Sometimes I’ll just say it to myself: “smüüüüüth!”
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