Monday: Simone Biles & the “twisties”

The Olympian gives us a first-hand view of being in mid-air.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Real quick, Andy here here, and this just goes to
show how you degenerate gamblers out there are just gravitate
towards anything. So this is according to bet MGM today,
there are more bets placed on Phillies I don't know
outfielder Nick Castellanos at a plus five and fifty to

(00:27):
hit a home run than any other team to win
slash cover or any over under, or any player prop
in any sport following the unfortunate tragedy on case you
did not hear today the Pope passed away. But this
is because that Phillies outfielder has a history of hitting
home runs following major news events. If you are going

(00:52):
off of this, you need to call one eight hundred gambler.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
You have a problem. You have a problem.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
My goodness, Well, I want to know what Elias stat
and what they consider major news events.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's just again the fact that there are people within
the betting organization, the casinos they go and research stats
like that. It's like, hey, on they at three o'clock
when the winds out.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Of the left, Yes, they do that.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, it's like this dude locked for I.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Just all right, Yeah, Nick Castellanos will if you're betting
on that for him to hit a home run because
the pope died you you might have a problem. Yeah,
you might have a problem, all right, Simone Biles. You
know what the twisties are?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Uh? Was that? What was it? Chubby Chucker do the twist?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:43):
That's a song? Oh but no that this is not that.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Apparently, gymnasts can often be have something called the twisties, okay,
where you become disoriented mid air while performing twisting skills
and you're not sure when you're gonna land, if it's
going to be on your feet, your rear end, or
your head, and you're up in the air and you
become kind of disoriented as to where you are. So

(02:06):
I am a I've always thought, and obviously wrongly, because
I could never do this if I tried that when
you make a jumping move and do the flips and stuff,
that you're just kind of doing it out of instinct,
that you kind of have an idea where you are,
but somehow, some way you're going to It's like divers.
How do they not go feet first or stomach first

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or butt first? They always go hands down the end
of the pool and they know exactly at the right
second win to go. But apparently this is a real
deal and it happened before the twenty sixteen Olympics in Rio,
and it's one of the things that caused her to
have some of the personal issues that she had mental
health wise, to kind of get that back into into sync.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, that'll be something that's a great question that we
can ask Doclee.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, I'm just wondering if I'm just wondering if they
have they say that this is worse than the yipsun
baseball or golf.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I wonder if it has something to deal with something
along the lines of it's like a sense or a
certain case of like maybe vertigo or just throwing off
your equilibrium.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Maybe that's what it is.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
And like you mentioned, because you're so not in control
of your body doing all those flips and spins or whatever,
that you're just hoping that, hey, I'm going to land correctly,
because in the back of your mind maybe you're thinking
if I don't land this, I could land on my head.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, but I don't know how you would become I
guess you would become disoriented when you're in mid air
and not realize Okay, I'm about to land on my head.
I gotta do something in the maneuver. I would think
it was just kind of after a while, it just
becomes second hand nature, second nature, I.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Would assume so as well.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
But probably what I would think maybe they're doing as
well is like with quarterbacks, Hey, you have that initial
get rid of the ball in three seconds kind of mentality.
Is as a gymnast, Hey, when I'm in the air,
I'm counting one more one thousand and two, one thousand
and then extending my legs out because I know at
that point I should be if my you know, rotations

(04:07):
or whatever correct, I should be hitting the mat at
that point. The same notion as a diver, hey, and
so many times in the air, Okay, let me stretch
my arms out and I should be straight.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I don't know, all.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Right, we'll get all the details of that as it
comes a little bit down the road.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
We'll cut, we'll talk about I'm going to preface this
next segment with.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's not always the media, even though a lot of
athletes want to call it the media.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
So media segment next on the TIC