High-Five Lessons: College Season Week 4
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
- The Iowa vs. MSU dance off that reminded us why we love NCAA gymnastics
- More about New Zealand Olympic eligibility, and clarification on how the US elite committee's No-Melanies rule applies to other athletes
- Jessica is heading to national team camp! What are we most looking forward to seeing 5 months out from the Olympic team being named?
College Season—Week 4
- Big ranking moves from Kentucky and UCLA, and an important Corrupt or Correct about the Chae Campbell 10.000/9.900 split on floor
- The scoring broke Bart Conner, plus the major problem of where the judges are sitting
- Big upsets and emotionally devastating injuries defined the week, and Jessica copes by creating the world's first feet-free beam routine
- Janelle McDonald's face suffered the best rogue high five of the week, and there was a heinous scoring graphic that destroyed Spencer's life
- Plus, how many presents does Emma Malabuyo deserve after the travel schedule she is attempting next month?
Elite and Gymternet News
- Gymnastics Australia's CEO stepped down, Georgia did a Very Serious Balloon Violation, which made us reminisce fondly over that time Georgia enjoyed a Broadway show and lost a scholarship the beam layout stepout turned the big 5-0.
- Plus, your feedback on attending meets in person, best practices for having your teeth knocked out, the scourge of beat jumps and cat leaps, and all this horrible gum chewing!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We have some opportunities for comedy this week, some further opportunities for comedy, not the foot-free beam routine that just created. |
| 0:08.0 | We need to give, so we have a new award apparently, which is the high five in the face of the week because as we've discussed, |
| 0:17.3 | gymnasts can do beam routines but cannot walk on the ground. They also cannot high five and we maybe need to |
| 0:25.6 | integrate this into early training like how you always say ballet should be |
| 0:30.0 | integrated into early training. High-five lessons, I think, are really an |
| 0:34.7 | underrated point and we need to work on them more because it's getting to be a |
| 0:38.8 | problem as Janelle McDonald learned this week. |
| 0:42.9 | Remember the show is PG-13, |
| 0:45.0 | so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:47.2 | Norbert's is having a sale on Taiwanese chalk. |
| 0:50.2 | You can get the whole block. |
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| 1:02.1 | norvits is also giving away a fifty dollar norvids You don't need any months attached, just gym-casting. |
| 1:02.5 | Norvitz is also giving away a $50 gift card |
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| 1:08.5 | no minimum. |
| 1:10.0 | Just follow Norbert's Athletic on Instagram |
| 1:12.2 | and then like and comment on the giveaway post. |
| 1:15.3 | It's been a big week. |
| 1:17.2 | Updates on the New Zealand situation, |
| 1:20.5 | the anti-melony enforcement rule in our elite system in the US |
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