Exactly. Just based on how artistry is judged, she doesn't even need a great choreography (top contenders get 0.3 anyway), just a good enough one.

Yes!!! I literally just wrote the same lol, love seeing these choreo upgrades, it elevates their routines so much if done well

Yes! I hope she makes the team this year. People always have complaints about her dance, but I think she actually has the moves. She just needs to perform some of these dance actions with a bit more energy, but what do I know? She might be conserving energy for her big acro moves since that it what truly matters anyway.

@@pinklabbit She is doing enough for me and more than she has ever done before. I think college has helped in a huge way.

@@aliciamcdonald7105 I really hope she makes the team this year. I think this is what she really wants.

@@pinklabbit And she is who the US absolutely NEEDS. Her vaulting would have helped stabilize the team after Simone withdrew in the Team Final in Tokyo if she was part of the team and her floor could have helped pull them through. I think the US should ALWAYS strive to have the points advantage after the first rotation (vault) because it helps to set the tone for the rest of the meet.

@@aliciamcdonald7105 I totally agree that selection should be based on the highest possible team score, but I noticed since Tokyo selection have been largely based on all around placement.

All of the beam scores were silly high at this meet, with Suni's being perhaps the most egregious. It was still a great routine though!

@@erinm9445 It wasnt a great routine. She had major breaks, balance checks, and a watered down dismount. IT was fine but not a 14.3 fine.

Dismount is the place where they find most of the deductions btw

I mean she still did two incredibly difficult series that no one else on team USA can do frankly so it was still a good routine. But yeah she needs the dismount badly

@@lalareal180 I think she still has a bit of time time left to pull everything together. She was really in a bad shape last year so it's thrilling to see her back on her feet again!

I was thinking the same thing yesterday. Out of everyone that competed, I think Jade really upped her stock and definitely kept herself in the conversation for Paris. She could improve a bit on execution and I want to see the floor upgrades, but she is hitting FULL routines with usable scores for Team USA

I don't see the artistry, but the woman can tumble like almost no one else. And she's made important improvements for sure.

She is coming really strong, she tumbles really easy and her dance and leaps definetly better

Gag! I dont see one ounce of this artistry. But go off. Cant wait till real scoring hits. Sunis beam score? lmao. Hold tight sis. I will come back to this comment as the weeks progress and her real scores show.

​@@lalareal180 Hater calms down. No one sit up here and say the score is real (that applies in every domestic competition), but she's going to Paris with more upgrades to piss you off at this rate 😂

She's definitely going to add way more difficulty on vault and floor. I think she has potential to score a 14 on bars like she did in Tokyo if she adds a release and Pak.

@@cocoroni1031 Yes I would assume she would want to add back in her Bhardwaj, and she said in her interview that she might upgrade her dismount which I think would be a Fabrichnova!

Out of everyone that competed, I think Jade really upped her stock and definitely put herself in the conversation for Paris. She has been training a Moors and I’m pretty sure she’s training an Amanar or Cheng. I bet at US Classics she tries the upgrades now that she has qualified to US Championships. I’d love to see her upgrade bars and possibly do a series out of her front Ariel on beam.

@@EricPoor1 If that happens with the Bhardwaj & release, we can see a 6D bars from Jade.

@@EricPoor1 Yeah, she's been doing her Bhardwaj consistently in NCAA, there's no way she's cutting it from her elite routine.

you can still see the Oympic champion in her. I just wish she had started preparing a bit earlier so her routines would be a lot more matured

@@jodavitow Yeah, that's so true, she just need some more perfecting on her routines.

@@jodavitow. It could be nerves too. She has gone through so much in the past 8 years and like the others had to mentally heal from the Nassar a-hole and Martha abuse too.

We don't know for sure when Gabby started her training 🤔 I could tell she was very nervous and sensing the negative energy. I could feel it too, and I wasn't there.

first competition and nerves for sure plays a role. If she'd came back earlier she would be further along without the nerves.

As a dancer from the cradle up, I often skip floor routines or skim for the tumbling passes because almost no one has artistry. I see something in Myli, though. She's not there yet, she needs to discover a lot more nuance and control in her arms and shoulder girdle, but I see something special trying to come out.

Speed can be translated into power. Smaller people can accelerate faster

Bye! Jades scrappy normal blue collar form, compared to Gabbys gorge vault. BYE. Jades large hop as well. Bye! But you peppered in all these coments talkin bout this magical new Jade artistry... bye!

@@lalareal180 Bye indeed Lala, your comments are as unhinged as ever.

@@lalareal180 lmao it's the repeated "BYE" for me. Love them all but this made me chuckle.

@@erinm9445 Some shiz never changes. This person has been stalking Jade for YEARS now, for no other purpose than to spew negativity. It's like an obsessed embittered ex.

@@duranca Yes, I'm aware. This person has all kinds of confidently bad opinions about gymnastics, but the Jade hate is especially pointed and bizarre.

No she will not 😭 her difficulty is nowhere near high enough to be a top contender

It's still a dream to see Gabby's DTY after 8 years. Imagine she's even better when the world is regressing on vault? Other events are still working in progress for sure, but I'm happy to see her competing!

@@colesmith7509 With hit routines Gabby can score well into the 50+ area… she scored 50+ with falls she can very much meet the qualifying score to compete AA at nationals if she hits everything at classics And this isn’t even her full difficulty yet either… idk what you’re talking about. She has a cheng which most of the girls don’t have so if she whips that out and can get consistent on both bars and beam she is absolutely a top contender be fr

@@cocoroni1031 Yes same!!!! She’s also hinted towards having a Cheng .. her DTY looks amanar-able she has a much better block than she did in 2016!!!

@@colesmith7509 the world forgets so easily. Never count Gabby Douglas out!

Right?!🙂👏

Sure looks like it....or an abandoned WalMart.

Looks like someone's empty storage locker to me! 😅 Classy!

And she add the layout step put mounts as well as her aerial mount she could get a 7.0!

What do you mean after this??? She still has classics/nationals and if she qualifies to trials she can improve there too She literally just had her first competition back 8 years removed from the sport where is the grace y’all were giving Suni for that piss poor winter cup performance? Is gabby not allowed any grace? Can she not improve from here? 🙄 She scored a 50+ with 3 fucking falls if she hits she can score well OVER that like be fr

@@HazelAmarie well the problem I see is that she will have to be able to hit her routines and also upgrade her difficulty. I dont think she will have the time to do both and her difficulty as it is now wont do the job. I hope I'm wrong tho, I really hope she can make it. Suni's case (ignoring floor) is different because the difficulty is already there and with her potential beam and bars she can help the team, but still hard to make the team is she is not doing the all around.

Suni fell twice on bars😢 It was too bad because her traininroutine was beautiful

Suni only competed on beam and vault!

@@pajamamama5965you were probably thinking of winter cup

@@pajamamama5965 That was at Winter Cup, this is the American Classic. She only competed vault and beam. However, she did do bars in podium training and looked really good!

@@chloebrower2598 Oh thanks for pointing that out. I must have seen an old video. It's a bummer she didn't compete bars I wonder why

She’s playing safe and she’s clever. She just wanted to qualify for nationals and she did for two events, beam and vault. She can petition to compete AA in nationals and as the reigning AA Olympic champion they will accept it, leaving her more time to prepare. She had a similar strategy in 2021, when she only competed AA in nationals and trials.

@@leykimayri I understand, thank you!

Because it's the classic

Not an important meeting, it’s gymnasts who aren’t in the national team but try to make it.

Low stakes competition. Easier on her body and joints. She still got a massive score even with a watered down routine. She’s gonna be a great asset to the team if she keeps it up!

She is verbally committed to Michigan!

@@Enna2102 that’s so exciting!!! 🎉

Well, Suni DID do a dismount off of beam, it just wasn't her usual elite level dismount.

if she did a double pike it would be a total of 0.6 more to her routine, making it a 6.5

I hope they were different cameras 😂

@@deej3829 hahah….yes it was fan capture. But I was angry they charged people $19.99 for this!

Because she’s already in the national team. National team gymnasts don’t participate in American classics (there can be exceptions but usually they don’t)

Sunni didn’t compete on bars and Gabby had two falls and missed exercises as well

Myli also had a very deep squat on her punch front, and that landing cost her a lot with low chest plus the steps. Meanwhile, this was the best Jade's rhythm and artistry have ever looked on beam, she was quite fluid through most of it! The scoring here was too generous across the board, but I think it was reasonably fair between gymnasts, they just all got like a 0.5 bonus!

@@erinm9445 God you Jade apologists make me laugh so hard. It was the same stop and go slow geriatric movements SHE HAS ALWAYS DONE. I THink you WANT to see something that isnt there so you are creamin and any crumb saying OMG LOOK so much BETTER... Lies....

@@lalareal180what the heck did Jade do to you all I have seen in these comments is you being horrifically rude to Jade I get she doesn’t have to be your favourite but the way you talk about her is just not it

@@erinm9445that’s true. Myli did have a deep squat. But objectively speaking, Jade’s artistry still leaves a lot to be desired. That’s coming from someone who doesn’t care about beam artistry 😂 I don’t agree about the 0.5 bonus bc imo myli would have gotten the same e score (7.7) internationally.

It’s not an important meeting and not all judges are FIG brevit ones, hence the mistakes in scoring

That’s fine that you don’t.. you don’t know that though she can very well get her program together and pull this off. Doubt after her first meet is ridiculous lmao

I sadly agree. Don't get me wrong, she looks amazing after 8 years off...I just don't see her doing all the clean up she needs on landings and choreography and getting her endurance up to the level necessary in time for nationals to be picked over those already at the top of the list.

@@residentwidow3202 Y’all so quick to doubt Gabby didn’t y’all say this in Rio??? Best believe Gabby will be stepping foot in that gym getting her repetitions up .. she will be fine by classics y’all are bound to be wrong.

@HazelAmarie I don't recall her routines being this messy before Rio at all. I want her to be on top - but the routine she did this weekend does not have the difficulty to absorb the current failures and be competitive domestically. Cleaning up her routines is a big task alone, and frankly I see Team USA wanting to see higher difficulty routines by Nationals too, which makes her task even harder. Do I hope she's up for it? Of course. But I'm also realistic and recognize there's already a group of girls with high consistency and higher difficulty ready to go that's she's got to be better than to get her spot.

@@residentwidow3202 She has the difficulty she just has to consistently hit her routines. She can clean up on the landings and keep in mind she already has an AA program after an 8 year hiatus. And y’all were saying she had no chance and didn’t feel she deserved to be in Rio going into that Olympics and now y’all are doing the SAME shit. Idk how many times Gabby has to turn up for y’all to stop doubting her… she can have a better showing at classics and nationals. She needs more repetition.

These aren’t fig brevit judges. Scoring will be better in nationals and trials (still some overscore since American judges do overscore, but not so much as here)

@@leykimayri I think given it’s jade most likely not a big deal but this meet for a lot of the girls serves as a trial for what upgrades and routines will be scored in the running for Paris so I think the margins should be smaller between scoring.

@@eliseperron1928 None of these girls will go to Paris without firstly passing through AA nationals and then trials. And quite honestly only Jade and maybe Suni from those girls have a chance to reach trials, also Gabby if a miracle happens lol and the world turns completely upside down.

@@leykimayri I know how it works LOL obviously they go through nationals and trials. Many many of these girls qualified for nationals from this meet including Nicole Tatum Cambry Myli Malea Brooke Ashlee and Brynn and for all of these girls, a fair score to use as a benchmark would be a jumping point. This meet just seemed astronomically Overscored.

@@eliseperron1928 They will get experience on nationals. Like I said these aren’t FIG Brevit judges so they don’t know well to score the routines and this isn’t a significant competition.

Gabby had a great vault and she was 8 years removed from the sport she has to get back into the swing of things .. the others have been back and aren’t coming off a long hiatus such a nonsensical comparison l

This is her first competition after 8 years. She has shown a very promising development on vault. Other countries would dream of having such DTY _NOW_ as the world is regressing on vault. She only needs more numbers to hit her beam and bars routine in full.

None has it to the level that YOU think and YOU feel and YOU desire but I FEEL and I THINK it is absolutely there in Shilese, Nola, Tiana and a number of the others to varying degree. People like yourself always come on here to express you all OPINIONS and pose them as facts showing that you all are either uneducated or simply stupid.

No it wasn't. Her landing sucked. Better in the air, but not by a huge amount.

​@@omglauraelizabeth the same can be said about Jades landing

@@shanicesidacia1699 were comparing the same vault though. Gabby squatted her landing and still took a hop. And her distance from the table isn't as good. I never said Jade had a good landing. She didn't. Hers was just better than Gabby's.

@@omglauraelizabethGabby had better form in the air and Gabby just came back so that should be applauded She managed to get the 2nd highest score on vault 8 yrs removed from the sport

@@HazelAmarie I agree completely. This was a warmup. I have no doubt at all that she's going to make improvements. But to say that this vault in particular was "better" than Jade's is just false. Just because someone wants something to be true doesn't make it true.

These two statements are not related... This floor routine has nothing to do with her (rightfully) being the Olympic champion on floor in 2021

They do it to simulate an actual competition which has the audience doing the same thing

Be nice

And yet she has zero shot at making an Olympic team. Go cry about it

How Many "I hate Jade" comments are you going to make on this post?

Look, I'm not a Jade fan either, I prefer other gymnasts but your constant, hate-filled bashing of Jade in every single one of your posts is disturbing. Clearly it's personal with you. What did she do to you, steal your bf or something? Truly, your rants against her are next level. Life's too short to be so bitter. You really should talk to someone about it. Your rants against her are beyond the pale, for real.

@@margaretkinnaman8585 As many as it takes to counteract any compliments made on behalf of Jade. This troll has been stalking Jade forever! The obsession with Jade is real.

She probably competes harder vault (Cheng and Amanar), so she doesn't even need to perfect this vault.

She has too much power for this vault tbh. She lands her cheng and amanar vaults way better than this. Either way her landing was way better than Gabby's.

Simone usually takes a step as well,just saying!

Maybe she didn't want to stick it in order to prevent injuries

Who is Simon?? U don't even know her name!

This is qualification event for classics, she is qualified

Lol she literally won worlds last year and will be competing at the US Classic, but please, go off.

Boy keep quite 🤡

The US absolutely clears Russia in this sports now. Russia doesn't even have 2 good DTY. 😂😂😂

@@cocoroni1031Russians aren’t even trying dude, no reason to risk an injury when they know they can’t compete internationally. Jeez the amount of stυρidity of some people….

@@leykimayri The fundamentals aren't there so they are going to lose no matter what lol. There is no height no distance no good form. The vault trajectory is going down. And Russia is rightly banned so stay mad 😂

@@cocoroni1031 Again the Russians weren’t even trying since they knew they wouldn’t be competing internationally. Why wasn’t Sunni trying hard during winter cup to have all 4 routines? No reason to try harder and maybe get an injury since she had time to prepare. Why would the Russians try to get better when all they could compete is the Russians championships which don’t give them any financial significant income? Artistic gymnastics isn’t as popular as rhythmic and figure skating in Russia, only their relatives go to watch their games nationally and nobody cares in Russia about Russian national artistic gymnastics games. The gymnasts had zero motivation. So get your facts straight and watch out because China is coming. People were warning American idιοtic stans like you back in 2021 that Russians were coming and you were all laughing thinking you could send two teams and get gold and silver medal, but eventually you had your αsses kicked twice by the Russians. Same thing now, if China hits her routines she has a better team than the USA (compared to Antwerp 2023 American level, since I doubt the level has risen but until US Classics/nationals I can’t say for sure, tbh). So again watch out and don’t be surprised if China kicks your αsses this time, lol

@@leykimayri I'm not delusional like you. In 2021, so many people overestimated China and underestimated ROC, and I was one to point that out in those 2021 prediction videos. But Russia now is weak AF. China's hit rate is like around 50% on the highest scoring event so it's not like the US should worry lol. Again, you are blindly by your anti-American view, and stay mad for Russia being rightfully banned 😂

How much elegance did past US gymnasts have? Besides Shannon Miller?

Mary Lou,Kim Zemesko,Dominic Dawes,Aly even Simone are all what I call power house tumblers,not pretty dancers!

Shawn Johnson as well