Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Some useful words to know when talking to gymnastics fans:
DTY: Yurchenko vault with 2.0 twist. Known as a Baitova to gymnastics snobs.
Form: noun. The prettiness with which a gymnast does her skills.
FTY: noun. Yurchenko vault with 1.0 twist.
Handstand: noun. Uneven bars; In which the gymnast is perfectly vertical (or at least within 10 degrees) above [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bridget sloan on March 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Dear International Gymnast,
I appreciate that you did a feature on Bridget Sloan. I love her.
But did you really have to use a picture that shows her leotard riding up so that the reader can see her underwear?!
Signed, A fan.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
If you’re wondering why I keep changing the look of this little bloggie, it’s because I’m trying to make it pretty.
My sincere apologies–it’s still a work in progress.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Gymnastics Coaching pointed me to a Livejournal owned by Rawles, one of the readers of this little bloggie. Rawles is a Nastia fan and knows lots more about gymnastics than I do (who doesn’t?) because I am unworthy.
She has many interesting and fun things to say about gymnastics, so you all should just go read [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged shawn johnson on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
As it’s the weekend before the New Year, I’m doing a wee bit of housecleaning here…that is to say, I go back over the posts I have made and write addendums to them.
As I have said before, a reader of the blog was kind enough to help me in my search for Shawn Johnson’s Chinese name. And now, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged shawn johnson on December 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Thanks to a reader I have finally found out what Shawn’s Chinese name is.
Knock yourself out.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged shawn johnson on October 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I was trying to decipher Shawn’s Chinese name from her 2006 Nationals leotard. This is what I got so far:
Notice that one of the characters is missing. Why? Because I was using this dinky picture–I can’t make out the second-to-last character:
I have several candidates for the Missing Character, but none of them look the same, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Guess what folks! This blog (yes, this little bloggie that you are reading right now) has been mentioned by Blythe, author of one of my favorite haunts, the WordPress Gymblog, as well as by Rick McCharles of Gymnastics Coaching, another haunt of mine. Their opinion is of course much more expert than mine, and I [...]
