Podium Training Report: 2025 U.S. Championships
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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2025 U.S. Championships Podium Training!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember, this show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.5 | We are live in New Orleans. |
| 0:06.2 | We just watched podium training. |
| 0:07.8 | I watch it live. |
| 0:08.5 | Spencer watched from home. |
| 0:10.0 | And we're going to tell you everything we saw and all about it and what it means and what's |
| 0:14.6 | coming up for the rest of U.S. championships here in New Orleans, 2025. |
| 0:18.6 | And Morgan Hurd is going to be our live show guest this Saturday, this Saturday in New Orleans. |
| 0:24.9 | Tickets at Jimcaste.com. |
| 0:26.4 | It's August 6th, 2025. |
| 0:28.5 | And welcome to the number one genesis podcast in the Galaxy of Jessica. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm here with Spencer from the balance theme situation. |
| 0:35.1 | And so. |
| 0:36.6 | Go. |
| 0:37.0 | Let's go. |
| 0:40.9 | Yeah. Okay. Let me tell you the things that I learned in the press conference and talking to folks so I did talk to Betty and Chelsea were there from the |
| 0:45.3 | Trident the high-performance lead team and and they said that there's tons of stuff they want to |
| 0:52.9 | do to make the judging better because I did ask them about what happened because Miley Liu's score was wrong at Classic. |
| 1:01.1 | And they said that they were going to talk to the judges. |
| 1:03.3 | Basically, they would love to do things, including having a digital input system, which is something that I know was tested at the last world. So instead of writing down |
| 1:12.6 | your deductions and bonuses, you just input them. There's a one-tenth, a three-tenth, a five-tenth, |
| 1:19.4 | you know, and that's how you do it. It makes it much easier. And so that's something they want |
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