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Simone Biles

Meet your new instructor: four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles. She’s ready to inspire your gymnastics training by demonstrating fundamental and advanced skills and by giving you tips for setting goals and working with coaches.

1. Introduction

Introduction

Discipline and focus during practice are necessary for gymnasts to safely execute drills. Simone encourages you to master the basics, which are the foundation for learning harder skills and routines.

2. Learning New Skills

Learning New Skills

With eight-year-old Mia demonstrating, Simone walks you through the basics of the uneven bars. Some of the drills include glides, drop kips, tap swings, and floor handstands.

3. Uneven Bars Basics

Uneven Bars Basics

Simone demonstrates and explains advanced skills on the uneven bars, including cast to handstand, giants, and more.

4. Uneven Bars Advanced

Uneven Bars Advanced

Simone reviews and deconstructs footage of some of her most notable performances on bars, including her top-scoring routine from the 2018 World Championships and her routine from the 2018 U.S. Classic.

5. Playback: Studying Simone's Meets On Bars

Playback: Studying Simone's Meets On Bars

Even the most decorated World Championship American gymnast of all time can feel nervous. Simone offers tips for getting out of your head during moments of fear and shares what confidence means to her.

6. Overcoming Fear

Overcoming Fear

With help from nine-year-old Leah, Simone breaks down the basics of floor, including skills like cartwheels, roundoffs, front handsprings, pike fronts, and back handspring back tucks.

7. Floor Basics

Floor Basics

Simone demonstrates advanced floor skills, including layouts, double doubles, a combination pass, and, of course, the Biles.

8. Floor Advanced

Floor Advanced

It’s important to give yourself time to prepare for a meet. Simone reveals her preparation routine, shares how to use selective listening during a performance, and tells you how to let go of mistakes while competing.

9. Competing On Meet Day

Competing On Meet Day

Requiring a combination of acrobatics and dance, the balance beam is as much a mental challenge as it is a physical one. Nine-year-old Paislee demonstrates as Simone discusses skills like handstands, cartwheels, walkovers, and back handsprings.

10. Balance Beam Basics

Balance Beam Basics

Simone demonstrates advanced skills on the balance beam, including a front handspring, front aerial, handspring layout, split leaps, and a double-double dismount.

11. Balance Beam Advanced

Balance Beam Advanced

According to Simone, communication and trust are the two most important pieces of the athlete/coach relationship. In this chapter, she explores how to work effectively and cohesively with your coaches.

12. Working With Coaches

Working With Coaches

With eight-year-old Jurzie demonstrating, Simone walks you through the basics of vault, including feet to seat, high knees, deer runs, sprints, and front handspring flatback.

13. Vault Basics

Vault Basics

Simone loves the feeling of flying she gets when performing the vault. She demonstrates advanced vault skills, including a Yurchenko layout, a Yurchenko full, a Yurchenko 2.5, and a Cheng.

14. Vault Advanced

Vault Advanced

Simone reviews footage of her standout vault performances, including her execution of a Cheng at the 2016 P&G Championships. She also breaks down the Biles on vault.

15. Playback: Studying Simone's Meets on Vaults

Playback: Studying Simone's Meets on Vaults

Goals are action plans for a gymnast. Simone explains the importance of journaling as well as the practice of setting daily intentions to get the most out of your training.

16. Setting Goals

Setting Goals

Simone closes with thoughts on what taking a break from her sport meant to her as both a maturing athlete and a young adult. She encourages gymnasts to lean on their family for support.

17. Maturing as a Gymnast

Maturing as a Gymnast

Simone Biles Teaches Gymnastics Fundamentals

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