This is episode 17 for January 23rd. I am Jessica Byrne. I am Spanny

Tamsen. I'm Uncle Tim and this is the best and only gymnastics talk show in the world, starting with the top news stories

from around the world.

The first news comes out of Australia.

They are hosting the Olympic Youth Festival, Australia, Great Britain, and China and New Zealand competed.

Australia got to have two teams, one from the west, one from the east.

And it sounds like it was, you know, it was a fun competition.

It was good to see the kind of the up-and-comers, but basically there was no comova, so,

that was my feeling for reading about it.

And I don't know, you watched one of the routines one of the routines spanning what did you think?

Yeah Catherine Lyons on beam she's gorgeous gymnast it's not the skills are kind of as she

loses some form you even simple like split leaps but

She does an incredible like a front scale kind of like Maddie does on beam she does the front scale directly into she holds her foot up into that full turn, the kind of foot up by her head.

Just really gorgeous presentation, it's gorgeous, but then she went into a moment where she did that she did a butt shelf and wrist flix at the same time and I like had a rage stroke

But it's a it's a beautiful routine if you know younger innovative gymnasts, it's going to see different stuff so it's worth taking a peek at.

The couch gymnast has full coverage and breakdown so you can check it out on their site. And Uncle Tim what do you have?

Well this past week, Catalina Poinor, a video of her doing a double layout dismount off of beam emerged and it

looked pretty good until I watched it frame by frame and it looked like it would have been a

giant face plant but still it's good to see that, you know,

somebody's trying to push the envelope and I think Spani has some more commentary on it.

Yes, so there's been rumor for years that Armini from Gage has, she's had a claim that she did

the double layout off of Beam or at least trained it. And we should say she's doing the Purnor is doing this into the pit just so yeah so

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