GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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GymCastic Podcast is a weekly gymnastics talk show. The hosts interview people who love gymnastics almost as much as we do, discuss the latest news, events and offensive leotard fashion.

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Blame It on the Ectoplasm

01.25.2022

COLLEGE UPDATES The unitard revolution comes to college gymnastics from Naimah Muhammad. Jade Carey sets an Oregon State all-around record while Jordan Chiles cheers her on. Checking in on the Baumann Family Olympics Georgia has five straight falls on beam ...

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01.25.2022 Blame It on the Ectoplasm COLLEGE UPDATES The unitard revolution comes to college gymnastics from Naimah Muhammad. Jade Carey sets an Oregon State all-around record while Jordan Chiles cheers her on. Checking in on the Baumann Family Olympics Georgia has five straight falls on beam ...
01.18.2022 Equality and...Not Equality COLLEGE UPDATES In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a "Must Do Better" update on racism in gymnastics Thoughts on Florida's Equality Meet on ABC, what the broadcast did right and did wrong, and some interesting 10s that may ...
01.11.2022 The Greatest Freshman Class of All Time COLLEGE UPDATES Why Jessica has already declared Michigan the repeat national champion, and why all the cool kids are talking about San Jose State How Oklahoma and Florida committed to chaos in their opening meets The latest news in COVID ...
01.08.2022 Cocktails and College: NCAA Gymnastics Meet Post-Show Normally, Friday podcasts are just for Club Gym Nerd members, who can watch the podcast being recorded and see video clips of the gymnastics while we discuss. In celebration of the greatest freshman class in the history of college gymnastics, ...
12.31.2021 Wendy Bruce Martin on 1992 Barcelona Olympics Recap Dr. Uncle Tim PhD, Spencer, Jessica and very special guest, 1992 U.S. Olympic medalist, Wendy Bruce Martin chat about the 1992 Olympics Games in Barcelona: The pre-Olympic Climate: How the end of the Cold War shaped the Games The media ...
12.21.2021 Goodbye 2021 and a Happy New Code to All GYMTERNET NEWS in 2022, USAG will hold women's camps at Stars in Katy TX, the gym owned by current developmental program coordinator Dan Baker. Is that a conflict of interest? And is that OK? We discuss, with a response from ...
12.15.2021 Spitfire: The Movie (Commissioned) SPITFIRE This episode has been commissioned by Cathleen, who told us we could do whatever we wanted, so obviously...it's Spitfire time. We recap the 1995 straight-to-VHS spy-nastics classic, complete with commentary from special guest, movie star Kristie Phillips! Why Spencer ...
12.08.2021 The Best College Gymnasts You're Not Watching (Commissioned) 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 ...
12.01.2021 The History of Romanian Gymnastics (Commissioned) WATCH HERE Club Gym Nerd members can watch the podcast being recorded. [wcm_nonmember]Please login to your Club Gym Nerd account to listen and/or watch this episode. Not a member? Join here. THE HISTORY OF ROMANIAN GYMNASTICS This episode has been ...
11.24.2021 Carly Patterson's Album Interpreted and Dr. Dave Tilley PT Gymnastics Myth Busters CARLY PATTERSON'S ALBUM: BACK TO THE BEGINNING This episode has been commissioned by "Just an Ordinary Girl Putting Up a Fight to Get Out of This Temporary Life," who requested an episode analyzing the music of 2004 Olympic Champion, Carly ...
11.16.2021 Tenths Don't Matter THE TOM INTERVIEW Nicole Langevin interviewed Tom Forster, and Tom's performance left us...scratching our heads. We discuss: How he obviously hates this job and wishes he were coaching club instead Bold-faced lies about being asked for interviews/comment How *no one ...
11.10.2021 Nadia: The Movie (Commission) THE NADIA MOVIE Lies, lies, and more lies! For today's commissioned episode, we watched the 1984 made-for-TV movie Nadia, a Very Highly Extremely Unauthorized biography of Nadia Comaneci, and we seriously just can't with it. We discuss: Things that definitely ...
11.04.2021 So Bad You Can't Look Away MINI-COMMISSIONS HALL OF FAME Erin has commissioned us to bring back fluff pieces and reimagine the non-racist, non-condescending, non-awful versions we’d like to see. Obviously, we go right to Elena Produnova, Catalina Ponor’s closet, and lesbians. Nico asked us to ...
10.24.2021 2021 World Championships, Event Finals Day 2 Today, our immediate reactions after watching the final competition at the 50th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships including beam and women's floor; men's vault, p-bars and high bar: World and Olympic Rebeca Andrade (BRA) in the beam final Battle P-Bars and ...
10.23.2021 2021 World Championships, Day 1 of Event Finals Today, our immediate reactions after watching: Rebeca Andrade (BRA) Battle Pommel with Alec Yoder, Stephen Nedoroscik Elza Geurts (NED)!!!!! World All-Around Champion Angelina Melnikova (RUS) Wei Xiaoyuan (CHN) Carlos "Are You Kidding Me" Yulo! (PHI) Italian Domination and Finish a ...
10.22.2021 2021 World Championships, Men's All Around Final Today, our immediate reactions after watching: Tokyo Olympic Champion Hashimoto Daiki (JPN) falls to new all-around world champion, snubbed Chinese Olympic Trials winner, Zhang Boheng (CHN) The fight for third between eventual bronze medalist Ilia Kovtun (UKR); Yul Moldauer (USA), ...
10.21.2021 2021 World Championships, Women's All Around Final Today, our immediate reactions after watching: Olympic all-around bronze medalist, Angelina Melnikova (RUS) USA's Leanne Wong and Kayla diCello Khorkina and the robot medal deliverer Russia's Vladislava Urazova Wei Ziaoyuan (CHN) France's Carolann Heduit and Celia Serber after her scary ...
10.20.2021 2021 World Championships, Qualification Day 3 Today, our immediate reactions after watching Japan's two Olympic Champions King Uchimura Kohei and Hashimoto Daiki compete in front of a sold out home crowd. Plus defending world high bar champion, Arthur Nory (BRA), USA's battle pommel horse between Alec ...
10.19.2021 2021 World Championships, Qualification Day 2 Today, our immediate reactions after watching the end of women's qualifications with Andrade and Melnikova plus the beginning of men's qualifications! Plus Konnor McClain recently recovery from COVID and Igor Radivilov's grip situation on rings vs the grip break rules. ...
10.18.2021 2021 World Championships, Women's Qualification -Day 1 Today, our immediate reactions after watching the first day of women's qualifications, including China, Great Britain and Becky Downie's revenge tour, Italy, Netherlands with Elze Geurts in first place on vault, USA's amazing comeback from podium training and DiCello hitting ...
10.17.2021 2021 World Championships, Podium Training - Day 3 Today, our instant takes immediately after watching day the third day of podium training, including the Japanese men, Carlos Yulo, USA and the three gymnasts who may be out of the competition. BONUS CONTENT: Behind The Scenes Behind The Scenes ...
10.16.2021 2021 Worlds Championships in Kitakyushu Podium Training, Day 2 Today, our instant takes immediately after watching day the second day of podium training, which featured Andrade, Russia's Olympic Champion women's team kicking ass today, Ireland and men's podium training with Germany, China, Russia and Ukraine.
10.15.2021 2021 Worlds Championships in Kitakyushu - Podium Training, Day 1 Today, our instant takes from watching day the first day of podium training, which featured USA, Romania, Japan, Ukraine, Germany BONUS CONTENT! BTS is a live Q&A; podcast just for club gym nerd members! We’re providing daily coverage after each ...
10.07.2021 2021 World Championships Preview US WOMEN'S SELECTION PREVIEW First, we preview the US women's team camp, are disgusted by the selection criteria, and make the case for each of the athletes attending. And since there are only six people trying for four spots...everyone has ...
09.29.2021 NIL: Olivia Dunne and Katelyn Ohashi Interview plus Simone's GOAT Tour Review The Tour Spencer has now seen the Simone's Gold Over America Tour (GOATour )and he and Jessica have an...um, well...let's say difference of opinion about pretty much everything about it Spencer discusses typos, what constitutes cutesy nonsense, and the difference ...
09.21.2021 Congressional Hearings and GOAT Tour Preview 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. GOATour ...
09.14.2021 2000 Olympic Trials (Group Commission) This week, we have a group commission from Brianna, Stephanie, Atwood, Laura, Karla, and Emma, all about [deep breath] the collective nightmare that was the 2000 Olympic Trials. We discuss: The breaking news that there actually was official selection criteria, ...
09.09.2021 The History of US Olympic Trials Controversies (Commissioned) OLYMPIC TRIALS CONTROVERSIES This week, we have a commission from Club Gym Nerd member Jasmine, who asked for an episode on the history of US Olympic Trials—how teams were selected and all the major scandals. And there have been plenty. ...
08.30.2021 How to Stage a Gymnastics Protest MINI-COMMISSIONS From Jay: A mini-commission on America's most enduring gymnast of the 1980-1984 era: Julianne McNamara. We discuss her status as the only American Olympic bars champion, her five 10.0s from the 1984 Olympics, the excellence of her compulsory bars ...
08.24.2021 Tokyo Olympics Recap OLYMPIC RECAP BREAKING NEWS: Uncle Tim PhD has a new website gymnastics-history where he uncovered the truth about Petrik and Caslavska score change controversy. '"Soviet Larisa Petrik’s preliminary scores were mysteriously upgraded, enabling her to tie Věra Čáslavská for the ...
08.19.2021 A Quitter's Try - The CNN Parkettes Documentary This episode has been commissioned by Club Gym Nerd member Taylor, Princess of Sexy Data, who requested a deep dive into the infamous CNN Parkettes documentary, Achieving the Perfect 10, that we can all quote by heart. We discuss Background ...
08.12.2021 Best of GymCastic: 80s Fight! The greatest rivalries of the 1980s! This week, we have a commissioned episode from Club Gym Nerd member Kimo, who asked for an episode all about the 1980s rivalries between the Romanians and the Soviets, both team and individually. We ...
08.03.2021 Tokyo Olympics Event Finals Day 3: Beam, High Bar, PBars Simone returned to the podium and didn’t die on her beam dismount; Chenchen remained the beam queen, historic medal for Turkey on Pbars from Arican, Zou regained his p-bars crown; Sam Mikulak went out with a happy hit and Daiki’s ...
08.02.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Event Finals Day Two Jade Carey is an Olympic Champion! The first Olympic medal for Vanessa Ferrari, 2006 World AA Champion and FOUR time Olympian! Second Olympic medals in women’s gymnastics EVER for Italy and Japan First gymnastics Olympic medal for Armenia with Artur ...
08.01.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Event Finals Day One First Olympic Champion in gymnastics for Israel - Dolgypyat on floor! Brazil's first ever Olympic Champion in women’s gymnastics, Rebeca Andrade for Vault! Yeo Seojeong with the first ever South Korean women’s Olympic medal, a bronze on vault! Nina Derwael ...
07.29.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Women's All Around Final All the details you didn't see on tv, direct from Tokyo. Sunisa Lee almost flew off bars but WISELY changed both her floor and beam routines to become the first ever Asian American, Hmong, all around Olympics Champion. Rebeca Andrade ...
07.28.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Mens AA Final Details from the last dramatic rotation, the surprise .3 neutral deduction for Xiao Ruoteng, what Nagorny said about his third place place finish and our updates on Simone scratching from AA Finals.
07.27.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Women's Gymnastics Team Final Historic moment when Simone scratched for mental health reasons Russia winning team gold for the first time EVER! British winning bronze for the first time in 90+ years! Heroic moments abound in this super competitive, mega exciting women's team final
07.26.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Men's Team Final Nikita Nagornyy's smart improvisation won gold for Russia. The Sam Mikulak Artur Dalaloyan hug that gave us all the international world peace feels. A rotation by rotation recap!
07.25.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Women's Qualifying Our instant reactions after watching a full day of the women's gymnastics qualifying round at the Tokyo Olympics: Simone didn't have her best competition, Rebeca Andrade placed second AA. The US finished behind Russia by more than a point going ...
07.24.2021 Tokyo Olympics: Men's Gymnastics Qualifications Men's qualifications: our instant take after watching a day full of heartbreak (Kohei), triumph (Japan, Yoder, Rhys and Dalaloyan) and amazing careers come to an end (Epke).
07.22.2021 Tokyo Olympics: WAG Podium Training Olympic gymnast, Luciana Alvarado from Costa Rica kneels for Black Lives Matter during the choreography for her floor routine. This it the first known Black Lives Matter artistic expression ever used in an elite gymnastics routine. Simone Biles lands the ...
07.21.2021 Tokyo 2020: MAG Podium Training Kara Eaker and the case of the positive alternate test. Did British Gymnastics break the rules? Dalaloyan did vault and floor three months post-op on an achilles tear. The vault acted like a bridge troll who didn't want anyone to ...
07.13.2021 Olympic Preview Part 2; Justice for Bower and Juda US Men's National Team: A Never-ending Controversy Neither Paul Juda—who earned the US an Olympic +1 spot—nor Olympic alternate Allan Bower were given funded spots on the US national team or invited to the world selection camp. This is bonkers, ...
07.07.2021 Tokyo Olympics Women's Gymnastics Team Preview OLYMPIC PREVIEW PART 1: Teams Today, we preview the 12 teams qualified to the women's competition at the Olympics: who's on them, expectations, storylines, and medal hopes. United States: How much of a fall buffer does the US have over ...
06.30.2021 Olympic Trials Party and Postmortem OLYMPIC TRIALS The Olympic team has been named The 4th spot: Why "going by the scores" and "going by the all-around standings" are NOT the same thing The misunderstanding about the actual problem with Martha's way of doing things We ...
06.28.2021 We Have Olympic Teams Welcome to Behind The Scenes! (COMING SUNDAY) Day 1 Coverage of Men & Women Here Tonight we will discuss the Olympics Teams for Tokyo! This is our instant take directly after the competition. Our initial impressions and thoughts. Wednesday we ...
06.26.2021 Olympic Trials Day One We are live from St Louis at Olympic Trials. Our immediate reactions to night one of the women's and men's Olympic Trials including: the top scoring team after day one; the MAG second vault score investigation; Simone's double double beam ...
06.22.2021 31 Olympics Gymternet News Minisode GYMTERNET NEWS Be sure to check out our US Olympic Trials Preview, where we make the case for every athlete Canada named its Olympic team, and it makes total sense and is free from controversy and drama. Canada we love ...
06.20.2021 Olympic Trials Preview: The Case for Every Athlete OLYMPIC TRIALS PREVIEW The Favorites Simone Biles and the biggest question we have about her heading into trials Sunisa Lee and Jordan Chiles Who gets the second automatic team spot? What does each need to do to confirm her presumed ...

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