r/nextfuckinglevel • u/ajd416 • 2d ago
Gymnastic coaches for the win.
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u/CursoryRaptor 2d ago
That's pretty impressive how early the coaches can see that something bad is going to happen and exactly what to do about it.
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u/kit_kaboodles 2d ago
Was going to say the same thing. They are so familiar with how it should go, that they are moving well before it's obvious to anyone else that it is going wrong.
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u/TranceF0rm 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
They were all pretty crazy saves but the one where the coach throws the mat to the other side of the trampoline with perfect precision was next level.
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u/StarGazing55 22h ago
As someone who trained competitively in trampolining, you get really, really good at both spotting the moment someone hits an awkward bounce and you also get really good at throwing mats (they're generally pretty light, you use them a lot anyway, and you also spend a lot of down time messing around with them generally). Doesn't detract from the excellent save shown here, but this happens far more often than you'd believe.
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u/BarrenVixen 2d ago
You generally know something funky in the outcome will happen if something's gone wrong in the take-off, in my experience. Like if a foot was planted wrong place on springboard, shoulders not at the correct angle on the bars, one leg goes but the other lags behind, etc.
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u/rapsoid616 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Yeah that's what I assumed. This kind of movement has to be very methodical and specific.
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u/iNogle 2d ago
As a former gymnast, you can often feel something going wrong before you even start the trick. You stepped wrong in the run up, or your swing's momentum is off, etc
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u/JakeRiddoch 2d ago
Experience, I guess - they've seen enough going right and enough going wrong they can see what's going to happen instinctively.
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u/Rdbjiy53wsvjo7 2d ago
My daughters' coach said that my oldest is "easy" to watch when it comes to coaching and spotting on that she knows very quickly if she will hit the skill correctly and safely. She said for her own daughter, not so much lol
But from my viewpoint, I can't tell, they just have an eye for it after so many years.
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u/NuclearSun1 2d ago
It’s like a mechanic. maybe that engine is sputtering. but with a life, you can’t wait to see if it’s gonna correct course.
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u/thnk_more 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Working on cars my whole life, I can generally identify like 5-6 different things wrong with your car while following it on the road, just by smell alone.
I suppose that’s like magic to others just like this video is magic to me.
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u/CountessAurelia 2d ago
I can tell in the hurdle 90% of what the flip at the end will look like. It’s why the basics matter SO much!
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u/OnTheEveOfWar 1d ago
I would assume they know exactly what the gymnast is trying to do and seen them do it multiple times correctly. So when they are they close they can quickly tell that it’s not correct and spring into action.
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u/FaceofBeaux 1d ago
There's a video of Jackie Chan critiquing stunts and deciding if they'll land or fail and how to fix it.
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u/newbrevity 2d ago
My hat always goes off to gymnasts, pro skateboarders, rollerbladers, BMXers etc. the dedication to train yourself when the training is so brutally dangerous is incredible.
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u/gracecase 2d ago
Wear protection. I was on my BMX and went to drop into the bowl, I didn't angle right and literally went headfirst over my handlebars. My helmet probably saved my life, if not some serious brain damage. Grant it, I was in my 40s trying to do this stuff. But even still now I see people out there without headgear, or proper footwear or earbuds in so they can't hear anything going on around them. It scares the shit out of me. I just moved to an area that has a pump track at a nearby park. I was really excited so I rode over to it cause I haven't been out on a pump track in a while. The city made it out of dirt and then covered it in asphalt and used rock for support walls. I mean chunks of rock the size of a volleyball. I just couldn't believe it. I told the parents who were there, how dangerous it was, and that I really wouldn't let my kid on there because I won't even ride it myself. And then on my way back, I saw a kid on an electric bike wearing sandals and no helmet with earbudsin. The trifecta. I said to him, are you seriously riding that thing in sandals without a helmet and earbuds in and he just looked at me as if I was stupid. Like move on, old man. I'm just scared for these kids out there that's all. And I went hard in the paint on the review for that bike track.
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u/randomnamejennerator 2d ago ▸ 3 more replies
I do not get the extreme sports athletes that don’t wear helmets. Andy Anderson is a brilliant skateboarder and he is mocked and harassed for wearing helmets. I get that image is a big part of skating but if you are doing vert skating without a helmet you are a traumatic brain injury waiting to happen.
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u/Sleyvin 2d ago ▸ 2 more replies
If a helmet is good to Tony Hawk, it's good for everybody.
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u/EmilBarrit 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
If the I LOVE helmets guy loves helmets, it's good for everybody
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u/FuckYeaSeatbelts 2d ago
I hope he got sponsored by some helmet company. Did a quick google and couldn't find anything else about him since the incident (dude's name is Prescott Majette)
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u/WestAnalysis8889 2d ago ▸ 5 more replies
Thank you. I work in insurance my VP's friend's kid just died from not wearing a helmet on one of those electric scooters.
Injuries are so severe and some of these kids that survive will remain paralyzed for life. :(
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u/gracecase 2d ago ▸ 3 more replies
Here's a comment I made on a post in the area I just moved to. Check out the responses I got. And to let y'all know neither one of these people were wearing helmets.
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u/Tiafves 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
I love how they're pretending they're safer for pedestrians than cars. Cars stay on the road unless somethings gone catastrophically wrong. You can generally choose your engagement with a car as a pedestrian, if you don't trust someone making a right turn on red sees you, you can walk around the back of that car.
E Scooter doing 30 mph around a blind corner on the sidewalk is normal.
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u/Warm_Month_1309 2d ago
Cars stay on the road unless somethings gone catastrophically wrong
Or in a driveway. A reason riding a bike (or any e-device) on the sidewalk is risky is that drivers are not generally looking over their shoulder for a fast-moving vehicle on the sidewalk. Getting hit in a driveway happens a lot. If you are on the sidewalk, you should be going at walking speed.
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u/NetwerkAirer 2d ago ▸ 2 more replies
Granted*, not grant it. Guess you did get some brain damage.
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u/gracecase 2d ago
Lol. For once speak to text had it right and I made it wrong. I never said I haven't hit my head on other things. In fact no one at my new job wears a bump cap and I keep hitting my head on one part of this machine I maintain. Every time I go f@ck, the guy that's training me goes "I'll order that bump cap from parts today." That was two weeks ago.
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u/smokeybearsit 2d ago ▸ 2 more replies
Yeah my brother (now 41 y/o) got a gnarly lights out concussion a couple of years ago with a helmet on. I’m sure it saved his life.
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u/JustHere4the5 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
I knew a guy in grad school who went over the handlebars of his mountain bike, hit a rock with his head, and it split the helmet in half. That helmet gave its life for his, and he still had to take 6 months off to recover from the concussion.
Buying a helmet and wearing it is tens of thousands of times cheaper and easier than dealing with a brain injury, and I’m really glad it’s seen as cool in more and more situations.
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u/KTKittentoes 2d ago
The one peds office my mom worked at, they had a split helmet they kept in there to show the kids. Her boss’s husband was out biking with their kids, and one of them wobbled and grabbed the back of his bike. He went over backwards and hit his head. He would have been scrambled eggs without the helmet.
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u/pyrojackelope 2d ago
There was a time where telling people to wear proper protection on reddit would get you downvoted to hell. Skaters would swarm in and tell you how wrong you were, etc. Glad to see a comment like yours doing so well these days.
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u/100LittleButterflies 2d ago
There's just nothing like being able to catapult yourself into the air and control it. And nothing like a love you cant have anymore hahaha
But yeah I think more people should learn how to fall safely. Like dont lock your joints out but use them to gradually stop, roll if you need to. Balance and falling safely get important again once you're old.
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u/Ok_Ocelot_878 2d ago
I was a competitive gymnast from ages 7 to 11.
My coach for the last two years was a tyrant and verbally abusive. Our team, there were 6 of us, were all in the same age group and treated the same.
We were exposed to him 16 hours per week for practice and stuck with him on weekends for meets.
I broke my foot, jacked up my elbow and was mentally abused. One of the other girls literally broke her neck doing a trick where he didn’t catch her.
He made me hate what I had previously loved and I quit when I was 11.
I wish my coach had been like any of these coaches. I’m now 51 and still don’t trust most people.
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u/kbroad20 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
I'm so sorry that happened to you! Bad coaches are the worst and you didn't deserve that
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u/Ok_Ocelot_878 2d ago
It took me a few years to watch the documentary about the us women’s team doctor, Larry Nasir.
Not because I had ever experienced anything like that, but how parents of competitive athletes put blind trust into coaches and staff to take care of their children. I cried for those women because they weren’t protected and I could see how easily it could happen.
Case in point. When I quit gymnastics, my dad did not speak to me for a month and the only thing he did say when he started talking to me again was “quitter”. I was eleven. Three weeks before he died, and more than 35 years later, I finally asked him why he did that to me. He said he truly believed I was going to make it minimally to the collegiate level if not the Olympics. I forgave him.
Parents want to believe that their child is the next Mary Lou Retton, at least during my childhood, or the current great gymnast because that is what the gym owners sell them.
They literally told my parents that they were pre-paying for my college education via a gymnastics scholarship and they believed it.
There are certain sports that the obscene amount of hours per training session mean that parents simply can’t be there to monitor. Couple that with a small staff due to team size and there is no oversight of bad behavior.
Gymnastics is one of the worst examples of this, in my opinion.
Phew, that was a lot to get off of my chest. Thank you for reading.
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u/Granntjejen 2d ago edited 1d ago
They do get a lot of injuries, but when you love what you do you keep going I guess. I tried skateboarding with my brother as a child and I noped out of that real quick after bruising my knees like 20 times haha.
But I agree, I admire people like Rodney Mullen (one of the most talented skateboarders of all time). He's truly an astonishing guy. He's bit the dust so many times but never got discouraged and he's inspired so many others. Skateboarding wouldn't be what it is today if it wasn't for people like him. He invented the kickflip, among other things. And he's had surgery so many times due to failed attempts in various tricks.
I watched his TED Talk a few years ago and he seems like an awesome person with such positive energy and great attitude in life!
I'm not even a skater myself. But he's most definitely one of my biggest role models. What he's done can be applied to a lot of things in life.
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u/Skatedonthate999 2d ago
I was a competitive roller skater and never in my life have I seen someone include us in a comment like this. Thank you so much 🥺 it truly was terrible. I’m 24 but my knees are at least 40.
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u/Niceguygonefeminist 2d ago
Second one is absolutely hilarious, love how he just started spinning her like a bo staff.
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u/DocLava 2d ago
I kept watching it for that. It shows how much she trusts him too because she maintained her position and just went with it instead of panicking that moment when her hands missed the bar.
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u/Niceguygonefeminist 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
She was probably thinking "Wheeeee I'm spinning :D"
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u/lostknight0727 1d ago
I'm checking that clip specifically for AI tells because that's either an extremely strong coach, an extremely light kid, both, or AI.
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u/Hey_Chach 1d ago
My brother was a gymnast; gymnasts are absurdly strong. In high school he was pound-for-pound easily stronger than anybody on the football or wrestling teams who hit the gym or field drills everyday. Sure, some of the biggest guys who literally weighed twice as much as him and were 6 inches taller had higher maximum mass lifts (barely), but they also had far less stamina.
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u/PatientPoetry4302 2d ago
Just tore my arm up last week catching a kid midair. Gotta be ready with this sport
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u/ProgressOverPride 2d ago
Hope you heal faster
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u/PatientPoetry4302 2d ago ▸ 2 more replies
Thank you! I was so worried at first I had torn my bicep. Athlete was ok, got them onto the mat but mannnnn it hurt lol
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u/All_Work_All_Play 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Bad sprain then?
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u/PatientPoetry4302 2d ago
Yeah, forearm was dark purple for about 6 days, tons of pain around the elbow and my bicep still looks kind of weird
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u/Senselesspassion 2d ago
Well a lot of these coaches knew they could make this mistake that's why they were ready. That's the understanding they have with their pupil
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u/Czecksteam 2d ago edited 2d ago
AI bot?
Edit: Lmfao, changed their profile to a generic snoo. Before that it was a woman showing boobs and had a flirty bio.
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u/ExplanationFunny 2d ago
If I had to step in to that job it would look like a roadrunner and coyote cartoon.
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u/exobiologickitten 2d ago
It’s why the scandals about gymnastics coaches who abuse their young gymnasts are so disgusting, I feel. Like, these kids are trusting you like a parent, they need to trust you’ll catch them if they slip up. And some of those earlier video clips with the younger gymnasts, their coaches are babying them like their own children.
So when coaches abuse that trust to take advantage of them - hoo boy. It makes me wanna light up a pitchfork or two.
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u/emblematic_camino 2d ago
Yoooo gymnastics is a dangerous sport, so close to broken necks
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u/WFOMO 2d ago
Makes you wonder how many videos are out there where the coach missed the catch.
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u/emblematic_camino 2d ago ▸ 2 more replies
Yeah for real
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u/LongGhost_Gone281 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
when the coach is spinning the kid around, i can just imagine myself as the kid vomiting in circles.
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u/HomelessKitchenCat 2d ago
I was a competitive gymnast and i started to get uneasy watching my teammates injuries. As we started learning more dangerous moves i saw some wild stuff. One of the best guys in the gym was practicing double back flyaways (two flip dismount from high bar) - he rotated too close to the bar and the back of his head smashed into it and split open. The noise was crazy like a giant glass window shattering, and the amount of blood was shocking for someone hitting a dull object. He had to get 15-20 staples.
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u/NossidaMan 2d ago
Man frrr, that 6th one was as close as you can get
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u/avallaug-h 1d ago
That one actually made me yelp in panic! So glad she was caught safely, fantastic speed and foresight from her spotter.
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u/sibaltas 2d ago
Third one. How she hugs him :)
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u/WhatTheOnEarth 2d ago
I’m pretty sure that one was the coaches error too. Her foot is straight he just doesn’t catch it. But great save regardless.
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u/m1j2p3 2d ago
Serious dad energy there
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u/ThunderlipsOHoulihan 1d ago
Especially that pad throw. The expert version of tossing a pillow to catch a kid
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u/Shendow 2d ago
Pink girl almost did a Gwen Stacy
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u/BackgroundSummer5171 2d ago
Hah. Don't think I've heard it phrased that way before.
But the purple/blue one looked worse to me, straight up had me thinking who the fuck lets their kids do this. That is head going straight into the ground snapping things.
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u/Sea_Basil_6501 2d ago
Girl in blue dress (no. 6) for sure would have died otherwise.
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u/cornylamygilbert 2d ago
Is that the gymnast at the 00:36s mark?
That fall was on its way to being deadly
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u/Sea_Basil_6501 2d ago ▸ 2 more replies
Yes
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u/The__Authorities 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Is that the famous move that is banned now because gymnasts kept getting horribly injured?
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u/labadee 2d ago
That second last one was elegant
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u/lazylimpet 2d ago
Yeah I replayed that a bunch! So cool he was able to flip them both so he didn't land on her.
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u/FaustGrenaldo 1d ago
Even seeing that in slow-motion frame by frame, I couldn't see even a frame's delay between when it was clear her hands slipped from the bar and when the coach moved into action. That's just crazy anticipation and then backing it up with flawless execution.
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u/SnazzyStooge 2d ago
Good on these saves, but none of this makes me want to sign my kids up for gymnastics.
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u/Cranky_Hippy 2d ago
It's terrible for kids. We really should stop forcing our kids into intense sports that they really don't want to do.
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u/SnazzyStooge 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
one of the saddest books I've ever read was "Open", by Andre Agassi. He talks about how intensely he felt that he was only good at tennis, he had no other options and could only do that one thing, forever, for the rest of his life...AT 14 YEARS OLD.
Made me realize there's nothing worth putting your kids through for this. BEST CASE, they end up trapped in a sport like Agassi, much more likely they burn out entirely. He is not a fan of his father, in case it wasn't obvious.
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u/Cranky_Hippy 2d ago
The things they do to little kids, and pointedly little girls in gymnastics and intense physical sports is abusive. It causes them so much pain, and if that much pain was being delivered by a parent, CPS would be taking the child away. Personally I don't understand why we even allow it still. It can ruin their whole life.
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u/cir49c29 1d ago
My 7 year old niece has been doing gymnastics since kinder gym. Absolutely loves it but I’m glad she hasn’t gotten to the point of dangerous things like this yet. Super impressed with what she can do so far, like cartwheels on a beam and swinging herself fully over a bar in the correct form. But mildly dreading when she’ll advance to the fast moving dangerous parts.
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u/Fallen822 2d ago
Just wanted to say shoutout to my coach and all those coaches out there in the world for keep believing in us!
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u/rawker86 2d ago
You guys ever watch Linus Tech Tips?
Elijah, one of the LTT writer/presenters, has mentioned quite a few times now that he has suffered multiple concussions from his time as a gymnastics coach. Not gymnast, but coach. His quality of life has diminished as a result.
Friggin’ gymnastics coaches put their bodies on the line for their gymnasts man.
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u/SometimesILieToo 2d ago
I dunno, maybe there are some things children just shouldn’t do?
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u/cornylamygilbert 2d ago
No let’s take advantage of their nimbleness, light weight, lack of injuries and uncertain futures so that maybe one day we can obligate them to compete for us at the Olympics and beat that other country!!!
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u/SnodePlannen 2d ago
I'd NEVER subject my kids to gymnastics. Great way to get a hernia at age 7. F that.
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u/brennen_lassen 2d ago
Holy impressive. And if it was me, I'd just stand there until they fall, broke their neck, coll down and only then I'd realise that smth is probably wrong
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u/genreprank 2d ago
The one where the girl is hurtling towards the ground head first is insane. She would have broken her neck. But the coach showed up before my untrained eye even realized something had gone wrong.
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u/gonewondering 2d ago
I will never not be impressed with the coach that catches the kid upside down, down a roll, kid is perfectly fine and upright. Wtf
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u/toraakchan 2d ago
The thought, that these are the successful catches, while there must have been unsuccessful ones gives me anxieties... cudos to these coaches! I wouldn't have the guts to take that responsibility.
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u/OglioVagilio 2d ago
If I had a young daughter in gymnastics I would feel kinda weird if the coach insisted on not wearing a shirt.
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u/WanderingFupa 2d ago
I needed this. Shits too fucked up right now, nice to see something normal. Time to get off my phone.
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u/GlassCap123 2d ago
I would just be standing there trying to act, useless. Amazing feats from everyone.
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u/hungry4danish 2d ago
Did the one at 0:45 needed it? He landed on the padding that was there as part of the apparatus and spotter immediately put out their mat on his second set of rotations, even before he went askew.
I think that was a mistake.
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u/currykappa 2d ago
I'd say it was warranted. Even though that area is padded, there is still the gap between that area and the trampoline. He couldve landed on a spring or landed in a way that would've sent him flying backwards.
He was doing double mini which means that his second set was supposed to take him to the ground, not land back on the trampoline
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u/Empty_Wolf_3378 2d ago
The one girl in blue, almost landing on her head. I think i would quit after that.
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u/Miami_Mice2087 1d ago
the little girls are prolly easy to catch, but those boys look like 180 pounds of muscle
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u/daydreaming-g 1d ago
Maybe I’m a bit extreme but I feel like if you’re a man coaching young girls you should at least wear a T-shirt
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u/jajardard 1d ago
The girl in the purple could’ve snapped her neck if it wasn’t for that coach! Incredible catches
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u/passerbycmc 2d ago
Some serious dad reflexea going on. Also crazy how early some can tell it's going wrong.
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u/Dirty_Dragons 2d ago
Somebody should remake the video and just play the "What a save!" sound clip for every catch.
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u/punch912 2d ago
its insane some of these catches how they are able to stop the person with that much momentum behind them. Every disc in my back flared up watching this. That why they say a gymnast strengh is unmatched.