450: Gym Nerd School 101
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 93 minutes
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GYM NERD SCHOOL 101
Welcome to the first episode of Gym Nerd School, an educational series where we will explain rules, skills, myths, jargon, and important gym nerd history—all based on your questions! Today:
- What does it mean to be an "elite"?
- The Code of Points, leotard rules, and named skills
- Why don't they use the 10 anymore?
- Why are leaps named for animals, how do I tell them apart, and no really WHYYYYYY?
- How do I tell the difference between a split leap full and a switch leap full?
- How do I tell the difference between those one-arm pirouettes—the Ono, Healy, and Ling?
- Why do people yell, "IT WAS A DELTCHEV"????
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to GymNurd School 101 from the Institute of Gymcastic, the Gymnastics Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | Today we are going to do what you guys have been asking for for a long time, which is explain all the things that are still hard to understand even for someone who's been listening to this podcast and watching gymnastics for a long time and you'll learn along our journey today |
| 0:24.4 | that this is also a problem for me who has been doing this for a very long time. |
| 0:30.3 | So this is episode 450 of Gymkastic, the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm just gonna hear with Spencer from the balance beam situation. |
| 0:41.8 | Many of the gifts and videos that we are going to use today |
| 0:45.5 | come from the balance beam situation or come from our gymnastic YouTube page where we have videos |
| 0:51.1 | from many different competitions. |
| 0:54.4 | This episode in particular is dedicated to |
| 1:00.9 | the marriage of Stephanie P. P. P. P. P. P.P. Powers to Kenneth Kramig. |
| 1:06.0 | Steph, when we met you almost a decade ago, we had no idea what amazing friend and person you have become. |
| 1:13.0 | You've gone from the teenager who took years off our lives |
| 1:16.0 | with her scary vault crashes |
| 1:18.0 | to an amazing young woman who gets stronger |
| 1:21.0 | every time she falls. |
| 1:23.0 | Ken, as you marry Stephanie, you are marrying an elite gym nerd. |
| 1:28.0 | We hope you love her more than the number of wolf turns in an elite competition, |
| 1:33.4 | fluff pieces in an NBC broadcast, |
| 1:36.6 | and the number of skills named after Nellie Kim |
| 1:39.4 | in the Code Points. |
| 1:41.1 | We hope that you will always be the hurdle to her round off, the tap swing to her giants, and the power behind all of her vaults. |
| 1:50.0 | Congratulations on your marriage. There is no other couple we would rather do life and watch gymnastics with. |
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