Episode 133: Interview Katelyn Ohashi Commits to UCLA
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2015
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
She is the gymnastics equivalent of panda cubs playing in snow for the first time, combined with the feeling you got when Nastia did a pirouette on bars; the perfect gymnastics happiness pill. The 2013 American Cup all-around champion, Katelyn Ohashi, has committed to UCLA and we have the exclusive interview just hours after she announced her decision to her future teammates. We discuss:
- The candlelit moment when she told the team
- Why she chose UCLA and when she will start
- The status of her return to bars and what skills she's working on
- Surprising her coach by busting out crazy dismounts
- The look on her face after her second pass on floor at Texas Prime last weekend
- What she thinks of the Tumblr posts you make about her
- Switching from coach Valeri Luikin to Laurent Landi
- If she knows that the gymternet is obsessed with Laurent
- Episode 23: Lloimincia Hall & The American Cup
- Episode 33: Simone Biles & Her Coaches
- Episode 39: Victoria Moors
- 61: Katelyn Ohashi Clears The Air
Watch all of Ohashi's routines from this Texas Prime here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today, 2013 American Cup champion Caitlin Oh, Hashi is here to talk about her College Commit announcement |
| 0:07.2 | and her return to competition last weekend. |
| 0:09.7 | This is episode 133 for January 19, 2015. This is the best gymnastics |
| 0:15.9 | podcast ever bringing you all the most fascinating people from around the |
| 0:19.2 | gym internet. I'm Jessica and Spanny Tams, is here along with Uncle Tim. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to a very special interview episode with Caitlin Ohashi. |
| 0:27.8 | She's long been a Jim Ternet favorite for her gorgeous form |
| 0:31.4 | and insane difficulty and irrepressively joyful personality. |
| 0:36.0 | She returned to competition as a level 10 this past weekend at Texas Prime after recovering |
| 0:41.0 | from a serious back injury. You can check out all of her routines from that meet on our YouTube page. |
| 0:45.0 | Today she tells us why she chose UCLA, |
| 0:48.0 | the status of her comeback on bars, which she hasn't competed yet, |
| 0:51.0 | working with self-proclaimed haughty coach Laurent Landy, and what she |
| 0:56.7 | thinks of your posts about her on Tumblr. |
| 1:01.1 | Remember that if you love the show, you can support us by donating you can shop in our |
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| 1:15.2 | And you guys asked for a way to support the show directly, so we created a donate button. |
| 1:19.6 | Thank you so much to everybody who has set up donations weekly and monthly we |
| 1:23.4 | appreciate it. Okay let's talk to Caitlin. This interview with Caitlin |
| 1:27.5 | ohashi is brought to you by tumbletrack. As longtime listeners of the |
| 1:31.9 | show will know I have two little adorable gymnastics nieces. |
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