R.I.P. The 2976 American people that lost their lives on 9/11 and R.I.P. the 48,644 Afghan and 1,690,903 Iraqi and 35000 Pakistani people that paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit
this is the only september 11th post I’m reblogging
Since Johanna Mason was the only living female victor of 7 for the Quell, I would like to think that when they called up “Ladies first” she just stomped over, grabbed the piece of paper herself and shouted “GEE I WONDER WHO THE FUCK IT COULD BE? HOLY FUCK BALLS IT’S ME I’M SO SHOCKED” and the Peacekeepers have to drag her away from the microphone
things i love:
-space
-the ocean
things i am terrified of:
-space
-the ocean
*opens a new tab and goes to tumblr dot com*
*sees a post about how expecting basic personal hygiene of people is ableist*
*closes the tab*
Floor and bars! (Bonus: my fave MAG event is high bar!)
Kesha - Praying (Official Video)
BLOW. THIS. UP. KIDS.
What’s the deduction for landing out of bounds on vault
Death
It’s probably going to be for the next code
OR Gold in the Olympic Men’s AA.
aly raisman has more gold medals than viktoria komova
FOOD
SHELTER
HYGIENE
OTHER
Reblog to literally save a life
if there is a Dollar Tree near you, they have entire food aisles
Planet Fitness also has $10 memberships. you can shower and they have free food days! pizza night 1st monday every month, bagel tuesday the 2nd tuesday every month.
this is very important!! i went through this and i literally didn’t know what to do and had to learn a lot the hard way. please take the time to read this!
we LOVE legends
me: ugh I’m so done with negativity on here *someone starts dragging gymnasts I don’t like* me:
im cackling
“dasha you’re supposed to be conditioning not auditioning for a music video. this is why i won bars in rio and you came in dead last.” -aliya probably
Hi there, very new gymternet member here, I've seen a lot talking about Aly's awful form but I've watched some videos mainly from Rio and besides the god awful cowboying in her double Arabian in her first floor pass, I can't see a whole lot. Could you please kindly reference some videos? Thank you, just trying to get a better understanding of the gymternet. Ps-- I love your blog, it's very helpful!! 💕
Sure! I don’t dislike Aly or anything, but I can’t enjoy her gymnastics and her form drives me crazy. Okay first off, her form in a BHS is incorrect. Her twisting form is not that great either as you can tell when she’s vaulting. Awful leaps, in my opinion. Just watch any video of her. There’s no specific ones to show her form issues but they’re quite noticeable to me since I’ve been involved with gymnastics my whole life. Hope this made sense. Maybe someone else can elaborate? @omgsamchap
I mean she doesn’t have any truly awful form issues, it’s just little things that add up to make her gymnastics kind of meh to me. Soft knees, crossed feet/legs when twisting, incorrect body shapes (particularly on bars), leg separations, etc. However, I will say I think her form improved quite a bit in 2016 and I hope she continues to improve it; she’s such a hard worker, and I’d love to root for not only her personality and work ethic, but her actual gymnastics as well.
I think there are many enjoyable things about Aly’s gymnastics like her awesome floor tumbling, her consistency on her double l turn and gogean, her patterson, and how she usually dramatically improves and peaks at the Olympics. She does have many form errors though. These are her most noticeable ones.
Her form was actually pretty clean on her DTY, but when she upgraded to an amanar she would bend her knees a lot in the last half twist.
On bars she tends to have issues with leg separations, bent knees, and flexed feet.
On beam her bhs form and switch half are hideous. She also bends her legs early on her front pike and has an ugly leg separation on her layout.
AND YES THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SWITCH HALF HOW DOES IT GET CREDIT
On floor, her tumbling form can be pretty good (ie. she points her toes on her double pike), but there can also be some small things. Her legs are separated in her dos santos, her double arabian is a little cowboyed, she has some leg separation in her triple twist and dlo, etc. These aren’t really a big deal and are just some 0.1 small errors. Tho her switch ring and switch 1/1 leap were really ugly.
^^^
Kesha w/the high note in the background: I HOPE YOU’RE SOMEWHERE PRAAAAAYIN’
Me:
me @ people who make long informative posts: i appreciate how knowledagable you are but i cant read that
i’m gonna go with Mary Lou Retton in 1984 doing the same tumbles (DLO, full in, double back) that Groshkova did six years later
(the real ahead-of-its-time USSR FX from 1990 is the what the shit, chuso 10.0 where she did four tumbling passes that most current russians would kill to have as their set)
Groshkova didn’t do the same passes than Retton, her routine was way more difficult. She did a “double full in” (like a Silivas but with the two twists in the first somersault), whip+double back and a piked full in dismount.
Lmao how do you forget one of the hardest skills ever done on women’s floor exercise and then compare it to Mary Lou…
