GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

WATCH Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded and see video clips of the gymnastics while we discuss. Please login to your Club Gym Nerd account to listen and/or watch this episode. Not a member? Join here. GYMNASTICS INTERNATIONAL Welcome to Gymnastics International! On this show, we take a deep dive into the latest competitions from around the world, covering them with the depth and detail they truly deserve. This week: 2021 Russian Championships! Celebrating the Big 3 Viktoria Listunova – National champion, queen of vault faces. Gold Medal Beam Routine Vladislava Urazova – All-around silver, bringing back the beam mount SERIES. Gold Medal Bars Routine Angelina Melnikova – Won floor even though she thought she wasn't ready. Gold Medal Floor Routine The Challengers Yana Vorona – Split jump to immediate front tuck on beam. Beam Routine Elena Gerasimova – Hit beam every time despite being RUSSIAN. Beam routine Lilia Akhaimova – How will her injury influence her Olympic status? Anastasia Iliankova – Is she the last bars specialist standing? Sadness and Icons Maria Kharenkova suffered an Achilles injury on floor Elena Eremina with a triumphant 9th in the AA Daria Spiridonova retirement mural The mascots were back. We have a lot to say More classic wolf turn disasters The Men Alexander Kartsev won the all-around – where does he fit in the Olympic picture and who does Jessica controversially think he looks like? Nagornyy strep throated all over everyone THE POSTS Sunday Live Blog – March 14, 2021 March 14, 2021 Saturday Live Blog – March 13, 2021 March 13, 2021 Friday Live Blog – March 12, 2021 March 12, 2021 State of the Russians Address March 12, 2021 Keeping Up with the Cool GIFs – Week 9 March 9, 2021 Top Scores of Week 9 March 9, 2021 Week 9 Rankings & NQS Update March 8, 2021 JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd or buy a gift membership for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Behind The Scenes: Post-Winter Cup Syndrome Behind The Scenes: Live Hot Take Senior WAG Winter Cup Behind The Scenes: Live Hot Take Junior WAG Winter Cup Behind The Scenes: Pan Am Games Behind The Scenes: Distracting Hair Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! PAST EPISODES Gymnastics International Episode 4: Russian & Italian Nationals Gymnastics International Episode 3: Chinese Individual Nationals Gymnastics International Episode 2: Szombathely World Cup Gymnastics International Episode 1: Chinese and Japanese Nationals

WATCH Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded. Please login to your Club Gym Nerd account to listen and/or watch this episode. Not a member? Join here. HEADLINES There's a massive conflict of interest in the USAG bankruptcy case. Because of course there is. And the Daniels Report didn't even interview the Karolyis. Sigh. The FIG has added clarifications to the Olympic qualification documents. Tl;dr Jade Carey's Olympic spot is now extra definitely definite. The athletes are writing a STRONGLY WORDED LETTER to USAG urging a change of equipment for championships and trials. NCAA NEWS Spencer tries to run through all the scoring records from this weekend without having a heart attack. Cal and Michigan got their first-ever 198s and Cal tied the all-time NCAA bars record. Oklahoma and Florida are now tied for first place and things might start getting exciting. People who are correct. Like Haleigh Bryant and Lexy Ramler and Emi Watterson. We need to have an honest conversation about exhibition routines. GYMTERNET NEWS Update on the men's national team drama from last week and who ended up missing out. RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS. This week. The retirements of Daria Spiridonova, Oliver Hegi, and Erika Fasana. The gymternet controversy over Nina's Nabieva 1/2. THE POSTS Sunday Live Blog – March 7, 2021 March 7, 2021 Saturday Live Blog – March 6, 2021 March 6, 2021 Friday Live Blog – March 5, 2021 March 5, 2021 Keeping Up with the Cool GIFs – Winter Cup Edition March 2, 2021 Top Scores of Week 8 March 2, 2021 JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd or buy a gift membership for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Behind The Scenes: Post-Winter Cup Syndrome Behind The Scenes: Live Hot Take Senior WAG Winter Cup Behind The Scenes: Live Hot Take Junior WAG Winter Cup Behind The Scenes: Pan Am Games Behind The Scenes: Distracting Hair Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES Would You Say That to a Russian's Face?: Winter Cup Review Winter Cup Preview: NOW with Women Beam Celery Gym Nerd School 102: College Gymnastics Kyla 'The Boss' Ross Interview The Gympocalypse WATCH THE FLIGHT SERIES  

WATCH Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded and see video clips of the gymnastics while we discuss. Please login to your Club Gym Nerd account to listen and/or watch this episode. Not a member? Join here. WINTER CUP It happened. We gush about Jordan Chiles' 57 (57!) in the all-around to win, Shilese Jones, Sunisa Lee's new bars routine and all her Sanne variations, and of course the triumphant return of Laurie Hernandez—now starring positive coaching. Top moments including Konnor McClain and Skye Blakely bringing 2005 realness to beam, the Riley McCusker and Jade Carey secret handshake, and how Jade might be kind of good at bars now. Kensley joins us to talk about the men: who won, the special Shane Wiskus and Stephen Nedoroscik opportunities for comedy, and [deep breath] the DRA-HA-MA going on regarding who makes national team and gets funding GYMTERNET NEWS Yeah, we talk about that other news story that happened. THE POSTS Week 8 Rankings & NQS Update March 1, 2021 Winter Cup Sunday Live Blog – February 28, 2021 February 28, 2021 Saturday Live Blog – February 27, 2021 February 27, 2021 Friday Live Blog – February 26, 2021 February 26, 2021 Keeping Up with the Cool GIFs – Week 7 February 23, 2021 Top Scores of Week 7 February 23, 2021 JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd or buy a gift membership for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Behind The Scenes: Live Hot Take Senior WAG Winter Cup Behind The Scenes: Live Hot Take Junior WAG Winter Cup Behind The Scenes: Pan Am Games Behind The Scenes: Distracting Hair Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES Winter Cup Preview: NOW with Women Beam Celery Gym Nerd School 102: College Gymnastics Kyla 'The Boss' Ross Interview The Gympocalypse

WINTER CUP It's coming. This weekend. We preview the women's competition...and then later in the episode actually get the real roster...don't worry about it. Laurie Hernandez is starting her comeback. What are our expectations? Plus, Sunisa Lee, Riley McCusker, Konnor McClain, Jordan Chiles, Kayla DiCello, Olivia Greaves, and others we can't wait to see SLASH have questions about. Which men are competing, what national team drama is going on this year, and Kensley writes in with her title predictions NCAA NEWS Everyone set a program record, and BLOOP Alyssa Baumann is suddenly the #1 AAer in the country The SEC Network bumped a baseball for gymnastics. We have arrived. Marz Frazier, Nia Dennis, Victoria Nguyen, and LIU bring the comedy. THE POSTS Sunday Live Blog – February 21, 2021 February 21, 2021 Saturday Live Blog – February 20, 2021 February 20, 2021 Friday Live Blog – February 19, 2021 February 19, 2021 Keeping Up with the Cool GIFs – Week 6 February 16, 2021 Top Scores of Week 6 February 16, 2021 JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd or buy a gift membership for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Behind The Scenes: Pan Am Games Behind The Scenes: Distracting Hair Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES Beam Celery Gym Nerd School 102: College Gymnastics Kyla 'The Boss' Ross Interview The Gympocalypse

WATCH Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded and see video clips of the gymnastics while we discuss. HEADLINES Simone showed a competition-ready Yurchenko double pike on 60 Minutes. We discuss what it should be valued and how we're preparing for the injustice of it all, plus the inevitable fact-checking when civilians try to talk about gymnastics Dianne Durham died last week. We discuss her legacy, what happened in 1984 and why we're still not over it, and why she's not in the US Hall of Fame. Sign the petition here. The AA Olympic qualifiers have been canceled and the Doha World Cup has been postponed. We run through what it means for Olympic qualification Aliya is the new acting head coach of the Russian juniors, and we have PLANS. Sarah Finnegan has been elected athlete representative on the USAG board. How should we feel about this considering her #BroomGate past? NCAA NEWS The 198s went flying. Spencer has...some views...about the scoring at LSU and Metroplex Trinity Thomas went 39.900. Was it the best all-around NCAA performance we've ever seen? The LIU beam rotation wasn't basic, and opportunities for comedy were everywhere in stag-cat-pounces and Nia Dennis running away from vault. THE POSTS Monday Live Blog – February 15, 2021 February 15, 2021 Sunday Live Blog – February 14, 2021 February 14, 2021 Saturday Live Blog – February 13, 2021 February 13, 2021 Friday Live Blog – February 12, 2021 February 12, 2021 Things Are Happening – February 11, 2021 February 11, 2021 Keeping Up with the Cool GIFs – Week 5 February 9, 2021 Top Scores of Week 5 February 9, 2021 Week 5 Rankings February 8, 2021 JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd or buy a gift membership for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Behind The Scenes: Pan Am Games Behind The Scenes: Distracting Hair Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES Behind The Scenes: Simone Biles Interview Gym Nerd School 102: College Gymnastics Kyla 'The Boss' Ross Interview The Gympocalypse 410: Simone's Vault to the Rescue

Watch Here Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded and see video clips of the gymnastics while we discuss. Gym Nerd School videos are available to everyone because education if a fundamental human right for crying out loud. If you'd like to support us please Join Here.  GYM NERD SCHOOL In the second class of the Gym Nerd School series this semester, we explain rules, myths, scandals, and important gym nerd history while answering your questions about women's college gymnastics in the US. Why do we watch college gymnastics — from outfits to broadcasts to teams to 10s Jessica Quizzes Herself: The NCAA sport cartel system and the origin of women's college gymnastics and the upcoming Name, Image and Likeness rules. Dynasties and Usurpers: A timeline of college gymnastics history Jessica Quizzes Spencer: Judging and the "rules" of college gymnastics scoring "HELP: I just got into college gymnastics. How do I pick a favorite team?" The Most Important Part: Scandals and dramas Plus, Nicole Langevin from Precision Choreography and My Gym Judge joins to talk about the EIGHT WHOLE TENTHS that can be taken in the "artist formerly known as JO" for non-skills, which we decide is the solution for college judging THE POSTS WTF Is College Gymnastics Scoring - Vault WTF Is College Gymnastics Scoring - Bars WTF Is College Gymnastics Scoring - Beam WTF Is College Gymnastics Scoring - Floor NCAA Week 5 Preview February 4, 2021 Keeping Up with the Cool GIFs – Week 4 February 2, 2021 Top Scores of Week 4 February 2, 2021 Week 4 Rankings February 1, 2021 JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd or buy a gift membership for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Behind The Scenes: Pan Am Games Behind The Scenes: Period Synchrony is a Myth Behind The Scenes: Spencer's Tights Story Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES Gym Nerd School 101 Kyla 'The Boss' Ross Interview The Gympocalypse Kneeling for Justice (and Vault) COVID or Correct It's the Olympic Year. Again.

WATCH Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded and see video clips of the gymnastics while we discuss. Please login to your Club Gym Nerd account to listen and/or watch this episode. Not a member? Join here. KYLA IS HERE Olympic, World, and NCAA Champion Kyla Ross joins us this week! We discuss: What it's like returning as undergraduate coach this season after her own senior year was cut short, her current coaching duties, the weirdness of preseason this year, whether UCLA has had any COVID cases, her reaction to Sara Taubman's bars routine, and more. RAINING HELL FIRE USAG signed a broadcast deal with FloSports. Yeah. We're not happy about it either. We reached out to USAG with MANY questions, and we'll tell you what they said. NCAA NEWS Florida had a Pride meet, Arkansas is taking the world by storm, Oklahoma melted down on beam, and we were graced by two 10.000s Jessica puts some people in their place on COVID Or Correct Cal, Boise State, and Arizona weren't basic this week Rachel Baumann, Cammy Hall, Marz Frazier, and the Air Force team deliver the comedy We're taking leap combinations to the honesty corner THE POSTS Sunday Live Blog – January 31, 2021 January 31, 2021 Saturday Live Blog – January 30, 2021 January 30, 2021 Friday Live Blog – January 29, 2021 January 29, 2021 Things Are Happening – January 27, 2021 January 27, 2021 Keeping Up with the Cool GIFs – Week 3 January 26, 2021 Top Scores of Week 3 January 26, 2021 Live Blog: Iowa St. vs. Denver - January 31, 2021 Live Blog: Air Force vs. Cal Berkeley - January 30, 2021 Shift Movement Science Podcast: Preventing Achilles Tears part 1 Preventing Achilles Tears part 2 How To Train Harder and Smarter Using Workloads JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd or buy a gift membership for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Behind The Scenes: Period Synchrony is a Myth Behind The Scenes: How Ivan Survived a Coup Behind The Scenes: Stories from DC Behind The Scenes: Spencer's Tights Story Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES 188: Kyla Moves On, Concussions, Baku and American Cup Preview 187: McKayla Maroney Episode 48: Kyla Ross The Gympocalypse Kneeling for Justice (and Vault) COVID or Correct It's the Olympic Year. Again. 453: European Championships of Feelings with Olly Hogben Gym Nerd School 101

WATCH Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded and see video clips of the gymnastics while we discuss. Please login to your Club Gym Nerd account to listen and/or watch this episode. Not a member? Join here. THE NEWS No...the Olympics haven't been canceled. Well, not yet. Becky Downie and Simone talk about it. Nia Dennis went viral for her black excellence floor routine, and Rylie Mundell and Elizabeth Culton showed how things should be done COVID or Correct: Michigan is pausing athletic activities, and a certain former head coach is throwing away 40 years of gymternet goodwill The Gympocalypse caught Oklahoma, Michigan, and Minnesota, while Pauline Tratz and Sara Taubman had to save UCLA through the power of feelings The Pitt Pride meet was a rainbow explosion and the groundbreaking UCLA intro video FEEDBACK The rules of gymnastics broadcasting MORE virtual meet systems in men's gymnastics A disappointed parent's pandemic meet experience Do callus disappear during pandemic pauses? We have the answer. How to bring NBC into the 21st (20th?) century THE POSTS Week 3 Rankings January 25, 2021 Saturday Live Blog – January 23, 2021 January 23, 2021 Friday Live Blog – January 22, 2021 January 22, 2021 Keeping Up with the Cool GIFs – Week 2 January 19, 2021 Live Blog: ASU vs. UCLA - January 23, 2021 Live Blog: Utah vs. Oklahoma - January 17, 2021 JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd or buy a gift membership for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Behind The Scenes: How Ivan Survived a Coup Behind The Scenes: Stories from DC Behind The Scenes: Spencer's Tights Story Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES Kneeling for Justice (and Vault) COVID or Correct It's the Olympic Year. Again. 453: European Championships of Feelings with Olly Hogben 452: A Beam REVELATION 451: Caring Too Much Gym Nerd School 101

WATCH Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded and see video clips of the gymnastics while we discuss. Please login to your Club Gym Nerd account to listen and/or watch this episode. Not a member? Join here. NCAA NEWS Five Florida gymnasts kneel for the national anthem, and Florida overtakes Oklahoma as the #1 team Ona Loper's toe point is the best all-arounder in the country Mya Hooten's vault and Alyssa Perez-Lugones's dancing show gymnastics at its comedic best Iowa is our favorite team of all time for this week with their skin colored mesh leos. When a leo reveal video goes TOO FAR MINI COMMISSION As commissioned by Club Gym Nerd member Laura, we provide gymnerd commentary on Life in the Day of Aliya Mustafina. PLUS... Kensley is here to recap all the gymnastics action and mask inaction at the Galveston Beach Blast Invitational Superspreader NCAA men's gymnastics held the first-ever virtual meets, and they went really well! JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd or buy a gift membership for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES COVID or Correct It's the Olympic Year. Again. 453: European Championships of Feelings with Olly Hogben 452: A Beam REVELATION 451: Caring Too Much Gym Nerd School 101

Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded and see video clips of the gymnastics while we discuss. Please login to your Club Gym Nerd account to listen and/or watch this episode. Not a member? Join here. NCAA NEWS The season has started! We run through who's leading the team rankings (and who's leading the lesbian rankings), which teams exceeded expectations, who was successfully NOT BASIC, our favorite gymnasts of all time this week, and who needs to be taken to the honesty corner.  COVID or Correct: Who was correct, and who's getting COVID (and who's getting Bonus COVID). We didn't come here to make friends; we came here to not be in pandemics. Plus, LSU got back to us about Gym 101. Crack or Correct: What happens when you're crying too much to salute? And when does a fall get you a 9.600? GYMTERNET NEWS Raphael Warnock is Simone Biles, Alaska is owning the fundraising game, is it fair for athletes to jump the line for vaccines, Kerri Strug has a beer named after her, senior member Dick Pound has spoken, and Eythora says she doesn't want to go to Tokyo. JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd or buy a gift membership for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES It's the Olympic Year. Again. 453: European Championships of Feelings with Olly Hogben 452: A Beam REVELATION 451: Caring Too Much Gym Nerd School 101

HEADLINES MyKayla Skinner's adventures with COVID and pneumonia and Oleg Verniaiev's provisional suspension by the FIG lead our news discussion this week. 2020 IN REVIEW We managed to find a couple highlights (18 to be exact) in the gymnastics year that was, from Chellsie Memmel to Simone's vault to Guan Chenchen's beam to Derrian Gobourne to a very special award for Marta Pihan-Kulesza. 2021 IN PREVIEW We run down the storylines we're excited to follow in 2021 with a roadmap for the year ahead, and Spencer goes through the painstaking task of forcing Jessica to make her official 4-member (and only 4!) US Olympic team prediction. COLLEGE GYM The college gymnastics season begins this week. We discuss who's not competing, who is competing, and why, and how. Plus, do we think any teams will intentionally forgo the season? JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd or buy a gift membership for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES 453: European Championships of Feelings with Olly Hogben 452: A Beam REVELATION 451: Caring Too Much Gym Nerd School 101 449: Larisa's Back!

WOMEN'S EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Olly Hogben is with us this week to discuss everything that happened at European Championships last weekend including Larisa Iordache's Simone Slam in her return to international competition Ukraine's dramatic team final victory and the saga of Larisa's floor routine Goksu Uctas Sanli and the floor inquiry heard 'round the world Nation after nation making first-time history The travails of Luxembourg's quest to qualify to the team final Don't miss: Olly being so eloquent about the beauty of humanity and sport that he makes Jessica cry THERE'S MORE In the gymternet news, LSU's Gymnastics 101 provokes an epic COVID rage-o-meter, including this article in Time about cancelling college season. Plus, we discuss USAG's athlete bill of rights, Gymnasts for Change, and a paper on bias in gymnastics judging. HOW TO COPE WHILE WE ARE ON VACATION Watch our Fundraiser for Feeding America where we instructed the gymnastics world on proper artistry: How Not To Be Basic Listen to Jessica's interview with The End of Sports podcast The Shift Show where Jessica and Dave Tilly nerd out about science and gymnastics culture Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Bias in Gymnastics series LGBT panel moderated by Ms. O'Beirne. Listen to our archives here. JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd or buy a gift membership for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES 452: A Beam REVELATION 451: Caring Too Much Gym Nerd School 101 449: Larisa's Back!

WATCH HERE Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded (pre-edits with all the bloopers and blunders that don't make it onto the final show) and see video clips of the gymnastics while we discuss. Please login to your Club Gym Nerd account to listen and/or watch this episode. Not a member? Join here. THIS WEEK Fact Check Fix: DisneyWorld requires masks, actual masks. Sally Jenkins, not Macur wrote the mean article about Jamie Dantzcher and the 2000 Sydney US team. Maggie Haney's suspension was reduced from 8 years to 5. We have...some notes. Japan might change the Olympic selection rules just for Kohei Ukraine won the men's European Superspreader Championship, Robert Tvorogal upset Tin Srbic, and Marian Dragulescu vaulted...something A preview of this week's women's European Superspreader Championship, starring Larisa Iordache Murakami Mai, Uchimura Kohei, and all the major stories from the All-Japan Championships, including Jessica's new favorite beam routine of all time from Takagi Ai USAG confirms a Women's Winter Cup for 2021 Plus, Heath is reinventing high bar, Sanne is reinventing uneven bars, and Asher Hong is the best MAG vaulter in the US. JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES 451: Caring Too Much 450: Gym Nerd School 101 449: Larisa's Back! 448: The SafeSport Hack 447: Butt Spins for Friendship 446: Chellsie and Andy Memmel

WATCH HERE Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded (pre-edits with all the bloopers and blunders that don't make it onto the final show) and see video clips of the gymnastics while we discuss. Please login to your Club Gym Nerd account to listen and/or watch this episode. Not a member? Join here. CONTEST WIN: Club Gym Nerd membership and any item you want from the GymCastic store HOW: Record a voice memo* on your phone (30 sec max) about why you became a member or want to support the show. Email it to us, along with the item you want from the store (color, mailing address etc.) BONUS POINTS: Use hashtag #ClubGymNerd @Gymcastic Instagram or Twitter and we will count it as an additional entry. Be creative as possible: a song, poem, haiku, heartfelt message, the funnier the better. DEADLINE: On December 12 we will pick three winners from our favorites. * We will use your recording on the podcast. You can make it anonymous. GYMTERNET NEWS That Maggie Haney NYT puff piece. We have...a couple of thoughts. That video of the parents. We have...some additional thoughts Pauline Schäfer and the latest Gymnast Alliance news from Germany Rachael Denhollander ripped the SafeSport CEO a new one Larisa Iordache has been added to the Romanian team for this month's European Championship The GAGE elites showed off their upgrades, like this and this COVID News: It's bad! And Rebeca Andrade and Flavia Saraiva and multiple people from Rhythmic Euros have it! Shane Wiskus appeared on 60 Minutes and Jessica has many thoughts on men's college programs and their fundraising failures. Gymnastics dodged a gender equity bullet, but Olympic sports and the IOC requirements remain sexist Plus, your feedback on surprising twins and a Cheryl Hamilton face conspiracy JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd for access to Behind the Scenes episodes. Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too!   RELATED EPISODES Gym Nerd School 101 449: Larisa's Back! 448: The SafeSport Hack Gymnastics International Episode 4: Russian & Italian Nationals 447: Butt Spins for Friendship 446: Chellsie and Andy Memmel

Video of today's podcast is available to ALL LISTENERS, Club Gym Nerd or not, because we have some critical visual aids as part of the lesson plan. Not a member? Join here. GYM NERD SCHOOL 101 Welcome to the first episode of Gym Nerd School, an educational series where we will explain rules, skills, myths, jargon, and important gym nerd history—all based on your questions! Today: What does it mean to be an "elite"? The Code of Points, leotard rules, and named skills Why don't they use the 10 anymore? Why are leaps named for animals, how do I tell them apart, and no really WHYYYYYY? How do I tell the difference between a split leap full and a switch leap full? How do I tell the difference between those one-arm pirouettes—the Ono, Healy, and Ling? Why do people yell, "IT WAS A DELTCHEV"???? JOIN CLUB GYM NERD Join Club Gym Nerd for access to Behind the Scenes episodes, video of us recording and Gym Nerd Cheat Sheets. Buy our awesome clothing and gifts here. We have masks too! RELATED EPISODES 448: The SafeSport Hack Gymnastics International Episode 4: Russian & Italian Nationals 447: Butt Spins for Friendship 446: Chellsie and Andy Memmel