251: Chinese and JO Nationals

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🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 87 minutes

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IN THE NEWS

In the news, Spencer, and Jessica chat about:

Chinese National Championships 2017 (1:40)
- The floor fell apart
- Shang Chunsong got a 3 on bars with a scary fall/ invents clear-hip seat drop to back tuck for 0.8 CV
- Lo Huan gorgeous beam and bars
- Li Qi (pronounced Lee Chee *squeals*) 6.3 D score (WOAH!) beam with so many missed connections.
  - Adorable gallop to handstand
  - Her floor is ready for NCAA. So. Ah. Mazing.
- Chen Yile switch ring to catastrophe but is it the future of chinese bars
- Du Siyu silver on bars
- Lu Yufei doing a GORGEOUS Fabrichnova
- Zou Jingyuan stole the show and got really mad when he wasn't perfect on the 6.6. D p-bars routine.
Level 10, Junior Olympic National Championships (26:07)
- Watch every routines here.
- Kalyxta Gamiao (Hawaiian Island Twisters) toe-on counter Kim
- Aleah Finnegan (sister of Sarah) won age group AA/BB
- Leanne Wong - Basically just won the 2020 US Bars title
- Lexy Ramler (Minnesota, Kid Sport) toe-on full twisting shaposh to immediate pak; also highest BB score of competition (aerial + split ring)
- Ky George (Cal) will be the next NCAA floor star, highest FX score of meet
- Vault:
  - We explain the JO vault bonus.
  - Kai Rivers (LSU, won the Nastia) - DTY (automatic 80-point Geddert behavior deduction)
  - Haleigh Bryant - handspring pike ½ is Rachel Slocum good
  - Lexi Graber got a 10 for this 1.5

GYMTERNET NEWS

Our weekly roundup of the latest news stories from around the gymternet include (41:59):

Nikita Nagornyy casually chucking a Tsuk double-double.
A gymnastics name pronunciation database!
Should Parkour be an Olympic sport and under the FIG?
All the college coaching news
The US men are actually going to University Games!
"The Damage I've Done" Kristen Maloney
Everyone should sing their heart out during their gymnastics dance class like these kids.
When you miss prom because you qualified for Nationals, your coaches take you out for dinner in your prom dresses
FEEDBACK:
- Gender outrage: How is gymnastics gender unequal when rhythmic is only for women!
- Military academy hazing
- How to include Nassar news without triggering
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- Stop the glitter trampoline insanity! Wear goggles and a mask!

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0:00.0	Today amazing gymnastics and crazy equipment fails at Chinese nationals,
0:08.0	J.O. Heroes and more NCAA gymnastics coaching changes.
0:13.3	This is episode 251 for May 10th, 2017.
0:19.5	And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast
0:21.8	in the world.
0:22.4	I'm here with Spencer from the
0:24.4	balance theme situation so we want to ask you guys for your help before we get
0:28.7	started this week we have had a commission so now you So now until classics nationals is pretty much like the
0:36.0	downtime for gymnastics goes on vacation. So this is the time when we catch up
0:40.5	on all of our commissioned episodes that we have a backlog of.
0:44.0	We're going to knock them all out in the next two months.
0:46.8	So one of the ones that we've started working on is a commission for myths, legends, and truly amazing unexpected moments in
0:56.7	gymnastics history. So our question for you is what are some myths, myth busters that you want us to
1:05.0	is what are some myths, mythbusters that you want us to discuss or something you feel
1:06.5	like a myth's never been busted that you want us to do,
1:09.8	legends that you want us to talk about or some truly unexpected moments in
1:14.9	gymnastics history like and not just all the times and Tim Daggot says if you
1:19.9	had told me before the meat started, but things that you never thought that would happen that
1:26.2	actually happened. Tell us your ideas, send them to us, Jim Kastic at gima.com, and let us know
1:32.2	what you think we should cover in this commissioned
1:34.5	episode. Thanks you guys. Spencer let's talk about Chinese nationals. First
1:40.5	there was a little drama. Yeah, there were some messes that happened at Chinese Nationals starting with the equipment.
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