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THIS WEEK (1:30)

• First, Scott Bregman of the Olympic Channel joins us to talk about his fantastic interviews with Simone Biles and John Orozco and handle Jessica’s request for a naked interview with a bunch of Japanese men, or something

IN THE NEWS (19:50)

• We discuss what we learned about THE DOCUMENTS from Scott Reid’s report on the depositions in Aly’s lawsuit against USAG and the USOC – it ain’t good.
• The FIG Congress approved creating a Gymnastics Ethics Foundation — is this anything?
• The FIG has proposed changes in the way athletes qualify for worlds — we like!
• The USAG board has a new chairwoman – is there a secret golf cabal we should know about?
• Lou Anna Simon has been charged with lying to police – oh, that’s too bad.
• Alex Naddour has been removed from the suspended members list.

COTTBUS (56:50)

• Jessica’s thoughts on the crowd, swimming naked in Germany, Milad Karimi’s crib, white boards, and genetically modified Ukrainians
• Spencer jabbers endlessly about the Olympic qualification points rules, what this means for 2020 (not so much yet) and Jade Carey’s strategy
• The Rebeca Andrade Cup – THAT DTY YOU GUYS
• The beam final was a mess, but Flavia got 2nd even with a fall because perfection
• Jade Carey did…OK. She took 2nd on VT and 5th on FX with 3 OOBs
• Marta Pihan-Kulesza has brought back her Pink Panther routine, and it was AH-MAH-ZING
• Pros and Cons of how the Olympic rules have changed the apparatus world cup
  • Pros: This is the most we’ve ever cared about an apparatus world cup
  • Cons: Some of these finals were better than worlds: Cough, cough MIYACHI

UNCLE TIM ALERT (14:34)

• Uncle Tim attended Cirque’s show Volta and has an extra special review for us 

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FURTHER READING

• National Team Rankings – December 2018
• Things Are Happening – November 30, 2018
• 2019 NCAA Roster Notes
• Cottbus World Cup – Finals Live Blog Day 2
• Cottbus World Cup – Finals Live Blog

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• 342: A Quitter’s Try – The CNN Parkettes Documentary (Commissioned)
• 341: The Call Is Coming from Inside the House
• 340: USAG and The Case of the Missing Documents
• 339: Doha Worlds Event Finals Day Two
• 338: Doha Worlds Event Finals Day One
• 329: Steve Penny Arrested & Doha Worlds Preview
• 324: The Jade Carey Situation & a Miss Val Book Interview Drinking Game

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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
  • What’s the deal with Parkettes?
  • The legacy of this piece
  • Jessica’s experience going to the Parkettes camp as a youth (!)
  • Why we think Parkettes agreed to this
• Part 1: A 7-year-old with a broken ankle
  • TOPs testing gives Spencer a panic attack
  • How NOT to sound like a creeper when talking about a 7-year-old
  • Everyone says “suck it up” 100,000 times because healthy
  • We root for everyone to quit and go to a pool party
• Part 2: Get confident, stupid
  • Demeaning people definitely makes them more confident
  • The Mrs hates everyone, especially gymnasts, and teenagers, and you
  • Jessica is still fawning over Nicole Harris to this day
• Part 3: Annie, are you OK?
  • “Do you just think it’s more important to have bobbles so people will give you attentions?”
  • Why we’re obsessed with deadpan comedy genius Annie Fogerty
  • OH GOOD THE WEIGHT PORTION, THIS WILL GO WELL
  • “Way to give up, Annie, way to give up”
  • “Was that a try, what you just did? What kind of a try? Is there such a thing as a quitter’s try, like lackadaisical?”
  • What exactly is a quitter’s try?
  • The Kristie Phillips cautionary tale
• Part 4: Aftermath
  • Where are they now?
  • What this says about elite gymnastics, and why USAG learned all the wrong lessons from how horrified we are by it
  • The problem with typical American parents’ view of sports

FURTHER READING

• Meet the Freshmen – Oklahoma & Arkansas
• Meet the Freshmen – Florida & Kentucky
• Things Are Happening – November 16, 2018
• Meet the Freshmen – LSU & Georgia
• NLI Week 2019-2020=

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• 341: The Call Is Coming from Inside the House
• 340: USAG and The Case of the Missing Documents
• 327: 1993 NCAA Nationals (Commissioned)
• 325: Olympics of Difference Makers (Commissioned)
• 313: Best Floor Routines EVAH! (Commissioned)
• 312: 4th Is the New 1st (Commissioned)
• 309: Perfect Form – The O’Beirne Code (Commissioned)
• 308: 2004 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned)
• 306: Gymnastics Fails (Commissioned)
• 304: The GymCastic Olympics (Commissioned)
• 281: Myths, Legends, and Unexpected Moments PART 2 (Commissioned)
• 279: A Diva Is Magical: The Svetlana Khorkina Episode (Commissioned)
• 278: 2000 Sydney All-Around Final (Commissioned)
• 262: 1996 Olympic Event Finals (Commissioned)
• 258: The Fluff Cast (Commissioned)
• 256: 1996 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned)
• 255: 1996 Olympic Team Final (Commissioned)
• 252: Myths, Legends and Unexpected Moments in Gymnastics History (Commissioned)
• 228: Leotards (Commissioned)
• 225: 1992 Olympics Recap with Wendy Bruce (Commissioned)
• 185: 2008 Olympic All-Around Finals (Commissioned)

 

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GYMTERNET NEWS

• The latest on…bum-bum-bum…decertification
  • Mary Bono was submitted by THE USOC
  • Is decertification inevitable…or not?
• THE DOCUMENTS
  • We’re being asked to believe some pretty ridiculous things right now…
  • …so we performed a play about what might maybe have happened
  • Save your applause until the end
• Rules Clarifications. At worlds, the FIG held a forum to clarify rules and it was eventful. We CODE NERD OUT about:
  • The messy chalk crackdown
  • “No face painting. This is sport, not theater”
  • No choreography onto the floor
  • No soccer flopping
  • The swing ring police (YES!)
  • The two-foot-layout police (YES!)
  • The side jump police (YES!)
  • The beam rhythm police (YES!)

THIS WEEK’S INTERVIEW

The myth, the legend, actual real-life big-boy sports reporter Will Graves of the AP joins us to discuss his experience in Doha and the current state of US gymnastics, including

• If he floated away in a flood
• Crowd size, and whether worlds should ever go back to Qatar
• His secret meeting with the country’s #2 (and interest in the rainbow leotard)
• How he approaches USAG differently than in, say, 2015
• Whether Simone is the greatest thing ever to be, ever, in the history of time and the universe, ever ever ever
• The current state of men’s gymnastics in the US

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• 340: USAG and The Case of the Missing Documents
• 339: Doha Worlds Event Finals Day Two
• 338: Doha Worlds Event Finals Day One
• 337: Doha Worlds Women’s All-Around Final
• 336: Doha Worlds Men’s All Around Final
• 335: Doha Worlds Womens Team Final
• 334: Doha Worlds Men’s Team Final Day Five
• 333: Doha Worlds WAG Prelims Day Four
• 332: Doha Worlds WAG Prelims Day Three
• 331: Doha Worlds MAG Prelims Day Two
• 330: Doha Worlds MAG Prelims Day One
• 329: Steve Penny Arrested & Doha Worlds Preview
• 328: The US Worlds Team & CEO Dumpster Fire

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WOMEN’S ALL-AROUND FINAL

• Simone wins her 4th world championship AA title—but how do we feel about someone winning with two falls?
• We break down the tight race for the remaining medals among Mai Murakami, Morgan Hurd, Nina Derwael, Angelina Melnikova, and Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos
• Mai and Nina make ALL THE HISTORY
• Plus, all the things that made Jessica well up with tears, scream at the world feed, hit Spencer in the leg, and sometimes all three

WATCH ALONG WITH US ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL HERE

 

FURTHER READING

• Just the Good Stuff: Women’s All-Around Final
• Worlds 2018 – Women’s All-Around Final
• Just the Good Stuff: Men’s All-Around Final
• Worlds 2018 – Men’s All-Around Final
• Just the Good Stuff: Women’s Team Final
• Worlds 2018 – Women’s Team Final
• Just the Good Stuff: Men’s Team Final
• Worlds 2018 – Men’s Team Final

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• 336: Doha Worlds Men’s All Around Final
• 335: Doha Worlds Womens Team Final
• 334: Doha Worlds Men’s Team Final Day Five
• 333: Doha Worlds WAG Prelims Day Four
• 332: Doha Worlds WAG Prelims Day Three
• 331: Doha Worlds MAG Prelims Day Two
• 330: Doha Worlds MAG Prelims Day One
• 329: Steve Penny Arrested & Doha Worlds Preview

 

 

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DOHA: MEN’S TEAM FINAL

Kensley, Jessica, and Spencer talk about this super exciting disaster of a men’s team final!

• China vs. Russia – China wins by 0.050!
  • How it all went down, shock by shock, rotation by rotation
  • Was the result fair?
  • How do we feel about this new alternating-routines format?
  • Plus, good-luck hickies and nose-hair close-ups
• Japan and the US and the fight for bronze
  • Kohei comes through! Duh.
  • But even Japan was not immune to the splat-monster
  • How should the US feel about this 4th place finish?
  • Terry, Tim, and Nastia were NOT having the world feed (then maybe NBC should open its WALLET instead of whining about it!!!!!!)

RAGE

THE FIG HAS MADE A RULE BANNING CELINE VAN GERNER’S CAT MAKEUP AND WE ARE NOT HAVING IT RAGGGGGEEEEEEEEE

FURTHER READING

• Worlds 2018 – Men’s Team Final
• Just the Good Stuff: Women’s Qualification Day 2
• Worlds 2018 – Women’s Qualification Day 2
• Just the Good Stuff: Women’s Qualification Day 1
• Worlds 2018 – Women’s Qualification Day 1
• Just the Good Stuff: Men’s Qualification Day 2
• Worlds 2018 – Men’s Qualification Day 2
• Just the Good Stuff: Men’s Qualification Day 1
• Worlds 2018 – Men’s Qualification Day 1 (Russia)

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• 333: Doha Worlds WAG Prelims Day Four
• 332: Doha Worlds WAG Prelims Day Three
• 331: Doha Worlds MAG Prelims Day Two
• 330: Doha Worlds MAG Prelims Day One
• 329: Steve Penny Arrested & Doha Worlds Preview

 

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THE NEWS

• Steve Penny got arrested
  • Indicted on felony charges of tampering with evidence
  • Oh. That’s too bad.
  • What are these alleged documents allegedly that he allegedly tried to remove from the ranch allegedly?
  • Some things about this arrest…don’t add up. What’s really going on?
  • Steve Penny has now been banned by USAG. LOLOLOLOLOLOL.
• The FBI emails
  • We discuss the totally inappropriate-seeming emails exchanged between Steve Penny and an FBI agent
  • Why everything about this is SOOOO Steve Penny
• Tasha Schwikert comes forward
  • “Steve had always manipulated all of us really…he and USA Gymnastics made me feel like if it wasn’t for them…”
  • The clearest example of the semi-ambiguous “toxic culture at USAG that silences athletes”
  • How this clarifies the infamous USAG 60 Minutes tweet

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

• How to watch
  • In the US, select qualification sessions will be streamed on NBC sports. Finals will be on the Olympic Channel and streamed on the Olympic Channel website. Women’s AA and event finals will be tape delayed on NBCSN.
  • Men’s qualification – Thursday and Friday
  • Women’s qualification – Saturday and Sunday
  • Men’s and women’s team finals – Monday and Tuesday
  • Men’s and women’s AA finals – Wednesday and Thursday
  • Event finals – Friday and Saturday
• The latest from Doha 
  • Everyone drowned in a flood on the first day
  • Inevitably equipment controversy. The floor is…hard. The pommel horse is…wrong?
  • The latest news from Sexism Land (it’s not that bad this time!)
  • The US women watched the men’s podium training (WHAT?)
• PREVIEW TIME
  • Can anyone break through the US/Russia/China trio?
  • Are the Japanese men in trouble in the team competition?
  • Jessica previews the over-30s rocking the competition
  • What non-Simones might win AA medals?
  • KOHEI IS OUT OF THE ALL-AROUND
  • What are Sam Mikulak’s medal chances really?
  • Which event final fields are good, which are bad, and who you need to look out for

FURTHER READING

• Worlds 2018 – US Women’s Podium Training
• Men’s Podium Training Update
• World Championships Qualification Preview
• World Championships Viewing Guide

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• 328: The US Worlds Team & CEO Dumpster Fire
• 327: 1993 NCAA Nationals (Commissioned)
• 326: The Great Individual vs. Team Debate
• 325: Olympics of Difference Makers (Commissioned)
• 324: The Jade Carey Situation & a Miss Val Book Interview Drinking Game
• 307: SHAME – Congressional Hearings Edition
• 245: Steve Penny is GONE
• 241: The Pittsburgh Incident

 

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IN THE NEWS

• BREAKING TUESDAY UPDATE: Mary Bono has resigned. We perform a dramatic reading of her resignation letter. Now, to the show.
• USAG appoints Mary Bono as its interim CEO, and Jessica and Spencer have no opinions about that. Oh wait, the opposite. 
  • The Nike tweet and why that (and her fake apology) is so, so bad
  • She worked for the damn USAG law firm
  • Meanwhile, Simone is being a CHAMPION
  • Has USAG learned NOTHING? (Spoiler: yes)
  • On what planet was a politician the right person right now?

ACTUAL GYMNASTICS

• The US women’s worlds team has been named! And it makes sense!
  • SIMONE DEBUTED A NEW VAULT YOU GUYS
    • But seriously. This vault.
    • I mean…come on.
    • Just…
  • Streaming the selection competition — good for everyone!
  • Kara Eaker’s beam score – how realistic is this?
  • BUT WHO IS THE ALTERNATE? WHAT SHOULD THE TEAM FINAL LINEUPS BE? WHO DOES BEAM IN QUALIFICATION? We discuss.
• A taste of next week’s worlds preview as we discuss medal prospects for the US women’s team

GYMTERNET NEWS

• Tom Forster did a Twitter Q&A that exceeded expectations and provided some actual information!
  • What is the Ted Stevens Act, how is it influencing US Olympic qualification decisions, and does that even make sense? 
• USAG released the Jade Carey Rules about individual Olympic qualification. We break them down, with comments.

MEET ROUNDUP

• Youth Olympic Games — Italy has an all-around champion, Simone Biles wins meets she doesn’t even enter now, and we dork out about the future for Ireland and Finland
• Romanian nationals — Denisa Golgota withdrew, sending the gymnastics world into a state of panic, but things look good for the 2020 seniors

FURTHER READING

• Things Are Happening – October 13, 2018
• US World Championships Team Named
• Selection Camp – Live Blog
• Things Are Happening – October 9, 2018

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• 327: 1993 NCAA Nationals (Commissioned)
• 326: The Great Individual vs. Team Debate
• 325: Olympics of Difference Makers (Commissioned)
• 324: The Jade Carey Situation & a Miss Val Book Interview Drinking Game
• 323: Miss Val Retires, Inside Men’s Doha Selection, and the MLT Debrief
• 322: Mary Lee Tracy Truth & Reconciliation
• 321: Consequences, Felonies, and Tumblers
• 320: USA Gymnastics Is an Exploding Garbage Monster

 

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This episode has been commissioned by Club Gym Nerd member Kerry, who requested an episode all about the 1993 NCAA Nationals, saying “This was the first NCAAs I ever watched as a kid growing up in Georgia, so this obviously got me hooked!”

• Setting the scene – what was college gymnastics like in the ancient year of 1993?
  • A new format called “Super Six” was taking the college gymnastics world by storm
  • Bonkers scoring and unrealistic 10s dominated the conversation (we wouldn’t know anything about that) 
• The competition – watch along with us HERE. Press play when Jessica tells you
  • The Great Marsden Billboard Incident of ’93
  • We get distracted by the extremely 1993 fashions for a while
  • Jessica is not having these pirouettes
  • But seriously the fashion, you guys
  • Agina Simpkins is the best thing ever to happen
  • I MEAN THESE CLOTHES
  • Dee Foster’s vault still holds up today
  • Greg Marsden hates the format (Shocked, I tell you!) 
  • LONG LIVE GYM ACRO SERIES
  • Hope Spivey-Sheely puts everyone else’s difficulty to shame
  • The legend that is Jenny Hansen
  • Questions about the Georgia All-American murals
  • Stanning Dana Duckworth
  • Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia
• Post-competition discussion
  • Whose personal style best encapsulated the year 1993?
  • What could the 2019 NCAA code learn from the 1993 code?
  • What did we see in 1993 that you are SO GLAD is gone?IN THE NEWS

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• 313: Best Floor Routines EVAH! (Commissioned)
• 312: 4th Is the New 1st (Commissioned)
• 309: Perfect Form – The O’Beirne Code (Commissioned)
• 308: 2004 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned)
• 306: Gymnastics Fails (Commissioned)
• 304: The GymCastic Olympics (Commissioned)
• 281: Myths, Legends, and Unexpected Moments PART 2 (Commissioned)
• 279: A Diva Is Magical: The Svetlana Khorkina Episode (Commissioned)
• 278: 2000 Sydney All-Around Final (Commissioned)
• 262: 1996 Olympic Event Finals (Commissioned)
• 258: The Fluff Cast (Commissioned)
• 256: 1996 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned)
• 255: 1996 Olympic Team Final (Commissioned)
• 252: Myths, Legends and Unexpected Moments in Gymnastics History (Commissioned)
• 228: Leotards (Commissioned)
• 225: 1992 Olympics Recap with Wendy Bruce (Commissioned)
• 185: 2008 Olympic All-Around Finals (Commissioned)

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THIS WEEK

• We have TWO episodes this week, so be sure to catch our 1993 NCAA Nationals commission as well!
• Updates on some of the other difference makers we could have talked about last week but didn’t. Like idiots. Plus, many more American collegiate medalists. 
• More on the Jade Carey situation
  • Jessica thinks it’s AWESOME, Spencer thinks it’s strategically unsound, and they both think USAG botched it (but whaaaaa?) 
• The great INDIVIDUAL vs. TEAM debate, years in the making
  • In the individual corner, Jessica O’Beirne, who gives two giant steaming turds about team medals
  • In the team corner, Spencer Barnes, who finds a way to make this about math homework somehow
• We create some much better rules for how the US should be handling individual Olympic spots
• The Youth Olympic Games have started! We need to talk about the “mixed multi-discipline team event” 
• Jessica tells us about Shawn Johnson’s interesting appearance on Freakonomics
• Miss Val’s Life is Short Don’t Wait To Dance Book contest winners announced.

FURTHER READING

The Jade Carey Problem 

Strong Opinions About Every Single Nation’s Worlds Team

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• 325: Olympics of Difference Makers (Commissioned)
• 324: The Jade Carey Situation & a Miss Val Book Interview Drinking Game
• 323: Miss Val Retires, Inside Men’s Doha Selection, and the MLT Debrief
• 322: Mary Lee Tracy Truth & Reconciliation
• 321: Consequences, Felonies, and Tumblers
• 320 Spencer Blogcast: USA Gymnastics Is an Exploding Garbage Monster
• 319: Aly and Lynn Raisman
• 318: 2018 US Wonder Woman Nationals

 

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This week, we have a special episode commissioned by InterGalactic Champion level Club Gym Nerd member Matt who, inspired by Queen Alexandra Raisman, requested an episode about athletes who were bold enough to make a difference in the quality of life for others. He said, “Thus, for my commissioned episode, I would like for you to name your All-Olympic team of difference makers. Honorees must be Olympic gymnasts from any country or era who made a positive impact.” Let’s do this! Here are the athletes we’re naming to our Olympic team of difference makers.

• Team Captain Vera Caslavska, who bowed her head in the 1968 medal ceremony to protest Soviet incursion in Czechoslovakia
• Hong Un Jong and Lee Eun Ju—The North/South Korea selfie heard ’round the world
  • The Kuwaiti gymnast who came to worlds in 1991 just after documenting the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
  • Sub-discussion – the Japanese leotard in 2012
  • Farah Ann Abdul Hadi and daring to (GASP) wear a leotard
• Agnes Keleti, who survived WWII by posing as a Christian maid to return to gymnastics and become the most decorated Jewish Olympian (to that point)
• Emilia Eberle, Jennifer Sey, Marcia Frederick, Dominique Moceanu, the 2011 Dutch team, and all others who have spoken out against abusive coaching
• 1996 Canadian Olympian Kris Burley, who came out after retiring in 1999 and later joined the COC’s program to combat homophobia in sports
• Jeffrey Wammes, who came out in an interview with Linda Magazine in 2011, and continued competing until 2016
• Alexis Brown of UC Davis, who kneeled during the national anthem during the 2017 season
• Mirabella Akhunu, who changed what you thought of when you thought Ukrainian
• 1968 beam champion Natalya Kuchinskaya, who said obvious things about coaching the person rather than the gymnast before people were ready to hear it
• Firsts from Dianne Durham and Wendy Hilliard
• All those responsible for the introduction of the vaulting table
• Olympians who spoke up during a major competition about safety: Allana Slater and Bart Deurloo

FURTHER READING

Chalking Up: My Life in Elite Gymnastics, by Jennifer Sey
Nike is a Goddess: A History of Women in Sports, by Lucy Danziger (Agnes Keleti’s story)

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• 313: Best Floor Routines EVAH! (Commissioned)
• 312: 4th Is the New 1st (Commissioned)
• 309: Perfect Form – The O’Beirne Code (Commissioned)
• 308: 2004 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned)
• 306: Gymnastics Fails (Commissioned)
• 304: The GymCastic Olympics (Commissioned)
• 281: Myths, Legends, and Unexpected Moments PART 2 (Commissioned)
• 279: A Diva Is Magical: The Svetlana Khorkina Episode (Commissioned)
• 278: 2000 Sydney All-Around Final (Commissioned)
• 262: 1996 Olympic Event Finals (Commissioned)
• 258: The Fluff Cast (Commissioned)
• 256: 1996 Olympic All-Around Final (Commissioned)
• 255: 1996 Olympic Team Final (Commissioned)
• 252: Myths, Legends and Unexpected Moments in Gymnastics History (Commissioned)
• 228: Leotards (Commissioned)
• 225: 1992 Olympics Recap with Wendy Bruce (Commissioned)
• 185: 2008 Olympic All-Around Finals (Commissioned)

 

CONTEST

 

What: 5 winners get a copy of Miss Val’s book: Life is Short, Don’t Wait to Dance 
Grand Prize: Book and 15 minute personal phone call with Miss Val.

How to Enter: Using the #DontWaitToDance on Twitter or Instagram tag us @GymCastic with a 5 second video doing your favorite UCLA floor choreography. Doesn’t have to be you, use your dog, fingers, make a friend do it. 

Bonus entries: Link to the book. Enter as many times as you want. 

When: Now to October 5th, 2018

*Conflict of Interest Disclaimer: Jessica’s husband co-authored this book.

 

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