We discuss the results and routines from the fall European series and the Mexican Gala, the history of the Sokol’s in the US and share the skill combinations we most want to see on bars and high bar. Then, in the first of a two-part series, we talk to UCLA head coach Valorie Kondos Field about why gymnastics matters, the power of an athlete identity, college gymnastics as a life skills class, basing personal value on performance, the Kellogg’s Tour, incentivizing artistry and her most embarrassing moment as a dancer. …
Click PLAY or watch Dragalescu’s controversial Gala Floor “routine” on YouTube.
… Did they have to pay money to watch one of the greatest Floor men of all time perform triple backhandspring?
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