you're wrong. It bothers me when me and a few others who know a lot about gymnastics can name like 100 gymnasts off the top of their head and some people don't even know who Mattie Larson is. She's 16 [just turned] and now because Ashley did a montage on her everyone is like "oh! mattie i'm rooting for her!" You should have been from the beginning. I hate when all people know about is Shawn and Nastia and few others and call themselves "someone who knows everything about gymnastics" You Don't. Now, i'm not saying I know everything about gymnastics. I know of very few current russians, romanians and chinese because of the fact that i've just been doing videos on US gymnasts. So I now feel that it is my duty to educate some people on some up and coming american gymnasts. So no one is terribly surprised when Ashley does a montage on them too.
Unknown Athlete of the Day:
Claire Boyce.
Born in: 1995
Gym: was Dynamo for a while but then she moved to GAGE <--- which is a factory for International Elites. Their athletes include: Rebecca Clark, Ivana Hong, Courtney McCool, Terin Humpfrey and Sarah Demeo... and now Claire Boyce.
Good Tricks: not many so far, although I did see her do a full twisting reverse hecht [haha! i used the full name!] but many of her great skills [including a back full on beam] are just in practice. Although she does do an AMAZING triple full.
yes, i did most of that from memory. Call me retarded, crazy or obsessed. I don't care. I remember a lot. I can tell you that much about probably 60 gymnasts.
Go ahead and ask.
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know anything about the cga juniors, cassie and amanda? think they have the talent to go for 2012?
I totally agree with you! I'm not saying I know a ton of gymnasts either, but I have been watching Mattie and I'd say she has a pretty decent chance for beijing! I love her floor routine, too, even though Daria has the same music and I like her interpretation a little bit better, but Mattie is just so artistic! I really like the variety in her beam routine, too.
And thanks for mentioning Claire Boyce! I haven't heard of her before, so now I'm totally going to check her out(especially her BAR routine!!)
Heck Yes! omg i love Cassie Whitcomb and Amanda Jetter! i'm so glad to here they came in 3rd and 4th at the US Classic this year! They've def. got talent especially Amanda, this is only her 2nd year on the elite circuit so i can't wait to see what she does. Especially since she does such a beautiful arabian on beam!
that is EXACTLY why I don't like this whole Shawn ordeal. before any of this aka 2006, no one knew who shawn even was!! and now heck she's everyones hero and its only because she won, and people like to say its her "personality"
Thats a load of bull if I've ever heard any. Well I think for some people they actually do like her personality, but for those people who are 4 years old they just automatically like shawn because she wins everything...hmmm kind of reminds me of how everyone liked nastia pre-2007. interesting how it works right
And yes I know I was one of the ignorant people who didn't know Mattie Larson, but I do know a lot of gymnast...just not her
exactly gymnsaticsbabie! except for I was definitely not talking about you when i said "people who don't know gymnasts" because you know soooooo much!! way more than me about all these countries!
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