Behind The Scenes: Back from New Orleans Championships
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Travel stories from New Orleans, things you didn't see on the stream and which national champions have never won an event title.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Behind the Seins. This is the show that we do after immediately and we answer your questions live or you can write in ahead of time and ask questions. And you can listen to this show in your favorite podcast player. You don't have to make it live. But if you do make it live, there are instructions in the show notes on how to ask questions of us in real time. This show is PG-14 so that I don't have to censor myself |
| 0:24.0 | the way I do on the regular show. So there will be naughty words because of feelings. I have |
| 0:29.3 | many, many feelings. And today is August. 50th. Shockingly, first, how are you, Spencer? I'm fine. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm recovered from Nationals. |
| 0:42.4 | I got sleep. |
| 0:44.5 | I worked on the clickable code of points. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm very excited for the clickable code of points updates. |
| 0:48.7 | Found some gifts. |
| 0:55.5 | I was very happy with my back two and a half because I was like, who's my example? |
| 0:57.3 | Because everyone does a back two and a half. |
| 1:02.7 | But Sakaguchi from Japan, who has a few things, has a really good one. |
| 1:06.1 | And I got a good, I was like, yes, this is a good example of a back two and a half. And it's stuck and the twisting form is good. |
| 1:08.1 | These are the dumb things that satisfy me. |
| 1:10.5 | I used your clickable code of points at the during championships because I was like, |
| 1:16.4 | let me make sure I'm calling this the right thing. |
| 1:19.2 | I want to, yeah. |
| 1:20.8 | So it's very helpful, balancefam situation.com. |
| 1:25.4 | Clickable code of points. |
| 1:26.6 | The instructions are in the show notes on how to ask questions. |
| 1:29.2 | Let's start with winning without winning. |
| 1:32.6 | PBJ Fobb says, have there been national champions who didn't win any events at the championships |
| 1:38.4 | they won? |
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