Olympic gymnast: completes bafflingly complex tumbling pass Me: Wow, how do they even do this stuff without breaking their necks, the human body is such an amazing piece of biological machinery Commentators: Shame about that, lots of mistakes, gonna be some points deductions - ThreadSky

gwillow.me • 222 days ago

Olympic gymnast: completes bafflingly complex tumbling pass

Me: Wow, how do they even do this stuff without breaking their necks, the human body is such an amazing piece of biological machinery

Commentators: Shame about that, lots of mistakes, gonna be some points deductions

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heybruce.bsky.social•221 days ago

"so you're saying that was bad?"

carlydraws.bsky.social•222 days ago

😂 1 hair out of place. -10 points

stinapag.bsky.social•220 days ago

My two year old is wildly applauding for pretty much everything. It is awesome.

ralfharing.bsky.social•222 days ago

and then sometimes it verges into https://youtu.be/4ZK8Z8hulFg

blagueplague.bsky.social•222 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/blagueplague.bsky.social/post/3kybnumsq6622

fim.bsky.social•222 days ago

And thus the reason any sportsperson may end up taking time out for mental health reasons becomes painfully obvious.

week4paug.net•222 days ago

East German judge is not impressed...

ahailes.bsky.social•222 days ago

just watched some synchronized diving which is, for me, absolute peak this

judigunn.bsky.social•220 days ago

RIGHT?! I did not know this existed before this Olympiad and now I must watch it always.

ratshag.bsky.social•222 days ago

Went to college with the woman who’d been the top US gymnast before Mary Lou Retton. Sometimes she’d casually do backflips down the dorm hall as easily as us mortals walked.

awkwardleftycj.bsky.social•222 days ago

A friend of mine is a former gymnast and gymnastics coach so he will sometimes post clips of gymnastics routines and describe what’s happening and what the technical elements are. It definitely puts things into context because otherwise I’d have no idea!

sarahkorse.bsky.social•222 days ago

I see the uneven bars routines and wonder how the heck we came up with that in the first place.

gwillow.me•222 days ago

Right?! Unreal

nathandunbar.bsky.social•222 days ago

It's the balance beam for me. Most impressive of any Olympic sport.

Me: You're gonna flip your body 4x in a row and not even bobble? It's not possible.

Gymnast: *does exactly that* You were saying?

docmidnight.bsky.social•222 days ago

I once saw a documentay called "Gymkata" or something and I think it was created in the Eastern European city, depecited within. No?

It was a briliant documentary and I should watch it again, since I'm a perfectly reasonable human being who owns it on DVD.

brynstar7.xyz•222 days ago

I mentally divide Olympic events into “sports I would be bad at” and “sports I would die at”.

rincewind.run•222 days ago

if they didn’t directly step out of bounds my opinion is always “bravo, incredible, 15/10”

lauraclawson.bsky.social•221 days ago

During the Olympic trials the commentators did spend some time talking about how when they were still gymnasts themselves they couldn’t have conceived that humans could even be capable of the things gymnasts now do. That was refreshing.

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