History's Best Beam Routines
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
The Best Beam Routines
All other apparatuses take a seat. Today is a beam day.
- We discuss what makes beam the best apparatus and the qualities consistent across history's greatest beam routines
- The best overall beam routines, starring Yang Bo, Li Li, Fan Ye, Tatiana Lysenko, Kui Yuanyuan, and Chen Cuiting
- Honors for excellence in specific fields of study, such as badassery, hands, spinning, ease, aggression, rhythm, and Kathy Johnson moans
- And finally, how do we make beam more like Yang Bo?
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| 0:43.1 | top is smashed. That is the shape of normal people sheep jumps, but hers is a circle like a ring. |
| 0:51.9 | Today from China to China to China. The greatest favorite teens of all time. This is the 18th episode of 2023. |
| 1:06.0 | It's May 15th and welcome to the number one Gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica |
| 1:10.8 | and I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam situation. Spencer, I want to remind everybody |
| 1:16.4 | before we start that we have now made our the video version of the podcast available to everyone |
| 1:21.3 | for the big show behind the scenes. College of Talkdale's extra bonuses from meets all that is |
| 1:26.1 | always behind behind the wall just for club gym nerd members to thank them. But the regular |
| 1:31.9 | episode is available. So when we talk about these routines you can watch along if you want to |
| 1:38.3 | on YouTube or on the the show page. There'll be a link. But you know always audio is first |
| 1:44.2 | and the most important thing because this is after all a podcast and not a video show. But I do |
| 1:49.0 | want to mention that we will be you can watch along if you want to. So the focus today is the |
| 1:55.9 | podcast about China and how they invented beam. Yes. That's it. And end of end of summary. Can you |
| 2:03.9 | believe we've never done this episode before? The greatest beam routines? It's the episode we've |
| 2:10.4 | been born to do. It is. As I think we've done like segments on like greatest beam skills or |
| 2:16.0 | hardest skills or coolest beam things but not a like the routine as a whole and the greatest |
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