The Best I Can: Gymnastics and Diving

[music] [music] Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> My name is Marcy Ravage. I started gymnastics 2 years ago and I've been doing it ever since. I work out 4 hours a day, 6 days a week, all year long. [music] Good man. >> At this point, gymnastics is my entire life. When I go home from the gym, it doesn't stop right there. I sleep it, I eat it, I dream it. At this point, it's a total commitment. That a girl. That's it. Nice. Move him. Beautiful. Wow. Keep it going now. Just take your time. Now, what's happening with that one hand cartwheel? >> Doc has been my coach since I started gymnastics. >> That had a girl. Good. >> He works me hard and has taught me to work myself hard. Good job. >> I don't resent any of the time that I put in the gym. I don't even think of it as being time. >> Like I look forward the whole day just to coming here. >> Pretty. >> Right now I'm training very hard for the Junior Olympics. I'm representing the New England region and I'll be competing against 13 other girls from all over the country. >> Wow. >> Marcy Babage is 31. When you fall off, it's really just such a let down. It's such a disappointment cuz you've worked so hard. [applause] >> Oh yeah, you did a beautiful job finishing up that takes a lot of moxy. >> So you have a miss and you miss. That's it. But you learned well what I said about >> but what I had to think of was just that that was that event and now it was over and you can't dwell in the past. You just have to go and attack the future. [music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [applause] [music] >> [applause] >> Last winner 1974 Junior Olympic Championship is sixth place Marcy and in third place Marcy Rabbit. [applause] >> [applause] [applause] >> I'm Laura Gun. I live in Los Santos Hills, California. And I'm a diver. When I was 5 years old, I [music] was adopted by American family and then I couldn't speak English because I lived in Korea. Um, [music] I started the sport a year after I got here. [music] >> 19. When I'm in competition, we practice about two times a day for at least two hours, an hour each time. Every practice starts with warm-ups. >> Give me 10 push-ups. Dave, you count them. >> I hate the push-ups. >> Go. >> When I do push-ups, my bones always crack and it just sort of bugs me, so I just don't like them. >> Laura, let's start with the somersault. >> Tuck the pike. >> Tuck. I'll catch you. >> Give me the backup. >> Go ahead. Don't drop the head now. >> That's good. Now step it up and reach. The >> trampoline's really fun. And you can do 50% of the dives on the trampoline. >> That's very good. >> Except for going in head first. So, and you can sit on it and jump on it and sleep on it if you felt like it. [music] Reach for the die first. Now, reach for it. I CAN'T DO IT THAT WAY. NO, I can't. >> You almost You're just trying to use your hips. >> The porta pit gives you the feeling of the board just so you know how to take off on the approach. >> How many steps you take there and measure it off and where you're supposed to land. >> Head up and don't rush. Reach and care. That's better. That's >> John's my coach. >> Set your hurdle and reach all the way. >> He's good. You just got to believe that he can catch you. Set the hurdle. >> Not really that scary. It's fun. >> You can practice everything in the port except for going in the water. [music] [music] >> Prep your double. One of the problems with being a diver is that you know that like you're over or you're short, but you never know exactly why. And he'll tell you and he'll tell you in the easiest way. >> Laura, that's fine. You didn't drop your chin. You had a little arch in that bag. What did you feel on that? >> Felt like I bounced twice. You got a little hopped in there. Did I? >> No. >> Didn't. When I'm in competition, [music] the dives that are required, as they call them, is uh a front dive, a back dive, inward dive, reverse dive, [music] and a half twist. My first meet, one coach tried to bribe me to go off the board because I was afraid. And then as I got older, I wasn't nearly as afraid as I am right now because I was just a little bit bolder then. >> Laura, if you don't feel like you're going to make it, cramp on it to take it in. I've got faith that you can make it on the first time if you keep that head up. Don't drop your head and go after that gutter. >> I'm trying to learn a new dive called the inward one and a half. And it's sort of hard because you think that you're going to come back and hit your head on the board. And that's part of the problem with diving that you're just always afraid of trying the dives. I've got you all the way. >> Okay, Lucas was that close. >> That's not bad for this time of the year. >> That was about eight or something like that. >> You didn't push on that. You sort of just went like this. You know, >> I help John teach when he has to leave for a minute or so. And so I'll take over for him and I'll tell him what to do and how to do it as best as I know how to tell him. Really try and slow. Okay, you got your body stripped, but you still sort of went like this. Okay, so go like that. Keep your arms straight. It helps me when I'm teaching them to cuz I know half the things they're doing wrong is what I'm doing wrong. And so I really learned from them. Johnny, get your hands together. I heard it. >> They weren't. >> No, they weren't. Okay. [music] [music] Last year when I was 9 and 10, I went two national championships. I think about the Olympics and I don't know if I want to [music] go to them because I know you have to put in a lot a lot of work and I would I'd do it if I really wanted to get really involved with it. But like right now I really [music] like this sport just as a sport and I work hard but it's fun. [music] >> [music]