Gymcastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

We watched the 1997 TV movie Perfect Body and now we REALLY need to talk about it as a family. Especially... That thing where you just started training elite and you're 16-27 years old and also the Olympics are tomorrow and you're going to make it Gender roles: Still going great, no notes How bars coaching means just yelling "TAP" 100 times in a row Why this movie has never heard of high school, or Seattle What the 1996 team gold did to deserve ALL THE SHADE it gets from this movie How you get random cortisone injections from Cathy Rigby over by beam Clingy boyfriends who interrupt training and somehow don't get murdered???? The Stunt Doubles of Insane Back Flexibility: Chari Knight and Kristie Phillips, and where this movie ranks in terms of gymnastics skill accuracy Just an extended purple windbreaker fever dream where you train on a low beam in a hotel room Moody vault timers at sunset and whatever an "All City Gymnastics Demonstration" is How the soundtrack NAILED it, and much more JOIN CLUB GYM NERD J