- Hold on, Nellie.
Alright (daughter's laughter)
How's that?
- Good. - Good?
- Yeah
- Show Daddy.
Alright, let's do some spray and then we'll just...
Alright, smile! Mom, I'm over here.
(camera shutter)
Sorry Dave.
- [Dad] What are you doing today?
- I am eating teriyaki beef jerky.
- [Dad] And then?
- Then I'm going to shoot videos
for the Special Olympics
2020
routines.
(inspirational music)
- Standby.
Rolling.
(inspirational music)
(music becomes more dramatic)
(instructional chatter)
Standby.
Quiet, and rolling.
- [Man] Rolling.
- [Instructor] Level one floor with the squat and turn.
(jazz version of "The Bare Necessities")
- [Videographer] And cut.
- Okay. Was that fine with the timing
on the run with the hurdle?
- [Woman] It looked much better.
It looked normal.
(hand slap)
(dramatic action music)
- Shhhh
(mystical triumphant music)
(chatter)
- What we're gonna do is we're gonna hang on the high bar.
She's gonna hang.
Then she'll go to the low bar.
And then we'll do two or three different
versions on the low bar after that.
- [Videographer] But nothing higher than that?
- No, nothing higher than that.
- [Videographer] Alright.
Standby.
Whitney the Trooper is gonna do take four.
Rolling.
- [Instructor] Level two uneven bar, take four.
- [Videographer] And, cut.
- [Instructor] Perfect!
(applause)
Here's what I think we're gonna do.
Options for bonus (mumbles)
- [Videographer] Standby.
Rolling, call it.
- [Man] Rolling.
- [Instructor] Level two bars - [Videographer] Take two
- [Instructor] Bonus. Option one.
The kickover, take two.
Okay.
- [Videographer] That's it? Cut.
Nice, that one worked.
- [Instructor] Alright, now she's gonna do the
exact same thing, but just do both feet at the same time.
- [Videographer] Okay.
And...
rolling.
- [Man] Rolling.
- [Instructor] Level two uneven bars.
Bonus option two, pullover.
Cut.
- [Videographer] And cut.
- [Instructor] Alright now she's just gonna
start on top of that, and she's just gonna do
a forward roll off. - [Videographer] To the front?
- Yep, you don't wanna film her getting up there.
The position she just ended in,
she's gonna start like that.
And just a forward roll off.
Tuck forward roll.
You said tuck forward roll, right?
- Yes, correct. (mumbles)
Try and finish forward like that.
- [Instructor] Now ready.
- [Videographer] And...
Rolling.
- [Instructor] Bonus option three, level two uneven bars.
- [Videographer] And cut.
- [Instructor] Alright.
Yay!
Rockstar! (applause)
Alright, so.
We're gonna do two different ways on this one.
We're gonna do one, two, three...
- [Videographer] Rolling.
- Handstand Progression.
We'd like to talk to you
a little bit about handstand progressions.
You will see in the compulsory routines,
beginning with the lower levels on up,
that we have geared the routines toward
working on handstands.
We do this in three counts.
- [Videographer] Okay, and rolling.
- Whitney is going to demonstrate
the first handstand progression,
in three counts.
It will be lunge first,
arms two,
and then we step backwards number three,
or from your lunge.
Number one, arms two,
and then step forward number three.
- [Videographer] Cut. - [Instructor] Perfect.
(applause)
Oh, were you talking to Alba or Whitney?
(laughs)
Now, you'll notice that
the handstand is the same in level one floor
as it is in level one fall.
And now we have Whitney to demonstrate.
This is again in four counts.
Lunge,
Arms up two,
Kick to a three-quarter handstand,
or teeter totter,
and finish number four in the lunge.
Now, let's change places,
and we will demonstrate the level two version.
Lunge number one,
two arms up,
kick to a handstand,
put the feet together,
step down in a lunge,
and finish your handstand.
- [Videographer] And cut.
- [Instructor] That sound okay?
- [Woman] Great. - [Videographer] Yeah.
Rolling.
- Once your athletes have mastered the kick to the front,
then we need to add a kick to the back.
Whitney, let's demonstrate a kick to the front,
which is the beginning of a split leap.
And then step and plie
into a kick to the back.
This is your ending for split leap.
Now, step back. We have worked this into the choreography
of the level one floor exercise.
So you'll see that when you will do this,
right leg and left leg.
Once your athlete has learned this on the floor
in level one, then we'll take it to the level two
and put it on the beam.
Andrea will demonstrate what she does on the beam.
You will again notice, right leg and left leg.
Now, a split leap is a leap, or a jump...
(chatter)
We are so happy that Whitney has been here today
being a demonstrator for Special Olympics.
What we're working on is
the Special Olympics rountines
that will be done throughout the whole world
for Special Olympics International.
They will be introduced at The World Games
in 2019
in Abu Dhabi.
After that, they will be
on the Special Olympics International website,
and the whole world will look at the routines that
these gymnasts have done today,
and they will learn the routines,
and these will be the routines that are
competed throughout the whole world.
We'll send DVDs out to countries all over the place,
and it's, to me, it's very gratifying
that we have girls like Whitney at her age
who spend their whole day here, volunteering,
and doing the routines because, number one,
we know her hearts in it, in volunteering
and working with people with special needs,
and they start like this, and I can tell you for a fact,
they end up being the most wonderful human beings
on the face of the Earth as they get older.
They continue to volunteer,
and they are caring and wonderful people.
So, Whitney, thank you so much for coming today
and doing all these routines! - Thank you for having me.
(merry music)