2008 Tour Of Gymnastics Superstars.

Yes, it 'tis the Gymnastics Superstars..Woo!
I'm going to post my semi-good photos as I rant freely about the show.
All in all, it was fantabulous, but, yeah, let me get this off my chest:
JORDAN PRUITT SUCKS.
'Kay, I'm good.


Seriously, if you're going, bring earplugs for when Jordan Pruitt and KSM are playing.


(A view of the equipment from where we were sitting.)

I loved our seats! We could see everything perfectly! (Except for the band, but who cares about them.) We had these annoying people next to us that looked extremely inconvenienced when we cheered. We just screamed louder. :D


We got into 'Chalk Talk' a pre-show clinic where you're NOT supposed to take pictures, but of course, the rebel in me came out and I took pictures. Some people asked really stupid questions like 'Nastia, what is your favorite food?' or 'Shawn, what was the highest score you've ever gotten?' (That last one was asked by my teammate. o_o), and some people asked awesome questions like 'How do you find the time to balance public school and training for the Olympics, Shawn?' or 'How do y'all overcome a mental block?'. Also, a lady a couple rows away from me asked 'Are the men single?' and Nastia gave us the report:

Johnathan Horton: Engaged. (Boo.)
The Hamms: Single. (Yay. :D)
Sasha Artemev: Engaged! (Double boo!!!! He's still mine!)
Justin Springs: In a relationship, but about to pop the question. (Not supposed to tell you, Nastia said not to post it online, but whatever. I'm a hard-hitting reporter, I have to post it!!)
Everyone else is single. Woot.



(Nastia waves at me while Shawn looks utterly interested in the ground. Not sure what Sammy's doing, but I was excited she was there.)


(Nastia talks to the crowd, and listens to us, as well.)

(Shawn talks to the crowd.)

(Sasha talks to the crowd. Check out Horton in the BG, laughing.)

Some gymnasts were warming up during 'Chalk Talk', which was interesting to watch, it was kind of a little spoiler. :p


(Chellsie warms up beam and bars.)

(Sammers warms up bars, although she never did bars.)

(Shannon warms up beam.)

The Actual show was great!
My camera was not being nice to me so pretty much I only got pictures of Nastia's beam, one picture of her back to us on floor and Sasha on the pommel horse.

Shawn did two floors and one beam, she almost fell off on her front tuck on beam.

There was this one number where Ashley Postell, Tasha Scwihert(sp?), Nastia, and Chellsie did bars together. It was awesome, they all did great, except Nastia almost missed a Stalder. Chellsie and Ashley pulled double front dismounts, Chellsie, Ashley and Tasha did Thatchevs, and Nastia did stalders and pirouettes.

Nastia did bars to her theme song 'Supergirl' and her routine was basically kip cast handstand, stalder, stalder, kip, cast, squat on, jump to highbar kip cast handstand, little archy thingamajig, stalder, piroutte thingy (No, not an Ono), another piroutte thingy, 3 giants to a layout flyaway.
Nastia also did the same beam routine she did on Frosted Pink With a Twist.
Same goes for floor.

Chellsie did a beautiful beam routine to 'She Will Be Loved' by Maroon 5. Her backhandspring, layout off of the beam was scary, though. She came close to hitting her head.

Shannon Miller still can do a BHS, BHS on beam. I was like, 'Woah, holy crap!'. She did a cool floor routine, too.

The men were so gangsta, haha. The Hamms did their floor routine to 'Stronger' by Kanye West, as seen on FPWAT. All of the men did a number to 'Jump' as seen on FPWAT, as well.

At the end of the show, 3 men came out pretending to be The Jonas Brothers, and the women pretended to be JB fangirls. They all slow danced to 'When You Look Me in The Eyes', then the song quickly changed to 'Burnin' Up', and the men performed their high bar stuff while the women sat on the floor and giggled and pointed and stuff. Then, Justin Springs closed the show with, you guess it.....

HIS TRIPLE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wahoo. He stuck it, as well, it was deafening in there!

But it was a great show. Go see it if there are tickets left.

And remember to bring ear-plugs!

(Nastia after her floor routine.)

(Nastia warming up beam during intermission.)


(Nastia performing beam.)


(Nastia waving to the crowd after her beam. This is my all-time favorite picture from the show. I clicked the camera at just the right time!)