The Best College Gymnasts You're Not Watching (Commissioned)
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
This episode has been commissioned by the Courtney Bumpers Fan Club, where we discuss the college gymnastics things we don't talk enough—past, present, and future (?)
- Vault: Elites Could Never Edition, starring Kendall Whitman and Allison Zuhlke
- GymCastic Mythbusters: "Increasing difficulty requirements makes smaller teams less able to contend"
- A Moment in History: The single best beam routine in the history of college gymnastics, the single best mount in the history of college gymnastics, and the single best movement quality in the history of college gymnastics
- On the importance of one-knee elements, backspins, and Korbuts
- Elizabeth Culton: When is she getting a 10?
- The viral gymnastics routine --a discussion on race and black excellence.
- Discussion: Leotard bonus, is it real, why does it happen, and what do we do about it?
- QUIZ: Gymnasts, firsts and records you should know about
- More important than the Gym Slam, the QuadraDiva: A gymnast who has won four or more of the five individual college gymnastics titles (all-around, vault, bars, beam, floor)
- Discussion: Going viral. Can it happen for gymnasts from smaller schools?
- Plus, why we need to talk about gymnasts Ariana Castrence, Emerson Hurst, Nika Takagi, Emma Milne, and Kendal Knaps.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we need to have a more controversy, right? |
| 0:02.6 | Okay, there's a reason white girls don't go viral, right? |
| 0:05.4 | White girls don't go viral. |
| 0:06.4 | It's not coincidence, it's not coincidence. |
| 0:08.4 | It's because when you have women of color |
| 0:11.1 | competing on floor in college gymnastics |
| 0:14.0 | and being completely free and exuberant |
| 0:17.9 | and themselves and doing exactly what they want to do |
| 0:20.8 | and excelling while doing it |
| 0:23.1 | in a still traditionally white space |
| 0:27.2 | and traditionally stoic and judgmental space, |
| 0:32.0 | that means something to people beyond the sport. |
| 0:35.8 | That resonates, it sends a message. |
| 0:38.7 | It's important to people. |
| 0:40.3 | So I do want to talk a little bit about the definition |
| 0:42.3 | of virality, because I know some people are like, |
| 0:45.0 | what about that one white girl? |
| 0:49.3 | So I, remember the show is PG-13. |
| 0:53.1 | So you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:57.6 | Today, the best college gymnast, |
| 1:00.4 | you're not watching a commission. |
| 1:02.7 | The past, the present, and what you need to know |
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