324: The Jade Carey Situation & a Miss Val Book Interview Drinking Game
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
IN THE NEWS
- The roster for the US worlds selection camp has been named—and Jade Carey isn't on it!
- What the LKJDF;LKSJDF is going on around here?
- Why this doesn't make strategic sense for the US women's program
- Why this might make strategic sense for Jade Carey herself
- We foresee several dozen cans of worms this could open
- The Paris World Cup and the Case of the Missing Touch Warmup
- Why that's bad and also probably against the rules
- Ellie Black and the French dominate
- Igor was so incredibly Igor that we cannot even begin
- It took over 5 damn hours, and Jessica is not having it
- The requisite amount of Russian team drama
MISS VAL INTERVIEW
Miss Val's book Life Is Short, Don't Wait to Dance is available now in print or audio form! Jessica chatted with Miss Val, her co-author Coop (conflict of interest disclaimer: who also happens to be Jessica's husband), and our potentially overqualified sound engineer for the evening Aimee Boorman, and things may have descended into a Netherlands drinking game. So, normal GymCastic stuff.
- What came first, deciding to retire or writing the book?
- Why Miss Val really retired from ballet dancing.
- What Suzanne Yoculan and Miss Val have in common when in comes to leotard feelings.
- Why American Olympic gymnasts are all the same personality type but foreign Olympians are not.
- How this book will change your life!
CONTEST
What: 5 winners get a copy of Miss Val's book: Life is Short, Don't Wait to Dance Grand Prize: Book and 15 minute personal phone call with Miss Val. How to Enter: Using the #DontWaitToDance on Twitter or Instagram tag us @GymCastic with a 5 second video doing your favorite UCLA floor choreography. Doesn't have to be you, use your dog, fingers, make a friend do it. Bonus entries: Link to the book. Enter as many times as you want. When: Now to October 5th *Conflict of Interest Disclaimer: Jessica's husband co-authored this book.
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National Team Rankings – October 2018
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.0 | So Jade couldn't go to like what happened this past weekend. |
| 0:07.0 | She couldn't go to if she was on the world team for Doha that then successfully |
| 0:12.1 | qualifies to Tokyo she couldn't go to an |
| 0:14.6 | individual apparatus World Cup and qualify a nominative spot in her name |
| 0:20.8 | correct that's the only rule about who can be on the team. She can't do that. That's the only thing that you cannot do. |
| 0:29.2 | Coop did a great job interviewing Suzanne Joclin about our backless leotard. |
| 0:33.6 | That is fascinating to me. |
| 0:35.3 | It is. |
| 0:35.9 | It was to me too, because I never knew that story. |
| 0:37.8 | Right. |
| 0:38.3 | I had no idea that you have the same. |
| 0:40.2 | I don't want to give it all away. |
| 0:41.3 | It's so hard, but there is miss Valentine |
| 0:43.6 | have something completely in common and because they have that thing in |
| 0:47.8 | common they did exactly the opposite thing right and it's so interesting. Right. |
| 0:53.0 | And I never knew that. |
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