115: Kenzo Shirai
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 10 September 2014
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
2013 Floor World Champ, Kenzo Shirai of Japan
Kenzo "The Prodigy" "Quad King" Shirai of Japan is here! The 2013 World Champion on floor, who did the quad as his last pass (because he's that good), chats with Jessica about:
- Upgrades on high bar
- How he learned the quad
- His challenge for the US team at Worlds
- His favorite American gymnast.
- His advice for Aly Raisman on how to master the quad twist.
Special thanks to our interpreter, Sho Nakamori!
Follow Kenzo on Twitter here.
- 77: Aly Raisman
- Catching up with John Orozco at the 2014 Winter Cup Challenge
- Episode 55: Worlds Wrap Up & Ferlito-Gate
- Episode 54: Event Finals Recap from 2013 World Championships
- Episode 53: All Around Finals Recap from Antwerp World Championships
- Episode 52: Triumph & Heartbreak Prelims Recap from Antwerp Worlds
- Episode 51: Podium Training Report From Antwerp
- Episode 50: 2013 Antwerp World Championship Preview
Kenzo Shirai showing his absolutely perfect twisting form.
In case you missed it, click on the photo below to see Christy Linder's photo gallery from P&G Championships.
Click on Simone Biles cringing photo to see the full gallery.
Watch this week's playlist on YouTube here.
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| 0:00.0 | This week, no biggie. It's World Champ Kenzo The Quad Sharai who's here. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey gymnast, Elite Sports Band is a cutting edge compression back warmer that can protect your most valued asset. |
| 0:14.6 | Your back. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Allison Taylor on behalf of elite sports band. |
| 0:18.9 | Visit elite sports band.com. |
| 0:21.2 | We've got your back. This is episode 115 for September 10th, 2014. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Jessica, and you can check out my site for all your adult gymnastics needs over at |
| 0:31.4 | Masters hyphen gymnastics. |
| 0:32.8 | And this is the best gymnastics podcast ever. |
| 0:36.9 | Bringing you all the most fascinating people |
| 0:38.9 | from around the gymternet. |
| 0:40.4 | I have a couple of reminders for you before we get started. |
| 0:44.0 | One of which is that we have Christie Linder's photos from the P&G |
| 0:49.0 | Championships up on our site. |
| 0:51.2 | There are about 100 photos and some of them are exclusives that you can't |
| 0:54.3 | find anywhere else. And my favorite, one of my favorites of the exclusives is this photo of |
| 1:00.4 | Simone after she almost fell on her series on Beam. |
| 1:03.8 | Oh my God, it's so funny. |
| 1:05.8 | Every time I look at it and I've looked at it about a hundred times putting the gallery up, |
| 1:09.5 | I laugh and I seriously want to poster size. |
| 1:12.3 | I love it so much. I hope you guys enjoy it also |
| 1:15.3 | Acro Army made the finals of America's got talent and so if you don't vote for |
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