Welcome to our NCAA Gymnastics Countdown series, The 10-Minute Touch Warmup — a series of interviews with athletes and coaches leading up to this weekend’s NCAA Championship, delivered in ‘10-minute segments’ (which, as we all know, never actually last just 10 minutes).

In this episode, we welcome the beam queen herself Helen Hu to talk about her return to competition, where she travelled during her year off, and reliving the glory days when Helen and Liv trained together at IK Gymnastics.